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1. linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 19:37:09 JST linear cannon

   it would be nice if it were actually as easy to contribute to free/open source software as the developers and maintainers of such software claim it is
   
   but meritocracy is a lie, and bullshit policies and procedures (see: "real name" policy) scare away minorities who might otherwise do important work

   • COOL_FREE_RINGTONES (s8n@posting.lolicon.rocks)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 19:37:05 JST COOL_FREE_RINGTONES

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     • iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta:
     @icedquinn @linear they think you won't say you hope palestinians rape and murder every single jew when the ADL can track you down and tell the kike who runs your payroll system to fire your ass
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   • Ethical Pedophile (blinkrape@posting.lolicon.rocks)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 19:37:05 JST Ethical Pedophile

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     • COOL_FREE_RINGTONES
     • iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta:
     @s8n @icedquinn @linear Here is what you do OP, instead of deleting your hard work like a bitch, you fork the project, apply your patch, then make sure everyone in the original branch knows you did the work and it is sitting there staring them in the face like a bunch of stupid niggers.
     
     If they really want it bad enough, they'll come to you offering to make an exception. Or at least ask you to pick something that sounds like a real name. Do you really need to sign your work "linear cannon" if "James Ortega" or some random shit will satisfy them?
     
     Otherwise just keep it around as a "fuck you" card and any time it looks like they are trying to jack your work, start a social media shitstorm or threaten to sue them, or whatever.
     
     Giving up and going away is exactly what they want you to do.
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   • iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta: (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 19:37:07 JST iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta:

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     @linear there seems to be some consistent opinion that doxing yourself will lead to better behavior (somehow.) i'm not aware that it actually works. i've ignored attempting to contribute to Zrhythm for having the same policy.
   • linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 19:37:08 JST linear cannon

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     i have outright deleted a major patchset i wrote for a project under freedesktop.org stewardship, which someone else is probably going to write again in a year or two, because i realized the project had a real-name policy, and decided it wasn't worth it. i then lost motivation for the cool thing i was working on that needed me to write that patch
     
     this is not the intended effect of a "real-name" policy, but it is the actual effect. and, as the cool kids say, "the system is what it does".
     
     there is no such thing as a "real name". the concept of a "legal name" is fraught, and most certainly is not what you think it is, or what you are looking for, if you are a software developer. many assumptions you have about what a "legal name" is probably are not true.
     
     consider this: the name on my birth certificate is different than the name on my drivers license, and that is different from the names i am called by my friends. those names are all different from what is likely to be on my passport when i get it, and all of those are different than the name i publish my open source projects under. all of these, in different jurisdictions, might or might not be something you could consider a "legal name". which one do you want me to use when i submit a major feature to your library? are you going to turn me away if i try to submit it as "linear cannon"? why? if i have a website and contact information under that name, why does this matter? how is it substantially different than an author of fiction novels publishing under a pen name? does it change if i produce a piece of government-issued documentation with that name on it? why, or why not?
     
     if your real name policy does not answer these questions adequately, then there's a very good chance i'm just going to assume that you're going to turn me away, as has happened to me several times already

   •  (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 19:38:31 JST 

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     • COOL_FREE_RINGTONES
     • Ethical Pedophile
     • iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta:
     @BlinkRape @icedquinn @linear @s8n He doesn't want to contribute, he wants to be mad.
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   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 22:46:34 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     • samueldr
     @samueldr @linear Bob Bobsonson
   • samueldr (samueldr@ap.samueldr.com)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 22:46:41 JST samueldr

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     @linear it's even worse when considering it's not even required (AFAIK) for holding copyright...
     
     ... and also sometimes people are most well-known as their aliases. We should normalize people having "internet names" (for a lack of a more generic framing), not unlike stage names for actors.
     
     There's a developer with the name Bob Bobson? Sorry, you have to pick a new name to work publicly as.
   • pomstan (pomstan@xn--p1abe3d.xn--80asehdb)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 03:46:04 JST pomstan

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     • COOL_FREE_RINGTONES
     • Ethical Pedophile
     • iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta:

     @BlinkRape @icedquinn @linear @s8n yeah i was under impression that kernel contributions must be signed using your legal name but @marcan proved otherwise

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