Diseased Open Source Software Community - it's about ethics in Code of Conducts

[The Ghost of Kviv]

My question is, did the developer who did this have the "right" to do it. For example if he clearly positioned himself as leader and owner, then it would be his right. However if he shared leadership equally with other devs, then it's bad sportsmanship to make decisions unilaterally. Of course, the other devs are free to voluntarily stop working on the project too.

Outside of comrade BS, ownership is fairly obvious in FOSS. If you created the repo or the keys used to commit were marked trusted by you, and the repo is populated by commits using those keys, you own the repo. Others may come and propose commits or fix bugs, but they don't own the project, and it's fair play to reject feature PRs because it's either out of scope or not what the owner wants. All that is required is honest communication on why-don't be an ass.

If they want to turn the repo into some digital commune trash, they can fork the project. If the owner is being an ass, fork the project.

 

[quaawaa]

FWIW, I haven't seen this story surface on HN yet, so it may not yet have bubbled out of the leftist Minecraft community.

It was posted over there but got flagged:

PolyMC compromised by rogue developer having unabomber manifesto in steam bio | Hacker News

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The fake CVE was also posted twice but got no traction:

OVE-20221017-0001: PolyMC appears to be compromised | Hacker News

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OVE-20221017-0001: PolyMC appears to be compromised | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

 

[Least Concern]

It was posted over there but got flagged:

PolyMC compromised by rogue developer having unabomber manifesto in steam bio | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

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Ah. I wonder what exactly "Flagged" means on HN since I've seen completely non-political, non-controversial stories or comments get flagged too, whereas other seemingly more controversial stories will stay up. It does just kinda seem like there are some stories that some jannies don't want to be discussed on HN for their own arbitrary reasons, which is kind of annoying.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Ah. I wonder what exactly "Flagged" means on HN since I've seen completely non-political, non-controversial stories or comments get flagged too, whereas other seemingly more controversial stories will stay up. It does just kinda seem like there are some stories that some jannies don't want to be discussed on HN for their own arbitrary reasons, which is kind of annoying.

nh fags with lots of karma can "flag" a discussion as being not "hacker nudes" worthy, and other users can "vouch" for it or something

if dang (afaik the only janny they have, and one of the rare jannies that does NOT do it for free) really doesn't like it he'll nuke it from orbit entire.

the hn thread would be fun, there's backstory - hn and foone are fighting continually, and jws had some fun hotlink images for hn threads

 

[whatever I feel like]

It's infuriating to see how fast misinformation spreads on the Internet nowadays.

And a bomb went off at the State Department!

 

[awoo]

Outside of comrade BS, ownership is fairly obvious in FOSS. If you created the repo or the keys used to commit were marked trusted by you, and the repo is populated by commits using those keys, you own the repo. Others may come and propose commits or fix bugs, but they don't own the project, and it's fair play to reject feature PRs because it's either out of scope or not what the owner wants. All that is required is honest communication on why-don't be an ass.

If they want to turn the repo into some digital commune trash, they can fork the project. If the owner is being an ass, fork the project.

It's not obvious when the repo is owned by a GitHub organization, https://github.com/PolyMC, with no public members.
It looks like at least several people have commit/merge access from https://github.com/PolyMC/PolyMC/commits/develop:
LennyMcLennington, flowln, DioEgizio, Scrumplex, Ozynt

Now if the repo were owned by LennyMcLennington, he'd have clear rights as owner, but like I said it's owned by an organization account.
https://github.com/PolyMC/PolyMC/graphs/contributors He only has 30 commits on the develop branch so not a strong claim to ownership. In this case I think large organizational changes should not be done unilaterally.

 

[quaawaa]

PolyMC is itself a fork of MultiMC, and therefore the commit chart is misleading because it includes all of MultiMC’s history. It’s also misleading because it appears that they didn’t know how to merge commits properly and a lot of people have merge commits attributed to them that were created by other people.

I believe Lenny has the earliest PolyMC commit, which was last December and would therefore imply that he is the owner of the repo.

 

[Uncle Ted's Cabin]

Using a reddit avatar on github is a great sign that you should reject any pull requests coming from this account.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

Sounds like someone tried to put a stop to the usual style of take over attempt by woke SJ narrative pushing. More power to them and good luck. I also see that the so-called "gaming media" is melting down as expected in defense of overt woke/SJ ideology defense.

 

[306h4Ge5eJUJ]

Not sure what to think about this honestly. It's concerning when a maintainer suddenly goes nuclear because you don't know what outright idiotic shit will be in the next step of his tantrum, but the ones who were kicked out sure were quick to jump on the opportunity.

