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.

  • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
    19·
    5 days ago

    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 but he does and says some truly inexcusable shit.

  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
    162·
    6 days ago

    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

  • dreugeworst@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    5 days ago

    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?

    • lproven@awful.systemsEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      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.

  • 7toed@midwest.socialEnglish
    16·
    7 days ago

    Damn I did not know about Geerling, kinda a bummer, but in the way that I’m not surprised

  • viking@beehaw.orgEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • abra_k@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    5 days ago

    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)

  • Jayjader@jlai.luEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    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?

  • degen@midwest.socialEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    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

    • lproven@awful.systemsEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      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.

  • ATPA9@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    5 days ago

    Damn, I didn’t know ThePrimeagen was also a weard little freak. I didn’t watch his videos often tho.

    • deadcream@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      71·
      6 days ago

      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.

    • self@awful.systemsEnglish
      51·
      6 days ago

      yeah you know we don’t actually need you to fashjacket devault here, thanks

  • flere-imsaho@awful.systemsEnglish
    72·
    6 days ago

    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).

    • lproven@awful.systemsEnglish
      11·
      4 days ago

      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.

    • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
      16·
      6 days ago

      after 33 years online I can confidently say that “censorship resistance” is overwhelmingly a right-wing shibboleth

    • samvines@awful.systemsEnglish
      14·
      6 days ago

      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.

    • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      6 days ago

      Calling someone a fascist is hardly defamation in US law, especially since basically everyone on the list are working towards a society where it’s absolutely fine to call them fascists, because they’re fascists and want to make fascism great again.

      OK maybe not RMS

      • flere-imsaho@awful.systemsEnglish
        6·
        6 days ago

        i mean, there must come a reckoning, and believe me that every single dude on that list will try to memoryhole their activities

            • flere-imsaho@awful.systemsEnglish
              7·
              6 days ago

              it sure wasn’t, considering that rms’ highly problematic antics are well known for literal decades, and ddv only amplified them.

              if not for the fact the bylaws of fsf basically give stallman control over the foundation no matter who’s voted into the board, he’d be ousted many times.

              • istewart@awful.systemsEnglish
                3·
                6 days ago

                Never realized Stallman did a Zuckerberg before Zuckerberg did, that’s worth knowing and definitely not a point in his favor