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| ▲ | roryirvine 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| ...especially when combined with an attempt at social engineering that's so clumsy that it comes close to being outright bribery! |
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| ▲ | wofo an hour ago | parent [-] | | This quote from the mailing list is spectacular: > If the Northstar browser is included in Debian Linux, I will do my utmost to make the browser successful and ensure it works well in Debian, and I will make sure that the Debian project and Debian contributors like you, and the four of you in particular, will be rewarded. | | |
| ▲ | ordu an hour ago | parent [-] | | It looks like the author is a socially clueless person, who was touched by an AI and realized they could write a code. No experience of shipping the code or a feel for what is acceptable behavior. If it is so, it is a good reason to not include their browser into major distros, but in any case their advice "try to maintain it for longer and get some reputation first" make my (hypothetical) psychological portrait redundant. I mean, if I'm right, they would probably lose interest and/or completely alienate distros in a year or so. |
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| ▲ | qphe95 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I personally think its pretty nasty how they treated this single developer, they could just reject him instead of writing a long hit piece on him. |
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| ▲ | augment_me an hour ago | parent [-] | | How do you otherwise make an example of shit you dont want in your codebase? There is an attention cost of pushing unverified slop onto others, public shaming and bans is a valid way to prevent this behaviour. | | |
| ▲ | qphe95 an hour ago | parent [-] | | Does this actually prevent this behavior? Does writing a hit piece somehow magically disable ai slop in the debian inbox or do certain contributors just enjoy going on an ego trip? |
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