Yea I know he doesn't work on them currently, but wouldn't his ego still be at issue since he did start both of them?
If he wasn't acting out of malice with his previous rants about Hyprland/Stallman/other crap, does he genuinely believe in his stance? Is he a True Believer™?
And how does that square with the recent revelation of his loliphile/pedo advocacy on his Reddit account? Does he see himself as totally different than RMS's stances? He obviously must see the problem or else he wouldn't rapidly trying to delete everything from these old accounts.
What do you think his motives are? Are they purely his, or are there outside influences? A little of both?
Yes. The DNS A records for the stallman report website were the same as his blog at one point. Not sure if it's in the report, but someone also queried his blog's IP address with the stallman report host and was given back a LetsEncrypt certificate for Stallman Report draft site:
So I think it's clear he's behind it. Even if he didn't write all of it, he certainly helped and hosted it, and in the HackerNews thread he pretended it was someone else's report he wasn't involved with.
🤔 yea I have wondered about this. It is true that, at the very least, he's hosting and involved with the hit piece (and he's written his own on his public blog).
But it's interesting he's not banned on Hackernews (I am, both my personal account and my site, battlepenguin.com, were banned in early 2021). I do think there's more to this; as in someone(s) using him as a useful moron to try and dislodge the FSF leadership.
The open source world is getting super weird right now. Torvalds just capitulated to government sanctions against long term Russian contributors and called everyone who criticized him bots/trolls. Automattic should have had an easy case against a Silver Lake backed company that was clearly violating their trademark, but instead he's shown how little he knows of the law and looks like a massively insane, deranged asshole.
Then again, it could just be DeVault is supporting this because of his own ego. Hyprland is vastly superior to Sway, so rather than try an make Sway better, he defames all the Hyprland devs.
It use to be that open source devs helped each other make good projects, even if a new project competed with their own. It seems like when there's no money to compete over, and everyone's been maladjusted by social media, the next step is just to attack everyone whose better than you with unhinged bullshit. :blobcatshrug:
It looks like @drewdevault, the coward who secretly authored (and tried to deny authorship) of the Stallman Report is now trying to nuke every part of his past.
The DeVault Report contains tons of archived links showing Drew is super into lolis, like crazy into lolis. He's written bots/scrapers and image hosts just for his loli addiction.
He accused Stallman of defending potatophiles, and yet DeVault's own reddit history shows him constantly defending nonces.
Hotline Miami II is on my top 5 list of games. First one is amazing too. Just a lot of crazy murder, mixed with a story about if the story even really matters. Perfect game.
I've seen people say "Well that was a decade ago" .... he's literally 10x worse now. He's grown zero, or in the negative direction.
The whole RMS thing makes me wonder if he's be commandeered by some corpo to destroy the GPL in a psyop, but I think the simpler explanation is he's just that fucking scored earth retarded.
@drewdevault is such a pussy he didn't even put his name on his hit piece. His credibility in all tech communities is so low it's gotta be approaching absolute zero by now.
How the fuck is this bastard still allowed on Hackernews and I'm banned?!
This isn't a great take. I think 2/3rds of society have to believe in it's oddity (divine right of the king, the church, the newspaper from the printing press, the radio, the news...) ...and conformity creates stability. It doesn't matter if what people believe is correct, only that 2/3 of them believe.
Allowing people who don't believe to express themselves freely is essential to making society stable longer, and ensuring more individual liberties.
But when half or 2/3 of people stop conforming ... whether they're "right" or "wrong," it does not matter. That State; that society ... it doesn't collapse. It evaporates. And what arises is rarely ever more free than the previous. It can't be.
People aren't "stupid" for believing. That might be the limit of their capacity, or they might just be pragmatic.
Would you rather be a slave to a 9-to-5 with a TV and gaming system and clean water and bug-free food or would you rather be free be in a bear sanctuary a week after they awake from hibernation?
We've really degraded the word "slave" ...slave's can't get addicted to meth, quit their jobs and lay out on the street.
They'll either push for digital+biometic ID or some obscene Xitter digital identification. Part of it will be to appease/fit-into the scheme many states are employing for adult website verification.
There is no need for any new system. Just verify the fucking plastic drivers licenses we already have. All you have to do is enforce the existing system.
But all the Trumptards will jump onto this shiny new system that rips away all privacy because "illegals" and "voting"
A friend of mine who lives in Georgia said she's seen a lot more out there (for both Trump and Harris), and that it's significantly different from the Tennessee side ... weird
Have you seen any election signs in your area? I'm in Southern Tennessee and there is nothing. I think I've seen one Harris yard sign and maybe two bumper stickers. Other than that: Nothing. No Trump. No Harris. The past month I've had to drive to multiple neighborhoods all around town and even into Georgia and I haven't seen a damn thing that's noticeable.
The local community centers only have local election signs .. and like maybe 5~10 when normally, at this time of year, there'd be like 30+ signs.
Maybe everyone realizes elections are fake and gay and no one cares anymore ... or is it just my city that's like that?