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

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developer of GNU Parallel, Ole Tange, is a massive, raging autist.
So like... How the fuck is he developing this under the auspices of the GNU foundation while encumbering GPL-licensed software so?

Like that's not even nitpicking, this isn't supposed to be how it works.

Oh yeah, you're definitely qualified to teach expert level networking after a quick skim of the technical specs on fucking BGP.
BGP, so very well known for operating in real life exactly how the RFCs specced it.
 
So like... How the fuck is he developing this under the auspices of the GNU foundation while encumbering GPL-licensed software so?

Like that's not even nitpicking, this isn't supposed to be how it works.
See also `man parallel_alternatives`, his 20,000-word essay where he ranks dozens of pieces of software on 41 different criteria, and presumably concludes that Parallel is the best of the lot. He's an autist even by GNU standards.
 
See also `man parallel_alternatives`, his 20,000-word essay where he ranks dozens of pieces of software on 41 different criteria, and presumably concludes that Parallel is the best of the lot. He's an autist even by GNU standards.cogent
15,000 lines of Perl... It runs things in parallel, the last one I wrote was 10 lines, maybe 20 with the error checking.
 
Yes Drew, that's exactly what a hiring process is for.

My impressions of BGP are a) that it's complicated, and b) you piss a lot of people off if you get it wrong, so it doesn't sound at all unwarranted to me.
I initially wanted to say how some reasons in rejections are only there to hide the real reasons. "Not knowing BGP" could be code for "You're a massive faggot and everybody else here already doesn't like you. Here's a graceful out". But then I read it again and it's for a training position.

Sure Drew, let me skim over a book on Quantum Mechanics before I teach it to Physics majors.
 
How the fuck is he developing this under the auspices of the GNU foundation while encumbering GPL-licensed software so?
Because he sent an application in for Parallel to become a GNU project and they accepted it. The main restrictions for GNU projects are about not recommending or requiring the use of nonfree software. There are no restrictions against nagging the user.

 
Because he sent an application in for Parallel to become a GNU project and they accepted it. The main restrictions for GNU projects are about not recommending or requiring the use of nonfree software. There are no restrictions against nagging the user.

One would think someone would raise a fuss for actual good reasons, for once.
 
People still unironically use GNOME? How? It's so goddamn unusable, breaks compatibility constantly, and takes more RAM to run than Chrome on an acid test.
Apparently the reason why Gnome is default for so many corporate distros is that KDE doesn't follow the same release cycle like Gnome does. This makes it difficult to release with a stable distro since KDE has many moving parts that can be updated at any time. There are threads on reddit? or hackernews about it, iirc.
 
Guys, his feelings were hurt by Kev's choice of words, and he really should have talked to him in private first, he's the baddie here guys!
Here is a slapfight between Kev and Drew on Mastoshit.
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You know the saying: Lie down with trannies, get tangled up in a gay Discord deal to delete a lolcow's thread only for it to get undeleted anyway and you banned.
And then some crybully moron has to play dead for the rest of eternity because the blowback was far more than he could've imagined. All while one of his bumpkin business associates mooches off the career he built.
 
Cause originally open source software was an academic thing. Most of it used to written for research or dogfooding (Linux, X, GNU, emacs, tex, etc...). Today it's written by autistic trannies chasing eclout and validation.
GNU is Free Software, not open source. Most people writing open source software nowadays are, in the words of an acquaintance, graphomaniacs. That's to mean they're people compelled to program in the same way someone's compelled to write all over the walls. Also common are corporations trying to offload maintenance work for their shit. Most software worth a fuck has been written for organizations unrelated to software, for which software is simply something necessary, because a group intimately familiar with software can argue all damn day about why something simple is impossible.
 
Drew is getting mad at Vaxry for thinking genocide is bad as an opinion rather than thinking genocide is bad as a closely held belief. Since this is too complicated for Drew's simple black-and-white morality, he takes this as Vaxry supporting genocide, and through his fallacious habit of believing that people who commit to the same projects must have identical beliefs, he jumps to the conclusion that everybody working on hyprland is Literally Hitler. It's depressing seeing this kind of mental gymnastics being performed so effortlessly.

P.S.: If I had that conversation with him, my opinion on genocide would definitely be swayed towards genociding people like Drew.
 
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