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

[xn--mck1c]

My board has one but I turned it off in EFI specifically to make sure M$ couldn't install Windows 11 on my system. How does this shit benefit me in the least? It seems to benefit anyone but me.

It actually can be used to the benefit of the end user, at it's core concept it holds on to some secret and only acts upon the secret when certain conditions are met, so you do things such as:
Allow users to use a short password by storing the real longer password and rate limiting attempts .
Not release the real password unless certain conditions are met (fingerprint, face ID etc).
Protect saved passwords from simply being copied out.
Prevent releasing the password if certain things change (software modified, chassis opened) etc.

Done right you can even replace saved passwords with fingerprint logins that can't really be phished or stolen.
But of course they interested in using it to load their keys on it and enforce behavior that they want.

 

[888Flux]

I don't know where else to post this, but doesn't this shit enables web servers to exclude who uses them? https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity

Explained by a github user rfkat [a]:


I have also found a blog post [a] by one of the maintainers of the github repo called Yoav Weiss (I wonder where he's from) made only 2 days ago, probably as a preemptive defense when people find out Google's shit stinks to high hell.

lol, look at the latest commit:

a fucking CoC for a low-level specification. can these faggots virtue signal any harder?

Also the issues page is fun to take a look at. atleast there are some sane people left. Remember when Google's motto was "Don't be evil"?

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/issues/131

 

[Don Yagon]

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/issues/131

>I'm happy to keep this one open if you can point me to a section in the Code of Conduct that considers closing spammy issues as an unacceptable behavior.
>An owner of this repository has limited the ability to comment to users that have contributed to this repository in the past.
Hilarious!

 

[Broken Vending Machine]

https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/pull/180#issuecomment-1653653574

https://archive.ph/nh9Mo

Apologies if this is not in a dedicated emulation thread(do we have one?)
But some funny sperging has gone down in the Xbox emulator development.
It seams a sperg dev has decided to minecraft all the pirates off their discord server. Normally nobody would care. Usual excuse is DONT WANT NINTENDO TO SUE US.
Sperg dev being the big brained corpo bootlicker he is decided he wants to minecraft all the pirates using the software by introducing code in to the program that functions as malware and screams and spergs at you using high tone beeping if it detects you using the common ISO format. Yes you read that right. The ISO format. The most common form of disk images used in modern computing. Not content with just doing this he goes on to defend his actions by citing how many people come in to their discord talking about piracy and how "annoying" it is. Naturally the spaz gets btfo and gets kicked out as a sacrifice to the mob. While the other devs try to damage control his actions. He has also DFE'ed his github account, to get away from the people shitting on him. No doubt his sperg ass will be back under a new name.
There really does need to be more eye's on the emu dev scene as a lot of them are really borderline lolcows at times. I have seen them take up crusades against Trump(Switch hacking discord). Have really funny autistic slapfights where some of them use their own code to target people they think who wronged them. The fights between Retroarch and other devs are lost to history it seems unless someone made archives of it all.

 

[Computer Guardian]

https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/pull/180#issuecomment-1653653574

https://archive.ph/nh9Mo

Apologies if this is not in a dedicated emulation thread(do we have one?)
But some funny sperging has gone down in the Xbox emulator development.
It seams a sperg dev has decided to minecraft all the pirates off their discord server. Normally nobody would care. Usual excuse is DONT WANT NINTENDO TO SUE US.
Sperg dev being the big brained corpo bootlicker he is decided he wants to minecraft all the pirates using the software by introducing code in to the program that functions as malware and screams and spergs at you using high tone beeping if it detects you using the common ISO format. Yes you read that right. The ISO format. The most common form of disk images used in modern computing. Not content with just doing this he goes on to defend his actions by citing how many people come in to their discord talking about piracy and how "annoying" it is. Naturally the spaz gets btfo and gets kicked out as a sacrifice to the mob. While the other devs try to damage control his actions.
There really does need to be more eye's on the emu dev scene as a lot of them are really borderline lolcows at times. I have seen them take up crusades against Trump(Switch hacking discord). Have really funny autistic slapfights where some of them use their own code to target people they think who wronged them. The fights between Retroarch and other devs are lost to history it seems unless someone made archives of it all.

