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There are a few weird guys in there that I wasn’t already aware of. I knew that Louis Rossmann was kind of an asshole, but being openly active on kiwifarms is actually fucked up.
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Oh damn, that’s a good list of open source weirdos, most of them unsurprisingly white dudes…It really sucks that there’s so many creeps in open source. I was surprised by The Primogen associations, Louis Rossmann is a guy I kinda suspected of being not good. Welp, two more people to cut out of my YouTube watching.
primeagen was presenting on the omarchy parteitag (among other people presenting was tj devries, one of the neovim core devs).
Yeah, I didn’t watch him constantly (only caught some videos here and there). Its good info to file away, I basically have a lot of Linux youtubers that glaze Omarchy, the Arch but more fascist and AI slopped on muted forever. As anyone who supports what DHH is doing or making is on my suspicious person list.
the nice thing about omarchy is that the fascist and fascist-adjacent arseholes naturally gravitate towards it.
I will grant Omarchy that, it’s the perfect flytrap and litmus test for Linux users, a great way to figure out fascist or fascist-adjacent shit burglar by their response to learning what a POS that DHH is. There are several distros like that…
There are several distros like that…
Perhaps so, but this one is the giant 10km tall giant space elevator base station that stands out far above all. I pitched a story on it when he raised $8M in sponsorship for this dross. By the time I wrote it, a couple of days later, it was $10M. By the time it was published it was $12M.
That was a week ago and it’s $18.5M now.
So long as it was kept out of corporate clutches, that kind of cash could do wonders. It’s very sad to see.
Yep, Omarchy is the most profitable and prolific of them all. The others are more ideological magnets that reveal chuds like metal detectors…I am learning that Artix is kinda like this. But thankfully I don’t have to use it, I could just install Void Linux if I wanted to learn how to customize my own install without systemd at some point.
Even YouTubers are actively talking about it without doing proper research about it and glazing it. Those YouTubers are often getting immediately getting put on never recommended to me again, I will not have Omarchy, DHH shill factories on my feeds.
I’m so glad to see homophobic catholic extremist Jeff Geerling made the cut. I resent that I followed him for years without knowing how much hate he holds in his heart for me.
Also glad Louis Rossmann is getting his due callout here.
He definitely does a lot of good buthe does and says some truly inexcusable shit.hey motherfuckers, if you’re going to come at devault in this thread for doing the work, have something better than this weak fash shit, thanks
Damn I did not know about Geerling, kinda a bummer, but in the way that I’m not surprised
I didn’t either.
I need to remember the multiple people that pointed me to Next.js and lose some respect retroactively. Though it did feel like a sneaky Vercel ad even back then.
Wait, what’s wrong with Next?
I’m actually asking, I’ve never used it.Here’s a helpful link for the reading-averse https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/#rauch
Hey, I know that art from somewhere…
Technically I’m on the list now!
Rossmann’s shitty YouTube comment (linked to from this list) seems to expose his insecurities about gender and obesity and how he externalizes those insecurities to judge others.
It sucks when you see someone that you thought was doing good work turn out to be a weirdo
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I think it’s safe to say that any kind of chronically online “celebrity”/well-known person in open source space with “strong” opinions on everything is more than a little weird. It just goes with the territory.
yeah you know we don’t actually need you to fashjacket devault here, thanks
Friiiick, the ladybird dev? I’ve been keeping the project in the back of my mind until it’s ready for daily use. I was so pumped for an open browser
maybe look at servo then? that one’s also not getting vibecoded
oh yeah he’s an enthusiastic techfash
Friiiick, the ladybird dev?
I’d heard some rumours but this spelled it out and it’s not nice. I was formerly engaged to a Norwegian, and learned quite a lot about Scandinavian culture and beliefs. Some of it is nasty and the Mullvad dude, DHH, and “Awesome Kling” as well, are saying the quiet part out loud.
there’s a few names i’d probably add; one is peter simon, known as probono, the appimage maintainer, a professional wayland hater (he’s maintaining a ginormous gist that lists the failures of wayland, most of which is not true, not true anymore or at least grossly exaggerated).
