Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 is out [LWN.net]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 is out

Posted Apr 11, 2018 19:37 UTC (Wed) by mattdm (subscriber, #18)
In reply to: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 is out by Cyberax
Parent article: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 is out

I know this ship has sailed way, way out into the ocean, past even the Here There Be Dragons label, but... please don't use "fake news" to mean "a statement I don't agree with" or even "there's more to it than that", when there's no actual intent to deceive.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 is out

Posted Apr 11, 2018 19:57 UTC (Wed) by sfeam (subscriber, #2841) [Link]

I think this rates a "fake news" label because it is a political, or anyhow policy, agenda being pushed rather than a technical one. There is a perfectly valid argument that for stable software it is better long-term to stick with Python 2. I'd even go further than that and say that a promise from python.org to never fiddle again with Python 2 makes it more attractive to stick with it rather than less. I expect Python 2 to be around for many years, and it is less than evident that any holdouts now will in the end migrate to Python 3 rather than to some other language entirely.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 is out

Posted Apr 12, 2018 4:45 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

I try to do the opposite. I insert "fake news" in contexts (especially political ones) where it's clear that it doesn't actually mean news. This way it can be eventually diluted to nothingness.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 is out

Posted Apr 12, 2018 15:58 UTC (Thu) by excors (subscriber, #95769) [Link]

I'm not sure that will have a positive effect. By intentionally using words wrongly in an attempt to make them meaningless, you'll make it appear more normal and acceptable for other people to misuse words disingenuously too. That will make it even harder to have rational arguments (which rely on mutual understanding of what you're actually saying), and will empower those who are not trying to be rational and who only care about the emotional response to their words. That is ungood.