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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Now, in a scenario where they are about to commit violence, or the justice system has failed, the balance may be different

    Left your reading comprehension at home?

    The argument I was supporting is that you don’t have carte blanche to do whatever you want to intolerant people. The argument I am making is that you have a moral obligation to rely on the law first because that IS the social contract. Not because the law would punish you for it.

    Not all police are the same everywhere, but regardless, you can’t just stab people who are being racist.


  • But there’s an important difference between allowing intolerance, and letting the legal system be the arbiter of how it should be disallowed.

    Vigilante justice not only deprives the perpetrator of their right to a fair trial and proportionate punishment (yes, being intolerant does not deprive you of your human rights) but also denies the victims their right to see the perpetrator receive justice.

    YOU do not get to be the arbiter of justice, just because you think someone is a terrible person. Maybe they’re mentally ill. Maybe they have dementia. Maybe they’re also a victim of abuse.

    Document the incident, protect and comfort the victim, contact the police and allow actual justice to take place.














  • I, too, work in a similar type of company, and can confirm from experience that Linux can get just as absolutely fucked up by a bad kernel module as windows.

    And it’s not just changes to the module that can cause things to go wrong.

    For example, the kernel released alongside the latest Ubuntu LTS included a change that conflicted with our module behaviour, so machines with that kernel or newer would panic on boot.

    It was a super minor change, but when you’re deep in the weeds, it’s really easy for these things to be brittle. But that’s just an inherent consequence of the fact that this sort of stuff is intrinsically low-level interaction with the OS itself.