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

[awoo]

I thought GitLab was the main competitor? You're completely right in that almost all big open source projects are on GitHub. I haven't used GitLab or BitBucket but Github's issue tracker and pull requests page I've found very nice to use the few times I have.

 

[Least Concern]

I thought GitLab was the main competitor?

GitLab is a self-hosted product. It's not just a single site where you can sign up for an account and start creating repos; instead you'd have to set up a server and then install GitLab onto it yourself, at which point you and the rest of your team would be able to access and use it along the lines of GitHub and BitBucket. (GitGud, a code hosting service created by GamerGaters after GitHub purged some GG-related repos, is itself just a publicly-accessible GitLab instance.) GitLab would be an option for projects where having an external entity control the servers hosting the code is not acceptable; I'm sure certain large enterprises and security-concerned government agencies have this requirement. But OSS projects aren't as secretive by definition, or as well-funded, so having someone else control your servers and have access to your code is an acceptable trade-off to not having to deal with setting up and administrating their own server for a GitLab instance.

That said, GitHub does offer a self-hosted product to its enterprise customers, so it could be said they compete with GitLab at that end of the market, but from the perspective of an OSS project lead who's not interested in that sort of thing, GitHub's and BitBucket's non-self-hosted product are the more similar.

 

[Marvin]

GitLab is a self-hosted product. It's not just a single site where you can sign up for an account and start creating repos; instead you'd have to set up a server and then install GitLab onto it yourself, at which point you and the rest of your team would be able to access and use it along the lines of GitHub and BitBucket. (GitGud, a code hosting service created by GamerGaters after GitHub purged some GG-related repos, is itself just a publicly-accessible GitLab instance.) GitLab would be an option for projects where having an external entity control the servers hosting the code is not acceptable; I'm sure certain large enterprises and security-concerned government agencies have this requirement. But OSS projects aren't as secretive by definition, or as well-funded, so having someone else control your servers and have access to your code is an acceptable trade-off to not having to deal with setting up and administrating their own server for a GitLab instance.

That said, GitHub does offer a self-hosted product to its enterprise customers, so it could be said they compete with GitLab at that end of the market, but from the perspective of an OSS project lead who's not interested in that sort of thing, GitHub's and BitBucket's non-self-hosted product are the more similar.

Gitlab does run a single site as well.

 

[altkiwi01]

Gitlab does run a single site as well.

Exactly, they're not just self hosted. But Bitbucket are really the largest competitor to github bar far, especially for businesses. But lets be real, Bitbucket is trash, and Atlassian should be doing better.

 

[Tomboy Respecter]

Newfaggot here. I've never had a large enough project that needed version control past basic tar files and backups of them. How trash is Bitbucket?

 

[altkiwi01]

I've never had a large enough project that needed version control past basic tar files and backups of them. How trash is Bitbucket?

All your projects should have source control, even if you just initialize git and never push to remote. But Bitbucket isn't "horrible", but but the UI isn't as great as it could be, and they generally have more downtime compared to github. The thing about github and gitlab is that they're both receiving lots of new development. Bitbucket seems to be a bit slower on the uptake. Maybe thats good for corporates, but thats not us!

 

[Norvic]

Newfaggot here. I've never had a large enough project that needed version control past basic tar files and backups of them. How trash is Bitbucket?

Well, last time I used it was back before they dropped Mercurial support, but back in those days half the time any lengthy operation over SSH would error out with connection reset by peer. It might be the case that their servers aren't connected to the internet with old baling wire and taut string now, but it doesn't exactly inspire me with confidence to try.

 

[Least Concern]

All your projects should have source control, even if you just initialize git and never push to remote.

Agreed. Git has a terrible learning curve and its man pages are written in Middle Swahili, but you are putting a giant obstacle to your growth as a developer in your own way if you don't knuckle down and learn it. Even for a project which you only work on yourself, or even on a project which never leaves your own disk, using a version control system is a convenience and, sometimes, a lifesaver.

For example, let's say you start working on some code and you change a bunch of files. One of the changes, in one of the files, has introduced a bug. With git, a simple "git diff" will show you exactly what files have changed since the last commit, and how - a huge help. If it turns out a bug has already been committed to the code base and you have no idea where it might be, "git bisect" will pick out various commits in the repo history and ask you whether the bug still exists when the code is reverted to that commit, eventually helping you narrow down exactly which commit introduced the bug, what files changed in that commit, and how.