There's already a dedicated thread for it.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

 

[GNU Abyss]

View attachment 5239601

If you wish to bypass this check, just compile the program from source. All it takes is removing a single line from the project manifest of the GUI and CLI modules (DiscordChatExplorer.{Gui,Cli}/DiscordChatExplorer.{Gui,Cli}.csproj). Here it is:

<PackageReference Include="Deorcify" Version="1.0.2" PrivateAssets="all" />

Very convenient to cut out and teaches people to compile the programs they use themselves, what a nice lad. Want to know who else is using this protest package?



Just him

 

[Computer Guardian]

If you wish to bypass this check, just compile the program from source. All it takes is removing a single line from the project manifest of the GUI and CLI modules (DiscordChatExplorer.{Gui,Cli}/DiscordChatExplorer.{Gui,Cli}.csproj). Here it is:

<PackageReference Include="Deorcify" Version="1.0.2" PrivateAssets="all" />

Very convenient to cut out and teaches people to compile the programs they use themselves, what a nice lad. Want to know who else is using this protest package?

View attachment 5240515

Just him

This is literally regional DRM that doesn't even work because they tell you how to bypass it, and anyone remotely tech savy will do it anyways.

The Readme file on github is exactly what you expect from a braindead Ukraine supporter.


He's actually aware that it's piss easy to bypass, but has done nothing about it for five months now

 

[Nitro!]

If you wish to bypass this check, just compile the program from source. All it takes is removing a single line from the project manifest of the GUI and CLI modules (DiscordChatExplorer.{Gui,Cli}/DiscordChatExplorer.{Gui,Cli}.csproj). Here it is:

<PackageReference Include="Deorcify" Version="1.0.2" PrivateAssets="all" />

Very convenient to cut out and teaches people to compile the programs they use themselves, what a nice lad. Want to know who else is using this protest package?

View attachment 5240515

Just him

I hate these faggots, but I am happy that these useless niggers can't consider the possibility that they should conceal their supply chain attacks. Thanks for making it obvious I should never hire you, dickhead!

 

[GNU Abyss]

I hate these faggots, but I am happy that these useless niggers can't consider the possibility that they should conceal their supply chain attacks. Thanks for making it obvious I should never hire you, dickhead!

I thought it was a private package added during compilation on his dev machine at first, since I couldn't find any relevant strings in the project. It's somewhat commendable because, despite the brain rot, he still respects the spirit of open source and no proprietary bullshit is added in the process. You get a clean executable with 5 minutes of effort.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

> You cannot use DiscordChatExporter on the territory of a terrorist state.

MIT licence sez:
> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person ... to deal in the Software without restriction

Pick one

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

Hector Martin has an episode of bootlicking Apple. He calls people who claim Apple is designing against Right to Repair conspiracy theorists, because Apple's designs are so superior that mere mortals are too stupid to grasp how to replace the parts in them.

Spoiler: Long drooling

ghostarchive / original

Someone on astrodon.social has summarized his ramblings correctly

Hector did not reply to that post, but he replied to some other person who confronted him with a particular anti-consumer (and bad engineering) design choice:


How I see it is that Hector is just stupid. He spent his entire life hacking various systems which were designed in an anti-hacker way. According to his Wikipedia page, his work before Asahi is centered around hacking "multiple generations of PlayStation as well as the Wii". Hector has never worked on a system which was not designed in an anti-hacker way. That is, a system which from the beginning is designed to be open, interchangeable, upgradeable and hackable. Instead, Hector has spent years hacking on systems which were centered around DRM and copy protection, and while he has vast knowledge about them, he does not understand that these systems represent the wrong approach. He thinks that Apple's design approach is normal, which obviously is bullshit for everyone who has worked with any other systems. I would be curious about his thoughts on Open Source Hardware (just to laugh). I am ashamed this man is considered to be a pillar of Open Source Community by some, he does not represent OSHW or Right to Repair values.

