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

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No, no, you see, little Mx arctic fox & association. DeafBlind. Autistic/ADHD. Trans. Queer. Anarchist. Jew-in-progress. Poly said it's "the fascism forum" so it's okay!

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This is an Adeile Linux developer? This is so retarded it looks like bait. Shame as I was looking forward to seeing what Adeile had to offer but it did either way just seem like Great Value Void. Still sticking to Fedora and PCLinuxOS, lol
 
It was briefly mentioned in this thread years ago, but it's worth repeating that some Fediverse apps which are supposed to allow you to connect and log in to any instance nevertheless have a hard blacklist of wrongthink nodes. For example, the popular app Tusky blocks Gab and spinster.xyz (a TERF instance):


Note that app stores had already banned Gab's apps on grounds of insufficient censorship of their users.

The next step may be web browsers refusing to go to certain sites, in the same way that the Gab Dissenter browser plug-in was purged. And, once that is normalized, OS-level blocks are not inconceivable.

Anyone with tech knowledge will be able to work around such blocks, but it will do much to keep normies from being exposed to contrary views.
I swear they used to use an array of hashed domains to try to obscure who they were blocking and it included KFcc. It doesn't appear to base the case anymore and the git blame doesn't show any of what I remember. Maybe I'm thinking of a different app.

Anyways, Husky is the preferred fork of Tusky. It adds Pleroma-specific features and has no anti-features like this crap.
 
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OH MY GOD LOL HE WANTED TO DO IT IN THE OS ITSELF TOO
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Holy fucking shit, did he even realize that doing that would straight up defeat one of the big selling points of Linux that the normietubers love to push and cause anyone who would have switched for privacy related reason to fuck off back to Windows?
 
So he claims in the replies to that post at least, but I haven't been able to trigger it myself and can find nothing in the CSS. Maybe he removed it after realizing that this is autistic and retarded? :optimistic:
I think he really removed it. This comment from a few hours ago mentions a white text (that I presume should turn red when the "submit link sniffing" hack kicks in), but it's nowhere to be seen, even when visiting the website from HN links.

No, it's still there; it's just on the blog posts and not the main pages.

I initially thought he could be sniffing whether a link to HN turned purple through JS but it turns out that's been patched by browsers long ago. (a)

Snooping on the rendering of :visited elements is patched (details), but styling them in certain ways is still allowed. Martin's just wrapped the entire message in a link to HN's submit page and used pure CSS to color it red if it's visited.

Example from this page. Archive (view source). (Wayback Machine because Archive.is does style rewriting.)

Content:
HTML:
<a aria-hidden=true class=hnsucks onclick=return!1 href=https://news.ycombinator.com/submit>Hi! It looks like you might be a contributor to Hacker News. Due to harassment in HN comment sections, we decided to redirect traffic from that site away from this blog, and sent an email to the HN admins explaining our frustrations. We received no reply. Instead, the HN admins specifically added a rel="noreferrer" tag <b>only to links to asahilinux.org</b>, to bypass our redirect. Seriously. We can't stop you from submitting our blog posts to HN, but we kindly ask you not to. They have no regard for the wellbeing of the projects and developers they feature, and would rather evade benign blocks than admit they have a comment moderation problem.</a>

Styling:
HTML:
<style>a.hnsucks{position:fixed;left:0;top:0;width:100%;color:#fff;cursor:default;z-index:-1000}a.hnsucks:visited{color:red}a.hnsucks b{font-weight:700}</style>
 
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Snooping on the rendering of :visited elements is patched (details), but styling them in certain ways is still allowed. Martin's just wrapped the entire message in a link to HN's submit page and used pure CSS to color it red if it's visited.
It shows up for me now whereas before I couldn't see it, not even in the source. I think he might have just temporarily removed it for whatever reason?
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Anyways, LMAO, HN doesn't have a "comment moderation problem" at all, Hector, it's perfectly allowed to laugh at you and the weird creepy vtuber shit you do all day long.
 