Learn Git now. Thank us later.

 

[awoo]

For basic stuff that doesn't involve lots of collaborators or third-party things like automated testing (ex. continuous integration) the experience should be about the same. Github issues and PRs are quite nice from what I've seen.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

I mess around with custom Android ROMs as a hobby and realized early on that I had to learn git if I didn't want to drive myself crazy. The best way to learn it is to dive in. These are a good start:

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/

 

[CrunkLord420]

Reminder that we have a Programming General thread, this is a community watch thread.

Derbycon got destroyed by SJWs

This year, we had to handle issues that honestly, as an adult, we would never expect to have to handle from other adults. Conferences in general have shifted focus to not upsetting individuals and having to police people’s beliefs, politics, and feelings. Instead of coming to a conference to learn and share, it’s about how loud of a message a person can make about a specific topic, regardless of who they tear down or attempt to destroy. To put it in perspective, we had to deal with an individual that was verbally and mentally abusive to a number of our volunteer staff and security to the point where they were in tears.

https://www.derbycon.com/blog/derbycon-9-0-every-beginning-has-an-end/ (https://archive.fo/7dKCh)

DerbyCon 9.0 – Every Beginning Has an End
POSTED ON JANUARY 14, 2019 BY DAVID KENNEDY


When we first started DerbyCon, our goal was to create a conference where we could all come together to collaborate and share as a community, but most importantly as a profession. DerbyCon 1.0 was a huge gamble for us both personally and financially, but we believed in what we were doing, and it worked. For those that don’t know the history of DerbyCon, it started off inside of a pizza shop as an idea between a few friends. Our goal was to create an affordable conference that shared a lot of what we had experienced in our early days in security. The ideas of collaboration, community, and the betterment of the industry and the safety of technology were at the forefront. At the end of DerbyCon 1.0, we realized that the conference was a huge success and our dream became a reality.

What an incredible experience.

We had the opportunity to share with others and each and every year the conference got even better. As the conference grew in popularity, tickets sold out faster and faster. What was once a small conference turned into a large undertaking almost overnight, something that none of us expected.

Two years ago, we looked at what we wanted to accomplish with DerbyCon and whether we should continue to grow it or just stay at the same size. We decided to expand a bit to accommodate the increased demand for tickets and training, but after that, we would be done expanding and just keep it the way it was. Mind you, we never turned a profit for DerbyCon, we always either invested more personally (financially) into the conference to make it awesome or used whatever funds we had to make the conference even better. We were even offered a buyout of the conference, which we turned down.

DerbyCon isn’t for sale.

Last year (201 was an interesting one for us. We moved to a new venue and with that we encountered new challenges, but it turned out to be another amazing conference.

…..This is only what you saw as an attendee.

What we have had to deal with on the back-end the past few years is more than just running a conference and sharing with friends. The conference scene in general changed drastically and small pocket groups focus on outrage and disruption where there is no right answer (regardless of how you respond, it’s wrong), instead of coming together, or making the industry better. There is a small, yet vocal group of people creating negativity, polarization, and disruption, with the primary intent of self-promotion to advance a career, for personal gain, or for more social media followers. Individuals that would have us be judge, jury, and executioner for people they have had issues with outside of the conference that has nothing to do with the conference itself.

Instead of working hard in research, being a positive force in the industry, or sharing their own unique experiences (which makes us better as a whole), they tear others down in order to promote themselves. This isn’t just about DerbyCon, it is present at other conferences as well and it’s getting worse each year. We’ve spoken with a number of conference organizers, and each year it becomes substantially more difficult to host a conference where people can come together in large group settings. It’s not just conferences either. This behavior is happening all over the place on social media, in our industry, targeting people trying to do good. As a community, we add fuel to fire, attack others, and give them a platform in one massive toxic environment. We do this all in fear of repercussions from upsetting others. Until this pattern changes, it will continue to get worse.

This shouldn’t detract from real issues, and believe us, there are _real_ issues that happen. Issues that need to be dealt with when people get in large group settings. As a whole, DerbyCon has far fewer incidents than other conferences that post their statistics, and where conference safety is paramount and the #1 priority. We do listen, we do respond, and we always look to improve and get better.

