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.

[Monopoly Supporter]

Calculator forums finally taking their revenge.

Finally, the French have a victory.

 

[NoTimeToLose]

As was pointed out, SourceHut is all down, subject to apparently finding a DDoS shielding provider.
I'm rather curious who they pissed off. I know who KF pisses off, but what's going on with SourceHut.

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I was reviewing the HackerNews thread and who popped up, but our favorite cow.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38966035

https://archive.is/TjxoX

Of course reddit news will delete these exchanges.

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

This is not a company that I would trust with my data.

That's because SourceHut is not a company. It's a personal power ranch where Drew can exercise his lust for control and ban people who make the mistake of trusting him with hosting their work. He wants you to host your code there so that you come back crawling and begging for mercy when he catches you having an opinion that doesn't match the party line and exiles you from the "community". The fact that he attached some fiscal entity to this is irrelevant. Drew is a disgusting control freak. Would not be surprised if he was abusing animals.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

Drew dissects his network outage: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2024-01-19-outage-post-mortem/, https://archive.is/V5c2z
170 hours downtime, lol. Maybe he should have thought twice when he was implementing useless shit like Mercurial support or an IRC client.

On a personal note, I would like to thank my fiancé for their patience and unwavering emotional support during a challenging time.

Fiancé rather than fiancée, suggesting that he is gay.

 

[Panzerfrau]

Fiancé rather than fiancée, suggesting that he is gay.

That would explain his thinly veiled contempt towards dickless women.

 

[Flatline]

Mercurial support or an IRC client

These are fine. It's his need to pick fight and make more enemies than friends that likely led to his entire infrastructure to get DDOS'd.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

Fiancé rather than fiancée, suggesting that he is gay.

I want to claim that to be a simple mistake, but the insistence on using their really is just further evidence of that. Fuck the singular they, and fuck the subversive faggots trying to dismantle the English language.

 

[Jonny Greenwood]

More like does anyone hate him enough to do this. I think pretty much anyone who has had to deal with this obnoxious autistic cocksucker has to hate his guts.

Outside his small circlejerk, DDV is indeed one of the most loathed figures in tech

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

These are fine. It's his need to pick fight and make more enemies than friends that likely led to his entire infrastructure to get DDOS'd.

The problem with that argument is that you could say the same thing about Josh...

 

[Markass the Worst]

The problem with that argument is that you could say the same thing about Josh...

The site he runs is inherently controversial and unfortunately too many people hate you when you give them the same treatment as others. In contrast running less controversial, kosher tech shit SHOULDN'T be controversial unless you're an asshole prick maligned by many like Drew.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

The site he runs is inherently controversial and unfortunately too many people hate you when you give them the same treatment as others. In contrast running less controversial, kosher tech shit SHOULDN'T be controversial unless you're an asshole prick maligned by many like Drew.

Yes, but I was objecting to the idea that if he'd been nicer in general it wouldn't have happened. Both Josh and Drew deserve free speech. Hopefully it'll give Drew some humility whenever free speech issues come up in future ().

Anyway, it'd be interesting to know exactly who he's pissed off so much. From the looks of things they were actually saturating the connection rather than making more requests than the webserver can handle, as happens with KF - so it looks like it was a far more expensive attack. One of his business rivals?

 

[BMO_]

>Like sourcehut because interface isn't bloated with JS (unlike Github, Gitlab and other projects)
>sr.ht is shit that bans people for supporting Pmurt
>...and Drew can't fight DDoS attacks
are there any other actually working instances of sourcehut?

 

[i440BX]

Well, after reading this thread I realized how shitty are some Linux devs. No wonder I observe this Pro-Wayland sentiment pushed into channels like Broodie Robertson.

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.

I hate drew but I also hate Kurzgezagt. They are a propaganda channel, masked under edutainment label, to promote billionaire philanthropists like Gates. I am not saying we shouldn't use technology , but the channel promotes WEF talking points.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Drew is still enforcing the cancellation of Jacob Appelbaum and demands that you must question anybody who associates with him. Also, suck the CoC.


