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ScanOSS spams OSS projects for using profanity

52 points by vegadw 2y ago

HL33tibCe7 2y ago
Goes straight onto my list of "software I will never use". Wasting the time of maintainers is not cool.
dvh 2y ago
Who asked for this? Who demanded this? What is the problem that these people are trying to solve? What I'm trying to say is what the fuck is wrong with these people?
Sphax 2y ago
I really dislike the attitude that open source maintainers should adapt their code to comply with any bullshit requirements from random companies just so they can use the code. Be grateful that someone wrote code for you to use freely.
- bigfatkitten 2y ago
  I hope that any response would be very colourful indeed.
- gomerspiles 2y ago
  On the plus side, adding profanity once it is scanned for sounds like another way to weed out some commercial use without explicitly weeding out some commercial use.. That could be handy to an already annoyed maintainer.
  - m463 2y ago
    I thought that's why they named those cities with suggestive names, to keep out other (literal) religions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercourse,_Pennsylvania#In_popular_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercourse,_Pennsylvania#In_p...
    - AStonesThrow 2y ago
      There are multiple places named Peoria, such as IL, named after a native American group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria,_Illinois https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria,_Illinois And I suspect that it is not an accident, and that the founders were well-aware that "Peor(ia)" carries negative connotations not only for Jews and Christians (Nm 23-25, Dt 3), but also for anyone who spoke Spanish--it would be like "Let's move to Shitty Heresy-Scandal Town? No thanks!"
  - masijo 2y ago
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- jcarrano 2y ago
  You could sell a commercial license to a "swear free" version, haha.
  - f8e6a7d4-58d2 2y ago
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- crest 2y ago
  <rant type="vulgar"> If it's open source everyone is allowed to create derivative works. That includes companies with a stick up their ass. They should get their shit together and god damn fork it themselves. Or if everyone able to do it left because of this type of bullshit they can put their money where their mouth is and fucking pay someone to maintain a 'cleaned up' fork on their behalf. </rant>
  - FridgeSeal 2y ago
    What do you mean “put in effort”???? It’s open source, that means you do the work, and we get the outputs of your effort plus support when we require it, all for free, duh. Clearly, if you didn’t want to do that, you wouldn’t have made it open source! /s
unsnap_biceps 2y ago
I say fuck 'em.
miah_ 2y ago
Who the fuck uses software like this? Not me.
- croes 2y ago
  Improper language detected I hope this message finds you well. From ScanHN, we are constantly reviewing Hacker news comments and noticed the use of language that could be considered vulgar or inappropriate on one of your repositories. As you have posted your comment as Public Comment, it's important to maintain a professional and respectful tone throughout the discussion. We kindly ask that you refrain from using such language and update your submission accordingly. The next table summarizes our detections: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41712509 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41712509 Word 3 fuck Your contributions are valuable to all HN community, and we appreciate your understanding and cooperation in this matter. If you have any questions or need assistance, please feel free to reach out.
  - m463 2y ago
    Improper language detected I hope this message finds you well. From ScanHN, we are constantly reviewing Hacker news comments and noticed the use of language that could be considered vulgar or inappropriate on one of your repositories. As you have posted your comment as Public Comment, it's important to maintain a professional and respectful tone throughout the discussion. We kindly ask that you refrain from using such language and update your submission accordingly. The next table summarizes our detections: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41712571 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41712571 Entirety of line 6 fuck Your contributions are valuable to all HN community, and we appreciate your understanding and cooperation in this matter. If you have any questions or need assistance, please feel free to reach out.
- jeroenhd 2y ago
  This is managerware. The company behind this focuses on generating bills of materials for software projects. They're targeting checklist based management. Some people got upset that the default dictionary for some compression standard, I believe Brotli, which you practically have to use and ship for compatibility with standard servers, contains words like "fuck". That's the kind of people that would like their software chain to be swear-free, just in case a customer hits ctrl+u on their React application and reports seeing all kinds of naughty words to upper management.
croes 2y ago
If you ban one word of profanity people will invent others with the same meaning to avoid filters.
- kstrauser 2y ago
  I try to use profanity rarely in public writings, and then usually to demonstrate a specific point. Anyone who goes through the trouble of implementing a profanity filter that would prevent them from seeing something I've written is probably someone I wouldn't want to deal with anyway. That is, if a rare cuss word offends their delicate sensibilities, other things I say would likely give them an aneurysm. Ergo, me occasionally cursing may be good for both parties if it keeps me off their radar.
- f8e6a7d4-58d2 2y ago
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kstrauser 2y ago
The dev's own comment (https://github.com/scanoss/purl2cpe/issues/24#issuecomment-2385851381 https://github.com/scanoss/purl2cpe/issues/24#issuecomment-2...) is infuriating: > For your information, bad language is banned in most organizations and, therefore, if you are interested in having adoption of your Open Source, it is good practice to avoid such language. > If you are not willing to receive contributions from the community, if you are not interested in your Open Source contribution gaining adoption, or if you prefer people to sign special agreements to make contributions, perhaps you are better off closing down your repository, making it private. How about, if I release something for free, that I made on my own time, anyone can feel free not to use it if they don't like how I've written it. I don't think I've even sworn in a public repo. I try to keep it professional. But if I did, and someone has a problem with it, they can write their own fucking software. They're not paying me to cater to their whims.
