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

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So I know this was discussed before, but it's a bitch to search for when I want to bring it up to someone, so just for posterity:

Since npm doesn't have package signing, the npm central repository is entirely at the mercy of the sjw speds who work at npm. Including Isaac Schlueter.

This means that, if npm user Alice publishes a package to npm, and npm user Bob uses it in his project, that Isaac has the capability to selectively insert arbitrary code into the version of Alice's package that Bob ends up downloading. If Isaac doesn't like Bob's politics, he can (for example) steal all of Bob's user's data and leak it all.

You can sift through Isaac's twitter to get a taste of his goofy politics.

Isaac has actually been asked, point blank, if he'd maliciously fuck with, say, the Daily Stormer. And he completely ghosts the question.

Posts:
https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/73nr01/the_real_important_question_about_npm/ https://archive.fo/gywjc
https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/72tndc/is_the_ecosystem_at_risk/dnlixlp/?context=8&depth=9 https://archive.fo/1nXPq
https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/72tndc/is_the_ecosystem_at_risk/dnm29p7/?context=8&depth=9 https://archive.fo/MCsoZ
https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comme...ter_npm_has_officially_lost_his_shit/dnqv6iy/ https://archive.fo/9y0Ef
 
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Microsoft and github (which is now Microsoft) employees refusing to promote events that aren't "diverse" and don't have CoCs, plus spazzing out about the recent New Zealand mosque attack (and using it to promote the services of "Nicole Sanchez," a diversity consultant), demanding censorship and, in the case of github's Alice Goldfuss, blaming GamerGate:
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She tried to warn us!

Jennifer Scheurle isn't into OSS as far as I know, just some "designer" at Arenanet.
 
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omnihitler said:
Why are all the trannies in Devops? SRE = Sexually Reassigned Engineer
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Another rat king. You can start learning regular programming by fucking around with your own computer, embedded systems with dollar store electronics, machine learning with data scraped from the internet. But SRE has a chicken and egg problem, in that prospective SREs have nowhere to gain experience before someone takes a massive risk and lets them handle an industrial system. Troons can vouch for their fuckbuddies.
 
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The FSFE (the FSF's European cousin, not a part of the FSF formally) made a slip up when they published an article about how they let Article 13 have a FOSS exception. The way it was worded was interesting however.
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Copyright Directive – EU safeguards Free Software at the last minute

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The wokest latched onto this:
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Andreⓐ on Twitter: "This absolutely shameful bit of badgelicking must…

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Including a wild Eevee, the same one involved in a 1,368+ page thread on this very site:
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And Matthew "I'm not supporting Intel over #GamerGate" Garrett:
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Matthew Garrett on Twitter: "In an alternate universe, press releases…

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While the piranhas were chewing out the FSFE for this, Hugo Roy (another FSFE staff member) had to step in to clarify that it was poorly worded.
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No to #Article13 #saveyourinternet on Twitter: "What the *HELL* is th…

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hugo roy on Twitter: "Hey Rui, the PR will be clarified - I think thi…

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I recently came across an interview with Angie Byron, a bigwig in the Drupal scene, of which I was a moderate part starting about a decade ago.

As you may be able to tell just from the photo above the article, Angie is unambiguously lesbian, and actually moved to Canada during the Dubya administration because of the greater legal acceptance of gay marriage (IIRC; might be mixing that up with someone else). And, yes, she played a part in a lot of the CoC/D&I stuff that ended up making a significant beachhead on the Drupal front. Most cringily, her alias is "webchick."

But it's frustrating because, unlike some of the other "diversity leaders" we've discussed in this thread, Angela is quite talented. She can code, and she was the branch leader for the Drupal 7 branch which, among other things, covered the entire codebase with automated tests. I've spoken to her briefly in person, as well as attended various keynote sessions and panels that she's led, and never came away with the impression that she was anything less than incredibly talented and forward-thinking.

So while I'd prefer if others didn't try to instill their SJW morality upon my participation in a project, if it must be done, I guess I'd rather have it be done by someone like webchick than someone whose technical expertise doesn't go beyond creating a new GitHub issue about the documentation not using gender-neutral pronouns or whatever.
 
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Yeah, some turbo-SJWs are actually very competent, which makes them harder to shut down. Matthew Garrett comes to mind, or that batshit insane libreboot troon. Ironically, these people are like avatars of the "rockstar dev" meme that SJWs in IT screech about sometimes - they are very good on their own but end up being detrimental to their project as they're impossible to work with and drive others away.
 
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Eternal Gopnik said:
Yeah, some turbo-SJWs are actually very competent, which makes them harder to shut down. Matthew Garrett comes to mind, or that batshit insane libreboot troon. Ironically, these people are like avatars of the "rockstar dev" meme that SJWs in IT screech about sometimes - they are very good on their own but end up being detrimental to their project as they're impossible to work with and drive others away.
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Leah Rowe isn't competent at all. libreboot's work is mostly based on coreboot. And even her work on libreboot is just documentation.
 
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Here's a developer who's saying he stopped working on his 12K+ stars project due to harassment from SJWs. He also name drops some of them. A lot of familiar names, to no one's suprise.
https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/issues/583#issuecomment-353873245
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They locked down the convo in that link, but it was archived in case you want to update that old post for posterity.

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Release v4.2.0 or v5.0.0? · Issue #583 · Marak/faker.js

Latest release, v4.1.0, is from 21 Feb. A lot of commits have been made since Februrary: v4.1.0...master Lots of them fixing some bugs. Is there any chance to make a new release to include them and...
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Gee, it's almost like minorities have bigger things to worry about than something you'd have to go way out of the way to perceive as "racist".
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There aren't even any minorities involved. It's Chinese people complaining about the slave labour conditions that exist in China, and some wanker American who, I'm going to make an educated guess, is whiter than the pure virgin snow chimes in that they have to be respectful of American race relations.

Americans have serious trouble understanding that the USA's own particular problems with race are not universally applicable. I swear the term "POC" was only coined because every woke septic would continually embarrass themselves by calling black people "African Americans" even when they'd never so much as set foot in the new world.
 
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Nebkor is a little bitch with stupid hair.

He's also inadvertently functioning as an agent of the PRC and sowing discord in a labor movement. What a hero.

His code is also garbage and he should delete his github.
 
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