Re: Working for Linux/Debian

From	Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.project
Subject	Re: Working for Linux/Debian
Date	2021-08-08 00:10 +0200
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On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 11:56:10PM +0200, Agata Erminia Pennisi wrote:
> > Il ven 6 ago 2021, 17:06 Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> ha scritto:
> [snip]
> > [ in reply to questions asked privately... ]
> > 
> > I don't know any "real" programming language like C or C++ or Rust.  My
> > scripting language of choice is Perl, and I also grok shell and make
> > (yes, that's a language).  For other languages I can juggle patches,
> > needed for the (far too many²) packages I maintain in Debian.
> > 
> > I live in Denmark, where monthly income is DKK 30.000 for a garbage man
> > and DKK 25.861 for a taxi driver, according to some³ sources:
> > https://www.dekra.dk/blog/lastbil/hvad-tjener-en-skraldemand
> > https://www.dekra.dk/blog/taxa/hvad-tjener-en-taxachauffoer
> > 
> > My accounting is at https://source.jones.dk/ledger/tree/data with usage
> > notes at https://source.redpill.dk/accounting/tree/USE.md
> 
> *Red pill r*efers to (becoming enlightened to) the truth about reality,
> especially a truth that is difficult to accept or exposes disillusions.
> 
> Online, *red pill* is especially used among anti-feminist
> <https://www.dictionary.com/browse/feminism> and white supremacist
> <https://www.dictionary.com/browse/white-supremacy> groups to refer to
> "waking up" to the truth that women and liberal politics are oppressing men
> and white people.
> 
> 
> https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/red-pill/

[quoting style fixed, top-posting fixed, Jonas's message indented]

While I completely agree that the term "red pill" has, in the past
couple of years, become overloaded with a very unfortunate (and, indeed,
very dog-whistle-like) meaning, I believe that Jonas's use of it for
their domain predates that by, well, quite some time. A "whois" query
for redpill.dk shows that it has been registered in 2001, so I suppose
that it was inspired by the movie "The Matrix" - that's where the "truth
about reality" meaning from your first sentence comes from.

So, yeah, while I myself would be very careful trying to use the term
itself in online discussions (and I would most probably not), in this
case this long-standing domain name does not try to convey any of those
overtones; it might even still be used to reinforce the "original"
meaning of the phrase.

G'luck,
Peter

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Working for Linux/Debian Zayd Ahmed <zayd.ahmed92@gmail.com> - 2021-08-04 17:30 +0200
  Re: Working for Linux/Debian Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> - 2021-08-04 20:40 +0200
  Re: Working for Linux/Debian Onildo R Ribeiro - Pessoal <onildoricardo@gmail.com> - 2021-08-05 06:20 +0200
    Re: Working for Linux/Debian Zayd Ahmed <zayd.ahmed92@gmail.com> - 2021-08-05 06:20 +0200
      Re: Working for Linux/Debian Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2021-08-05 10:50 +0200
        Re: Working for Linux/Debian Zayd <zayd.ahmed92@gmail.com> - 2021-08-05 21:50 +0200
          Re: Working for Linux/Debian Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2021-08-05 23:40 +0200
            Re: Working for Linux/Debian Zayd <zayd.ahmed92@gmail.com> - 2021-08-06 00:50 +0200
              Re: Working for Linux/Debian Zayd <zayd.ahmed92@gmail.com> - 2021-08-06 00:50 +0200
                Re: Working for Linux/Debian Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2021-08-06 17:10 +0200
                Re: Working for Linux/Debian Agata Erminia Pennisi <agataerminiapennisi@gmail.com> - 2021-08-07 16:20 +0200
                Re: Working for Linux/Debian Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> - 2021-08-08 00:10 +0200
                Re: Working for Linux/Debian Agata Erminia Pennisi <agataerminiapennisi@gmail.com> - 2021-08-08 02:10 +0200
                Re: Working for Linux/Debian Zayd Ahmed <zayd.ahmed92@gmail.com> - 2021-08-08 05:20 +0200
                Re: Working for Linux/Debian Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2021-08-08 09:20 +0200
                Re: Working for Linux/Debian Agata Erminia Pennisi <agataerminiapennisi@gmail.com> - 2021-08-08 10:40 +0200
                Re: Working for Linux/Debian Agata Erminia Pennisi <agataerminiapennisi@gmail.com> - 2021-08-08 12:40 +0200
                Re: Working for Linux/Debian Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2021-08-08 12:40 +0200
                Re: Working for Linux/Debian Zayd Ahmed <zayd.ahmed92@gmail.com> - 2021-11-23 17:20 +0100
                Re: Working for Linux/Debian Agata Erminia Pennisi <agataerminiapennisi@gmail.com> - 2021-11-23 18:30 +0100
                Re: Working for Linux/Debian Zayd Ahmed <zayd.ahmed92@gmail.com> - 2021-11-23 18:30 +0100
                Re: Working for Linux/Debian Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2021-11-23 19:30 +0100
                Re: Working for Linux/Debian Agata Erminia Pennisi <agataerminiapennisi@gmail.com> - 2021-11-23 20:30 +0100
                Re: Working for Linux/Debian Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2021-11-23 21:00 +0100
                Re: Working for Linux/Debian Agata Erminia Pennisi <agataerminiapennisi@gmail.com> - 2021-11-23 21:20 +0100
                Re: Working for Linux/Debian Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2021-11-23 21:50 +0100
                Re: Working for Linux/Debian Agata Erminia Pennisi <agataerminiapennisi@gmail.com> - 2021-11-23 22:00 +0100
                Re: Working for Linux/Debian Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> - 2021-11-23 20:30 +0100
            Re: Working for Linux/Debian Zayd <zayd.ahmed92@gmail.com> - 2021-08-06 00:50 +0200
              Re: Working for Linux/Debian Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2021-08-06 10:10 +0200
                Re: Working for Linux/Debian Agata Erminia Pennisi <agataerminiapennisi@gmail.com> - 2021-08-06 11:40 +0200
      Mail privacy (was: Working for Linux/Debian) Martin <debacle@debian.org> - 2021-08-05 10:50 +0200
        Re: Mail privacy (was: Working for Linux/Debian) Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> - 2021-08-05 18:50 +0200
        Re: Mail privacy (was: Working for Linux/Debian) Parodper <parodper@gmail.com> - 2021-08-05 20:40 +0200
  Re: Working for Linux/Debian Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-08-05 06:20 +0200
    Re: Working for Linux/Debian Zayd <zayd.ahmed92@gmail.com> - 2021-08-05 21:50 +0200

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