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

[byuu]

Being the no-life sperg that I am, I checked out the homepage of another tech sperg and oh boy, I didn't expect that much autism.

Christian (now "Leah") Neukirchen is a smaller German FOSS dev. Some people might know him from Rack or from several UNIX minimalism communities like suckless, cat-v, etc..

His website is a testament to tech autism,
and reveals that he trooned out last year in this helpful FAQ (preferred pronouns: they/them).
In it he tells you that you should call him Leah but he himself is too lazy to change his name legally.
Also, he wants you to help him fight against transphobia.

Of course he also has a twitter account with the typical SJW crap, refugees welcome, antifa/commie shit, what I ate today, and tech.


Additionally he has a little personal wiki, in which he details the setup of every pc, cellphone, and keyboard of his, including explanations of their name (I'm jealous of his Sun Blade).

Currently he is a postgrad working in Munich

 

[AmpleApricots]

I wonder why all these IT nerds end up trooning out. Git profile has picture of anime girl, so we have the typical mix of IT, anime, SJW/commie nonsense and tech autism. It's always the same. We used to have these guys 10, 20 years ago too. They didn't use to troon out but were just sad, fat basement dwellers that wanted their anime waifu. What introduced the trooning? I don't quite get it.

EDIT: Also a big "who the fuck cares" Re: his blog. Don't be too jealous about the outdated tech, when my autism flares up I sometimes feel like running some old machine and letting it do something useful in the local network but ultimately it's just a waste of electricity and effort.

I wonder if it's the age. Seems to happen when they get into their 30s. Maybe some kind of existential angst that makes them want to start anew as the other gender? I dunno.

EDIT the 2nd: removed that link as it was already linked. Somehow completely missed that. Had a long day...

 

[dopy]

I wonder why all these IT nerds end up trooning out.

I wonder if it's the age. Seems to happen when they get into their 30s. Maybe some kind of existential angst that makes them want to start anew as the other gender? I dunno.

sedentary lifestyle (low T meme), lack of sunlight (depression), power of suggestion, guilt complexes about wasted potential, lack of children and purpose

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

UNIX minimalism communities like suckless

This was inevitable; suckless autism never leads to anything good.

 

[Eternal Gopnik]

I wonder why all these IT nerds end up trooning out.

MtF troonery is the logical end result of severe autism (feels uncomfortable constantly) combined with narcissism (thinks himself to be perfect and so concludes that the reason he feels uncomfortable isn't his autismo - it must be that reality itself is wrong and he was born in the wrong body).

 

[Marvin]

Being the no-life sperg that I am, I checked out the homepage of another tech sperg and oh boy, I didn't expect that much autism.

Christian (now "Leah") Neukirchen is a smaller German FOSS dev. Some people might know him from Rack or from several UNIX minimalism communities like suckless, cat-v, etc..

His website is a testament to tech autism,
and reveals that he trooned out last year in this helpful FAQ (preferred pronouns: they/them).
In it he tells you that you should call him Leah but he himself is too lazy to change his name legally.
Also, he wants you to help him fight against transphobia.

Of course he also has a twitter account with the typical SJW crap, refugees welcome, antifa/commie shit, what I ate today, and tech.
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Additionally he has a little personal wiki, in which he details the setup of every pc, cellphone, and keyboard of his, including explanations of their name (I'm jealous of his Sun Blade).

Currently he is a postgrad working in Munich

This dude needs a swirlie ASAP.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

MtF troonery is the logical end result of severe autism (feels uncomfortable constantly) combined with narcissism (thinks himself to be perfect and so concludes that the reason he feels uncomfortable isn't his autismo - it must be that reality itself is wrong and he was born in the wrong body).

If you look at the "symptoms" of being a tranny, they're suspiciously close to the symptoms of depression. Combine that with internet fags saying "if you feel X Y and Z, you're in the wrong body!" and you get troons.

 

[CrunkLord420]

>nodejs is now required for Firefox

firefox (64.0~b12-1) experimental; urgency=medium

* New upstream beta release.

* debian/browser.mozconfig.in:
- Remove --enable-pie option, it's the default, now.
- Remove --disable-nodejs now that it's required.
* debian/control*:
- Bump nss and sqlite dependencies.
- Add nodejs build dependency.
* debian/rules, debian/browser.install.in, debian/browser-symbolic.svg.in:
Import the watermark used for the symbolic icon in the debian/ directory.