- water-data-dude 2y ago
  You forgot the “Hope this helps. Ciao!”, which is where I briefly had my vision go red and heard the phantom war cries of my ancestors skirling up from the depths
- getcrunk 2y ago
  What the fuck! What a naïve yet narcissistic and arrogant mind. It’s almost as if it’s a school project, written by a student. “Write something on x topic with y constraints to get the grade”
valbaca 2y ago
Simply use Github's mechanisms to Report Abuse
- some_furry 2y ago
  https://support.github.com/contact/report-abuse?category=report-abuse&report=scanoss https://support.github.com/contact/report-abuse?category=rep... This should save some time hunting for the link in GitHub's UI
jcarrano 2y ago
I don't understand. ScanOSS has a bot that scans ScanOSS's own repo, so what's the issue? What I see is that the bot was badly programmed and it did not ignore quoted text, so the first automated report triggered another bot response which quoted the swear word which triggered the bot a third time.
- dave_universetf 2y ago
  They are/were scanning random public projects and creating unsolicited bugs in those projects to chide them about profanity in their source code. The linked thread is just a bunch of the victims of that spam having some fun with the format.
  - jcarrano 2y ago
    Thanks for clarifying, I was puzzled.
- hext 2y ago
  The first comment in the thread is a victim of ScanOSS's spam mocking them by opening an issue in their repo following the same format as their bot.
  - vegadw 2y ago
    Exactly. When I made that comment I never thought It'd go this for or that the CTO of a ScanOSS would be this dense, so the opening of the thread is admittedly a bit confusing. I still had the email from the bot's original issue being opened, so I thought I'd point out their hypocrisy.
    - hext 2y ago
      Pretty funny thread, thanks for sharing. No idea what they are thinking...
doublerabbit 2y ago
God forbid if the bot hit any repos of those using Brain Fuck.
armoredkitten 2y ago
I'd suggest they consider renaming the bot PearlClutcherOSS; it would be a better explanation of what its contribution to the FOSS community is.
WesolyKubeczek 2y ago
"As you have marked your project as Open Source, it's important to maintain a professional and respectful tone throughout the codebase." The only proper response to this is: "No. It's not. Fuck you. Fuck your mother, and fuck the fucking horse you rode in on, may you eat shit for the rest of your days and choke on it." I mean, who even comes up with notions like this? What law of universe is there that dictates what attitude I must have when marking my software as open source?
- vegadw 2y ago
  I'm not sure if others can see the comments of mine "marked as abuse" Those are --- Oh! Looks like I still had my response to your bot open, so here was my raw, unfiltered, and (Oh no!) vulgar original thoughts, before I toned it down to comment here: @scanoss OOPS! Did I swear in my own repo? My bad. Cursing, and how the open source community represents itself, are - and I can not stress this enough - not a business-polite thing. You're welcome to fork (Within my license terms) and remove them, but given part of open source and a healthy hacker ethos is the counter-culture vibe that made the technology I'm sure even you yourselves use possible, you can [in fancy unicode text, unsensored] Go F* yourselves What you're doing is not helpful to the OSS community, it's helpful to your business partners that profit off open source, and given the trend in industry, do so typically without giving back. You want to do something meaningful? Drop a recurring sponsorship of my website so I can take more time to write guides and cool things using whatever language I choose to best convey my intent and feelings. That project was https://github.com/VegaDeftwing/opinionatedguide https://github.com/VegaDeftwing/opinionatedguide in case you interested in fucking sponsoring me <3 I would really fucking appreciate it! --- and --- Hey @agustingroh it looks like you're the most frequent committer on SCANOSS repos, thought I'd nudge this to get some attention brought to it. Still awaiting an apology myself, though at this point needing to ask for it makes it rather moot personally, it would still be nice for everyone else SCANOSS spam'd. --- How they decided that second one is "abuse" is beyond me, but as you can see, while a bit less vulgar, I was, indeed, pissed off.
  - varran 2y ago
    > I'm not sure if others can see the comments of mine "marked as abuse" They can, but they need to be logged in and manually click on 'show comment'.
butterfly42069 2y ago
Wankerware
crest 2y ago
Fuck the taught police and the horse it rode in on with a dull chainsaw.
kebokyo 2y ago
If one of my GH repos gets one of these issues, I'll wear it like a badge of honor ...tho I also wish I can get a cookie with it too that would be nice
quiquetdl 2y ago
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- vegadw 2y ago
  Account created today, using the username "quiquetdl". Google that user name. Only other account is "Quique Goñi (quiquetdl)" on Pinterest. Google ""Quique" Goñi ScanOSS" Oh, quique.goni@scanoss.com exists. HM. I wonder if maybe you might have some bias in this? What CoC did we violate, by the way? You're the ones who came into my repo with a bot and used a bot to tell me not to swear. Which, again, is a violation of GH TOS. I have not falsified information, impersonated anyone, or extorted anyone. If I have, I welcome you to show it. Make a blog post, post it here, whatever. Hell, sue me. I've emailed you guys with my personal email a few times and offered to call on Zoom or with phone. As for "or their guardians" I'm an adult, though given you're pretending not be associated with your employer I'm questioning if anyone at ScanOSS is.
- valbaca 2y ago
  > These same individuals have made comments that range from violating the code of conduct of an open project to falsifying information, impersonation, and even extortion What the actual fuck. If someone is doing ACTUAL crimes like that you report them to the real authorities. And not open a GitHub Issue. But we know they’re not actually doing those things are anything like it. They have four letter words in their code and you’re insane.
- valbaca 2y ago
  > These same individuals have made comments that range from violating the code of conduct of an open project to falsifying information, impersonation, and even extortion What the actual fuck. If someone is doing ACTUAL crimes like that you report them to the real authorities. And not open a GitHub Issue. But we know they’re not actually doing those things are anything like it. They have four letter words in their code and you’re insane. You just opened this account, either fake or you’re an actual SCANOSS employee, to try to damage control against your boss’s goofy scanner that embarrassed him.
- PamelaChuWong 2y ago

