The people who spend a significant amount of time (often in my experience
unpaid) arranging a conference have to mix and match and probably make
some unpopular compromises for reasons know best to them.
I do think one should get them the benefit of the doubt as to why.
Just dont attend the talk.
It is that easy.
The ultimate protest would be a nearly empty room.
That would be quite humiliating for the person giving the talk.
Read Bryan Cantrill on how unimpressive Dorsey is to anyone with a clue:
"I, like many people, have a complicated relationship with Twitter. As Adam and I regaled in a recent Twitter Space, it started when debugging the Twitter fail whale in the offices of Obvious in 2007, where I became thoroughly unimpressed with their self-important skipper, Jack Dorsey. In part because I thought he was such a fool, I refused to join Twitter out of principle."
It seems to me letting Dorsey speak and ridicule himself in front of an audience of technically savvy people would actually be the best way to discredit him.
That was more of a range rant on Musk than anything else.
Which is far as long as it goes.
I am surprised that such blog posts are done under the
dtrace.org banner.
I was wondering about this when I read the blog post,
so I checked out www.dtrace.org and from my point of view
its ambiguous.
The front page says:
"DTrace is a performance analysis and troubleshooting tool that is included by default with various operating systems, including Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. A Linux port is in development."
Heh. I hosted on a Joyent OpenSolaris zone for a long time (before you joined) and, ahem, enjoyed a period of instability as that useless site (Twitter, not DTrace.org), also hosted on Joyent, took off and had scaling troubles causing noisy-neighbor syndrome, circa 2007–2008 or so.
somehow this reminds me of the story of another internet personality when he met richard stallman for the first time because he was staging a silent protest at his talk. one of the observations was that the protesters were actually interested in the talk and there were more people in the room than expected because of it. it was mentioned or even discussed on HN but i can't find it now.
the key part: "At least half the questions (all technical) during and after the talk were from the protesters. [...] as a result of Stallman's ploy, my audience was about twice what it would have been."
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The people who spend a significant amount of time (often in my experience unpaid) arranging a conference have to mix and match and probably make some unpopular compromises for reasons know best to them. I do think one should get them the benefit of the doubt as to why.
Just dont attend the talk. It is that easy.
The ultimate protest would be a nearly empty room. That would be quite humiliating for the person giving the talk.
Read Bryan Cantrill on how unimpressive Dorsey is to anyone with a clue:
"I, like many people, have a complicated relationship with Twitter. As Adam and I regaled in a recent Twitter Space, it started when debugging the Twitter fail whale in the offices of Obvious in 2007, where I became thoroughly unimpressed with their self-important skipper, Jack Dorsey. In part because I thought he was such a fool, I refused to join Twitter out of principle."
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2022/11/05/twitter-when-the-wal...
It seems to me letting Dorsey speak and ridicule himself in front of an audience of technically savvy people would actually be the best way to discredit him.
That was more of a range rant on Musk than anything else. Which is far as long as it goes. I am surprised that such blog posts are done under the dtrace.org banner.
As it is apparently unclear: dtrace.org is (just) a collection of personal blogs, including my own. More details on the history can be found in [0].
[0] https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/11/16/blogging-through-the...
I was wondering about this when I read the blog post, so I checked out www.dtrace.org and from my point of view its ambiguous.
The front page says:
"DTrace is a performance analysis and troubleshooting tool that is included by default with various operating systems, including Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. A Linux port is in development."
Then it lists blogs.
¹https://d.pr/i/3DAB5x
Heh. I hosted on a Joyent OpenSolaris zone for a long time (before you joined) and, ahem, enjoyed a period of instability as that useless site (Twitter, not DTrace.org), also hosted on Joyent, took off and had scaling troubles causing noisy-neighbor syndrome, circa 2007–2008 or so.
somehow this reminds me of the story of another internet personality when he met richard stallman for the first time because he was staging a silent protest at his talk. one of the observations was that the protesters were actually interested in the talk and there were more people in the room than expected because of it. it was mentioned or even discussed on HN but i can't find it now.
I think I remember that; It was a talk by somebody from nVidia, as I recall.
don't know about nvidia, but it would not surprise me if something like that happened more than once. i finally found the one i was referring to. it was rob pike: http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-cant-find-this-o...
some discussion of that post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607335 and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3963456
the key part: "At least half the questions (all technical) during and after the talk were from the protesters. [...] as a result of Stallman's ploy, my audience was about twice what it would have been."