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For context on Appelbaum:

She claims that she was raped by Jacob Appelbaum over the course of 2006 and 2007!
But she only came forward with that story about 10 years later in June 2016. It also reads like a copy-pasta

To add some context to this: Appelbaum was thrown out of the Tor project after getting accused of rape by a bunch of people around 2016. The entire board of directors resigned over this, too. A lot of these accounts imploded later, but not before Appelbaum was kicked out - I specifically remember that one account's author didn't even know that her story was added to the site hosting the accusations and claimed that it got exaggerated.

Really strange how Drew is still willing to pursue unproven allegations about something that happened almost two decades ago but is quiet about Elliot Fong-Jones' own admission of a "consent accident" from 5 years ago.

He has double standards because otherwise he would have no standards at all.

 

[i440BX]

Well, after reading this thread I realized how shitty are some Linux devs. No wonder I observe this Pro-Wayland sentiment pushed into channels like Brodie Robertson.

I was in a hurry when I wrote this. I wanted to explain more what Brodie Robertson promotes:
These were some videos that didn't sit well with me 7 months ago:

https://youtu.be/c2uRfvM08Yw (Wayland Is Here: Let Xorg Finally Retire!)
Here it includes Hector Martin and his criticism of users using X org with Asahi Linux.

https://youtu.be/rbb3j5TsRmo (Is The Free Software Foundation Still Important?)
It includes drew's article on FSF https://drewdevault.com/2023/04/11/2023-04-11-The-FSF-is-dying.html
Archive: https://archive.is/UXSOR

I know there are valid criticism for both FSF and some X11 supporters but I felt he put under the rug the experience.
And I feel weird that he doesn't question the thoughts of Drew or Maracan.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Drew is still enforcing the cancellation of Jacob Appelbaum and demands that you must question anybody who associates with him. Also, suck the CoC.

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For context on Appelbaum:


Really strange how Drew is still willing to pursue unproven allegations about something that happened almost two decades ago but is quiet about Elliot Fong-Jones' own admission of a "consent accident" from 5 years ago.

He has double standards because otherwise he would have no standards at all.

Progress and tolerance is when no rehabilitation (nor innocence) is possible and your entire life should end based on the claims of a single (1) person.

 

[King of Not Playing Games]

Fuck this guy. I’ll never forget the hissy fit he had when the python cryptography library started using rust in their build process:








Everyone should treat him with the same sneering disdain as he treats everyone else.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

Fuck this guy. I’ll never forget the hissy fit he had when the python cryptography library started using rust in their build process:


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Everyone should treat him with the same sneering disdain as he treats everyone else.

I dunno, I don't think Drew is in the wrong here. The python cryptography people did piss a lot of people off, and were essentially saying "fuck you" to any platforms that don't have Rust.

Plus it's a moral duty to treat Rustaceans with disdain, everybody knows that

EDIT: If you look at the GitHub thread those screenshots are from (https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/5771, https://archive.is/J5KGS), Drew is amazingly not the biggest cow there:

 

[King of Not Playing Games]

The reason I call him out specifically is because the vast majority of the thread is full of people with legitimate or at least understandable complaints: they didn’t know where to get information on the change despite the many comms channels communicating it months in advance; they thought the library used SemVer and believed they were breaking SemVer or not pinning their dependencies correctly; they were maints on some platform the library team couldn’t manage the load of supporting.

Drew’s one of the few people drive-by shitting on the thread and assuming he knows better than the team who’s actually done the work.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

The reason I call him out specifically is because the vast majority of the thread is full of people with legitimate or at least understandable complaints: they didn’t know where to get information on the change despite the many comms channels communicating it months in advance; they thought the library used SemVer and believed they were breaking SemVer or not pinning their dependencies correctly; they were maints on some platform the library team couldn’t manage the load of supporting.

Drew’s one of the few people drive-by shitting on the thread and assuming he knows better than the team who’s actually done the work.

I imagine Drew's interest is because of SourceHut's CI. If you look at https://man.sr.ht/builds.sr.ht/compatibility.md, there's an awful lot of architectures there that don't have Rust.