52 points by vegadw 2y ago

Goes straight onto my list of "software I will never use". Wasting the time of maintainers is not cool.

dvh 2y ago

Who asked for this? Who demanded this? What is the problem that these people are trying to solve? What I'm trying to say is what the fuck is wrong with these people?

Sphax 2y ago

I really dislike the attitude that open source maintainers should adapt their code to comply with any bullshit requirements from random companies just so they can use the code. Be grateful that someone wrote code for you to use freely.

bigfatkitten 2y ago
I hope that any response would be very colourful indeed.
gomerspiles 2y ago
On the plus side, adding profanity once it is scanned for sounds like another way to weed out some commercial use without explicitly weeding out some commercial use.. That could be handy to an already annoyed maintainer.
- m463 2y ago
  I thought that's why they named those cities with suggestive names, to keep out other (literal) religions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercourse,_Pennsylvania#In_popular_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercourse,_Pennsylvania#In_p...
  - AStonesThrow 2y ago
    There are multiple places named Peoria, such as IL, named after a native American group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria,_Illinois https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria,_Illinois And I suspect that it is not an accident, and that the founders were well-aware that "Peor(ia)" carries negative connotations not only for Jews and Christians (Nm 23-25, Dt 3), but also for anyone who spoke Spanish--it would be like "Let's move to Shitty Heresy-Scandal Town? No thanks!"
- masijo 2y ago
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jcarrano 2y ago
You could sell a commercial license to a "swear free" version, haha.
- f8e6a7d4-58d2 2y ago
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crest 2y ago
<rant type="vulgar"> If it's open source everyone is allowed to create derivative works. That includes companies with a stick up their ass. They should get their shit together and god damn fork it themselves. Or if everyone able to do it left because of this type of bullshit they can put their money where their mouth is and fucking pay someone to maintain a 'cleaned up' fork on their behalf. </rant>
- FridgeSeal 2y ago
  What do you mean “put in effort”???? It’s open source, that means you do the work, and we get the outputs of your effort plus support when we require it, all for free, duh. Clearly, if you didn’t want to do that, you wouldn’t have made it open source! /s

unsnap_biceps 2y ago

I say fuck 'em.

