This whole post was written as a reply to Flavio's post attached on screencap, who apparently unblocked me here on X only to post that and then blocked me again. I hope you can help me deliver the response to his feed. Why don't you tell the whole story Flavio? The story starts with me sending you a dm, that I think your case regarding how you were treated when Quill moved to ZIO was valid and that what happened back then was unacceptable (I still think the same thing). I said that I want to advocate for you to help resolve the issue. I listened to your arguments, I've read all the evidence you shared with me and agreed something should be done. I asked you to allow me to work diplomatically and started talking with moderators about your case. Then I defended you on reddit when someone used unsavory language towards you and what did you do? You jumped Seth by leveraging my post to catapult accusations at him for which you have no proofs despite me asking you to allow me to mediate things calmly and peacefully. So yeah, my attempt to mediate your case ended up with me reporting to moderation team that I think you were wronged and something should be done about it *right after you lashed out publicly* at one of the moderators. I've explained this reality to you several times - if you want to talk, you can't just publicly smear people and then act surprised that they don't want to talk with you. There are people, including me, who think that Ryan's behavior was out of line, that Rob's behavior was childish (the one and only time in my memory Martin intervened in the community affairs was to scold Rob for dropping integration with your library!) and wanted to support you but you personally work hard to make it impossible to build any bridges. You also forgot to mention that my reaction when Scala IO thing happened was that I was shocked and that I openly said that it shouldn't have happened. You don't mention that I talked with Martin back then and he too was shocked and came here to tell you he'll gladly share the space at the conference with you and that you should come. You carefully omit the fact that I never actually called you "paranoid" and that you blocked me on X because I dared to say that in my opinion there's no basis for your conviction that Martin is introducing changes to the language to somehow make life harder for you and your users (the into feature, there's a short exchange at contributors forum about this). You don't mention that we shaked hands at Lambda Days and that you were invited to be a guest at the meet-up in VL's head office after the conference and that you did attend. That's a very specific selection of facts, wouldn't you say? What I did say, after you called me corrupt in public and after you questioned my technical competence in public, was that "I don't want to participate in your besieged fortress mentality where everyone is an enemy trying to attack you any longer". If you read that as "paranoid", that's on you because I never attacked you or your work and still you decided that I'm an enemy. Neither did Martin by the way, on whose work you built your career, Quill and Kyo. The implication I was somehow "trained" by Darja is really, really low. I never worked with her and I talked with her maybe four or five times in my whole career. There's a hard paper trail proving that. There's a hard paper trail proving everything I wrote above too. I'm actually glad you chose to do this, I think we need a lot more transparency in our community. I no longer think you are interested in resolving anything.

And to end this conflict once and for all - Ziverge should be part of the Advisory Board. I don’t know if there is a voting system already, but John De Goes vote should count - since he represents huge part of Scala community. And now it is totally discriminated It is fair

Scala Center and Martin Odersky is a ‘government’ here And with all due respect for me it looks more like a dictatorship, where people get punished for different views or something they say in public. In my opinion - Scala Center should extend a hand first with no conditions

What is it? Does anyone know

friendly reminder relational databases shouldn't have JSON in them

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