This year, we had to handle issues that honestly, as an adult, we would never expect to have to handle from other adults. Conferences in general have shifted focus to not upsetting individuals and having to police people’s beliefs, politics, and feelings. Instead of coming to a conference to learn and share, it’s about how loud of a message a person can make about a specific topic, regardless of who they tear down or attempt to destroy. To put it in perspective, we had to deal with an individual that was verbally and mentally abusive to a number of our volunteer staff and security to the point where they were in tears.

This is not what we signed up for.

Admittedly, we had no idea how to handle this person, and in fear of repercussion of removing this person, allowed them to stay at the conference in order to “not upset the masses”. The best we could do was just apologize, for other apologies, and apologize more for another’s actions. This is just one example of many we have had to deal with over the past few years, and each year it becomes increasingly harder for us to handle. We do everything as a conference to ensure the safety, security, and go above and beyond that of others. Maybe that puts us on a different level where something that would normally not be an issue explodes into a catastrophic situation on social media.

Who knows? What we do know is each year it gets harder and harder.

2019 will be our last year of DerbyCon. Please know that this decision was not done in haste, and it was one of the most difficult decisions we have ever had to make in our lives. We looked at hiring third-party crisis management companies to deal with people directly, we looked at having entire companies run the conference where we would become more of the direction and vision, but at the end of the day, that is not why we started DerbyCon. It’s taken a personal toll on our lives, our businesses, and our friends, and it has gotten to the point where we don’t want to manage it anymore.

We started the conference to make a difference in people, to give them an opportunity to share their awesome experiences, and to be a part of history making technology better. We started DerbyCon to be a bright light in the darkness where regardless of race, gender, demographics, or worldviews, you could feel welcomed by a group that would accept you.

We did that, and it worked.

DerbyCon and our attendees raised so much money each and every year for charities, helped families, the homeless, cancer research, worked with organizations for hurricane relief in Puerto Rico, and reached people not just inside the Information Security industry, but outside as well. We really made a difference, and more than any other conference we’ve seen. We’ve started people’s careers, moved the industry forward, inspired others to get into security, and promoted diversity and strength in an industry where there were limited numbers. It’s been incredible and amazing, and we are so thankful to everyone that made this possible. Instead of posting hate towards others, we as a community actually made a difference. An actual difference!

All from a belief to make the world a better place.

While this light may be dimming, it doesn’t mean that we didn’t spark an opportunity for another illumination in the community for the next generation. A few people can make a huge difference in this industry. Difference isn’t how many Twitter followers you have, or tearing others down in order to promote yourself, it comes with respecting one another, being kind to one another, and focusing on making this world a better place. This includes all genders, races, and ethnicity, as we are an industry based on all, not one or the other. We can be so much better than this. All of our experiences make us unique and sharing those experiences whether you are brand new to the security industry or have been for countless years, makes you unique. Those experiences make us better, they make the industry better. This isn’t the end for us, the con organizers either. We’re going to focus on time and effort towards education to newcomers, internship programs, and continuing to make a positive influence on the security community. Our light is far from dim, but instead focused where we can make the biggest impacts.

We can’t thank everyone enough from the speakers, attendees, staff, security, sponsors, and everyone else that made DerbyCon possible. It has been an incredible ride, one that will last in our memories forever as an amazing and positive experience. All we ask is to be kind to one another, respect one another, be inclusive to everyone, and to call out negativity in this industry for people who tear others down. It is not, and should not be acceptable in this industry.

It has been incredible. This year we are going to go out with a bang. We are throwing every last amount of energy into this last conference and making it the best year yet. We also want to leave the door open for the future. Although we currently have no plans, we may consider doing something in the future at a much smaller scale, and with a closer group of individuals that promote positivity within the industry and continue to move it forward.

Thank you to everyone that believed in us, learned with us, partied with us, and for those that were inspired with us. We are truly humbled at what everyone has been able to accomplish, we hope it has forged a light forward for others to do the same.

Logistics: For those that purchased a black badge in the auctions for charities the past 3 years, we will be refunding you, as you made an investment and belief in us. All the proceeds went to charities for these auctions, but we believe we should pay back those that believed in us. At the end of this year, we will be donating any remaining funds to a number of different charities. You can contact us for a refund at info [at] derbycon [dot] com and will get back with you shortly after. Note that your badge will be valid for this year’s DerbyCon as well.

