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I met Mr. Aros himself at scale in LA a couple years ago. Every now and then I meet people who do pretty remarkable things that are so humble that it genuinely

I met Mr. Aros himself at scale in LA a couple years ago. Every now and then I meet people who do pretty remarkable things that are so humble that it genuinely surprises me. Aros, VLC and Inkscape devs are the people that come to mind on this one. The debian people are also remarkably sane and modest for the levels of responsibility and complexities they have to deal with Edit: gosh, it was 10 years ago already (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/exhibitors/aros.html https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/exhibitors/aros.html). I think I still have the disc he gave me

tubbyjr 6y ago
Have you had the pleasure of meeting Terry A. Davis?
- scruffyherder 6y ago
  Yeah. It wasn’t pleasant.
- kristopolous 6y ago
  Yes, I wrote an article about it over 10 years ago. It made the front page of a number of social media sites like reddit. Then, nearly simultaneously they were all removed. I didn't even post the article. It spilled there from I think a Google plus post. My candor was apparently off. I'm certainly not a psychologist. I meant no harm but clearly I did something wrong. There's probably tripwires to his condition I simply don't know. I might have crossed them. I never got an explanation but it's fine. Lesson learned: people with any kind of disease/disability should be added to things to stay away from writing about without the proper co-authors. Sorry about that, internet. I voluntarily pulled it shortly after. I'm not going to hurt someone for imaginary internet points. The interesting thing though was the implied coordination between the platforms. It may have been a coincidence, may have been real, I wouldn't be surprised if somebody with administrative power from all the major ones are on some chat server together. There's certainly a spillover effects between them. Honestly I haven't tried that kind of journalism in a while. Apparently I'm pretty good at, well at least the "making stuff popular" part.

tubbyjr 6y ago

Have you had the pleasure of meeting Terry A. Davis?

scruffyherder 6y ago
Yeah. It wasn’t pleasant.
kristopolous 6y ago
Yes, I wrote an article about it over 10 years ago. It made the front page of a number of social media sites like reddit. Then, nearly simultaneously they were all removed. I didn't even post the article. It spilled there from I think a Google plus post. My candor was apparently off. I'm certainly not a psychologist. I meant no harm but clearly I did something wrong. There's probably tripwires to his condition I simply don't know. I might have crossed them. I never got an explanation but it's fine. Lesson learned: people with any kind of disease/disability should be added to things to stay away from writing about without the proper co-authors. Sorry about that, internet. I voluntarily pulled it shortly after. I'm not going to hurt someone for imaginary internet points. The interesting thing though was the implied coordination between the platforms. It may have been a coincidence, may have been real, I wouldn't be surprised if somebody with administrative power from all the major ones are on some chat server together. There's certainly a spillover effects between them. Honestly I haven't tried that kind of journalism in a while. Apparently I'm pretty good at, well at least the "making stuff popular" part.