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Wrong thread? Did you mean to post this in Open Source Software Community?
He did spam it on Reddit but his post was removed from both /r/gamedev and /r/opensource:
I wasn't really sure where to post it, so I just defaulted to reddit general since that's where I originally discovered this dude.

Edit: Saying I discovered him isn't 100% accurate. A friend showed me his twitter, mentioned he sperged out on reddit, which is where I found the giant manifesto.
 
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He doesn’t look like much of a contributor:
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Only 157 pull requests over five years. I don’t know any major project that would grant someone write access with a commit rate that low.
I don't think it is the number of commits but that from the screenshot it looks like it is all very trivial small patches, like renaming variables.
There isn't really anything with any real meat, so I don't think any project would grant commit access for this.

That he seems completely schizo and would be a liability does not help either.
 
Someone posted goatse in the comment chain when a poo recently did the needful and wrote a pull request to correct spelling in a readme (which actually made the spelling worse) and tagged over 400000 people
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Someone posted goatse in the comment chain when a poo recently did the needful and wrote a pull request to correct spelling in a readme (which actually made the spelling worse) and tagged over 400000 people

I heard about this issue the other day. Apparently Epic for some reason only grants people access to the Unreal Engine repo if they join a certain group on GitHub, so that group had hundreds of thousands of members. And if you do an @ with a group name in a GitHub issue, it sends a notification to everyone in that group. So this was pretty much a disaster waiting to happen and I don't think the pajeet was intentionally malicious when he did that. The people sperging out in the issue like the dude just committed three or four war crimes should probably relax and consider to what extent their lives were really affected by a single extra notification email.

The whole thing could have been avoided if Epic didn't have those bizarre requirements to get access to the repo.
 
He spammed his manifesto on Reddit but his post was removed from both /r/gamedev and /r/opensource:
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He doesn’t look like much of a contributor:
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Only 157 pull requests over five years. I don’t know any major project that would grant someone write access with a commit rate that low.
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Contributing to a repo is a human right apparently. The links to unrelated :politisperg:are from Quora and Psychology Today, of course. I don't think Ukraine was the reason beyond the war frying whatever was left of his turboautist brain. Godot developers probably got tired of this guy starting shit over concessions made for amateur gamedevs with little programming skills because muh research and walls of text about philosophy and governance in their open source project. He also has a Godot extension repo named Goost, worth mentioning because of the aforementioned constant akshullys about engine architecture and implementation.
 
Someone posted goatse in the comment chain when a poo recently did the needful and wrote a pull request to correct spelling in a readme (which actually made the spelling worse) and tagged over 400000 people

Holy shit that was such a fun meltdown to watch in real time. I received hundreds of emails from it (and someone else made a similar PR a bit later in the day which also spammed nearly a hundred), all from people absolutely losing their fucking shit over it.

It warms my cold dead heart to know goatse still makes me laugh two decades later. The feigned outrage was just incredible and I haven't laughed that hard at a harmless fuckup in a long time.

The incident taught me three important things:

- people are so stupid they'll post messages complaining about spam knowing those posts will generate spam for 400,000+ people (including themselves) each time they do it instead of just clicking "unsubscribe from notifications from this PR"; corollary -- they're also thin-skinned pussies with no sense of humor;

- Github's notifications system is so beefy it can shotgun millions of emails out to the world in the span of a few seconds but is also so fucking stupidly engineered that it can be (trivially) used to spam potentially millions of people in just a few moments;

- Google Mail completely shits the bed on long email chains in threaded mode (it hard-splits them into groups of 100, which clearly isn't small enough because loading a "chain chunk" (my favorite new word) of 100 messages brings the browser to its knees for a good twenty to thirty seconds. Anybody remember when Google actually employed competent engineers? I'm starting to wonder if that was ever true...
 
The feigned outrage was just incredible and I haven't laughed that hard at a harmless fuckup in a long time.

It spawned a new favourite pasta of mine, I feel it could be usable in the same way the Navy Seals one is.
Lock it. Lock it now. This is the friendliest message I'm going to send, while I look for ways to get OP banned from Github for gross social misconduct. I imagine that "owner of bots universe" might be enough to get that account tagged as a bot, who knows how many communities across however many repositories that person just bothered across all of Github.
 
