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opens blog post sees lunduke closes blog post

by ryan-c 8mo ago

heraldgeezer 8mo ago
For us not in the know, why is this bad? Is he ""bigoted"" ? :(
- Mashimo 8mo ago
  I have no idea who he is, never heard of him. You shall not judge a book by its cover but .. he is making it hard. His video titles are: * Devuan: The Non-Woke Debian Linux Fork (Without Systemd) * NeoFetch But in Rust and More Gay * Chimera Linux is "Here to Further Woke Agenda by Turning Free Software Gay" * Are Jews the Cause of DEI in Big Tech? Yeah .. I did not watch a single video of his. But just from a short few seconds It's not anything I want to invest time in to see if he has a point or not. Life is too short.
  - bigpeopleareold 8mo ago
    Whatever I might agree or disagree with, this is annoying to look at, but his stuff keeps coming up in my YouTube feed. Even it looks slightly interesting, I know it will be some rant involved about a thing not related to technology, but some developer's personal opinions on non-tech ideas. I get it - people are horrible! Sheesh! FWIW, probably not much, he said he had a Jewish background ... in, like, the one video I watched and eventually gave up on.
    - FrostViper8 8mo ago
      You can just mute/hide a channel from your feed permanently.
  - hsbauauvhabzb 8mo ago
    > NeoFetch But in Rust and More Gay apt-install --fuck-yes gay-rust-neofetch I’ll look to migrate to chimera shortly, but only if it includes gay neofetch.
  - stevefan1999 8mo ago
    * Are Jews the Cause of DEI in Big Tech? ...errrrrrrrrrrrrr, plot twist, he is a jew himself, or at least he claimed he is.
  - pilif 8mo ago
    what's especially strange to me is that in the more distant past, he was a pretty normal guy - at least as normal as any other linux user. Heck, he had a super great podcast (Linux Action Show). Something changed in the 2014ish time-frame when it got more and more politically extreme.
    - subsistence234 8mo ago
      what do you think changed culturally around 2014 (I'd say it started a little earlier, maybe 2011)?
      - juanani 8mo ago
        [dead]
    - OCASMv2 8mo ago
      His views are the normal ones.
  - heavyset_go 8mo ago
    Now I want to make a Woke Linux to drive this guy insane, the CoC alone will make his face melt
    - kevin_thibedeau 8mo ago
      Bonus points if you can make it non-binary.
      - deleted 8mo ago
        [deleted]
    - FrostViper8 8mo ago
      It won't do anything of the sort. It will allow him to make 200 videos complaining about it, get a load of ad-revenue and sell subscribestar memberships. The best thing to do with people like Lunduke is ignore them.
      - heavyset_go 8mo ago
        Yeah I'm aware, reactionaries are gonna reactionary. I'm just taken aback that anyone's brain would even look at a kernel through that warped lens. It's always horrible when your niche get poisoned by this rhetoric.
        FrostViper8 8mo ago
        While I believe Lunduke is a dishonest actor, he is tapping into something. There are many people in and around tech that disagree with the direction. They want to pushing back against mega corporations, government surveillance etc. They see CoC, Woke as part of that corporate/government apparatus. You can watch someone like Sam Bent's or Mental Outlaws YouTube channel and you will start to understand that attitude. > It's always horrible when your niche get poisoned by this rhetoric. Tech like a lot of areas of life has been hyper politicised. The best thing you can do is not to play the game at all.
    - subsistence234 8mo ago
- ryan-c 8mo ago
  He's harassed people, including one of my friends.
  - lproven 8mo ago
    And me.
- eukara 8mo ago
