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> [1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/ Wow that's clearly someone with

> [1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/ Wow that's clearly someone with serious mental issues :( I hope he could find some help for his condition.

nine_k 4y ago
Maybe it's a good thing that the guy affected hasn't been awarded the defense contract as a result.
- voytec 4y ago
  People suffering from psychosis can create "facts" supporting their ideas and believe in them. Usually it's the stuff like "someone follows me", "someone wants to hurt me". Psychosis is the entry point to schizophrenia which is more or less, an illness in which brain makes stuff up and the ill person cannot differentiate facts from hallucinations. Possibly there was no defense contract at all.
  - IncRnd 4y ago
    That sounds very much how chatgpt acts.
    - yreg 4y ago
      Is it? GPT just halucinates the next words in a given text.
      - IncRnd 4y ago
        Of course it is. What in the parent's post is different from that? The parent post's first sentence is, "People suffering from psychosis can create 'facts' supporting their ideas and believe in them."
        yreg 4y ago
        I don't think GPT believes something.
  - wpietri 4y ago
    It's not just people suffering from psychosis who do that. "29% believe aliens exist and 21% believe a UFO crashed at Roswell in 1947. [...] 5% of respondents believe that Paul McCartney died and was secretly replaced in the Beatles in 1966, and just 4% believe shape-shifting reptilian people control our world by taking on human form and gaining power. 7% of voters think the moon landing was fake." -- https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PPP_Release_National_ConspiracyTheories_040213.pdf https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/... "Belief in both ghosts and U.F.O's has increased slightly since October 2007, by two and five percentage points, respectively. Men are more likely than women to believe in U.F.Os (43% men, 35% women), while women are more likely to believe in ghosts (41% women, 32% men) and spells or witchcraft (26% women, 15% men)." -- https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/belief-in-ghosts-2021 https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/belief-in-ghosts-2021 "A new Associated Press-GfK poll shows that 77 percent of adults believe [angels] are real. [...] belief in angels is fairly widespread even among the less religious. A majority of non-Christians think angels exist, as do more than 4 in 10 of those who never attend religious services." -- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-nearly-8-in-10-americans-believe-in-angels/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-nearly-8-in-10-americans-b...
    - bombolo 4y ago
      If we go that way, a lot more believe god exists!
    - cma 4y ago
      "Belief" or stated belief to an anon survey?
    - ridgered4 4y ago
      The other day some one mentioned any of these surveys consistently have about a 5% troll rate. The 77% belief in angels is bizarre though. Like I believe in the possibility of aliens, the universe is quite large. Although I think all spacecraft sightings are almost certainly just mundane stuff from spy planes to weather balloons, etc. I even believe in the possibility of ghosts being real, more likely some strange phenomenon we can't explain that we might misidentify as ghosts. But angels? One man's angel is another man's ghost or alien though I guess.
vxNsr 4y ago
Yea schizophrenia is no joke. Even the follow up apology makes it clear he hasn’t recovered.
boredumb 4y ago
In the pdf there's mention to terry davis so I'm tempted to think this is actually a bit of a troll.
- striking 4y ago
  That PDF links to https://web.archive.org/web/20210223111850/https://www.nervebus.us/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210223111850/https://www.nerve.... Would be quite the troll to go to the effort of buying a domain just to mess with an open source author.
  - boredumb 4y ago
    You're probably right - I assumed the name terry davis being embedded in an email following a schizophrenic rant about software was a ruse.
    - monetus 4y ago
      I think it was genuine admiration, at least that is how I took it.
GuB-42 4y ago
If you have your name all over the place, I guess that it bound to happen eventually. Curl is used by millions of people which makes Daniel Stenberg kind of a celebrity. With so many users, there have to be some crazies like the "I will slaughter you" guy. It must be a common occurrence among famous software people, I wonder how they deal with that. Do they actively hide their real identity, for example by using a proxy for licensing, do they just ignore such madness, is it a burden or on the opposite, they enjoy their fame?
archon810 4y ago
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/08/09/nocais-apology/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/08/09/nocais-apology/ allegedly schizophrenia.
milsorgen 4y ago
The Terry A. Davis reference was bemusing.

