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The author was also asking for money to buy a house in SF and travel on private planes like a few days ago..the donation must have really showed up if they are

The author was also asking for money to buy a house in SF and travel on private planes like a few days ago..the donation must have really showed up if they are using 20k machines at home.

blauditore 5mo ago
Do you have a link?
- deleted 5mo ago
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- insamniac 5mo ago
  https://web.archive.org/web/20260529122658/https://justine.lol/animus/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260529122658/https://justine.l...
  - blauditore 5mo ago
    I was wondering if the author is joking, but after reading a bit more about the attribution drama, it seems rather a lack of reality check and reflection. If you plagiarize work, get called out on it, and then call this "harrassment", I don't know...
  - nick__m 5mo ago
    That's reads like an egotic cocaine fueled rant mixed with a PBS pledges drive. I understand why the author deleted it !
nutjob2 5mo ago
> I have nothing against this person. Your bad faith reading of that article says otherwise. It's bleedingly obvious that it's satire. Do you think people seriously ask for donations to fund a private airplane? $20K of gear isn't that much if you're an independent developer, and if you're working for others as such in the US, and you're not a financial basket case, it's doable. She even says "It put me in the poor house for a few months" so she made sacrifices to get there. You can too, if you want to. Why the envy? To the contrary, so you really seem to have a problem with her. [references https://web.archive.org/web/20260529122658/https://justine.lol/animus/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260529122658/https://justine.l... ]
- aleph_minus_one 5mo ago
  > $20K of gear isn't that much if you're an independent developer Perhaps in the USA if you have a well-paid job at a MAMAA company ...
wasabi991011 5mo ago
She bought the workstation at a discount (see bottom of TFA). Also, it was pre-2025 (before she got her job at Gradient Canopy), so long before asking for donations. Finally, if you read the actual donation request, you can see she is trying to make a living doing open source, and is being honest about what the money is going to. Why is that an issue?
- crote 5mo ago
  There's quite a bit of a spectrum between "trying to make a living doing open source" and "asking for people to pay for a house in one of the most expensive cities in the country - plus a private jet. It's also quite grating to see it written like we should be grateful that we are even allowed to donate to her. And if she's even half the genius she's claiming to be, why aren't the big tech companies in a bidding war over who get to pay her a million-dollar salary? From what I've read of her in the past she seems to be a pretty damn good developer. But in the open source world those are a dime a dozen. If you want to make a living off of it you've got to market yourself, and this... isn't how you do that.
  - TimTheTinker 5mo ago
    > From what I've read of her in the past she seems to be a pretty damn good developer. But in the open source world those are a dime a dozen Not exactly. Very few people in recent decades have achieved anything comparable to αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε and Cosmopolitan libc - they're in the category of "that should not even be possible". Of course, Tunney's work doesn't touch Fabrice Bellard in terms of sheer breadth and impact, but they're arguably in the same category.
    - crote 5mo ago
      The concept of a polyglot[0] has been around for ages: the Wikipedia page mentions an 8-language one going around on Usenet in the 1990s. If it works for source code, and for scripting languages, and for things like PDF+ZIP, why wouldn't there be a pretty good chance the various executable formats are flexible enough to allow for it too? A libc which is flexible enough to select specific code paths depending on runtime conditions? Every libc already does this to make use of the latest hardware features[1], using the same approach for platform-specific code isn't a huge stretch - you're basically doing a lightweight WINE. Her work is definitely impressive, but it isn't magic. You'll see similar stuff if you look into the demoscene, or the IOCCC, or a decent chunk of the talks at CCC. And it's not like APE and Cosmo libc are seeing massive adoption: the people who want portability but can't even compile for multiple platforms are probably happier with something like Java due to the better ecosystem support. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing) [1]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-More-AVX-512-October-2022 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-More-AVX-512-October-202...

The author was also asking for money to buy a house in SF and travel on private planes like a few days ago..the donation must have really showed up if they are using 20k machines at home.

blauditore 5mo ago

Do you have a link?

deleted 5mo ago
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insamniac 5mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260529122658/https://justine.lol/animus/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260529122658/https://justine.l...
- blauditore 5mo ago
  I was wondering if the author is joking, but after reading a bit more about the attribution drama, it seems rather a lack of reality check and reflection. If you plagiarize work, get called out on it, and then call this "harrassment", I don't know...
- nick__m 5mo ago
  That's reads like an egotic cocaine fueled rant mixed with a PBS pledges drive. I understand why the author deleted it !

nutjob2 5mo ago

> I have nothing against this person. Your bad faith reading of that article says otherwise. It's bleedingly obvious that it's satire. Do you think people seriously ask for donations to fund a private airplane? $20K of gear isn't that much if you're an independent developer, and if you're working for others as such in the US, and you're not a financial basket case, it's doable. She even says "It put me in the poor house for a few months" so she made sacrifices to get there. You can too, if you want to. Why the envy? To the contrary, so you really seem to have a problem with her. [references https://web.archive.org/web/20260529122658/https://justine.lol/animus/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260529122658/https://justine.l... ]

aleph_minus_one 5mo ago
> $20K of gear isn't that much if you're an independent developer Perhaps in the USA if you have a well-paid job at a MAMAA company ...

wasabi991011 5mo ago

She bought the workstation at a discount (see bottom of TFA). Also, it was pre-2025 (before she got her job at Gradient Canopy), so long before asking for donations. Finally, if you read the actual donation request, you can see she is trying to make a living doing open source, and is being honest about what the money is going to. Why is that an issue?

crote 5mo ago
There's quite a bit of a spectrum between "trying to make a living doing open source" and "asking for people to pay for a house in one of the most expensive cities in the country - plus a private jet. It's also quite grating to see it written like we should be grateful that we are even allowed to donate to her. And if she's even half the genius she's claiming to be, why aren't the big tech companies in a bidding war over who get to pay her a million-dollar salary? From what I've read of her in the past she seems to be a pretty damn good developer. But in the open source world those are a dime a dozen. If you want to make a living off of it you've got to market yourself, and this... isn't how you do that.
- TimTheTinker 5mo ago
  > From what I've read of her in the past she seems to be a pretty damn good developer. But in the open source world those are a dime a dozen Not exactly. Very few people in recent decades have achieved anything comparable to αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε and Cosmopolitan libc - they're in the category of "that should not even be possible". Of course, Tunney's work doesn't touch Fabrice Bellard in terms of sheer breadth and impact, but they're arguably in the same category.
  - crote 5mo ago
    The concept of a polyglot[0] has been around for ages: the Wikipedia page mentions an 8-language one going around on Usenet in the 1990s. If it works for source code, and for scripting languages, and for things like PDF+ZIP, why wouldn't there be a pretty good chance the various executable formats are flexible enough to allow for it too? A libc which is flexible enough to select specific code paths depending on runtime conditions? Every libc already does this to make use of the latest hardware features[1], using the same approach for platform-specific code isn't a huge stretch - you're basically doing a lightweight WINE. Her work is definitely impressive, but it isn't magic. You'll see similar stuff if you look into the demoscene, or the IOCCC, or a decent chunk of the talks at CCC. And it's not like APE and Cosmo libc are seeing massive adoption: the people who want portability but can't even compile for multiple platforms are probably happier with something like Java due to the better ecosystem support. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing) [1]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-More-AVX-512-October-2022 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-More-AVX-512-October-202...