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I met that guy during a gsoc mentor summit and it inspired me, out of spite, to never install VLC on any device I own

by cornhole 11mo ago

tequila_shot 11mo ago
oook, but why?
jetru 11mo ago
Thats funny, I met him during GSoC too over a decade ago, and he's been on top of the open source game.
leoh 11mo ago
I vouched for this post because I have corresponded with him and he engaged in an in unnecessarily condescending way. What are you referring to by GSOC?
- giobox 11mo ago
  https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
- dest 11mo ago
  Same. Maybe it's the open source ecosystem that forced him to be overly self confident, to fly above the cognitive noise.
- magnaton 11mo ago
  Same experience here and upvoted accordingly. I stopped using/recommending VLC all the way back in 2012 due to Mr. Kempf's appallingly dismissive/aggressive attitude to carefully-expressed constructive feedback from multiple users after a regressive UI change (my handle here was "sillyrat" and then "silly-rat"): https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=98182&p=328153&hilit=sillyrat&sid=9382b93000657190b0aaaf8534230e5f https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=98182&p=3281... TL;DR: they decided to force the playlist to stay open all the time, thus killing "mini-player" mode; reaction to this was, unsurprisingly, uniformly negative (but expressed politely); Mr. Kempf's response was to attack VLC users; I did an end-run around him by opening a bug ticket so other developers would be made aware of the problem, and Mr. Kempf banned me for doing so; my ticket was approved and addressed by other developers, fixing the issue; Mr. Kempf tried to back-pedal pitifully.
lmf4lol 11mo ago
He is French. Cut him some slack ;-) /s obviously
flr03 11mo ago
I had a quick chat with him at a conference in Munich and I thought he was pretty chill, but I think it was 15y ago.

I met that guy during a gsoc mentor summit and it inspired me, out of spite, to never install VLC on any device I own

tequila_shot 11mo ago

oook, but why?

jetru 11mo ago

Thats funny, I met him during GSoC too over a decade ago, and he's been on top of the open source game.

leoh 11mo ago

I vouched for this post because I have corresponded with him and he engaged in an in unnecessarily condescending way. What are you referring to by GSOC?

giobox 11mo ago
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
dest 11mo ago
Same. Maybe it's the open source ecosystem that forced him to be overly self confident, to fly above the cognitive noise.
magnaton 11mo ago
Same experience here and upvoted accordingly. I stopped using/recommending VLC all the way back in 2012 due to Mr. Kempf's appallingly dismissive/aggressive attitude to carefully-expressed constructive feedback from multiple users after a regressive UI change (my handle here was "sillyrat" and then "silly-rat"): https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=98182&p=328153&hilit=sillyrat&sid=9382b93000657190b0aaaf8534230e5f https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=98182&p=3281... TL;DR: they decided to force the playlist to stay open all the time, thus killing "mini-player" mode; reaction to this was, unsurprisingly, uniformly negative (but expressed politely); Mr. Kempf's response was to attack VLC users; I did an end-run around him by opening a bug ticket so other developers would be made aware of the problem, and Mr. Kempf banned me for doing so; my ticket was approved and addressed by other developers, fixing the issue; Mr. Kempf tried to back-pedal pitifully.

lmf4lol 11mo ago

He is French. Cut him some slack ;-) /s obviously

flr03 11mo ago

I had a quick chat with him at a conference in Munich and I thought he was pretty chill, but I think it was 15y ago.