-- Mike Hommey <glandium@debian.org> Tue, 27 Nov 2018 09:03:54 +0900

 

[Ms. Cegination]

>nodejs is now required for Firefox

https://www.waterfoxproject.org/en-US/

 

[AmpleApricots]

I use pale moon. Though the developers seem like a bunch of weirdos (and "moonchild" is prob. a furry from what little I saw of him) after testing around it's the fastest browser on my slow machine and I like the simple "firefox, but no frills and lets take all this mozilla crap out of the source" approach the developers take. I also think it's the fork with the most divergent codebase.

It also still uses the old addon-framework firefox used to have. Not really a big advantage for me as I don't really have many addons (expect the usual suspects of adblocking etc.) but might be an upside for some.

The best improvement in my browsing habits I made was to introduce a button with which I can quickly toggle javascript. For some websites you still need it but I made the experience that most websites that heavily rely on javascript are not worth visiting to begin with.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

>nodejs is now required for Firefox

Is that a big deal?

 

[Least Concern]

Is that a big deal?

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime based on V8, the engine used in Chrome. It's primarily used to make server-side web applications in JavaScript for those mentally ill to want to do so, but also sometimes used to write standard CLI desktop applications.

If it's being included in Firefox, that would mean that Firefox now has two separate JavaScript engines, one of which also includes a rather large library for something that Firefox shouldn't be doing (serving web pages), which has security implications among other concerns. But I'm unclear if Node.js is actually being included with Firefox when it's built, or if it's just required for some step(s) of the build process but not actually included in the final binary. I looked for more information on it and found discussion about it as a requirement, but no explanation of why it's required in the first place.

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

So apparently some moron gave control of a pretty popular npm package to a random Japanese guy (while still keeping his name on it), and the Japanese guy snuck a bitcoin stealer into the package. Given that the package was being downloaded about 2 million times a week, it's probable that quite a few people were affected by this. (The Register, Medium, Ars Technica)

Some articles about this are blaming the open source development model as a whole as the cause of this, but I think that's bullshit. The npm community specifically is incredibly vulnerable to exploits like this, and it amazes me that it didn't happen sooner. Have you ever looked at the dependency tree for a JS project that uses npm? It's a nightmare. You'll sometimes get packages that require packages that require packages... ten levels deep. I'm convinced it's because devs who rely this heavily on javascript just don't want to write their own code, or are incapable of doing so.

 

[Ms. Cegination]

Some articles about this are blaming the open source development model as a whole as the cause of this, but I think that's bullshit. The npm community specifically is incredibly vulnerable to exploits like this, and it amazes me that it didn't happen sooner. Have you ever looked at the dependency tree for a JS project that uses npm? It's a nightmare. You'll sometimes get packages that require packages that require packages... ten levels deep. I'm convinced it's because devs who rely this heavily on javascript just don't want to write their own code, or are incapable of doing so.

Is being anti open source the next new thing people are going to shill after codes of conduct?

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

Is being anti open source the next new thing people are going to shill after codes of conduct?

I remember a medium article that was posted earlier in this thread saying that because open source attracts people who have the time and resources required to code for free it is inherently racist, sexist, etc. because the people who fit that description are overwhelmingly white, male, and well-off. I wouldn't be surprised if that actually comes to pass.

 

[Dreamland]

So apparently some moron gave control of a pretty popular npm package to a random Japanese guy (while still keeping his name on it), and the Japanese guy snuck a bitcoin stealer into the package. Given that the package was being downloaded about 2 million times a week, it's probable that quite a few people were affected by this. (The Register, Medium, Ars Technica)

Some articles about this are blaming the open source development model as a whole as the cause of this, but I think that's bullshit. The npm community specifically is incredibly vulnerable to exploits like this, and it amazes me that it didn't happen sooner. Have you ever looked at the dependency tree for a JS project that uses npm? It's a nightmare. You'll sometimes get packages that require packages that require packages... ten levels deep. I'm convinced it's because devs who rely this heavily on javascript just don't want to write their own code, or are incapable of doing so.

It's sad to see retarded/lazy developers pile on the old developer on github. Why does everyone expect him to do free work and not delegate or screw it up?

https://mobile.twitter.com/kennwhite/status/1067133581435305984

 

[LH 909]

It looks like the dude just handed over the keys to his popular repo because a hacker asked nicely. Not maintaining is fine, but this was really idiotic. Just archive it and move on.

 

[AnOminous]

We should nuke Japan again.

 

[MagneticTowels]

Why does everyone expect him to do free work and not delegate or screw it up?

The price we pay for free software

 

[AmpleApricots]

One thing is true though, people are way too willing to just download and execute random stuff off github and such, especially with all the permissions of their main user account. Just because it's open source doesn't mean it can't contain backdoors or malware.