DerbyCon will be held September 4th – September 8th 2019.

See you all soon for one last con!


– The DerbyCon Team

https://twitter.com/DerbyCon/status/1084886700164304897 (https://archive.fo/StE65)

Tawnie's tweet was liked and RT'd by IronGeek, who was a presenter at Derbycon last year https://twitter.com/Tawnie/status/1084892031460278272 (https://archive.fo/dIzgK)

https://twitter.com/BlueSpaceCanary/status/1084888651346001920 (https://archive.fo/bVYjI)

https://twitter.com/Ben0xA/status/1084887469932400640 (https://archive.fo/4DleR)

https://twitter.com/brownteaming/status/1084889735258988545 (https://archive.fo/PJl0N)

 

[uncleShitHeel]

All your projects should have source control, even if you just initialize git and never push to remote. But Bitbucket isn't "horrible", but but the UI isn't as great as it could be, and they generally have more downtime compared to github. The thing about github and gitlab is that they're both receiving lots of new development. Bitbucket seems to be a bit slower on the uptake. Maybe thats good for corporates, but thats not us!

I use both GitHub and Bitbucket. For personal projects I prefer GH, whereas Bitbucket is ultimately tailored to enterprise.

 

[CrunkLord420]

Did some more digging on the Derbycon stuff, trying to get more specific into what events had happened.

Lindsey Ledford is a possible suspect, likely a contributing factor a minimum: https://twitter.com/deborahlindseyl/status/1048401891913334785 (https://archive.fo/zmhde)

This person was literally a Barista for 3 years.

Emily Pience aka picklefork is another suspect: https://twitter.com/obfusicationx2 (https://archive.fo/eYy23)

Emily Pience is another grifter with no background in the field she's giving talks for: https://bsideslv2014.sched.com/speaker/emilypience (https://archive.fo/KHCfQ)

Emily Pience is currently a Clinical Innovation Specialist with [redacted name of major American health and medical insurance company]. She has never worked in InfoSec but was raised by an Electrical Engineer in the cable industry, and believes herself to be a bastard of the engineering / InfoSec / modern Technology fields. She has worked for 3 of the 5 top disability insurance companies in the US and is working on her MS in Social Work. She is a member of PWM TOOOL and a founding supporter of I Am The Cavalry movement.

https://twitter.com/obfusicationx2/status/1085266637803147270 (https://archive.fo/yj9U9)

https://twitter.com/obfusicationx2/status/911235872313495552 (https://archive.fo/SrscG)

There's a thread on /r/netsec: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/afz83x/derbycon_is_ending_after_2019/ (https://archive.fo/MVp4R)

Emily Crose wrote a blog post that basically says nothing of value, but noted for historical purposes: https://www.hexadecim8.com/2019/01/...infosec-social-and-how-we-get-our-chill-back/ (https://archive.fo/Rvvww)

Gateway Pundit wrote an article: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...inist-negativity-polarization-and-disruption/ (https://archive.fo/6Q3aq)

Mundane Matt made a video (I haven't actually watched this)

=Edit, additional information=
Someone put together a "Timeline of SJW Bullshit at Tech Conference". The last three items are relevant to Derbycon: https://pastebin.com/aZrN10dZ (https://archive.fo/aIbPF)

Timeline of SJW Bullshit at Tech Conference

July 2012: Red Card/Yellow Card/Green Card
Idea by KdotCdot to hand out Red/Yellow/Green cards at Defcon depending on the supposed bad behavior of males. It was quickly pointed out that the cards would become collectors items and have the opposite of the desired effect.
https://singlevoice.net/redyellow-card-project/

February 2013: Violetblue’s Talk Pulled From BSidesSF
Violetblue was set to give a talk on sex, drugs and harm reduction. Valerie Aurora, from the Ada Initiative, was worried that it would trigger someone who had been sexually assaulted (more likely, she just wanted attention for her and her group). Violetblue ended up being pushed into not giving the talk.
http://violetblue.tumblr.com/post/44107008572/what-happened-with-my-security-bsides-talk

March 2013: Donglegate
Adria Richards gets bent out of shape over people making dongle jokes and puns about forking repos behind her. They were not directed at her in any way, but she posted a picture of the guys and at least one got fired. This caused a big hubub where Adria ended up getting fired too.

