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

[Outer Space Traveller]

So Canonical replied to Lunduke. Long story short, Jeremy Bicha disclosed his criminal record upon hire. Canonical always knew he was a serial child molester. Canonical implies that this is okay since it wasn't a computer or fraud related crime. Ignoring the liability of having a registered sex offender represent your company, especially at conferences, which are a big part of being a professional FOSS person. Crazy.

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I can't even, the edit: Imagine all the times we've heard about how political opinions create unsafe work environments, but not a chomo? Come on. Would you leave your kid, or really anyone with that guy? Of fucking course not. Chomos are constant re-offenders. Chomos get out and immediately run out to a park to molest a kid, happens all the fucking time. No mental gymnastics needed, everyone instinctively understands this guy needs constant direct supervision because if you relax he might just try to rape you with a dildo. That's not a safe workplace, sorry. What is your HR team doing? This is lawsuit fuel. It's perfectly reasonable to feel unsafe around a serial child molester, and juries would agree.

Not only is the fuckhead a predator, he has a surname of "queer/faggot" in Portuguese - but also disclosed his fucking status as one?

We have arrived in the "I may be a paedophile but at least I'm not a RACIST" in real time! Congratulations, Canonical.

 

[and and and and]

I feel so bad for this poor man. It seems as though he's clearly been kidnapped by the Chinese government and is being tortured into pushing out propaganda for Epic Games. Yet another victim of the CCPs war on western influences.

 

[Lewisite]

Even Qubes OS, a paranoid security-focused distro, doesn't use Wayland. It puts everything in VMs which means X11's lack of isolation is irrelevant. "What's your use case" indeed.

They are/were hiring someone to "Lead the migration of the Qubes OS graphics stack from X11 to Wayland". There's discussion on the issue suggesting that Wayland support would be a step towards GPU virtualization, which would make Qubes way more usable if it's possible to actually do it securely.

 

[enaR]

You know, considering how often people add or update Codes of Conduct to retroactively punish people they don't like, could Canonical possibly considering adding a rule against raping children to their Code of Conduct?

 

[Cuckoman]

You know, considering how often people add or update Codes of Conduct to retroactively punish people they don't like, could Canonical possibly considering adding a rule against raping children to their Code of Conduct?

Not sure, but I think that would be transphobic.

Anyway. He is in florida. You have new laws about this sort of thing. What is the holdup?

 

[KingFrampt]

At most companies a sex offender using his company email to harass random people and causing irreparable damage to their companies image would be grounds for dismissal

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

i seriously don't understand what the hate for mikrotik is about. i've never had an issue with any mikrotik product ive ever used. if anything, cisco routers have given me significantly more trouble (and cost way more)

mikrotik is a lot like Cisco IOS 20 years ago - powerful, capable, easy to do things with - but no handholding and very easy to fuck things up tremendously. Cisco now does tons of things to prevent that.

 

[Trigger Me Timbers]

So Canonical replied to Lunduke. Long story short, Jeremy Bicha disclosed his criminal record upon hire. Canonical always knew he was a serial child molester. Canonical implies that this is okay since it wasn't a computer or fraud related crime. Ignoring the liability of having a registered sex offender represent your company, especially at conferences, which are a big part of being a professional FOSS person. Crazy.

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I can't even, the edit: Imagine all the times we've heard about how political opinions create unsafe work environments, but not a chomo? Come on. Would you leave your kid, or really anyone with that guy? Of fucking course not. Chomos are constant re-offenders. Chomos get out and immediately run out to a park to molest a kid, happens all the fucking time. No mental gymnastics needed, everyone instinctively understands this guy needs constant direct supervision because if you relax he might just try to rape you with a dildo. That's not a safe workplace, sorry. What is your HR team doing? This is lawsuit fuel. It's perfectly reasonable to feel unsafe around a serial child molester, and juries would agree.

Does Canonical only hire childless fags and trannies? I ask this because, one reason not to have a chomo in your company is because if you ever wanted to host say a family day where people bring their kids to the office or a retreat somewhere. Having a chomo makes that 100% less safe and a logistical nightmare.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

I can't even, the edit: Imagine all the times we've heard about how political opinions create unsafe work environments, but not a chomo? Come on. Would you leave your kid, or really anyone with that guy? Of fucking course not. Chomos are constant re-offenders. Chomos get out and immediately run out to a park to molest a kid, happens all the fucking time. No mental gymnastics needed, everyone instinctively understands this guy needs constant direct supervision because if you relax he might just try to rape you with a dildo. That's not a safe workplace, sorry. What is your HR team doing? This is lawsuit fuel. It's perfectly reasonable to feel unsafe around a serial child molester, and juries would agree.

