Drew Chadwick DeVault / ddevault / SirCmpwn - Opinionated white-male-guilt-ridden software developer. Cancelled Hyprland and slandered it as "toxic" and transphobic. Hates X11 users and Hacker News. Lolicon.

[Markass the Worst]

Drew really doesn't like it when you use "witch hunt" to describe a witch hunt if it's not a literal 17th-century witch hunt taking place in Salem.

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[UERISIMILITUDO]

Drew really doesn't like it when you use "witch hunt" to describe a witch hunt if it's not a literal 17th-century witch hunt taking place in Salem.
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That's not entirely unreasonable. I'm curious how he views the comparison of illegal sharing to killing and stealing on the seas, that is piracy. I use the phrase witch hunt, but I refuse to call illegal sharing piracy. I wonder if he's consistent or not on this point.

Pedantry aside, I of course agree with not Drew. Later on, they discuss punishing the false accusers, which is another big no no in this. Believe women, and if they happen to be lying just let them continue going on falsely accusing people.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

Sooner or later Drew himself will be falsely accused of something. I'm looking forward to the reeing when that happens.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

Sooner or later Drew himself will be falsely accused of something. I'm looking forward to the reeing when that happens.

"falsely"

 

[AirdropShitposts]

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This last one suggests that he simply believes anything he's told. Upon being told that someone he knows well enough to invite to a party "beat up my friend last week" he thinks its normal to not ask any questions and simply uninvite the person.

This reminds me of a Frasier scene:

Drew really doesn't like it when you use "witch hunt" to describe a witch hunt if it's not a literal 17th-century witch hunt taking place in Salem.
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So he doesn't understand the concept of an analogy?

 

[AnOminous]

So he doesn't understand the concept of an analogy?

That's a symptom of autism.

 

[ShooterOfCum]

I tried to capture the essence of Drew's drama-generating manchildedness in this soyjak comic where he is a bowlingballjak.

 

[Eternal Gopnik]

That's a symptom of autism.

It's also a symptom of being a massive drama whore.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Drew doesn't like Kurzgesagt and he says that "The Alt-Right Playbook" made by lolcow with a thread here Innuendo Studios is better.

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He also says they have "uncomfortably close ties to Effective Altruism" and this is bad because he hates capitalism.

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There are good reasons to criticize Kurzgesagt. There are good reasons to criticize EA (being associated with LessWrong which is a whole community of cows, Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX, etc). "They're centrist and they don't criticize capitalism" is a very lolcow reason for hating them.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Is Drew's position that technology is not the solution for climate change?

Also, typical accusation that his opponents, whose principles he is in the middle of attacking, are in fact unprincipled and simply saying what they're paid to say rather than truly believe it.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Is Drew's position that technology is not the solution for climate change?

Likely he thinks technology should be reserved for the "responsible" people. His position is almost certainly that the solution to climate change is to reduce the world population below 500 million (or some other arbitrary number) and keep the vast majority in penury and serfdom, while an elite few watch over them like benevolent gods. Denying the majority population access to all but the most basic technology would be a necessary part of that. Of course, he would be one of those benevolent gods...

 

[ShooterOfCum]

Likely he thinks technology should be reserved for the "responsible" people.

That's the most likely explanation. We all should remember that he is a total fraud and does not really condone free software. He tries to convince everyone that he loves free software, of course, but, once you analyse is his actions, it becomes clear that it is just a tool for his power fantasies. He does not want truly free software, because that would mean that his ideological opponents also get to benefit, which he patently does not want.

To be honest I am surprised he hasn't stooped to even more lolcow behaviour and wrote an "anti-fascist licence" like this one (a) or this one (a), or adopted something like that. He seems like the perfect candidate to do this type of demented shit.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

He seems like the perfect candidate to do this type of demented shit.

He's seen the reactions and understands he can't get away with it.

 

[Hall of Cost Payer]

To be honest I am surprised he hasn't stooped to even more lolcow behaviour and wrote an "anti-fascist licence" like this one (a) or this one (a), or adopted something like that. He seems like the perfect candidate to do this type of demented shit.

He's seen the reactions and understands he can't get away with it.

Give him time. In his early days he was using and a proponent of the MIT license, as it was tge objectively most free one. But he realized that freedom meant that entities he didn't like, such as companies, were free to use and do what they wanted, too. And what did that mean for Drew? He didn't like it and went to GPL.

Considering his sperg outs with Hyprland it's only a question of time until he makes his own anti-fascist, anti-transphobic license.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Question: why would fascists care about license terms?

 

[indomitable snowman]

Question: why would fascists care about license terms?

Oh darn, I was just about to finish my mecha-hitler bot and AI Mussolini companion built on Hare. Too bad the anti-fascist CoC prevented it. World domination plans averted.

I Should have learned Holy C...

 

[Beautiful Border]

Drew really doesn't like it when you use "witch hunt" to describe a witch hunt if it's not a literal 17th-century witch hunt taking place in Salem.

There's been a recent movement recently to try and portray witch hunts as some kind of shameful persecution of innocent people. Some European governments have even apologized for them, for example.

