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

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CrunkLord420 said:
This thread is nearly 6 years old. People have been warned about the dangers of the corporate infiltration known as CoCs for longer than that. At this point I cannot feign anger on behalf of swick. Swick deserves this. He knew what was going on. I don't know what he was thinking, maybe he thought it wouldn't happen to him, maybe he decided to cuck out to "play nice" with these tinpot dictators. But eventually the hammer falls and he's disposed of with a simple ban, like nothing ever happened. A permanent mark against him, right? He's now formally "problematic", oof.

You voted for this with your silence :smugchud:
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The biggest problem with building your own or otherwise not cucking to the tranny cabal has got to be the huge scope of things like the linux desktop ecosystem. A single person or small organization, especially without very experienced people from many fields to start with, would have a very hard time replicating or continuing the work freedesktop is doing. Even individual projects like wayland, x11, and pipewire are huge in and of themselves, not to mention drivers and such.

Then, even if you were to have all the people and experience necessary to pull it all together, any of these things working at all depends on them having users. For example probonopd's x11 compat protocols, aren't implemented by a single compositor or client as far as I know (kind of a bad example as they're pretty poorly designed.) Point being FDO has a big name and basically sets the standards.

How do you escape this, and similar problems in the larger foss space? Not cucking basically just lands you with no say in anything, instead of having some amount of say and input to discussion, with the caveat of having to walk on eggshells.

To be clear I do think its a problem specifically with the coc cabals and less so with individual trannies. But usually when you get a bunch of them together they push for a coc cabal.
 
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JJLiautaud said:
Is there a defcon thread somewhere because it looks like they fucked up.
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Don't they fuck up the badges like every year? The year I went, a speaker went on about how they had a whole team of volunteers soldering buttons and LEDs to all the badge PCBs the week before.

I mean, the badges are cool (and if you register to late, you just get a plastic one. You'll see people looking to scalp badges as well), but they are also certainly gimmicky.
 
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Markass the Worst said:
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to this day i cannot decide if i like or loathe this guy. he's like a programming doctor disrespect, without the grooming accusations.

i've watched a few of his videos and it's clear he's very smart and knowledgeable in basically all things programming, but he also knows this and has no qualms in talking about how "hot shit" he is and his 800k salary at netflix. his takes are nearly always middle-of-the-road too, just like this video. i've watched enough to know some of his lore and TLDR, he used be a junkie and now he's a superstar FAANG employee so he's turned his life around big time which is pretty commendable.
with that said, i've just watched a 32 minute video and the only thing i've learned is that someone failed a NIGGER tower in chat (28:50) and got timed out, otherwise i could have simply read the two press releases and came to the exact same conclusion as him - someone is lying. what a craaaaaaaaaaazy twist.

who will it be?
A) the convention that's been running for over 30 years
B) the QUEER/POC 5 man engineering company

lets see how reddit has reacted.
1: link, archive
2: link, archive

edit; there was no contract

This is so definitively correct I had to make sure this wasn't one of our employees. (It isn't).
The only thing to add is that there was no contract because we were fucking stupid. We offered a contract to them but they declined. In lieu of this - we had a meeting to discuss terms and we made regular budget forecasts and updates and communicated things as they came up in writing via email. I have repeatedly offered to publish those emails publicly with the approval of the other party.
Remember - we had 92 days to go from <NOTHING> to a fully functioning 30k production run.
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Taken from this thread, this comment chain. i tried to archive and got 11 captchas in a row, it can stay unarchived.

edit2: more sources:
 
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emb(race) said:
The sources were multiple people emailing him anonymously. People don't want their careers ruined for posting these things under their real names. That isn't how tech employees, or most people in companies for that matter, respond to these openly bigoted messages from HR.


This is also pretty relevant to current events.
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I just said that I believe them. What I dont believe is an exaggerated powerpoint presentation from an "alt right" agitator type who clearly has his own political agenda. The stuff that the IBMer guy sent on the other hand is very definitely real.

Mixing garbage with the truth ruins the credibility of the truth.
 
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skunt said:
to this day i cannot decide if i like or loathe this guy. he's like a programming doctor disrespect, without the grooming accusations.
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Decide for yourself, based on his friends:
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Lisa forgive me said:
Decide for yourself, based on his friends:
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Who is second from the right? I know the others. He looks so familiar, it's on the tip of my tongue but I can't quite place him.
The guy on the left is another programming youtuber who's less knowledgable and more annoying. His videos are trash and he's basically a budget primeagen (sp?). Far right is that piracy-whatever guy that had a meltdown a few days ago.
 