Quote from Jon Ronson interview Adria Richards
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/21/internet-shaming-lindsey-stone-jon-ronson
““Somebody getting fired is pretty bad,” I said. “I know you didn’t call for him to be fired, but you must have felt pretty bad.”
“Not too bad,” she said. She thought more and shook her head decisively. “He’s a white male. I’m a black Jewish female. He was saying things that could be inferred as offensive to me, sitting in front of him. I do have empathy for him, but it only goes so far. If he had Down’s syndrome and he accidently pushed someone off a subway, that would be different… I’ve seen things where people are like, ‘Adria didn’t know what she was doing by tweeting it.’ Yes, I did.””
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oLK8b8drL8
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/donglegate-adria-richards

August 2014: BSidesLV Tower of Condoms
Gawker writer Nitasha Tiku gets bent and goes all sex negative because there was a tower of condoms built at BSidesLV. Somehow, this is said to make women feel unwelcome. Disregard that there were a lot of women helping build the tower, and there is also a large gay contingent at the Vegas cons that might want to promote safe sex.
http://valleywag.gawker.com/nothing-says-welcome-to-our-tech-conference-like-a-towe-1617722289
http://infosystir.blogspot.com/2014/08/soapbox-rant-sexism-bsideslv-bonehenge.html

January 2015: Yogapants Shmoocon 2015 (Yogagate)
SJW avriette gets upset about “Mascots, March Madness & #yogapants” talk on social engineering because it was somehow objectifying of women. SJW proceeds to virtue signal, sane people tell them they are full of shit, some white knights come out and one compares yoga pants on slides to shoving people in lockers.
http://www.iamit.org/blog/2015/01/sensationalism-doing-more-damage-than-good/
http://theprez98.blogspot.com/2015/01/hacker-cons-and-speech-codes.html

March 2016: LambdaConf and Curtis Yavin
Because of statements Curtis Yavin (Moldbug) made about race and IQ, some other speakers pulled out of LambdaConf. Apparently the previous year Yarvin has been disinvited from Urbit at the Strange Loop.
https://medium.com/@curtis.yarvin/why-you-should-come-to-lambdaconf-anyway-35ff8cd4fb9d#.beznosmdk
http://www.slate.com/articles/techn...from_strange_loop_it_s_a_big_big_problem.html
http://blog.erratasec.com/2016/04/tldr-of-lambdaconf-drama.html#.WNnYEY61vMU

May 2016: Article about being microaggressed at lock pick village
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ygrauer...code-of-conduct-or-lack-thereof/#bbd85b67ae76

August 2016: Defcon Hacker Jeopardy
People whined about Hacker Jeopardy having categories like dick, pussy and answers about porn, and a scantily clad woman bringing men beer. The whiners disregard that there were a ton of “trigger warnings” letting you know what type of event it was, there was half naked man bring women drinks, and that a woman won the game.
https://www.cnet.com/news/defcon-ha...omen-stripping-have-to-do-with-cybersecurity/

September 2016: Nodevember & No Platforming Douglas Crockford
Douglas Crockford got disinvited from Nodevember because SJW nutjobs thought he was slut-shaming the web by calling the old version promiscuous. Also, someone interpreted him talking about Nashville Hot Chicken as talking about “hot chicks”. Real tech talk got rejected, but they accept crap like this.
http://atom-morgan.github.io/in-defense-of-douglas-crockford

January 2017: Female software engineer of 20 years banned from Women in Tech groups
Marlene Jaeckel, volunteered her time to mentor and teach new women in tech through RailsGirls and RailsBridge. After it was discovered that she doesn’t think every shortcoming in life is due to sexism or the patriarchy, she was banned from both groups without an explanation.
https://medium.com/code-like-a-girl...anted-to-give-back-to-6857862cee0a#.ddnwc7szo
https://medium.com/code-like-a-girl/thoughts-from-the-editor-172e93eccbb1#.orz2zg59t

January 2017: “Counting” of # of women at various security conferences.
@SushiDude seems to have an obsession with counting women vs. men at conferences.
https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=sushidude women men&src=typd
http://archive.li/rJEDv