He’s an odd dude, but I haven’t seen anything that makes me think he’s fash-tinted TBH. Most of his tech opinions are sound, IMHO.
I don’t like Wayland myself – not as much as he hates it, but it brings nothing I want or need, breaks a lot of stuff that I really like, and is so utterly pathetically technologically unambitious it actually angers me. Also, just like GNOME, like Flatpak, like everything to come out of RH, everything about it betrays its developers deep, broad, profound ignorance of all the prior art except the bits they had to work on.
I am heartily sick of this constant BS dialog of “X is bad, W is the brave new future”. It’s bollocks, and I am glad someone is standing up and saying no.
The weirdness is much less visible in Primeagen’s content nowadays (albeit I’ve almost completely stopped watching it so maybe it’s now getting more overt?), I’m not overly surprised devault has nothing concrete to point at - in fact I wouldn’t be surprised if he has scrubbed the more egregious things from his youtube channel.
It’s never been big attention-grabbing things but more a certain level of crypto-fashy offhanded remarks and general vibes - been brought up in the weekly snarks a few months back.
The biggest recent criticism I could make is having DHH on fire over an hour with allegedly no pushback on how terrible his “distro” is given how much primagen supposedly prides himself on his technical prowess. Then again, he’s not using omarchy himself so what does he care if the rubes in his audience get duped into trashing their machines?
I watched half of the DHH interview in awe of the non stop glazing. Blocked his channel after that embarrassing display.
the non stop glazing
I don’t understand what this word means here.
Glazed eyes?
I think it’s a reference to the smooth reflective appearance an object or person has after being liberally tongue-bathed
either that or covered in ejaculate
:-o
Ew.
It’s an internet slang that means to excessively fawn over someone.
I’ve never used any suckless software, but it kind of sucks seeing them on here. I liked the Idea of their software philosophy, even if it wasn’t for me.
(Edit: I forgot a word in that sentence lol)
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after 33 years online I can confidently say that “censorship resistance” is overwhelmingly a right-wing shibboleth
The “censorship resistance” being criticised here is in support of free speech absolutism: posting propaganda, misinformation and brigading and trolling people with no recourse. This is bad and has real and meaningful consequences for people like Jason Arday who was recently driven-to-suicide for being black and successful amid false plagiarism allegations and a media witch hunt.
I agree that left leaning causes also need resilient comms infra to allow for organisation. Unfortunately these issues are two sides of the same coin. I think it is completely fair to criticise people like Dorsey who left bluesky in 2024 because of their moderation approach which is hardly heavy handed - especially if you are a far right hater of trans people . We can condemn this behaviour and also hold the belief that we need resilient infra that the government can’t easily seize.
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Oh for sure and I am definitely strong Manning Drew’s post to the max here. If it turns out he just generally means that resilient infra is bad with no nuance then I agree with your original point.
nuanced
oh fuck off
I only knew Lunduke from his Linux sucks series and was surprised to see him on this list. so I did a quick search and found lunduke keeps his own ‘software politics tracker’ which of course does not track all politics, but just “woke”, “leftist” and “dei”.
Apparently Gnome just celebrating trans day of inclusion is a bad thing. Ugh. Wish I’d never given that guy my time and attention.
according to him, the Linux foundation also ‘pledged fealty to the UN’. wtf even is that supposed to mean? is this common conspiracy shit or is he completely off his rocker?
surprised to see him on this list
:-o
Oh hell yes. He emailed me angrily when I wrote a piece saying the new GNOME Exec Dir was a shaman. He was angry I didn’t make more fun of it. I said it’s no weirder than the dead-Jew-on-a-stick religion, and he flamed me and started calling me names in the blog.
He’s always been a loudmouth but I think he’s worked out that being an alt.right loudmouth wins him fans/viewers/subscribers and thus $… so he has gone all in.
