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Anduril was supposed to be a sponsor for a Nix conference; it was then dropped after community reacted negatively to having a weapons manufacturer being a spons

by klausa 3y ago

Anduril was supposed to be a sponsor for a Nix conference; it was then dropped after community reacted negatively to having a weapons manufacturer being a sponsor. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37418351 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37418351

neonsunset 3y ago
"Outraged community" were about 30 people with few to no project contributions but a lot of political slogans and of likely questionable state of mind.
- colinsane 3y ago
  https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits?author=neon-sunset https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits?author=neon-sunset
  - neonsunset 3y ago
    It doesn't take being a chef to know when something is shit :) (on the off chance that some HN audience members have reading comprehension issues - this is aimed at politically driven non-contributing participants behind the anti-anduril outrage, Nix and its creator are absolutely fine)
    - pxc 3y ago
      Signatories to the letter against Anduril sponsorship of NixCon include contributors with thousands of Nixpkgs PRs each, like Infinisil, wegank, and Ma27, plus many other recognizable names with PR counts in the hundreds. Some of those people are also committers who have helped many, many contributors get their code in. If you can't tell that from a glance at the signatories list, you shouldn't be commenting on 'non-contributing participants'.
- ranger_danger 3y ago
  yet when I posted a verbatim profile page screenshot of the author while saying absolutely nothing about them myself, it was downvoted as "arrant bigotry" lol.
srid 3y ago
The submission you linked to is 7 months old, but the NixOS drama is ongoing: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-event-sponsorship-policy/43110 https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-event-sponsor... https://discourse.nixos.org/t/major-nixpkgs-contributor-leaving/44053 https://discourse.nixos.org/t/major-nixpkgs-contributor-leav... https://twitter.com/sridca/status/1767602500461375721 https://twitter.com/sridca/status/1767602500461375721

by klausa 3y ago

neonsunset 3y ago

"Outraged community" were about 30 people with few to no project contributions but a lot of political slogans and of likely questionable state of mind.

colinsane 3y ago
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits?author=neon-sunset https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits?author=neon-sunset
- neonsunset 3y ago
  It doesn't take being a chef to know when something is shit :) (on the off chance that some HN audience members have reading comprehension issues - this is aimed at politically driven non-contributing participants behind the anti-anduril outrage, Nix and its creator are absolutely fine)
  - pxc 3y ago
    Signatories to the letter against Anduril sponsorship of NixCon include contributors with thousands of Nixpkgs PRs each, like Infinisil, wegank, and Ma27, plus many other recognizable names with PR counts in the hundreds. Some of those people are also committers who have helped many, many contributors get their code in. If you can't tell that from a glance at the signatories list, you shouldn't be commenting on 'non-contributing participants'.
ranger_danger 3y ago
yet when I posted a verbatim profile page screenshot of the author while saying absolutely nothing about them myself, it was downvoted as "arrant bigotry" lol.

srid 3y ago

The submission you linked to is 7 months old, but the NixOS drama is ongoing: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-event-sponsorship-policy/43110 https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-event-sponsor... https://discourse.nixos.org/t/major-nixpkgs-contributor-leaving/44053 https://discourse.nixos.org/t/major-nixpkgs-contributor-leav... https://twitter.com/sridca/status/1767602500461375721 https://twitter.com/sridca/status/1767602500461375721