alt Hacker NewsThe "religious zealots" have their own motherfucking Cellebrite column. That means they are right.
They can be abrasive all they want. People who are wrong still need to sit down and listen instead of spitefully "burning bridges".
And that's assuming they're actually guilty of this "abrasiveness" that people accuse them of. I don't actually think that's true. I think their comments are extremely informative and filled to the brim with valuable technical information. I've spent quite some time reading strcat's comments here and it's actually changed my viewpoints on some security matters. For example, I'm no longer as obsessed with knowing what's inside firmware as I used to be, it's better to minimize and isolate such black boxes so they can do no harm. I started valuing IOMMU support and grouping in PC motherboards.
If there's any "abrasiveness" in their posts, it's probably just an undercurrent of frustration with a world that simply refuses to understand or cooperate. A feeling I can't help but have enormous sympathy for.
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I am sympathetic to GrapheneOS, but I have also worked with them and they are not easy to work with. Google is in no way required to take on criticism from OSS community- GPL and MIT do not actually require the rights holder to not be an asshole. In such a social dynamic, one will find greater success using language that appeases instead of repels the asshole.
> They can be abrasive all they want. People who are wrong still need to sit down and listen instead of spitefully "burning bridges".
While I wish that were how humans work, it definitely is not. You can make the strongest argument ever and still lose if you deliver it in a way that the listener can't process it because you're triggering emotions. The best arguments IME are factual and respectful.