I was looking into the XenForo license ordeal and found some Linux troon on Twitter who keeps tabs on KF, bitches at Cloudflare, hates archive.org, etc. He has been talked about a few times on the farms due to being a Pleroma dev and for his comments on Byuu's "death" at the hands of evil kiwis.
Just updating this with the funniest fucking profile pic ever
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Also here he is admitting to dosing the bgpd on the router but too scared to call kiwifarms by name

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Admittedly mikrotik stuff is not great but seems to be staying online well enough to make you upset
 
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Been seeing drama over Github's copilot lately and just saw this article


Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same​

Paid-for Copilot trained on FOSS code final straw for Software Freedom Conservancy​


The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a non-profit focused on free and open source software (FOSS), said it has stopped using Microsoft's GitHub for project hosting – and is urging other software developers to do the same.

In a blog post on Thursday, Denver Gingerich, SFC FOSS license compliance engineer, and Bradley M. Kuhn, SFC policy fellow, said GitHub has over the past decade come to play a dominant role in FOSS development by building an interface and social features around Git, the widely used open source version control software.

In so doing, they claim, the company has convinced FOSS developers to contribute to the development of a proprietary service that exploits FOSS.

"We are ending all our own uses of GitHub, and announcing a long-term plan to assist FOSS projects to migrate away from GitHub," said Gingerich and Kuhn.

The SFC mostly uses self-hosted Git repositories, they say, but the organization did use GitHub to mirror its repos.

The SFC has added a Give Up on GitHub section to its website and is asking FOSS developers to voluntarily switch to a different code hosting service.

"While we will not mandate our existing member projects to move at this time, we will no longer accept new member projects that do not have a long-term plan to migrate away from GitHub," said Gingerich and Kuhn. "We will provide resources to support any of our member projects that choose to migrate, and help them however we can."

GitHub claims to have approximately 83 million users and more than 200 million repositories, many of which are under an open-source license. The cloud hosting service promotes itself specifically for open source development.

For the SFC, the break with GitHub was precipitated by the general availability of GitHub Copilot, an AI coding assistant tool. GitHub's decision to release a for-profit product derived from FOSS code, the SFC said, is "too much to bear."

Copilot, based on OpenAI's Codex, suggests code and functions to developers as they're working. It's able to do so because it was trained "on natural language text and source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub," according to GitHub.

Gingerich and Kuhn see that as a problem because Microsoft and GitHub have failed to provide answers about the copyright ramifications of training its AI system on public code, about why Copilot was trained on FOSS code but not copyrighted Windows code, and whether the company can specify all the software licenses and copyright holders attached to code used in the training data set.

Kuhn has written previously about his concerns that Copilot's training may present legal risks and others have raised similar concerns. Last week, Matthew Butterick, a designer, programmer, and attorney, published a blog post stating that he agrees with those who argue that Copilot is an engine for violating open-source licenses.

"Copilot completely severs the connection between its inputs (= code under various open-source licenses) and its outputs (= code algorithmically produced by Copilot)," he wrote. "Thus, after 20+ years, Microsoft has finally produced the very thing it falsely accused open source of being: a black hole of IP rights."

Such claims have not been settled and likely won't be until there's actual litigation and judgment. Other lawyers note that GitHub's Terms of Service give it the right to use hosted code to improve the service. And certainly legal experts at Microsoft and GitHub believe they're off the hook for license compliance, which they pass on to those using Copilot to generate code.

"You are responsible for ensuring the security and quality of your code," the Copilot documentation explains. "We recommend you take the same precautions when using code generated by GitHub Copilot that you would when using any code you didn't write yourself. These precautions include rigorous testing, IP scanning, and tracking for security vulnerabilities."

Gingerich and Kuhn argue that GitHub's behavior with Copilot and in other areas is worse than its peers.

"We don't believe Amazon, Atlassian, GitLab, or any other for-profit hoster are perfect actors," they said. "However, a relative comparison of GitHub's behavior to those of its peers shows that GitHub's behavior is much worse. GitHub also has a record of ignoring, dismissing and/or belittling community complaints on so many issues, that we must urge all FOSS developers to leave GitHub as soon as they can."