  The maker of the provocative "Linux sucks" series is a bit of a troll. He's made videos on technical projects he doesn't understand (or care about) and just mocks them if they don't gel with him. As far as I can tell he doesn't really care, or if he thinks he does - his actions aren't translating well. How do I know? As a FOSS developer myself with a decade plus public history I also happen to know a few people running prominent FOSS projects. He's burned bridges for no good reason. He doesn't care.
- FrostViper8 8mo ago
  Lunduke is a grifter and just generally a bit of an idiot. e.g. I remember he once claimed Google was censoring him when he was de-listed from search, this was way back in 2009. His site had a malicious iframe because the PHP CMS he was using had been compromised. His politics are kinda irrelevant to me. There are people who are Agorist/Libertarian/Conservative tech influencers online that do decent and informative content e.g. Sam Bent.
  - snvzz 8mo ago
    >Lunduke is a grifter... And somehow you care so much you've created this account just to attack him. I'd suggest going out for a walk.
    - FrostViper8 8mo ago
      Yes. I created the account because someone asked what the problem was with Lunduke and I had something to say. I've been aware of Lunduke for quite a while and he has always come off a clown. The fact is that hasn't actually given much to the community and has been a drama, pretty much since his appearance in Linux land. People used to dislike him then and wanted him gone and this was well before the current culture war nonsense that is often seen on YouTube, Twitter and backwaters like Rumble. > I'd suggest going out for a walk. I go out for an hour walk in the countryside every lunch time. I am not sure what my exercise routine has got to do with criticising a long time troll and grifter.
undeveloper 8mo ago
seriously, what's with people's love of this guy? besides politics, I have not seen anything that suggests engineering prowess from this guy, only "rust bad".
- heraldgeezer 8mo ago
  He is an influencer if you will. Skilled enough but the main use is as a news resource like this. The guy ion the blog would not have found out about this unless Lunduke posted about it. Do you understand? :)
- wongogue 8mo ago
  People like his technical opinion because they like his politics. That’s the whole grift-influencer economy. If someone is good at one thing (and validates some of my views), then obviously he’s right about everything.
  - dgan 8mo ago
    Dont present our hypothesis as a hard fact. I actually think it is completely false. Not only I was never interested in his political opinions, and followed him because of his humoristic takes "Linux sucks", and not about Rust or whatever; I actually never encountered a single video before joining his "lunduke journal" where his right-wing views would be visible. He has made funny videos, it was fun to watch. Its kinda hard to enjoy them now after learning he s dumb as a rock and justifies killings if you are of tje wrong nationality
  - themafia 8mo ago
    When people feel underrepresented to the point of being bullied they turn to any voice which seems to reflect even a tiny fraction of their frustrations. There's a real mean spirit in open source lately and a lot of it seems to revolve around political views. There's become this idea that if you and I disagree on politics then it would be impossible for us to write quality software together. It's damaged a lot of good will and cohesion that used to exist within the open source software community. This used to be about making free software to people so that they weren't abused by corporations. Now it's about pushing agendas and creating exclusion criteria. There's only one group in this scenario that benefits from this outcome. If you don't like Lunduke then you should recognize the factors that give rise to people like him. Unless your solution is to completely eliminate anyone who disagrees with you then your apparent mindset only furthers the problem. I wish we could put all this aside and just enjoy open source again.