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Who is second from the right? I know the others.
He looks so familiar, it's on the tip of my tongue but I can't quite place him.
The guy on the left is another programming youtuber who's less knowledgable and more annoying. His videos are trash and far right is that other piracy-whatever guy that had a meltdown a few days ago.
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Luke from Linus Tech Tips
 
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Cross posting from Hector Martin's thread
Rusty Metal Skull Gun said:
Hector jumps on board the anti-Vaxry train:
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https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/112976577519704731, https://archive.is/IH81y

So much for the "goodwill to all men" that open source used to be about. Is Hector suffering from HRT brainrot?
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Related reddit post, github issue where marcan shows up, vaxry's xitter

I can't seem to insert images not from a camera on a phone or I would.

I think this nicely adds my point above though. Choosing to not cuck means you get this treatment, which is another reason many do.
 
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here's a neat change of pace and i don't believe it's been posted here before

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10725
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this is gonna be a shitty TLDR but i'll try anyway:

a Debian maintainer shipped KeepassXC (to SID) without networking features. if you use KeepassXC you mightn't think this is a big deal but it "breaks" quite a lot of things, notably using KeepassXC to integrate with a browser to autofill passwords. i say "breaks" but in reality, they're just disabling features.
also, if it sounds malicious/lazy or just downright incompetent, the Debian maintainers were just using the default from their CMakeLists.txt (link) which in this case was XC_ALL 0. So in short, they (Debian) were using KeepassXCs own flags and code to build the package that Debian preferred to ship to their users and this has upset a bunch of KeepassXC users.
my understanding right now, is that the default build for KeepassXCs on Debian 13 will be this trimmed down version and users can, if they wish, install keepassxc-full instead to regain the normal feature set. the only people affected are people on the branch of Debian that's explicitly for development and bugtesting, IE you should be used to shit breaking and changing at a moments notice - but when has that stopped people complaining right?

it isn't that interesting truth be told, but i'd imagine there's a decent amount of users here who use one or both.

edit; sorry, here's a little more as there was a discussion opened afterwards https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/discussions/10742
bonus video that i'm not going to watch:
 
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skunt said:
here's a neat change of pace and i don't believe it's been posted here before

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10725
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this is gonna be a shitty TLDR but i'll try anyway:

a Debian maintainer shipped KeepassXC (to SID) without networking features. if you use KeepassXC you mightn't think this is a big deal but it "breaks" quite a lot of things, notably using KeepassXC to integrate with a browser to autofill passwords. i say "breaks" but in reality, they're just disabling features.
also, if it sounds malicious/lazy or just downright incompetent, the Debian maintainers were just using the default from their CMakeLists.txt (link) which in this case was XC_ALL 0. So in short, they (Debian) were using KeepassXCs own flags and code to build the package that Debian preferred to ship to their users and this has upset a bunch of KeepassXC users.
my understanding right now, is that the default build for KeepassXCs on Debian 13 will be this trimmed down version and users can, if they wish, install keepassxc-full instead to regain the normal feature set. the only people affected are people on the branch of Debian that's explicitly for development and bugtesting, IE you should be used to shit breaking and changing at a moments notice - but when has that stopped people complaining right?

it isn't that interesting truth be told, but i'd imagine there's a decent amount of users here who use one or both.

edit; sorry, here's a little more as there was a discussion opened afterwards https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/discussions/10742
bonus video that i'm not going to watch:
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Amusingly I'm much much more used to people fucking up snaps/flatpaks in this manner by not giving them the right permissions at build time. Photo editing apps missing the 'removable storage' permission are my favorite.
 
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Mikoyan said:
Amusingly I'm much much more used to people fucking up snaps/flatpaks in this manner by not giving them the right permissions at build time. Photo editing apps missing the 'removable storage' permission are my favorite.
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What has always annoyed me about flatpak is how it requires permissions to be requested upfront, instead of granted on a per case basis (think phones). That and also the stupid runtime thing. A proper permission runtime independent of a package format for linux would be nice.
 
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Looking Glass said:
What has always annoyed me about flatpak is how it requires permissions to be requested upfront, instead of granted on a per case basis (think phones). That and also the stupid runtime thing. A proper permission runtime independent of a package format for linux would be nice.
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That's what kills me. If they don't request it in the package, well it's open a ticket or pack it yourself. At which point I always just installed the rpm/deb.
 
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