 

[Neil McCauley]

nh fags with lots of karma can "flag" a discussion as being not "hacker nudes" worthy, and other users can "vouch" for it or something

if dang (afaik the only janny they have, and one of the rare jannies that does NOT do it for free) really doesn't like it he'll nuke it from orbit entire.

the hn thread would be fun, there's backstory - hn and foone are fighting continually, and jws had some fun hotlink images for hn threads

foone is a massive faggot lol, recently a twitter thread he made or something that had nothing to do with transgender bullshit (it was about how certain operating systems are hard to get working right and waste your time doing so) got posted on HN and foone trooned out, saying something along the lines of "THEY MISGENDERED ME I HATE THEM IM DELETING THIS"

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

foone is a massive faggot lol, recently a twitter thread he made or something that had nothing to do with transgender bullshit (it was about how certain operating systems are hard to get working right and waste your time doing so) got posted on HN and foone trooned out, saying something along the lines of "THEY MISGENDERED ME I HATE THEM IM DELETING THIS"

And it's a perfect example of how nothing is good enough because the dang janny was deleting/flagging/hiding posts as fast as he could and it wasn't good enough. And all he wants is "they" lol. It's literally a powertrip because he can't delete posts on things offsite. Bertie Woostershire Sauce or whoever it is doxed his ass and I was surprised to learn foone looks like he ate boogie for breakfast; I had pictured him as some pencil thin autist, ah well, never should get mah hopes up.

 

[Mikoyan]

And it's a perfect example of how nothing is good enough because the dang janny was deleting/flagging/hiding posts as fast as he could and it wasn't good enough. And all he wants is "they" lol. It's literally a powertrip because he can't delete posts on things offsite. Bertie Woostershire Sauce or whoever it is doxed his ass and I was surprised to learn foone looks like he ate boogie for breakfast; I had pictured him as some pencil thin autist, ah well, never should get mah hopes up.

Where's that, hah.

Yeah, I always imagined him to be like the TubeTime guy.

 

[Molokroid]

And it's a perfect example of how nothing is good enough because the dang janny was deleting/flagging/hiding posts as fast as he could and it wasn't good enough. And all he wants is "they" lol. It's literally a powertrip because he can't delete posts on things offsite. Bertie Woostershire Sauce or whoever it is doxed his ass and I was surprised to learn foone looks like he ate boogie for breakfast; I had pictured him as some pencil thin autist, ah well, never should get mah hopes up.

https://github.com/PrismLauncher/PrismLauncher/issues/2 (Archive)

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Where's that, hah.

Yeah, I always imagined him to be like the TubeTime guy.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/keffal...dominatrix-sorrentithott.115295/post-12875527

https://kiwifarms.st/search/16023658/?q=foone&o=relevance

 

[Colon capital V]

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https://github.com/PrismLauncher/PrismLauncher/issues/2 (Archive)

imagine being this much of a massive faggot, jesus I feel so bad for any up coming aspiring programmers having to deal with these cretins plaguing the scene.

 

[Mikoyan]

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/keffal...dominatrix-sorrentithott.115295/post-12875527

https://kiwifarms.st/search/16023658/?q=foone&o=relevance

My mistake was thinking it'd be in this thread.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

My mistake was thinking it'd be in this thread.

bitch search actually works (I was surprised, too, found it by accident trying to see if anyone had info on foone)

also we were keffalsfarms for awhile, though that has died down

# whois.verisign-grs.com

No match for domain "KEFFALSFARMS.NET".
>>> Last update of whois database: 2022-10-19T18:56:27Z <<<

 

[awoo]

It’s also misleading because it appears that they didn’t know how to merge commits properly and a lot of people have merge commits attributed to them that were created by other people.

It might be GitHub's fault in how it counts commits. Scrumplex is the one who shows as the committer, but if you look at the actual git patch (https://github.com/PolyMC/PolyMC/commit/c089f9b59f32780d3228d08c2d2eeb95e4ace9e1.patch) it's credited to DioEgizio.
Git actually has two name fields: Author and Committer. The author is the one who wrote the code and the committer adds the commit on behalf of the author. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18750808/difference-between-author-and-committer-in-git To be precise they should be credited differently because they serve different useful roles.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Wikipedia has had one since 2006, which should surprise no one.

Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan - Wikipedia

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Don't forget that's not limited to software... AMD Or as some shitposters know as "Aaaaymd"
had one:

愛真田心@AMDと食べるのがすきなのです (@amadakokoro)

AMD非公式応援キャラクターの愛真田 心です。 AMD学園に通う高校2年生 2月4日生まれ16歳。 パソコンに詳しくなるために勉強中～！ 自作したののまとめてくださったのですhttp://goo.gl/UY6s3

nitter.net

『自作ＰＣまとめ①』

AMD非公式キャラクター「愛真田心」さん（ @amadakokoro ）の自作PC制作の過程です。話の流れでツイート順は実際の時系列とは多少前後しています。自…

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Japan only though, so filthy gajin weebs get rekt. Unfortunately the Ryzen anime mascot has spread to the rest of Asia so god help me every time I try to purchase a Ryzen CPU for cheap over there.

Also Asus made this in 2008 so yeah.


To be fair I'm pretty sure ATI's Ruby was around loong before these, I think 2004 with the X800 serries. I didn't have one of those but I had a Saphire X800 pro as a Christmas gift.

Pretty sure the IBM palmtop PC had a waifu mascot (at least, my cousin's did) but Wikipedia says promo was Ultraman so I might just be ♂GAY♂ instead....


Back to on topic.

Rust: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202210-09) — Gentoo security

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Rust, the worst of which could result in denial of service.

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Background​

A systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.

Description​

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Rust. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Also does the SS13 community deserve a thread (It's technically "open source")? I used to play it but it has gotten worse after 2016 when Goonstation jannies lost their minds after the election. That and the almost yearly "admin of X is a pedophile" drama now.