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

[Markass the Worst]

Some troon developer named "Alyssa Rosenzweig" wrote a sob piece about the increasing backlash against trannies. (archive) Let's start off with the smaller bits:

When I was 10, I came out as transgender. I was a girl and I knew it.

Translation: When I was 10, I was groomed into trooning out and refuse to admit it.

There’s a vicious myth that kids just walk into clinics and leave with hormones. Quite the opposite.

They say this never happens huh? I've seen enough troonery to dismiss this out of hand even before knowing it's quite literally false.

I’m 21 now. I’ll be blunt: if not for gender-affirming care, I don’t know if I would be around. If there would be FOSS graphics drivers for Mali-T860 or the Apple M1.

Or you know, you could have received better care and fixed the delusion of feeling like a woman in a man's body entirely. I don't even know what the fuck an Mali-T860 is so I particularly don't give a shit if drivers for them exist. And I don't use an Apple M1 or Hoaxin Hector's Asahi Linux faggotry.

If I were a few years younger, lived in the wrong part of the US, that may well be the reality, because gender-affirming care is banned for minors in conservative areas across the United States.

Good. Minors should not be trooned out, that is child abuse.

Even now, I’m lucky I don’t live in the wrong place: the medication I’m prescribed is banned for adults in several American states.

I fear the 2024 election. How long until there’s a ban nationwide?

Yeah that's not going to happen.

One recent Florida law threatens jail time if a trans person uses the bathroom - any bathroom - in a public space.

This is yet another blatantly false tranny lie. The bill in question, Florida HB1521, specifies it only for bathrooms of the opposite sex, not any bathroom. Ie TiMs should go in men's restrooms and TiFs should go in women's restrooms. This is a good thing because there are many cases of TiMs creeping on or assaulting women in women's rooms, but it's not like "Alyssa" cares. Of course he got it wrong though because he cites lolcow Erin/Tony Reed (who cites his own wrong explanation of HB1521).

What’s next?

Does anybody remember the Nuremberg laws?

I was raised Jewish.

Oh fuck off with this shit. Kike.

Anyways he tells the reader they must vote Democrat because Republicans Bad:

You don’t need to like Democrats, but I need you to understand that if you vote Republican in 2024, you vote erasure. You vote oppression. You vote fascism.

I doubt that too, if only because the two party system is a lie. But I'm not going to politisperg any more than "Alyssa" already has.

The trans experience isn’t inherently defined by suffering. Not for trans kids, not for trans adults.

Out of all the most reality bending shit in this sob post, this takes the cake. This retard would tell me to my face that cutting off your dick, injecting the wrong hormones into your body fucking it up in all sorts of ways, and creating a permanent wound in your crotch that tries to close itself up and must be forced to stay open isn't suffering. I don't even know what to say to that.

When treated with respect, allowed to transition, when we can access the medication we know we need, life can be great.

Just ignore all the detransitioners, they're Just Not Actually Trans for some reason.

Here's the wham line and the main point of my post:

I’m on the board overseeing Linux graphics. Half of us are trans. If all you care about is Linux, resist the attacks on trans people.

If you have any decency, fight back.

It’s your choice.

I would sooner suck Microsoft cock than give one inch more to the miles and miles that "trans rights" have already taken. You're not fucking special, you're no Torvalds or Stallman. If you commit neckrope, there's always going to be another developer who will take up the mantle. Linux graphics isn't going to stall just because some trannies join the 41%. Arguably it's better for Linux as trannies are a plague to everything they touch, shitting up development with politics and pronouns.

Of course, tranny cocksucking GamingOnLinux tweeted this out:

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Doing his duty by slapfighting retards on twatter and blocking them. No surprise he gave up and locked replies:


He also hid many based replies made before locking:

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Unsurprisingly, one of Hector Martin's troon programming buddies LunaFoxgirlVT (onion) quote tweeted this too:

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The replies are an echo chamber except for this one he hid:

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It's good to finally see some measurable backlash against the encroachment of trannies in open source. Of course that highlights even more just how entrenched they are.

 

[AnOminous]

Good. Minors should not be trooned out, that is child abuse.

Anyone trooning out minors should literally be put against a wall and shot. Not in Minecraft. In reality.

 

[DavidS877]

Arguably it's better for Linux as trannies are a plague to everything they touch, shitting up development with politics and pronouns.

I have to suspect that that the troon developers are over-represented not because they're any good but because they've shitted up OSS development so much that any competent people want nothing to do with it. Maybe they just avoid GitHub and have a programmer day job or maybe they fucked off entirely and did something like become a plumber, which would still deal with less shit than dealing with trannies.