Anyways, LMAO, HN doesn't have a "comment moderation problem" at all, Hector, it's perfectly allowed to laugh at you and the weird creepy vtuber shit you do all day long.
this faggot is treating HN as if it's the fucking farms itself, and that place is one of the tightest moderated places on the whole fucking internet holy shit; it's the definition of white bread

if HN is pissing you off, it's not the moderation, lol, it's you
 
I'm not actually sure what he's done. If I check the source of any asahilinux.org page, this is the only match for ycombinator / Hacker News (it's what he had previously that HN started circumventing because fuck him), I also can't find any other <script> tags:
HTML:
<script>document.referrer.startsWith("https://news.ycombinator.com")&&(console.log("Hacker News is becoming worse than 4chan. Do better."),document.location="https://google.com")</script>
I initially thought he could be sniffing whether a link to HN turned purple through JS but it turns out that's been patched by browsers long ago. (a)
In the second toot he says "Don't even think about adding a hash to the submit link." By this he might be referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/submit ? Well I visited it (I don't have an account and it just takes you to a login page) and the notice doesn't appear on asahilinux.org for me. Maybe he wrote something that only works in his testing environment and it doesn't actually fucking work in production.

So I might be retarded but I'm really not sure as to what he's done if anything. This could just be the impotent fruitless rage of a manchild on top of an already ultimately impotent and fruitless rage of a manchild.

He's using the old :visited method in CSS to check if someone visited a link; see: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/AsahiLinux.github.io/commit/5175aff478a985e721bff53a2bec7578f06e0b85

That's the last commit, but those changes are not on https://asahilinux.org/ so I guess it got reverted or didn't deploy right or something.

This has been a known privacy leak for decades: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57351 It's impossible to fix because "see if you visited this link" is pretty useful and you don't really want to limit that, and the leak is small enough that it's considered an acceptable trade-off.

"they still managed to bring up one of our developers and gossip about them"
Who wants to bet that this "one of our developers" is Asahi Lina ie Hector Martin's weird and creepy vtuber persona that he vehemently denies it's him even though it's literally him? I don't know who else develops Asahi that people would gossip about.

The weird thing is he's so fixated on it. Like, who cares? If I would say "Markass is a sock of Null!!" then you'd just say "lol no", roll your eyes, vote as autistic or dumb, and move on with your life, even if it would be true. You wouldn't be foaming at the mouth over it a year later. Guy is just looking for things to be offended about and whipping himself up in a rage.
 
Free advertisement or something. Never mind the fact it's a plaintext non-obfuscated script and taking out a few lines takes a single second if not less.
It makes it easier to be authoritarian tranny when you never have to explain the changes you're making because by even discussing it creates a Hector-tier "safety" problem. Better to just trust the histrionic tranny without a single shred of oversight or transparency. Maybe FOSS projects should just start including binary blobs for "safety".
 
Crosspost from the Linux thread, the Linux kernel got its own fedi instance and Linus Torvalds himself responds to a Poast user hating on the NYT for being woke communist propaganda.
If you didn't know, kernel.org has joined the universe of federated social media with social.kernel.org. Torvalds is on it as well. Yesterday he complained that the constant ads finally got him to unsubscribe from the New York Times. Because this particular instance is, by a stroke of luck, not yet defederated from all the fun places, he got this in reply from a Poast user (A):

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Hilariously, Linus himself responded. (A)

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Well, I say hilariously, but the fedora tipping and that "plumbing" bit raises some red flags. Still, it's nice to know at least one person who didn't let their Oregonian brain rot affect the code they produce.
 
Crosspost from the Linux thread, the Linux kernel got its own fedi instance and Linus Torvalds himself responds to a Poast user hating on the NYT for being woke communist propaganda.
Tranny cock sucking GamingOnLinux posted this "W" and did his usual retarded charade of gloating about how many bigots in the replies he was blocking before locking them. Beats me why he doesn't just keep his replies locked by default if he's going to end up locking them anyway.
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Tranny cock sucking GamingOnLinux posted this "W" and did his usual retarded charade of gloating about how many bigots in the replies he was blocking before locking them. Beats me why he doesn't just keep his replies locked by default if he's going to end up locking them anyway.
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Poasties and the Podcast Race tossing up those softballs for globohomo, smdh.
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