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[-] paperd@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 months ago

Nope, certainly a real and hateful person. He used to be cohost of the Linux Action Show, marketing manager at SuSe for a bit, and was popular for a series of talks called "Linux Sucks." Somewhere in or around the beginning of the pandemic he went down the right wing rabbit hole. He is totally useless now, he's a transphobic as fuck, and generally just has a hateful message about most things.

He religiously monitors his name, wouldn't be surprised if he see this. If he is reading this: man, you just make me sad now. Please get help.

[-] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Are you saying he might actually be here? Shit, I wish I was wearing my good tie. You know, the one with fish?

Rat killers are people too.. with real feelings, Bryan :(

[-] paperd@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

he's def. found other fedi things that had his name in it.

[-] emr@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 months ago

I lost all respect for his technical taste when he confessed that his daily driver is FreeDOS. I know linux folks skew at least a little contrarian but at that point I don't think we're speaking the same language of computing and there's not much I can learn from ya. Not super surprised to hear he went way overboard contrarian in other ways I guess.

[-] paperd@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

"Technical taste" is the wrong angle here, and I see this a lot in FOSS. No amount of "good" or "great" technicality makes up for the fact that his personal views are abhorrent.

The first question we should ask is "are they a decent person" and the answer here is a hard no, so technical taste doesn't even matter.

[-] emr@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

I guess what I'm trying to say is that his contrarian personal views and his contrarian technical views are both expressions of some underlying contrarian-ness. Not that we shouldn't be asking if he's a decent person, just that I'm not super surprised to find out he's gone mask off weirdo.

[-] paperd@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

"Contrarian" is too nice a label.

[-] lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Wait, daily driving FREEDOS!? I could see that happening in like 2007, but even after 2011???

Don't get me wrong, I have used FreeDOS on occasion to play old sierra games on a modern computer bare metal edition, but holy shit, I can't imagine DAILY DRIVING IT!!

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