Canonical: "Wow, you know what. Our employee may have been convicted for over a thousand counts of child rape. But at least he respects Codes of Conduct."

Lunduke: "Forget the children for a second, are there any SMALL WOMEN at these conferences?!"

Canonical's best defense is that the incest was (apparently) committed by Jeremy when he was around 12-15 (he was convicted of two counts, not thousands, of "sexual battery on a child under 12 while he was under 18", but he may have had five victims), and both the parents knew about it and did nothing because they were fundie retards or something. But this kind of nuance doesn't translate well in the real world, especially when your employee has his ugly mug on the sex offenders' registry.

Does Canonical only hire childless fags and trannies? I ask this because, one reason not to have a chomo in your company is because if you ever wanted to host say a family day where people bring their kids to the office or a retreat somewhere. Having a chomo makes that 100% less safe and a logistical nightmare.

He has at least one kid:
https://wng.org/articles/the-high-cost-of-negligence-1617309216 (archive)

By 1:30 p.m., a small community was listening. A handful of family members arrived to support Jeremy, including his wife, who brought their 1-month-old son—a sight that shook Jennifer.

 

[TomBroadway1987]

Yea it does, until he puts you on the list and then it acts as malware, that can even delete random files on your pc as a "punishment".
Also if you try to run it on a pirated copy of a game. The same effect triggers. You have to take precautions as to what data you hand him or is viewable during your interactions with him.
Because his lolcow behaviour only surfaces if you start to disagree with him. Then he clearly has no guilt about using public data against you. Disagree with him at your own peril.

Ive been trying to find any code that does this in the special k repos and failed. Can you give more info? I did find a bunch of gay integrity checking for pirated game copies but no list.

EDIT: All code that does this has now been removed. For people like me interested in the list, here is an extremely old diff that contains (the biggest list i could find)

https://github.com/SpecialKO/SpecialK/blob/4a4a5f3b51fd3a6eb67277649bae00351952186a/src/steam_api.cpp#L793

In the modern day the code is commented out.

https://github.com/SpecialKO/SpecialK/blob/main/src/steam/steam_api.cpp#L6782

 

[I Pick Minions]

His complaint about Steam are all very valid, methinks. The stuff about forcing updates with no way to downgrade to a previous patch (unless the dev goes out of their way to set this up with betas, shoutout Paradox) is very true and very annoying and it has bitten me a handful of times.

Actually you can download previous versions of games through the steam console, it is rather hidden though.

You need to launch the steam console with steam://nav/console.
Then locate three IDs: appID, depotID and manifestID - all three are to be found on steamDB (go to Depots → choose your depot/game version → locate a manifest by date).
Using the command download_depot appID depotID manifestID it should download the old version of the game (not replacing it though). To play it just find the downloaded manifest and launch the .exe through there.

I wish steam enabled an option to more easily swap versions, but you are able to do it.

 

[Temperance]

Re: Ariadne Conill, Alpine Linux, and XLibre:

It's interesting to see his claims on Mastodon (saying that the XLibre block was mainly for "security" reasons)...

More sperging about Xlibre:

Heckin' doxed by Lunduke!

i'm a pretty live and let-live person to be honest, i don't really care about people's political views as long as there isn't such a large impedance mismatch that collaboration is impossible.

[XLibre] is extremely high risk for introducing security-related regressions.

For these reasons, at least for now, the security hold will remain indefinitely. We can reevaluate after the project has had time to mature (and hopefully start focusing on the fundamentals rather than wild proclamations about being "anti-DEI").

...and then compare the above to what he said in some IRC messages (presumably where he felt more free to be honest about his motivations): https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/1938407758434603302

<Ariadne> please do not import xlibre into alpine under any circumstance

<Ariadne> let me be more direct: if anyone merges xlibre i will be pursuing a code of conduct violation against them

<Ariadne> because the xlibre project represents an unacceptable ideology

https://irclogs.alpinelinux.org/#alpine-devel-2025-06.log [Archive]

<Sheila> this is about politics, not just software.

