• OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    28·
    2 months ago

    This is exactly the same “problem” as when open-source projects started enforcing codes of conduct: Any organization is an inherently political entity and is entitled to make political decisions about who can or can’t be a member of that organization.

    I’ve seen lots of $word-$number named-accounts claiming that this “puts in jeopardy the future of open source”. Fuck off. There’s no evidence that these people are banned from submitting patches to the kernel, just that they’ve been removed from a particular role of authority within an organization.

    And to the people saying “But why U trust NSA to submit patches?!”… motherfucker if you’re only worrying about that now, you’re many years too late. I’ve been told by an angel in a dream that TempleOS is still free from CIA interference.

    • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systemsEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      I’ve been told by an angel in a dream that TempleOS is still free from CIA interference.

      Yeah, but the only game it runs is Prayer Warriors, and at this point I’ve stood against the devil long enough that all the spark is gone from it.

  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
    25·
    2 months ago

    I’m slowly feasting on this awful shit but I gotta jump in and say it, these posts are the most Russian thing I’ve ever seen:

    Just to be clear, I’m not saying good words to any regime. I mean both the US sanction and the Russian invasion suck. I don’t want another country bossing over what you can do, and I don’t want another country pointing guns on your head either.

    Russia is bad, but that doesn’t mean I’m in support of bans like this without a reason. Just because you “have the reason to commit crimes” is not strong enough a reason to exclude you! How child’s bully it is!

    a bunch of these posts are literally the exact documented template that the Internet Research Agency used. so many of them degrade into weird broken English as the poster tries and fails to modify the script for the situation.

    this is fucking amazing, seriously. if you want to sharpen your instincts for what foreign state trolling looks like, these are the posts that’ll do it.

    • self@awful.systemsEnglish
      16·
      2 months ago

      So we’ve got into politics in software. Good lord (spaghetti one, of course)! I thought we already have problem with quality diving in IT, because of all those newcomers wanting money and laziness only.

      Sad to see we learned nothing from hundreds of years of wars and occupations. Glad someone mentioned Poland and India. Millions killed by USA joining every war to just sell weapons to both sides of conflict - will be funny too when many people stop dreaming and see this is the truth.

      Edit: of course I’m waiting for all this flagging and downvotes, because I’ve spoken badly about The Greatest Nation Ever.

      hello my fellow ordinary software developers. lazy newcomers wanting money and laziness, am I right? the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

      anyway, here are my astonishingly thin takes on imperialism and why it’s definitely never something Russia does

      • corbin@awful.systemsEnglish
        15·
        2 months ago

        Meanwhile, actual Pastafarians (hi!) know that the Russian Federation openly persecutes the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster for failing to help the government in its authoritarian activities, and also that we’re called to be anti-authoritarian. The Fifth Rather:

        I’d really rather you didn’t challenge the bigoted, misogynist, hateful ideas of others on an empty stomach. Eat, then go after the bastards.

        May you never run out of breadsticks, travelers.

      • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
        12·
        2 months ago

        Wow, it took until 2024 but politics have finally arrived into software. Having politics is not at all in the spirit of the GPL. Not giving these people a privileged access to the codebase is discrimination obviously. What do you have against apolitical entities like Baikal Electronics?

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

        it’s also hilarious just how much the sentence structure is a shining beacon indicating sockpuppeting

        wonder how many orange posters will eat this shit up uncritically because they’re too used to their shitty filters not shoving this shit out the door

      • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        Glad someone mentioned Poland and India. Millions killed by USA joining every war to just sell weapons to both sides of conflict

        Wait, is a Russian troll trying to paint USA in a bad light by mentioning… Poland? Famously a nation that suffered immensely from the USA and only benefited from its eastern Russian Friends and Liberators.

    • self@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      he has many responsibilities:

      • sometimes he disagrees with an article title that’s entirely accurate and people aren’t buying his assertion that it’s clickbait, so he adds a question mark to it to try to make the article look less credible
      • tone policing
      • ignoring blatant flagging abuse
      • adding sites and posters on YC’s shitlist to the autodead filter
      • his bonuses are almost definitely predicated on how many of Garry Tan’s many fash friends feel comfortable posting on the orange site
    • flere-imsaho@awful.systemsEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      …and that’s one of the dudes personally invited to the site by its main moderator (see, the public invite trees can be useful sometimes).