that was the loudest of the shitheads, yeah! god that was wild — he’s really just some fucker who decided I wasn’t smart enough to contribute to one of his projects who then decided to start reply guying to my posts about gnu being as toxic as nix with “you don’t know what you’re talking about, gnu would never be toxic”, and then shortly after started calling you a… German Nazi who must hate Polish people, because you disagreed with his shit takes about how Free Software means you must collaborate with fascists???

by and large that’s been my experience with the folks in charge at gnu; their opinions and decisions have been beyond parody in how bad and fucking inept they’ve been. as far as I can tell that rot’s institutionalized in how the gnu project operates, and the project’s successes happen in spite of the efforts of the folks in charge.

and this is the bullshit power structure that people go out of their way to Do Advocacy for (which itself is just reply guying; notably, FLOSS advocacy almost never helps the person who’s being advocated at actually do anything). I’d give so much for a software commons social structure that doesn’t empower mediocre little white men to be the biggest shitheads they can without repercussions.