 

[Coolio55]

I'm not surprised. Modern Linux is a buggy incompatible POS for any non-terminal non-server use cases.
Hardware vendors creating more complex and less open systems is one thing but it certainly doesn't help that most of the developers are now whiny rapey diversity hires.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Modern Linux is a buggy incompatible POS for any non-terminal non-server use cases.

I have to disagree. It's doing well, despite the tranny infiltration, as they're mostly confining themselves to "advocacy" and non-technical roles in the day-to-day. My daily-use home computer and my work laptop are both linux. I've done no special tinkering or tweaking to get them functional; they just work.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Fresh new drama just dropped with GrapheneOS (privacy and security focused open source Android OS) and Kiwifarms user and right to repair advocate Louis Rossmann (@larossmann). Louis uploaded this video:

Spoiler: archive of video

(ghostarchive)
It's about a conversation he had with Daniel Micay aka strcat, lead developer of GrapheneOS. The description links to a zip of chatlogs between him and Louis, which I have archived here (see attached file).

• strcat DMs Louis on Matrix telling him to delete his comment on a video by some guy named Techlore.
  • Techlore's video showed screenshots of strcat acting not very nicely. Louis simply commented "This is informative, and unfortunate".
• strcat claims Techlore is part of a harassment campaign responsible for swatting him, and by Louis commenting on the video, Louis himself is supporting him and is complicit in attempted murder.
• He tells him to delete the comment or he will be banned from the GrapheneOS matrix.
  • Louis clarifies: Despite him making several videos refuting GrapheneOS misinformation, strcat believes that Louis is complicit in sabotage of the project?
  • Yes, apparently so.
• strcat also claims that the screenshots in Techlore's video were fabricated or taken out of context.
• He tells Louis that this is why GrapheneOS people don't want to make youtube content with him, because he can't be trusted.
  • This is despite Louis' open invitation that he make a video with him refuting all the misinformation surrounding GrapheneOS. Louis ended up making such a video himself without Daniel appearing in it.
  • After all, Louis has almost 2 million subscribers, while Techlore has only 200k. He has the bigger audience so it will spread farther than whatever misinformation Techlore said.
• But regardless of that, Daniel doesn't trust Louis to collaborate with him on a misinformation refuting video... because of the comment on Techlore's video.
• Louis clarifies: He only commented because, in his opinion, he simply thought that the behavior in those screenshots sucked. He has the right to criticize him for that.
• Eventually the conversation goes into the deep end where Daniel says something about how this is how autistic people communicate and if you don't like that, that's your problem, not his.

By the way, during all this time strcat has been typing while Louis has been recording. You can tell from the timestamps that the walls of texts he's written are only a few minutes old. Seems like he just got fed up enough with Daniel's behavior and this was the straw that broke the camel's back that he pulled out his OBS right then and there.

• Indeed, Louis tells the viewer how there's a ton of questionable shit he's seen happen in the GrapheneOS Matrix, but he just decided to ignore them because he just wanted to let him make his project, let bygones be bygones.
• It also didn't help that this was the first thing Louis woke up to, giant walls of text, and this was the first thing he had to deal with instead of figuring out how to celebrate Minnesota's right to repair victory.
• Oh, and also Daniel told him that he would be publishing information on how Louis is complicit in these attacks. Pulling out the OBS immediately is understandable.
• Louis Rossmann gives a final message to Daniel Micay:
  • You are bullying people and cloaking yourself in victimhood. This isn't normal.
  • You are claiming I am complicit in attempted murder for making a comment on a youtube video.
  • This is how you acted last year in emails to me and matrix chats. I do not feel bad for you anymore.
  • Do not talk to me again.
  • (full message):
  • 

And then we get to the title of the video: Louis uninstalled GrapheneOS from his phone, because he can't trust someone who isn't in his right mind to write code that runs on his device.

It's unfortunate but sadly a lot of mentally ill people work on open source projects. But I feel slightly uneasy about Rossmann, I was not expecting him to become involved in something like this or make a video like this.