Hot take: I don't agree with apologizing/giving pardons to witches burned at the stake. For all we know, these could well have been people who did, in fact, do something wrong. Not all of these would have been innocent people simply minding their own business before being falsely accused. Do I believe they were witches? No. But do I believe they believed they were witches? Absolutely, yes.

Where there are people who believe in witchcraft, there are people who believe they are witches. In Nigeria, children have been used by self-purported witches in human sacrifices. In Malawi and Mozambique, albinos are murdered because it is believed their bones can be used in magic spells. I don't know enough about European witchcraft to comment, but we may well be inadvertently pardoning people who committed similarly heinous acts because they believed themselves to be witches.

He also says they have "uncomfortably close ties to Effective Altruism" and this is bad because he hates capitalism.

Only sensible thing he's ever said. "Effective Altruism" in practice is simply a label billionaires use to try and make people think they're "one of the good ones". There's a reason its biggest proponent was Sam Bankman-Fried.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Oh darn, I was just about to finish my mecha-hitler bot and AI Mussolini companion built on Hare. Too bad the anti-fascist CoC prevented it. World domination plans averted.

I Should have learned Holy C...

You'll be sorry when MechaHitler has a buffer overflow from genociding too quickly and you seek official support for a hotfix!

There's been a recent movement recently to try and portray witch hunts as some kind of shameful persecution of innocent people. Some European governments have even apologized for them, for example.

Hot take: I don't agree with apologizing/giving pardons to witches burned at the stake. For all we know, these could well have been people who did, in fact, do something wrong. Not all of these would have been innocent people simply minding their own business before being falsely accused. Do I believe they were witches? No. But do I believe they believed they were witches? Absolutely, yes.

Where there are people who believe in witchcraft, there are people who believe they are witches. In Nigeria, children have been used by self-purported witches in human sacrifices. In Malawi and Mozambique, albinos are murdered because it is believed their bones can be used in magic spells. I don't know enough about European witchcraft to comment, but we may well be inadvertently pardoning people who committed similarly heinous acts because they believed themselves to be witches.

I think you almost got to raising the more important concern, surely we shouldn't look down on marginalized "primitive" beliefs about witchcraft simply because we Western whites know better now. The lived experience of those people said there were witches and science can't disprove that if it was true for them.

 

[Questionable Ceviche]

There's been a recent movement recently to try and portray witch hunts as some kind of shameful persecution of innocent people. Some European governments have even apologized for them, for example.

Hot take: I don't agree with apologizing/giving pardons to witches burned at the stake. For all we know, these could well have been people who did, in fact, do something wrong. Not all of these would have been innocent people simply minding their own business before being falsely accused. Do I believe they were witches? No. But do I believe they believed they were witches? Absolutely, yes.

Where there are people who believe in witchcraft, there are people who believe they are witches. In Nigeria, children have been used by self-purported witches in human sacrifices. In Malawi and Mozambique, albinos are murdered because it is believed their bones can be used in magic spells. I don't know enough about European witchcraft to comment, but we may well be inadvertently pardoning people who committed similarly heinous acts because they believed themselves to be witches.

Witch hunts historically in the US and Europe were often a cover for settling disputes about landownership or other political grievances, using witchcraft accusations to do otherwise unacceptable things, like murdering the daughters from a rival family. The perpetrators of witch hunts chose soft targets and made allegations that were impossible to disprove as a means of advancing a political or social goal. They were rarely about actual witchcraft. I'm not saying that trials based on real crimes didn't happen, but rather the witch hunt moral panics often had a hidden agenda that had nothing to do with witches or magic.

Lefty social groups are moralizing about witch hunts as a way to suggest that they are no longer using tactic of making wildly untrue accusations of unrelated misbehavior as a way to persecute political rivals. This is exactly what Drew is doing when he boo hoos about the phrase witch hunt while simultaneously accuses everyone he doesn't like of being a Nazi (Vaxry) or a pedophile (RMS).

Vaxry got labeled a Nazi, a completely fabricated charge, because he has a reasoned argument about why moderation based on political ideology is unhealthy for a community project. Vaxry is a young developer who doesn't have the large audience that Drew has, making it difficult for him to fight back.

RMS got labeled as a sexual predator via a deliberate misreading of statements he's made over years beacuse it is politically expedient for Drew to do so, granting him visibility and increased standing among a group of like-minded peers. RMS is an elderly, deeply autistic man with cancer.

Drew is absolutely taking a page from the historical witch hunt playbook. He's making accusations against weak targets that can't be disproven in order for him to accomplish an unrelated goal of either protecting his own worldview or gaining social standing among his peer group.

 

[Hall of Cost Payer]

Question: why would fascists care about license terms?

These licenses are less directed at dictatorships in whatever 3rd world countries around the world and more directed towards those "fascists" that supported Trump etc. Palantir Guardian Article is a lib favorite. They helped build the IT infrastructure for Trump's border stuff and I've seen hate towards them. So I guess they try to stop companies like them using their work.