Notices by Ian Jackson (diziet@mastodon.me.uk)

#Debian 's git transition

blog post, by me: https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/20436.html

tl;dr:

There is a Debian git transition plan. It’s going OK so far but we need help, especially with outreach and updating Debian’s documentation.

Faction 2 are the people telling us to keep politics out of free software (jeez!) while they team up with misogynists, racists, traansphobes, and the military.

They're against Codes of Conduct. In some projects they turn every attempt to enforce decent standards of behaviour into a massive drama.

Some have conducted egregious campaigns of harassment against people trying to work on (eg) systemd. (I haven't seen much of this myself, but I believe it. It fits the patterns.)

6/10

Both of these things can be true at the same time:

1. Some of the people who prefer newer software are rewriting the world without understanding it, and pursuing toxic power games to get their half-broken stuff deployed and kill off the competition.

2. Some of the people who prefer older software are spreading alt-right toxicity, getting into bed with misogynists, fascists, etc.

This is all very frustrating. Long thread about these two toxic factions:

1/10

On the other hand, we have faction 2, which includes those who still revere GNU and Richard Stallman.

Recall that RMS is an abusive sex pest. It's well established that he was an intolesrable creep who wouldn't respect boundaries, and horribly mistreated employees at the FSF.

Worse, faction 2 has aligned with the alt-right and as such is conducting a culture war against everything compassionate, inclusive, or valuable, in human relations.

5/10