nine_k 4y ago

Maybe it's a good thing that the guy affected hasn't been awarded the defense contract as a result.

voytec 4y ago
People suffering from psychosis can create "facts" supporting their ideas and believe in them. Usually it's the stuff like "someone follows me", "someone wants to hurt me". Psychosis is the entry point to schizophrenia which is more or less, an illness in which brain makes stuff up and the ill person cannot differentiate facts from hallucinations. Possibly there was no defense contract at all.
- IncRnd 4y ago
  That sounds very much how chatgpt acts.
  - yreg 4y ago
    Is it? GPT just halucinates the next words in a given text.
    - IncRnd 4y ago
      Of course it is. What in the parent's post is different from that? The parent post's first sentence is, "People suffering from psychosis can create 'facts' supporting their ideas and believe in them."
      - yreg 4y ago
        I don't think GPT believes something.
- wpietri 4y ago
  It's not just people suffering from psychosis who do that. "29% believe aliens exist and 21% believe a UFO crashed at Roswell in 1947. [...] 5% of respondents believe that Paul McCartney died and was secretly replaced in the Beatles in 1966, and just 4% believe shape-shifting reptilian people control our world by taking on human form and gaining power. 7% of voters think the moon landing was fake." -- https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PPP_Release_National_ConspiracyTheories_040213.pdf https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/... "Belief in both ghosts and U.F.O's has increased slightly since October 2007, by two and five percentage points, respectively. Men are more likely than women to believe in U.F.Os (43% men, 35% women), while women are more likely to believe in ghosts (41% women, 32% men) and spells or witchcraft (26% women, 15% men)." -- https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/belief-in-ghosts-2021 https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/belief-in-ghosts-2021 "A new Associated Press-GfK poll shows that 77 percent of adults believe [angels] are real. [...] belief in angels is fairly widespread even among the less religious. A majority of non-Christians think angels exist, as do more than 4 in 10 of those who never attend religious services." -- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-nearly-8-in-10-americans-believe-in-angels/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-nearly-8-in-10-americans-b...
  - bombolo 4y ago
    If we go that way, a lot more believe god exists!
  - cma 4y ago
    "Belief" or stated belief to an anon survey?
  - ridgered4 4y ago
    The other day some one mentioned any of these surveys consistently have about a 5% troll rate. The 77% belief in angels is bizarre though. Like I believe in the possibility of aliens, the universe is quite large. Although I think all spacecraft sightings are almost certainly just mundane stuff from spy planes to weather balloons, etc. I even believe in the possibility of ghosts being real, more likely some strange phenomenon we can't explain that we might misidentify as ghosts. But angels? One man's angel is another man's ghost or alien though I guess.

vxNsr 4y ago

Yea schizophrenia is no joke. Even the follow up apology makes it clear he hasn’t recovered.

boredumb 4y ago

In the pdf there's mention to terry davis so I'm tempted to think this is actually a bit of a troll.

striking 4y ago
That PDF links to https://web.archive.org/web/20210223111850/https://www.nervebus.us/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210223111850/https://www.nerve.... Would be quite the troll to go to the effort of buying a domain just to mess with an open source author.
- boredumb 4y ago
  You're probably right - I assumed the name terry davis being embedded in an email following a schizophrenic rant about software was a ruse.
  - monetus 4y ago
    I think it was genuine admiration, at least that is how I took it.

GuB-42 4y ago

If you have your name all over the place, I guess that it bound to happen eventually. Curl is used by millions of people which makes Daniel Stenberg kind of a celebrity. With so many users, there have to be some crazies like the "I will slaughter you" guy. It must be a common occurrence among famous software people, I wonder how they deal with that. Do they actively hide their real identity, for example by using a proxy for licensing, do they just ignore such madness, is it a burden or on the opposite, they enjoy their fame?

archon810 4y ago

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/08/09/nocais-apology/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/08/09/nocais-apology/ allegedly schizophrenia.

milsorgen 4y ago

The Terry A. Davis reference was bemusing.