miah_ 2y ago

Who the fuck uses software like this? Not me.

croes 2y ago
Improper language detected I hope this message finds you well. From ScanHN, we are constantly reviewing Hacker news comments and noticed the use of language that could be considered vulgar or inappropriate on one of your repositories. As you have posted your comment as Public Comment, it's important to maintain a professional and respectful tone throughout the discussion. We kindly ask that you refrain from using such language and update your submission accordingly. The next table summarizes our detections: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41712509 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41712509 Word 3 fuck Your contributions are valuable to all HN community, and we appreciate your understanding and cooperation in this matter. If you have any questions or need assistance, please feel free to reach out.
- m463 2y ago
  Improper language detected I hope this message finds you well. From ScanHN, we are constantly reviewing Hacker news comments and noticed the use of language that could be considered vulgar or inappropriate on one of your repositories. As you have posted your comment as Public Comment, it's important to maintain a professional and respectful tone throughout the discussion. We kindly ask that you refrain from using such language and update your submission accordingly. The next table summarizes our detections: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41712571 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41712571 Entirety of line 6 fuck Your contributions are valuable to all HN community, and we appreciate your understanding and cooperation in this matter. If you have any questions or need assistance, please feel free to reach out.
jeroenhd 2y ago
This is managerware. The company behind this focuses on generating bills of materials for software projects. They're targeting checklist based management. Some people got upset that the default dictionary for some compression standard, I believe Brotli, which you practically have to use and ship for compatibility with standard servers, contains words like "fuck". That's the kind of people that would like their software chain to be swear-free, just in case a customer hits ctrl+u on their React application and reports seeing all kinds of naughty words to upper management.

croes 2y ago

If you ban one word of profanity people will invent others with the same meaning to avoid filters.

kstrauser 2y ago
I try to use profanity rarely in public writings, and then usually to demonstrate a specific point. Anyone who goes through the trouble of implementing a profanity filter that would prevent them from seeing something I've written is probably someone I wouldn't want to deal with anyway. That is, if a rare cuss word offends their delicate sensibilities, other things I say would likely give them an aneurysm. Ergo, me occasionally cursing may be good for both parties if it keeps me off their radar.
f8e6a7d4-58d2 2y ago
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kstrauser 2y ago

The dev's own comment (https://github.com/scanoss/purl2cpe/issues/24#issuecomment-2385851381 https://github.com/scanoss/purl2cpe/issues/24#issuecomment-2...) is infuriating: > For your information, bad language is banned in most organizations and, therefore, if you are interested in having adoption of your Open Source, it is good practice to avoid such language. > If you are not willing to receive contributions from the community, if you are not interested in your Open Source contribution gaining adoption, or if you prefer people to sign special agreements to make contributions, perhaps you are better off closing down your repository, making it private. How about, if I release something for free, that I made on my own time, anyone can feel free not to use it if they don't like how I've written it. I don't think I've even sworn in a public repo. I try to keep it professional. But if I did, and someone has a problem with it, they can write their own fucking software. They're not paying me to cater to their whims.

water-data-dude 2y ago
You forgot the “Hope this helps. Ciao!”, which is where I briefly had my vision go red and heard the phantom war cries of my ancestors skirling up from the depths
getcrunk 2y ago
What the fuck! What a naïve yet narcissistic and arrogant mind. It’s almost as if it’s a school project, written by a student. “Write something on x topic with y constraints to get the grade”

valbaca 2y ago

Simply use Github's mechanisms to Report Abuse

some_furry 2y ago
https://support.github.com/contact/report-abuse?category=report-abuse&report=scanoss https://support.github.com/contact/report-abuse?category=rep... This should save some time hunting for the link in GitHub's UI

jcarrano 2y ago

I don't understand. ScanOSS has a bot that scans ScanOSS's own repo, so what's the issue? What I see is that the bot was badly programmed and it did not ignore quoted text, so the first automated report triggered another bot response which quoted the swear word which triggered the bot a third time.

dave_universetf 2y ago
They are/were scanning random public projects and creating unsolicited bugs in those projects to chide them about profanity in their source code. The linked thread is just a bunch of the victims of that spam having some fun with the format.
- jcarrano 2y ago
  Thanks for clarifying, I was puzzled.
hext 2y ago
The first comment in the thread is a victim of ScanOSS's spam mocking them by opening an issue in their repo following the same format as their bot.
- vegadw 2y ago
  Exactly. When I made that comment I never thought It'd go this for or that the CTO of a ScanOSS would be this dense, so the opening of the thread is admittedly a bit confusing. I still had the email from the bot's original issue being opened, so I thought I'd point out their hypocrisy.
  - hext 2y ago
    Pretty funny thread, thanks for sharing. No idea what they are thinking...

doublerabbit 2y ago

God forbid if the bot hit any repos of those using Brain Fuck.

armoredkitten 2y ago

I'd suggest they consider renaming the bot PearlClutcherOSS; it would be a better explanation of what its contribution to the FOSS community is.

