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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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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[–] dreugeworst@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.systems 2 points 2 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.