July 2017: “Wall Of Creep” twitter account setup for what seems to be doxing people that offend others. Turns out to be mostly whining about microaggressions.
https://twitter.com/Wall_of_Creep

March 2018: Dinah Davis whines on twitter about the Security Weekly podcast’s “Hack Naked” trucker mudflap girl logo.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Dinah_Davis/status/976170600996761604
http://archive.li/ZgoUw
The logo has been around since 2006, and less popular versions have a naked buff or fat man instead. Soyboy talks about boycott for a show that ans asks for the company name when:
1. She said who it was in the first tweet.
2. It’s Free.
3. Dinah linked the wrong twitter handle for.
https://mobile.twitter.com/mlevison/status/976563499836039169
http://archive.li/tvAeD

June 2018: @Lex_is whines about IllWill having “probably has your nudes” in his bio for a talk at HOPE.
https://twitter.com/lex_is/status/1011720718667714560
http://archive.li/l69dn
IllWill eventually gets deplatformed, but HOPE claims it was for other reasons.

June 2018: Someone shows up at HOPE in a MAGA hat, aiming to troll http://archive.li/sWyb4 (vice article, so take with a boulder of salt). Guy stole the man’s hat, apparently an Ancom as he filled his write-up with the word “comrade” and said: "The hacker community has always had a libertarian faction, and libertarians tend to be just a hair away from outright white supremacy, so it was possible they were here as attendees."
https://heartsucker.com/blog/2018/07/28/no-hope-for-fascists
http://archive.li/lR4ZF
Deviant Ollam goes on to defend stealing and violence in a TL;DR diatribe and apparently has little idea what the Proudboys are.
http://deviating.net/words/?p=1001
http://archive.li/wEAat



October 2018: Lindsey Ledford‏ (@deborahlindseyl) has a mental breakdown because some people wrote boobies twice and #metoo on the “What Helps You With Stress?” board outside the Mental Health Workshop at Derbycon.
https://twitter.com/deborahlindseyl/status/1048401891913334785
http://archive.li/mw2FK
Massive overreaction, would someone complain if “penises” had been written instead? She also irrationality said @Breaksec podcast was promoting their podcast by covering up the words with their stickers. No, staff covered up the words to make her happy and the stickers were the most convenient was to do it without scraping the board.
https://twitter.com/deborahlindseyl/status/1048401909353209856
http://archive.li/cF7eq
Lindsey Ledford‏ also reportedly went on to whine to Walmart (a sponsor) because they had beard combs as swag but nothing specific for women and also whined at the Pauldotcom guys for their “Hack Naked” stickers that had a mud flap girl on them (they also had one with a pudgy man on them). Lindsey also went on to accuse Hacks4Pancakes of “white feminism” (sadly, Lesley later bent over backwards).
https://twitter.com/deborahlindseyl/status/1049327024257552384
http://archive.li/QrJsp
Lendsey’s experience at the time appears to have been being a Barista at Starbuck.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindseyledford/


October 2018: Hexadecim8 and FalconDarkstar whine about someone wearing a MAGA hat who was security at Derbycon. Make reference to Nazis. Hexadecim8 deleted her tweets like a paranoid coward. Plot twist: The guy in the MAGA hat is of Mexican heritage.
https://twitter.com/hexadecim8/status/1048901885288173569
http://archive.li/AL2OU
https://twitter.com/FalconDarkstar/status/1048820743763505152
http://archive.li/eR9Al
FalconDarkstar was not even there.
https://twitter.com/FalconDarkstar/status/1049114370343464961
http://archive.li/clCGY


October 2018: People freak out because someone in the lockpick village at Derbycon was playing “the circle game” (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-circle-game). People conflate it with a white supremacy sign (that has largely been debunked despite what NiteOwl thinks) because they are not very intelligent. Viss says the person playing the circle game is the same as the person with the MAGA hat. It was not, Viss is just terribly misinformed and has a history of screaming “Nazi!!!” and losing his head.
http://archive.li/TM8uw
https://twitter.com/hacks4pancakes/status/1049149451183566855
http://archive.li/28Ys8
https://twitter.com/hacks4pancakes/status/1049156701377744896
FOOLS gave a perfect explanation for the symbol.
https://twitter.com/BLMGTN_FOOLS/status/1049176573860036608
http://archive.li/jjLen
But millennial dumbasses will not accept it.
https://twitter.com/0DDJ0BB/status/1049313744562675712
http://archive.li/R2jFC