About his Wikipedia page - it's length is surprisingly short for someone this famous in the open source community. I took a look at the edit history, and nearly the entire page was written by the user PhotographyEdits. Revision history: archive / original

 

[306h4Ge5eJUJ]

Hector Martin has an episode of bootlicking Apple. He calls people who claim Apple is designing against Right to Repair conspiracy theorists, because Apple's designs are so superior that mere mortals are too stupid to grasp how to replace the parts in them.

Really lending credence to the theory that troon bullshit in FOSS is supported by corporations and glowniggers for sabotage purposes.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

About his Wikipedia page - it's length is surprisingly short for someone this famous in the open source community. I took a look at the edit history, and nearly the entire page was written by the user PhotographyEdits. Revision history: archive / original

There's been speculation that PhotographyEdits is actually the alt of Hector's fellow cow "Leah" Rowe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Libreleah/Archive, https://archive.is/uDCpB).

 

[Markass the Worst]

Hector Martin has an episode of bootlicking Apple. He calls people who claim Apple is designing against Right to Repair conspiracy theorists, because Apple's designs are so superior that mere mortals are too stupid to grasp how to replace the parts in them.

Louis Rossmann has made a video on this:

Plus this comment:

I don't think he is a simp at all and it makes me sad to read that. Many of my mentors would always challenge me to think outside of the box rather than accept an oversimplified narrative. Even when they weren't correct, it got me to think.

I think he is challenging us to think. Why else might this have been engineered this way? Because it sounds like he knows the people being asked to do this.

I'm happy and up for the challenge, and would love to have a conversation with him & people like him so i can learn more.

My goal with this video was not to throw shade, but give perspective as to why we assume the worst when repair shops get thrown under the bus in the name of security, because of Apple's prior history. At the end of the day, for right to repair to succeed, we need everyone on our side. That includes the top 1% of engineers that are responsible for our products being what they are.

(Invidious archive)

 

[Don Yagon]

Louis Rossmann has made a video on this:

Plus this comment:

(Invidious archive)

Now wait until Hector discover he posted on KF.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Now wait until Hector discover he posted on KF.

On the one hand, I don't want Louis' reputation to be smeared, because way too many people trust Hector's word than they should (after all, he's the source for "Byuu is dead" on Wikipedia). On the other hand, it would be a hilarious chimpout and Louis would learn that Hector is a retard who shouldn't be trusted.

 

[AltisticRight]

Hector did not reply to that post, but he replied to some other person who confronted him with a particular anti-consumer (and bad engineering) design choice:

>Serialise fingerprint sensor
>Serialise screen backlight data
>Serialise screens themselves
>No tool to relink everything
>CONSPIRACY THEORIST

For someone that's not a troon (yet), he sure plays histrionics well.

 

[Markass the Worst]

>Serialise fingerprint sensor
>Serialise screen backlight data
>Serialise screens themselves
>No tool to relink everything
>CONSPIRACY THEORIST

For someone that's not a troon (yet), he sure plays histrionics well.

It's not a conspiracy on Apple's part, it's just carelessness. He even admits Apple should provide a tool to relink everything, but spends 99% of his time hammering on this really pedantic point against some hypothetical argument that, frankly, no one in right-to-repair is even making? No one is alleging a coordinated cabal of conspiracy or anything.

He always reaches for the "CONSPIRACY THEORY!" screech. When we point out that his story about Byuu neckroping himself to the sound of a gay French song and Wayne Beckett's story about being sent his ashes in a cookie jar are both bullshit, he says we're "conspiracy theorists". Two guys lying is not a conspiracy and no one ever said there was a conspiracy, just that the two faggots were lying about his death.

 

[AnOminous]

When we point out that his story about Byuu neckroping himself to the sound of a gay French song and Wayne Beckett's story about being sent his ashes in a cookie jar are both bullshit, he says we're "conspiracy theorists".

He's the conspiracy theorist, because this fat faggot hoaxster is claiming both the State Department of the United States and the Japanese police are conspiring to conceal the suicide of an American in Japan.