 

[Chubby Checker]

I looked through the emails a bit and in this part he talks about Cloudflare and Kiwi Farms (from 20220905-Re_CalyxOS-13.pdf, page 3):

I tried to preemptively steer you away from this situation but that didn't work, so now we are in the situation that you are supporting
scammers who are harmful to the space and engaged in a malicious misinformation and harassment campaign towards us. They published a 1
hour hit piece personally targeting me. Nicolas Merrill is directly and openly involved in this. You chose to tie yourself to that.
Here are 2 recent threads I posted about Cloudflare supporting Kiwi Farms:

https://twitter.com/DanielMicay/status/1565109706179354624 (A)
2k retweets, 10k likes, 1 million impressions

https://twitter.com/DanielMicay/status/1565791901747380228 (A) is another less widely spread one.

Why was I posting about that? These are some of the people who have engaged in harassment towards my friends, and my project. Why were they
doing that? CalyxOS involved them through their attacks on us across platforms and the 1 hour hit piece posted by a YouTuber they worked with
closely. CalyxOS welcomes them in their rooms. CalyxOS refused to ban neo-nazis openly engaged in harassment towards me.

They not only refused to cut ties with the incredibly underhanded hostile and abusive YouTuber attacking us but actually heavily promoted his channel
after he'd started doing that and made a 1 hour video with him. Kiwi Farms even got banned by a Russian DDoS provider known for hosting criminal content
after they were banned by Cloudflare. CalyxOS still welcomes them. They have numerous of those people in their rooms, talking to them regularly,
and they won't ban their Matrix servers.

If I'm reading this right it seems that he somehow thinks that the attacks on his friends and his project are in part done by KF and that CalyxOS is somehow involved with that. He definitely sounds unhinged, which is sad considering that GrapheneOS otherwise seems like a really good project.

 

[teriyakiburns]

If I'm reading this right it seems that he somehow thinks that the attacks on his friends and his project are in part done by KF and that CalyxOS is somehow involved with that. He definitely sounds unhinged, which is sad considering that GrapheneOS otherwise seems like a really good project.

My reading is a lot simpler than that. CalyxOS is his competitor and does things differently to GrapheneOS, in ways he personally doesn't like, so he smears it as being part of the collective hive of nazis, transphobes, and kiwi farmers that are clearly out to get him. It's the same playbook you see time after time with people like this: Someone competes with you or disagrees with you, so call them a nazi.

 

[sodaboard]

i see rossman all the time and he just seems like another generic tech jewtuber and angry midget which if i spent my life fixing apple products i'd be pissed at everything too. is there any reason why i should care about this guy?

 

[306h4Ge5eJUJ]

And then we get to the title of the video: Louis uninstalled GrapheneOS from his phone, because he can't trust someone who isn't in his right mind to write code that runs on his device.

Perfectly sane, unlike the developer. Just remember the retards who snuck malware into their own projects for the glory of Ukraine. If he's seriously unhinged enough to think Rossmann is trying to murder him with Youtube comments, he's unhinged enough to pull shit like this.

 

[Lurking All About]

i see rossman all the time and he just seems like another generic tech jewtuber and angry midget which if i spent my life fixing apple products i'd be pissed at everything too. is there any reason why i should care about this guy?

Personally no, he is spearheading right to repair (affects everyone in the long run). He'd prefer to be a footnote in history when it takes off by itself.

Oh yeah would also like to add something people seem to have forgotten: https://archive.is/20230516145244/h...agon-privacyguides-failed-attempt-to-takeover Techlore hasn't personally been leading some shadow campaign to my current knowledge against graphene however his moderators and general community certainly aren't perfect angels. I only mention this due to how it seems to not have popped up in this thread. Stopped watching techlore ages before this due to how his takes have aged liked spoiled milk (not a sin just prefer other tech tubers and other sources).

 

[teriyakiburns]

is there any reason why i should care about this guy?

He's been campaigning for right-to-repair for the better part of a decade and has developed some serious pull behind the scenes in that direction.

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

The fuck is up with alt-tech Daniels (strcat and graf) taking Ls on the exact same week?

 

[Chubby Checker]

My reading is a lot simpler than that. CalyxOS is his competitor and does things differently to GrapheneOS, in ways he personally doesn't like, so he smears it as being part of the collective hive of nazis, transphobes, and kiwi farmers that are clearly out to get him. It's the same playbook you see time after time with people like this: Someone competes with you or disagrees with you, so call them a nazi.

Yeah, it's pretty clear that he has something against CalyxOS. He does mention some issues he has with the project in the emails (20220905-Re_CalyxOS-13.pdf, page 2):

Do you realize that CalyxOS lacks the full August security patches, all the recent Chromium security patches and much more? They have published
an 'August security update' with literally more than half the important patches missing. They don't make it clear how much is missing. Every
single critical remote code execution vulnerability fixed in August is unpatched in CalyxOS. This isn't something unusual. This is the norm.
They will likely miss the September and October patches too. They will likely pretend to have shipped them, as they did with August.

