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in the news: https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/07/tenacity_maintainer_quits_4chan_harassment/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/07/tenacity_maintainer_q...

sneak 5y ago
> "I really thought long about this, and I haven't slept in two days due to ongoing harassments of 4chan," cookiengineer claimed in a post to the Tenacity GitHub Issues page some 13 hours ago. "As the first people were literally arriving at my place of living, where they knocked on my doors and windows to scare us, I am hereby officially stepping down as a maintainer of this project. > "The safety of my family is worth more than an open source project. They found out my address via a YouTube video where someone was posting my nickname combined with my real legal name (which meanwhile got taken down due to my asking). The incident happened shortly 23:00 CEST [21:00 UTC], today; and the police took over this case." And people call me "paranoid" when I go to inconvenient-but-practicible lengths to keep my dox off the internet.
- dylan604 5y ago
  Holy jeebus fuck!! People need to find another hobby. I am not discounting the effects of the harrasment. Shit online is one thing, but once they start coming to people's place of living is an entirely different thing altogether. That's beyond ridiculous, and I really hope the police take this seriously. I'm going through similiar/different home harrasment issues, and I can definitely sympathize. Doing this shit because someone with a software package does something you don't agree with? Really sounds like mental problems to me, as that's the only thing I can think of. Rational people don't do that.
  - sneak 5y ago
    Sure, but irrational people with mental problems exist in the world which we inhabit, and we have to plan for their existence and behavior.
  - shrimp_emoji 5y ago
    Believing that fork feuds aren't worth blood is so quaint. We in Cyberpunk shit nao
    - dylan604 5y ago
      Justifying the act of physical violence is not a joking matter. You may think you are cute and funny, but this is not cute nor funny.
- blooalien 5y ago
  > And people call me "paranoid" when I go to inconvenient-but-practicible lengths to keep my dox off the internet. I've long since lost count of how many times I've been ridiculed as "paranoid" by the clueless over various absolutely basic and obvious security practices. If choosing to be wise and safe is "paranoid", then count me in. I'd rather be "paranoid" in the eyes of people who actively fight tooth and nail to stay ignorant about online/network security than fall victim to one of the many consequences of not choosing safety over convenience and ignorance.

sneak 5y ago

> "I really thought long about this, and I haven't slept in two days due to ongoing harassments of 4chan," cookiengineer claimed in a post to the Tenacity GitHub Issues page some 13 hours ago. "As the first people were literally arriving at my place of living, where they knocked on my doors and windows to scare us, I am hereby officially stepping down as a maintainer of this project. > "The safety of my family is worth more than an open source project. They found out my address via a YouTube video where someone was posting my nickname combined with my real legal name (which meanwhile got taken down due to my asking). The incident happened shortly 23:00 CEST [21:00 UTC], today; and the police took over this case." And people call me "paranoid" when I go to inconvenient-but-practicible lengths to keep my dox off the internet.

dylan604 5y ago
Holy jeebus fuck!! People need to find another hobby. I am not discounting the effects of the harrasment. Shit online is one thing, but once they start coming to people's place of living is an entirely different thing altogether. That's beyond ridiculous, and I really hope the police take this seriously. I'm going through similiar/different home harrasment issues, and I can definitely sympathize. Doing this shit because someone with a software package does something you don't agree with? Really sounds like mental problems to me, as that's the only thing I can think of. Rational people don't do that.
- sneak 5y ago
  Sure, but irrational people with mental problems exist in the world which we inhabit, and we have to plan for their existence and behavior.
- shrimp_emoji 5y ago
  Believing that fork feuds aren't worth blood is so quaint. We in Cyberpunk shit nao
  - dylan604 5y ago
    Justifying the act of physical violence is not a joking matter. You may think you are cute and funny, but this is not cute nor funny.
blooalien 5y ago
> And people call me "paranoid" when I go to inconvenient-but-practicible lengths to keep my dox off the internet. I've long since lost count of how many times I've been ridiculed as "paranoid" by the clueless over various absolutely basic and obvious security practices. If choosing to be wise and safe is "paranoid", then count me in. I'd rather be "paranoid" in the eyes of people who actively fight tooth and nail to stay ignorant about online/network security than fall victim to one of the many consequences of not choosing safety over convenience and ignorance.