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

[Coolio55]

I'd argue the bigger issue is that GIMP just isn't very good to begin with. It's always had the reputation of a third string Photoshop clone, a clone so mediocre that most of it's intended use demographic ends up pirating Photoshop anyway thus harming adoption.

I don't think it lacks power, it's just limited by its obscure, often perverse user interface and steep learning curve to the point that learning to do even basic stuff in it takes more time than learning to use something like Photoshop barely competently enough to do a broader range of stuff.

It's no big secret that gimp is an unfinished mess. Even photoshop's horrid bug riddled modern incarnations (With the fucking stupid marquee offset they added in CS4 that forever confuses low resolution artists) can't match up to gimp's sheer will to blow dick.

...and yes, I still use gimp instead of it so I should fucking know.

There's tons of stupid decisions:
Why do you have to manually float selections to move them when literally every other common operation automatically does this?
Why was Gfig ever added? (and the vector layers feature buried in the code never exposed?)
Why do brushes have to be an odd numbered size? Why is gimp so jittery with 2x2 brushes?
SEVERAL COMMON OPERATIONS FOR EDITING THE PALETTES OF INDEXED IMAGES ARE MISSING. YOU CAN'T EVEN DELETE COLOURS.
Why is the colour quantization so rubbish?

...but the fact is. If gimp's neckbearded cave dwellers can't pump out a quality product. How will a bunch of charlatan trannies do any better?

A bunch of charlatan trannies who's first order of business is to completely rewrite it because they can't use C++.

It looks like they're going to use D as their language. They acknowledge that C# probably makes more sense, but they've gotta rub it in Micro$soft's face!

Be fair, have you ever had the displeasure of using Visual Studio?

 

[IN 041]

Has anyone made the obvious "Tranny CoC" joke about the Contributor Covenant yet?

 

[b9256939]

While looking up phpce shit on twitter, i came across some other stupid drama that happened to the react community a few days ago.

a few different summaries explaining it to varying degrees
a short summary https://twitter.com/inflammatorydev/status/1165793512383627264
some screenshots of how it started https://twitter.com/why_is_js_mad/status/1164603310382469123
a longer summary https://dev.to/aryanjnyc/ken-wheeler-and-dan-abramov-deactivate-their-twitter-accounts-302
professional victims summary https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g4oh2GGZOsucZfT1YJ5wjDUSk3ntbM3RNAxVs528-NM/preview
reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/cv3jcp/dan_abramov_deactivates_twitter_account/

at the end of it all, ken apologizes for being a white male and not listening and believing enough

https://twitter.com/ken_wheeler/status/1166407983296913408

theres still a bit of arguing going on in various comment threads as well.

 

[Ivan Shatov]

Wait, that second "this" is… Larry "Crell" Garfield! The guy that got Me Too'd out of the Drupal community! The subject of my first post on the Farms!

How… ironic? Is "ironic" the right word here? He got kicked out of cons, so now he's contributing to bringing down cons using the same social justice nonsense.

Larry was not metoo'd out of the Drupal Community, he still contributes to this day. Spends a lot of time in Slack channels and mentors developers.

During his witch hunt, the Drupal Diversity and Inclusion Initiative was set up, members spent months scouring Twitter feeds and reporting developers for not being PC enough (usually, for the things they said about Larry.) Dozens of people had their jobs and lives destroyed by the Community Working Group for taking Larry's side and standing up to the SJWs.

Larry was fine with this. He did nothing to help anyone and said it was their fault for speaking up for him. After the dust settled, he gave Megan Sanicki (the person who was his main accuser) a reference to help her get a job at Google. He apologized to Angie Byron (the person accusing him of being a child molester) for not listening well enough.

Looking back, I wonder if the Larry Garfield situation was just a honeypot for rooting out developers that don't support their diversity vision. Larry is absolutely an SJW and has no tolerance for anyone with different viewpoints.

 

[BlueSpark]

During his witch hunt, the Drupal Diversity and Inclusion Initiative was set up, members spent months scouring Twitter feeds and reporting developers for not being PC enough (usually, for the things they said about Larry.) Dozens of people had their jobs and lives destroyed by the Community Working Group for taking Larry's side and standing up to the SJWs.

Larry was fine with this. He did nothing to help anyone and said it was their fault for speaking up for him. After the dust settled, he gave Megan Sanicki (the person who was his main accuser) a reference to help her get a job at Google. He apologized to Angie Byron (the person accusing him of being a child molester) for not listening well enough.

What a fucking piece of shit.

 

[Splendid]

Be fair, have you ever had the displeasure of using Visual Studio

It's good. Fuck off Stallman.

 

[Coolio55]

It's good. Fuck off Stallman.

I refuse to use any software that requires a mandatory account and internet connection. Especially such an important piece of software like an ide and compiler.

 

[vertexwindi]

It looks like they're going to use D as their language. They acknowledge that C# probably makes more sense, but they've gotta rub it in Micro$soft's face!

Trannies sure obsessed with D.

 

[awoo]

Glimpse is a nice name but sounds more suited for an image viewer.
GIMP 2.10 looks nicer and one immediate detail is that load time was dramatically improved. But it's still far from photoshop, vs. Blender actually being usable for serious work (I'm not in the industry so this is my guess)

 

[CIA Nigger]

A strong woman in tech has called out Richard Stallman himself for saying among other things it's not rape if a 17 year old consents and has compared his comments to Sandy Hook.

It's time to watch the guy who wrote the GPL and pushed for free software to get torn down by stunning and brave women in tech.

