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Good stuff from Nextcloud, KDE, and fedora, politics in the kernel dev camp, a debate about contributing to FOSS, and more.
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This “feminism” is just everywhere now, huh. I’m with Joe here. MODERN Feminism is certainly not about equality. Hello George Soros!
This is just an anecdote, but I work in the medical field. You can meet some real assholes, who have very little interpersonal skills, but have terrific technical skills (particularly surgeons). There is this idea that you might not like interacting with them, but you’d appreciate them as your surgeon because they are so technically excellent.
That idea is bullshit. Having worked in at least two different departments with an excess of these kind of characters, the critical, bullying atmosphere really detracted from patient care (both departments were in need of improvement). The reason is that any surgical patient needs a team working together for a successful outcome, and if that team is dysfunctional, the patient suffers.
So I kind of agree that interpersonal skills are just as important as technical ability.
Good surgeons/doctors work as a team, but they are also firm about providing good quality care. Being courteous does not extend to allowing substandard care to happen, and I don’t see why that can’t also be the case with the linux kernel.
Another anecdote here from academia. There can be some “brilliant”, “genius” scientists who have made tremendous advancements in their particular field — working on their team, however, can be a berating experience. The idea is that if you can’t take their abuse and their intensity, you’re just not cut out for research and you should “just teach instead.”
That idea, however, is also ridiculous. In one particular department I was involved with, nearly the entire cohort of women PhD students quit the program early and left with a Masters degree. The atmosphere of “women suck at math” made them feel unvalued. The results are bad for everyone: people leave the department or academia entirely, less research gets done, less manuscripts get published, and less new discoveries get made because someone or a group of people are so unwelcoming.
Was Will joking about not understanding why you would want something like Fedora Silverblue? Isn’t Canonical working towards a future Ubuntu release where all the applications are snaps?