opens blog post sees lunduke closes blog post

by ryan-c 8mo ago

opens blog post sees lunduke closes blog post

heraldgeezer 8mo ago

For us not in the know, why is this bad? Is he ""bigoted"" ? :(

Mashimo 8mo ago
I have no idea who he is, never heard of him. You shall not judge a book by its cover but .. he is making it hard. His video titles are: * Devuan: The Non-Woke Debian Linux Fork (Without Systemd) * NeoFetch But in Rust and More Gay * Chimera Linux is "Here to Further Woke Agenda by Turning Free Software Gay" * Are Jews the Cause of DEI in Big Tech? Yeah .. I did not watch a single video of his. But just from a short few seconds It's not anything I want to invest time in to see if he has a point or not. Life is too short.
- bigpeopleareold 8mo ago
  Whatever I might agree or disagree with, this is annoying to look at, but his stuff keeps coming up in my YouTube feed. Even it looks slightly interesting, I know it will be some rant involved about a thing not related to technology, but some developer's personal opinions on non-tech ideas. I get it - people are horrible! Sheesh! FWIW, probably not much, he said he had a Jewish background ... in, like, the one video I watched and eventually gave up on.
  - FrostViper8 8mo ago
    You can just mute/hide a channel from your feed permanently.
- hsbauauvhabzb 8mo ago
  > NeoFetch But in Rust and More Gay apt-install --fuck-yes gay-rust-neofetch I’ll look to migrate to chimera shortly, but only if it includes gay neofetch.
- stevefan1999 8mo ago
  * Are Jews the Cause of DEI in Big Tech? ...errrrrrrrrrrrrr, plot twist, he is a jew himself, or at least he claimed he is.
- pilif 8mo ago
  what's especially strange to me is that in the more distant past, he was a pretty normal guy - at least as normal as any other linux user. Heck, he had a super great podcast (Linux Action Show). Something changed in the 2014ish time-frame when it got more and more politically extreme.
  - subsistence234 8mo ago
    what do you think changed culturally around 2014 (I'd say it started a little earlier, maybe 2011)?
    - juanani 8mo ago
      [dead]
  - OCASMv2 8mo ago
    His views are the normal ones.
- heavyset_go 8mo ago
  Now I want to make a Woke Linux to drive this guy insane, the CoC alone will make his face melt
  - kevin_thibedeau 8mo ago
    Bonus points if you can make it non-binary.
    - deleted 8mo ago
      [deleted]
  - FrostViper8 8mo ago
    It won't do anything of the sort. It will allow him to make 200 videos complaining about it, get a load of ad-revenue and sell subscribestar memberships. The best thing to do with people like Lunduke is ignore them.
    - heavyset_go 8mo ago
      Yeah I'm aware, reactionaries are gonna reactionary. I'm just taken aback that anyone's brain would even look at a kernel through that warped lens. It's always horrible when your niche get poisoned by this rhetoric.
      - FrostViper8 8mo ago
        While I believe Lunduke is a dishonest actor, he is tapping into something. There are many people in and around tech that disagree with the direction. They want to pushing back against mega corporations, government surveillance etc. They see CoC, Woke as part of that corporate/government apparatus. You can watch someone like Sam Bent's or Mental Outlaws YouTube channel and you will start to understand that attitude. > It's always horrible when your niche get poisoned by this rhetoric. Tech like a lot of areas of life has been hyper politicised. The best thing you can do is not to play the game at all.
  - subsistence234 8mo ago
ryan-c 8mo ago
He's harassed people, including one of my friends.
- lproven 8mo ago
  And me.
eukara 8mo ago
The maker of the provocative "Linux sucks" series is a bit of a troll. He's made videos on technical projects he doesn't understand (or care about) and just mocks them if they don't gel with him. As far as I can tell he doesn't really care, or if he thinks he does - his actions aren't translating well. How do I know? As a FOSS developer myself with a decade plus public history I also happen to know a few people running prominent FOSS projects. He's burned bridges for no good reason. He doesn't care.
FrostViper8 8mo ago
Lunduke is a grifter and just generally a bit of an idiot. e.g. I remember he once claimed Google was censoring him when he was de-listed from search, this was way back in 2009. His site had a malicious iframe because the PHP CMS he was using had been compromised. His politics are kinda irrelevant to me. There are people who are Agorist/Libertarian/Conservative tech influencers online that do decent and informative content e.g. Sam Bent.
- snvzz 8mo ago
  >Lunduke is a grifter... And somehow you care so much you've created this account just to attack him. I'd suggest going out for a walk.
  - FrostViper8 8mo ago
    Yes. I created the account because someone asked what the problem was with Lunduke and I had something to say. I've been aware of Lunduke for quite a while and he has always come off a clown. The fact is that hasn't actually given much to the community and has been a drama, pretty much since his appearance in Linux land. People used to dislike him then and wanted him gone and this was well before the current culture war nonsense that is often seen on YouTube, Twitter and backwaters like Rumble. > I'd suggest going out for a walk. I go out for an hour walk in the countryside every lunch time. I am not sure what my exercise routine has got to do with criticising a long time troll and grifter.

undeveloper 8mo ago

seriously, what's with people's love of this guy? besides politics, I have not seen anything that suggests engineering prowess from this guy, only "rust bad".

heraldgeezer 8mo ago
He is an influencer if you will. Skilled enough but the main use is as a news resource like this. The guy ion the blog would not have found out about this unless Lunduke posted about it. Do you understand? :)
wongogue 8mo ago
People like his technical opinion because they like his politics. That’s the whole grift-influencer economy. If someone is good at one thing (and validates some of my views), then obviously he’s right about everything.
- dgan 8mo ago
  Dont present our hypothesis as a hard fact. I actually think it is completely false. Not only I was never interested in his political opinions, and followed him because of his humoristic takes "Linux sucks", and not about Rust or whatever; I actually never encountered a single video before joining his "lunduke journal" where his right-wing views would be visible. He has made funny videos, it was fun to watch. Its kinda hard to enjoy them now after learning he s dumb as a rock and justifies killings if you are of tje wrong nationality
- themafia 8mo ago
  When people feel underrepresented to the point of being bullied they turn to any voice which seems to reflect even a tiny fraction of their frustrations. There's a real mean spirit in open source lately and a lot of it seems to revolve around political views. There's become this idea that if you and I disagree on politics then it would be impossible for us to write quality software together. It's damaged a lot of good will and cohesion that used to exist within the open source software community. This used to be about making free software to people so that they weren't abused by corporations. Now it's about pushing agendas and creating exclusion criteria. There's only one group in this scenario that benefits from this outcome. If you don't like Lunduke then you should recognize the factors that give rise to people like him. Unless your solution is to completely eliminate anyone who disagrees with you then your apparent mindset only furthers the problem. I wish we could put all this aside and just enjoy open source again.