Sarah Mei on Twitter

“I've tweeted for many years about how awful Richard "RMS" Stallman is - the pedophilia, the ableism, the misogyny. Inevitably, each time I do, dudes examine my receipts & then say "all those incidents are from years ago! he's changed now!" NOPE. https://t.co/ti2SrlKObp”

web.archive.org

 

[AnOminous]

A strong woman in tech has called out Richard Stallman himself for saying among other things it's not rape if a 17 year old consents and has compared his comments to Sandy Hook.

It's time to watch the guy who wrote the GPL and pushed for free software to get torn down by stunning and brave women in tech.

Maybe the idea that these absolute cunts are actually some kind of corporate-organized false flag operation isn't that tin foil after all. They certainly seem to target things opposed to vast multinational corporations at every fucking available opportunity while proposing ideologies and "codes of conduct" and other bullshit that could not possibly be implemented outside a massive corporation with an incredibly intrusive HR department.

 

[Tealeaf]

Based. Old white men (=perverts) have no place in an inclusive community such as the open source community.

If we continue at this pace, harassment can be a solved issue within a few decades.

 

[ArnoldPalmer]

Be fair, have you ever had the displeasure of using Visual Studio?

Don't get me fucking started. It's so heavy for what it is, breaks like 2005-era Ubuntu if you touch ONE THING, too many prominent "multiplatform" dev tools (LOOKING AT YOU UE4) practically require it, as the Linux versions of these dev-tools have "compatibility" with other IDEs, entirely in name only, and it's just so nasty to use. I hate Visual C++ the most.

If you play with UE4 on Linux, go ahead and try using Code::Blocks with it. It will probably take you an entire fucking day to set up, and getting things to actually build will likely take an extra day of your time. We're not even talking about something especially exotic here, there's a tutorial for it on Epic's website. It's not Code::Blocks' fault. It's an excellent IDE. UE4 is just set up to use Visual C++ at a fundamental level, even when a Linux version of Visual Studio doesn't exist. And NO, Visual Studio Code doesn't fucking count and you fucking know it doesn't count.

 

[AmpleApricots]

I still use a simple text editor for all my code, then again, I don't do this as a job. I thank heavens every day for that.

Stallman is the typical old-school nerd that seems to have either completely disappeared or is still toiling in the background to make stuff work while all these genderspecials screetch about whatever. He's also untouchable. He's well respected amongst actual computer scientists. These are very different folk to these meme-language-of-the-week-webdev-framework software "engineers"/distro maintainers. (which often are the linux-equivalent of forum moderators) Also even the most far right, "Jews hid microphones in my cereal"-nuts somehow respect Stallman. (which is funny, because he comes from a jewish family himself and holds very left-leaning ideals) Also the dude has the autistic resolve of Data from Star Trek. Some screeching twitter tranny won't be able to bring him down.

If anything, this will just be another reminder to normal folk in that industry that these people are crazy and are best avoided.

 

[Strange Looking Dog]

That look when both physically and intellectually barren so all you can do is destroy

Cancel culture is really just a cancer cult. Catlady purge when?

...
Stallman is the typical old-school nerd that seems to have either completely disappeared or is still toiling in the background to make stuff work while all these genderspecials screetch about whatever. He's also untouchable.
...
If anything, this will just be another reminder to normal folk in that industry that these people are crazy and are best avoided.

I hope you're right, and yet even if that comes to pass, would the average person fare so well under similar circumstance?

 

[Coolio55]

I still use a simple text editor for all my code, then again, I don't do this as a job. I thank heavens every day for that.

Stallman is the typical old-school nerd that seems to have either completely disappeared or is still toiling in the background to make stuff work while all these genderspecials screetch about whatever. He's also untouchable. He's well respected amongst actual computer scientists. These are very different folk to these meme-language-of-the-week-webdev-framework software "engineers"/distro maintainers. (which often are the linux-equivalent of forum moderators) Also even the most far right, "Jews hid microphones in my cereal"-nuts somehow respect Stallman. (which is funny, because he comes from a jewish family himself and holds very left-leaning ideals) Also the dude has the autistic resolve of Data from Star Trek. Some screeching twitter tranny won't be able to bring him down.

If anything, this will just be another reminder to normal folk in that industry that these people are crazy and are best avoided.

I like text editors, it feels pretty quaint.
The only downside is lack of autocomplete (a MASSIVE blow) and having to write your own makefile.

Also despite Stallman being a disgusting jew nerd with the whiniest voice in existance he has too much dignity to let them cancel him.
He'll most likely either ignore them or write an ASCII HTML 2.0 page on his "blog" taking the piss.

 

[Dr. Sexbot]

I like text editors, it feels pretty quaint.
The only downside is lack of autocomplete (a MASSIVE blow) and having to write your own makefile.

Also despite Stallman being a disgusting jew nerd with the whiniest voice in existance he has too much dignity to let them cancel him.
He'll most likely either ignore them or write an ASCII HTML 2.0 page on his "blog" taking the piss.

Notepad++ has autocomplete, fyi.

 

[CrunkLord420]

Kat Marchán is on the fediverse https://toot.cat/@zkat/102787473691474898 (https://archive.vn/NBXyM)

 

[AnOminous]

Kat Marchán is on the fediverse https://toot.cat/@zkat/102787473691474898 (https://archive.vn/NBXyM)

What a surprise, some dangerhair freak who wormed their way into the Open Source community actually doesn't give a shit about it at all and just wants to destroy it with SJW bullshit.

And is talking about wypipo bla bla bla privilege.

What's this?

Kat Marchán. Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft.

Yeah tell me more about privilege you seaweed haired cunt.

 

[Splendid]

Nobody gave a shit about minorities in open source because it's a racially neutral thing. If you want a browser just for gay people or whatever, you're the bigot.