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.
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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.
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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.
Damn I did not know about Geerling, kinda a bummer, but in the way that I'm not surprised
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It sucks when you see someone that you thought was doing good work turn out to be a weirdo
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
Hey, I know that art from somewhere...
Technically I'm on the list now!
Thank you for providing list-based content.
This may come as a shock, but I didn't write it.
No, but your content did make it to the top of the list of weird little guys, and I don't want to thank the other weird little guys for the contribution they made to the overall content. They're bad weird little guys.
That's true! Thank you.
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.
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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.
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.
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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
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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).
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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.
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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