Microsoft and GitHub did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 
I am with FOSS autists on that one, honestly. Copilot doesn't give a shit about licenses. Not to mention it will make cargo cult programming and illiterates rates even higher. I've already seen retards copiloting their entire talks on code meetups without much understanding what's happening, just "huh, I think it does what I wanted it to, haha" and getting stuck if Copilot generated incorrect code and they had to fix it.
 
Holy shit that was such a fun meltdown to watch in real time. I received hundreds of emails from it (and someone else made a similar PR a bit later in the day which also spammed nearly a hundred), all from people absolutely losing their fucking shit over it.

It warms my cold dead heart to know goatse still makes me laugh two decades later. The feigned outrage was just incredible and I haven't laughed that hard at a harmless fuckup in a long time.

The incident taught me three important things:

- people are so stupid they'll post messages complaining about spam knowing those posts will generate spam for 400,000+ people (including themselves) each time they do it instead of just clicking "unsubscribe from notifications from this PR"; corollary -- they're also thin-skinned pussies with no sense of humor;

- Github's notifications system is so beefy it can shotgun millions of emails out to the world in the span of a few seconds but is also so fucking stupidly engineered that it can be (trivially) used to spam potentially millions of people in just a few moments;

- Google Mail completely shits the bed on long email chains in threaded mode (it hard-splits them into groups of 100, which clearly isn't small enough because loading a "chain chunk" (my favorite new word) of 100 messages brings the browser to its knees for a good twenty to thirty seconds. Anybody remember when Google actually employed competent engineers? I'm starting to wonder if that was ever true...

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Was dis you? :)
 
Security sperg/lolcow Krebs took down fellow cow Jim Watkins sites during the Jan “insurrection” hearings.

The latest Jan. 6 committee hearing on Tuesday examined the role of conspiracy theory communities like 8kun[.]top and TheDonald[.]win in helping to organize and galvanize supporters who responded to former President Trump’s invitation to “be wild” in Washington, D.C. on that chaotic day. At the same time the committee was hearing video testimony from 8kun founder Jim Watkins, 8kun and a slew of similar websites were suddenly yanked offline. Watkins suggested the outage was somehow related to the work of the committee, but the truth is KrebsOnSecurity was responsible and the timing was pure coincidence.



In a follow-up video address to his followers, Watkins said the outage happened shortly after the Jan. 6 committee aired his brief video testimony.

“Then everything that I have anything to do with seemed to crash, so that there was no way for me to go out and talk to anybody,” Watkins said. “The whole network seemed to go offline at the same time, and that affected a lot of people.”

8kun and many other sites that continue to push the false narrative that the 2020 election was stolen from the 45th president have long been connected to the Internet via VanwaTech, a hosting firm based in Vancouver, Wash. In late October 2020, a phone call to VanwaTech’s sole provider of connectivity to the Internet resulted in a similar outage for 8kun.


Jim Waktins (top right), in a video address to his followers on Tuesday after 8kun was taken offline.

Following that 2020 outage, 8kun and a large number of QAnon conspiracy sites found refuge a Russian hosting provider. But when the anonymous “Q” leader of QAnon suddenly began posting on 8kun again earlier this month, KrebsOnSecurity received a tip that 8kun’s ISP was once again connected to the larger Internet via a single upstream provider based in the United States.

On Sunday, July 10, KrebsOnSecurity contacted Psychz Networks, a hosting provider in Los Angeles, to see if they were aware that they were the sole Internet lifeline for 8kun et. al. Psychz confirmed that in response to a report from KrebsOnSecurity, VanwaTech was removed from its network around the time of the Jan. 6 hearing on Tuesday.

8kun and its archipelago of conspiracy theory communities have once again drifted back into the arms of a Russian hosting provider (AS207651), which is connected to the larger Internet via two providers. Those include AS31500 — which appears to be owned by Russians but is making a fair pretense at being located in the Caribbean; and AS28917, in Vilnius, Lithuania.

8kun’s newfound Russian connections will likely hold, but that hardly means Lithuania should stand idly by. Late last month, pro-Russian hackers claimed responsibility for an extensive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Lithuanian state and private websites, which reportedly was in response to Vilnius’s decision to cease the transit of some goods under European Union sanctions to Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave.

The Jan. 6 hearing referenced in this story is available via CSPAN.

 
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