I have no expertise on the field, so I can't tell if his concerns regarding the security of CalyxOS are valid or if he's just throwing around technical jargon to make his claims seem believable. The latter doesn't seem impossible, considering his behavior towards Rossmann.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Looks like an interesting development has happened. Daniel Micay has locked his twitter account and his bio, used to be "founder and lead developer of GrapheneOS", now reads "former lead developer of GrapheneOS". It's the same story with his personal website too (before, after). Did he leave the project or was he forced out by others?

While searching, I found this website (opinionplatform.org) that documents some alleged receipts about Daniel Micay. I have not been able to confirm the authenticity of any of it yet.

I looked through the emails a bit and in this part he talks about Cloudflare and Kiwi Farms (from 20220905-Re_CalyxOS-13.pdf, page 3):

Seems like he's going off about Cloudflare because he lost one of his developers to them. From 20220831-Re_CalyxOS-10806.pdf:

Yes, we lost someone to Cloudflare who no longer works on GrapheneOS,
now we lost one of the main 4 developers to full time work elsewhere, we
can't afford to hire the extremely talented US-based 18 year old who
made the initial web installer and sandboxed Google Play compatibility
layer for us and we're bleeding other contributors / developers due to
lack of funding and also the ongoing harassment / other attacks. Whether
or not you believe me, a substantial portion of those attacks come from
CalyxOS and Nicolas Merrill has engaged in bullying and libel towards me
personally along with others.

He must think that we're some sort of harassment factory staffed by neo-Nazis, when in reality, that is misinformation spewed by trannies looking to shut us down to cover up their crimes of rape. Just see Liz Fong-Jones. And we have threads on people like Steven Crowder and a whole board for Nick Fuentes, we're not strictly right-wing.

And besides thinking that Cloudflare having served us was support of what we do, he also thought that Cloudflare hosted KF because of their CDN:

A completely nonsensical argument.

If I'm reading this right it seems that he somehow thinks that the attacks on his friends and his project are in part done by KF and that CalyxOS is somehow involved with that. He definitely sounds unhinged, which is sad considering that GrapheneOS otherwise seems like a really good project.

My reading is a lot simpler than that. CalyxOS is his competitor and does things differently to GrapheneOS, in ways he personally doesn't like, so he smears it as being part of the collective hive of nazis, transphobes, and kiwi farmers that are clearly out to get him. It's the same playbook you see time after time with people like this: Someone competes with you or disagrees with you, so call them a nazi.

Honestly, this reminds me of Byuu.

Byuu was much the same, he accused his competitors of waging a harassment campaign against him (if you count Retroarch as his competitor). It seems that by 2020, he kept seeing harassment against him or his friends (where there wasn't any) and cooked up this theory that his 13-page Kiwi Farms thread was entirely to blame for it. And also assumed that the "harassment" would just go away if the thread was gone. Hence his gambit that year to get CIA Nigger to delete his thread, which failed, then he desperately emailed Null to get it taken down. And when that didn't work, next year, he emailed him again and suicide baited. We all know what happened next.

Again, just mental illness.

i see rossman all the time and he just seems like another generic tech jewtuber and angry midget which if i spent my life fixing apple products i'd be pissed at everything too. is there any reason why i should care about this guy?

He's a based Kiwifarmer. @larossmann

 

[Deranged Deez]

They have published
an 'August security update' with literally more than half the important patches missing.

Here is what he is referring to.

https://calyxos.org/news/2022/09/02/android-12L-pixels-fp4/

 

[Markass the Worst]

Just found this, it's the commit that updated daniel.micay.dev. According to him, he's stepping down, so he wasn't forced out or anything.

 

[clipartfan92]

I remember reading this thread on the GrapheneOS forums last month and thinking the guy had a couple of screws loose:
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/4695-dev-in-trouble (archive.ph)
I archived the tweet at the time, although I can't recall if that was the whole thread or if there were a couple more at the end (screenshot is from the archive link):

https://twitter.com/DanielMicay/status/1650947535500898313 (archive.ph)

 

[butterz]

I don't know if this is related to what is currently happening but didn't the CalixOS devs try to dox and harass the Graphene lead dev?

Just found this, it's the commit that updated daniel.micay.dev. According to him, he's stepping down, so he wasn't forced out or anything.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

I was seriously like, a day away from switching to Graphene. Should I put a pin in that?