Scrap stuff not in timeline:
“Coraline Ada Ehmke” creates a Code of Conduct (the contributor covenant) that restricts freedom of opinions. Attempts to force Ruby to adopt it via a bug report.
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12004#change-56140

LambdaConf’s makes their own COC called FCOP which aims to make sure devs are not discriminated against based on religion or politics, and to curb public shaming attempts.
http://heatst.com/culture-wars/hack...s-supports-diversity-of-ideas/?mod=sm_tw_post
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/01/11/sjws-tech-conference-political-diversity/
http://blog.erratasec.com/2016/04/tldr-of-lambdaconf-drama.html

http://archive.li/F0Z9R

Geek Feminism Wiki Timeline of incidents:
https://archive.li/qXJlk

Harassment at DEF CON
https://archive.li/qhKz1

Turns out Emily Crose was actually an agitator as well.
"Hexadecim8 and FalconDarkstar whine about someone wearing a MAGA hat who was security at Derbycon. Make reference to Nazis. Hexadecim8 deleted her tweets like a paranoid coward. Plot twist: The guy in the MAGA hat is of Mexican heritage." https://twitter.com/hexadecim8/status/1048901885288173569 (https://archive.fo/AL2OU)

https://twitter.com/FalconDarkstar/status/1048820743763505152 (https://archive.fo/eR9Al)

Lesley Carhart is another suspect https://twitter.com/hacks4pancakes/status/1049156701377744896 (https://archive.fo/28Ys8)

https://twitter.com/hacks4pancakes/status/1049149451183566855 (https://archive.fo/TM8uw)

https://twitter.com/BLMGTN_FOOLS/status/1049176573860036608 (https://archive.fo/jjLen)

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

There's a thread on /r/netsec: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/afz83x/derbycon_is_ending_after_2019/ (https://archive.fo/MVp4R)

There's a few more angry comments that were deleted by the mods in that thread that removeddit can see. Archive of removed comments is here.

https://twitter.com/FalconDarkstar/status/1048820743763505152 (https://archive.fo/eR9Al)

Do you know what this guy is talking about with the "thin blue line badge" thing?

 

[CrunkLord420]

Do you know what this guy is talking about with the "thin blue line badge" thing?

Clothing featuring the thin blue line is a show of support for police, and is considered anti-BLM. The thin blue line is a much older concept, but its recently taken a new association to "blue lives matter".

Maybe there's just a large amount of feds at these events, for professional purposes (not necessarily to spy or whatever).

 

[Least Concern]

Oh God. They pegged this poor schlub for a white nationalist because he was playing the circle game. You can't make this shit up, folks.

Do you know what this guy is talking about with the "thin blue line badge" thing?

Does this look familiar (presuming you live in the US)?

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

Does this look familiar (presuming you live in the US)?

I'd actually never seen that flag before, but looking it up in conjunction with Blue Lives Matter gave me a pretty solid understanding. Black Lives Matter, and the other movements associated with/in reaction to it never caught on around me, so I've never really been exposed to their symbols.

 

[RK 091]

I'd actually never seen that flag before, but looking it up in conjunction with Blue Lives Matter gave me a pretty solid understanding. Black Lives Matter, and the other movements associated with/in reaction to it never caught on around me, so I've never really been exposed to their symbols.

It's almost the opposite, it's supposed to symbolise the police and how they're what protects normal society from the criminals. Effectively, it's an "I support the police" flag

 

[CrunkLord420]

Lindsey Ledford makes a statement about playing a role in killing Derbycon. https://twitter.com/deborahlindseyl/status/1085274101218975746 (https://archive.fo/RCECn)

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

It's almost the opposite, it's supposed to symbolise the police and how they're what protects normal society from the criminals. Effectively, it's an "I support the police" flag

Hmm... that may be it's intent with some people, but in practice usually the people with those sorts of things are the "Police dindus", essentially like BLM but in exact reverse, they defend any cop doing anything, like BLM defending anyone black shot by a cop no matter what they were doing.

However, it's a little worse, because the police sell merchandise featuring said blue line, and it's an unofficial "Don't pull me over" tax. BLM has no legal authority and thus cannot legally punish you for not supporting them enough.