 

[babaisyou]

Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org (Phoronix) (Archive)

Wayback is now "fully" leveraging FreeDesktop.org in its X11 compatibility layer crusade.

can't make this shit up

 

[Maricón de Mierda]

Not into computers but I don't know, seems like I would trust someone who has taken a bribe before over someone who habitually molested his own sister.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Yea it does, until he puts you on the list and then it acts as malware, that can even delete random files on your pc as a "punishment".
Also if you try to run it on a pirated copy of a game. The same effect triggers. You have to take precautions as to what data you hand him or is viewable during your interactions with him.
Because his lolcow behaviour only surfaces if you start to disagree with him. Then he clearly has no guilt about using public data against you. Disagree with him at your own peril.

This sounds like the starsector mod shit all over again. Some 4channer made a rape mod to spite the devs modders and the devs modderswent full retard and made malware that would fuck with your computer if you had the mod.

 

[moocow]

I really fucking hate how volvo decided that replacing the old ui engine with chromium slop was a good idea

I've been disappointed with them ever since they decided to use Chromium instead of putting together a bespoke application with Qt 6 (which could easily implement everything they currently do with the embedded browser, partially because Qt 6 also includes a competent embedded browser that isn't Chromium-based but also because Qt is fast as fuck).

mikrotik is a lot like Cisco IOS 20 years ago - powerful, capable, easy to do things with - but no handholding and very easy to fuck things up tremendously. Cisco now does tons of things to prevent that.

MikroTik also sells their products far below Cisco's prices, yet can deliver products with absurdly fast performance, near-infinite flexibility and unbeatable reliability (except for their fucking Wifi 6 stack ... lol holy fucking shit that's a nightmare right now ) usually for under $200. I've got an 8-port SPF+ (10-gigabit) router of theirs that's an absolute fucking unit, easily able to firewall my home network, handle NAT and all the usual home router stuff, and still shunt data around internally at 10 gigabit with ease.

Supposedly they're just released new firmware that fixes the Wifi problems, but it was a colossal fuckup that's been present for over a year before they acknowledged and fixed it. This is the first instance MikroTik has genuinely surprised its users by staying quiet for so long about an issue, which has people thinking it might ultimately have been a Qualcomm (vendor) bug. Still sucks it took so long to fix though.

 

[Jones Kaczynski]

Avant garde nerd modders like this should be admired for their programming ability and nothing more.

I would like to think most people know not to take nerds all that seriously in a general sense. Autistic proficiency in a subject does not necessarily equate to intelligence, and it is likely that they are more retarded than others perceive them to be. Although it doesn't necessarily undermine the quality of their work and their real knowledge... usually
I will say that I can't disagree with some of Kal's points, as both Valve and Steam aren't perfect and definitely have plenty of underlying issues that most people can't give a shit about. In practice, however, the story is not as simple as he wants to paint it (Steam bad, everything else... le good).

 

[Maldavius Figtree]

HAPPENING : Kaldaien, the developer of Special K, a very powerful modding tool for gaming where no official modding support was ever provided has had a CRASHOUT where he's deleted his 20 YEARS OLD STEAM ACCOUNT in protest of Valve's policies

He makes some very good arguments that do tie into the SKG campaign.

 

[Gossip Avoider]

Making DRM harder to remove by making core game functionality dependent on it is clever, but also very scummy.

That's a developer decision, not by the client.
SteamInput doesn't need the DRM to work. You can even use it with Non-Steam games.
On the other side, Steam lets you disable it's input API by default or per game, it doesn't really get more customer friendly.

Also, fuck the OS native input APIs.
Xinput was great when it was introduced as it made Gamepad usage on PC as seamless as on console, but it is severely outdated nowadays.
No gyro, no audio, no haptics etc.
What was Valve supposed to do, when they released their own controller?

To make a more contemporary comparison.
Complaining about SteamInput is like complaining about Valve using Proton as layer to make SteamDeck viable instead of using DirectX.
Makes no sense? So does Xinput for the SteamController or any other more advanced gamepad.

His complaint about Steam are all very valid, methinks.

They mostly aren't.
Especially blaming Valve for dropping support for older OS, when it was clearly communicated that it was due to chromium.
They're still using 32bit for compatibility reasons. Valve has clearly no desire to cut off potential customer segments.

The only solid complaint are the forced game updates.
The rest is either missing the mark or basic issues with client based distribution.
Providing the binaries, albeit optionally, like GOG would be the way to go.
There is SteamCMD, but that's too obscure for most customers.

 

[The Big Bad D]

partially because Qt 6 also includes a competent embedded browser that isn't Chromium-based

qtwebengine is literally chromium: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtwebengine-overview.html#qt-webengine-core-module