What About The Other Side of the Anne Frank Accusation?

Instead of con­tin­u­ing down that path, I pro­pose we sim­ply refer to Mr. O’Flaherty as “Paul ‘Fuckwad’ O’Flaherty’. It has all the deservedly mean-spirited “you are a vio­lently stu­pid per­son” ring to it, and it’s eas­ier to get through than a half-dozen pages worth of “I have obvi­ously never cracked open a book on abuse, …

The Right Question

So, this is almost short enough to stuff into a tweet, but I was won­der­ing if there was an actual list of ways in which GNOME Shell fell short of Canonical’s require­ments or desires? In other words, there is a list of prob­lems that are severe enough to cause Canonical & Co. to think it’s …

Thoughts on Privacy

This post is pretty heavy on the pon­tif­i­cat­ing, but I’ll tie it back into GNOME at the end, I swear. I’ve been think­ing quite a bit about pri­vacy lately. Most of the shiny things here on the inter­net are some type of ser­vice where you aban­don some degree of pri­vacy to an inter­me­di­ary in return for …

Screaming in an Elevator

Getting on the ele­va­tor this morn­ing, it turned out I should have waited. Some woman was yelling at some­one on the ele­va­tor about how he should sup­port health-care, and some ran­dom­ness about the unnamed politi­cian who’s bumper sticker adorned his jacket was so ter­ri­ble and such. She con­tin­ued to rant at him all the way up …