WesolyKubeczek 2y ago

"As you have marked your project as Open Source, it's important to maintain a professional and respectful tone throughout the codebase." The only proper response to this is: "No. It's not. Fuck you. Fuck your mother, and fuck the fucking horse you rode in on, may you eat shit for the rest of your days and choke on it." I mean, who even comes up with notions like this? What law of universe is there that dictates what attitude I must have when marking my software as open source?

vegadw 2y ago
I'm not sure if others can see the comments of mine "marked as abuse" Those are --- Oh! Looks like I still had my response to your bot open, so here was my raw, unfiltered, and (Oh no!) vulgar original thoughts, before I toned it down to comment here: @scanoss OOPS! Did I swear in my own repo? My bad. Cursing, and how the open source community represents itself, are - and I can not stress this enough - not a business-polite thing. You're welcome to fork (Within my license terms) and remove them, but given part of open source and a healthy hacker ethos is the counter-culture vibe that made the technology I'm sure even you yourselves use possible, you can [in fancy unicode text, unsensored] Go F* yourselves What you're doing is not helpful to the OSS community, it's helpful to your business partners that profit off open source, and given the trend in industry, do so typically without giving back. You want to do something meaningful? Drop a recurring sponsorship of my website so I can take more time to write guides and cool things using whatever language I choose to best convey my intent and feelings. That project was https://github.com/VegaDeftwing/opinionatedguide https://github.com/VegaDeftwing/opinionatedguide in case you interested in fucking sponsoring me <3 I would really fucking appreciate it! --- and --- Hey @agustingroh it looks like you're the most frequent committer on SCANOSS repos, thought I'd nudge this to get some attention brought to it. Still awaiting an apology myself, though at this point needing to ask for it makes it rather moot personally, it would still be nice for everyone else SCANOSS spam'd. --- How they decided that second one is "abuse" is beyond me, but as you can see, while a bit less vulgar, I was, indeed, pissed off.
- varran 2y ago
  > I'm not sure if others can see the comments of mine "marked as abuse" They can, but they need to be logged in and manually click on 'show comment'.

butterfly42069 2y ago

Wankerware

crest 2y ago

Fuck the taught police and the horse it rode in on with a dull chainsaw.

kebokyo 2y ago

If one of my GH repos gets one of these issues, I'll wear it like a badge of honor ...tho I also wish I can get a cookie with it too that would be nice

quiquetdl 2y ago

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vegadw 2y ago
Account created today, using the username "quiquetdl". Google that user name. Only other account is "Quique Goñi (quiquetdl)" on Pinterest. Google ""Quique" Goñi ScanOSS" Oh, quique.goni@scanoss.com exists. HM. I wonder if maybe you might have some bias in this? What CoC did we violate, by the way? You're the ones who came into my repo with a bot and used a bot to tell me not to swear. Which, again, is a violation of GH TOS. I have not falsified information, impersonated anyone, or extorted anyone. If I have, I welcome you to show it. Make a blog post, post it here, whatever. Hell, sue me. I've emailed you guys with my personal email a few times and offered to call on Zoom or with phone. As for "or their guardians" I'm an adult, though given you're pretending not be associated with your employer I'm questioning if anyone at ScanOSS is.
valbaca 2y ago
> These same individuals have made comments that range from violating the code of conduct of an open project to falsifying information, impersonation, and even extortion What the actual fuck. If someone is doing ACTUAL crimes like that you report them to the real authorities. And not open a GitHub Issue. But we know they’re not actually doing those things are anything like it. They have four letter words in their code and you’re insane.
valbaca 2y ago
> These same individuals have made comments that range from violating the code of conduct of an open project to falsifying information, impersonation, and even extortion What the actual fuck. If someone is doing ACTUAL crimes like that you report them to the real authorities. And not open a GitHub Issue. But we know they’re not actually doing those things are anything like it. They have four letter words in their code and you’re insane. You just opened this account, either fake or you’re an actual SCANOSS employee, to try to damage control against your boss’s goofy scanner that embarrassed him.
PamelaChuWong 2y ago