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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

      • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
        6Ā·
        7 months ago

        Whatā€™s the backstory with Devuan? I first heard of it from someone licking Andrew Leeā€™s boots after the Freenode debacle, and that instantly branded it as really suspect. But it might just be Debian minus systemd?

        • earthquake@lemm.eeEnglish
          8Ā·
          7 months ago

          In 2015 Debian officially dropped the requirement that packages support sysvinit scripts and only required systemd support. Devuan is indeed intended to be a fork that only removes systemd and maintains support for other inits like sysvinit, openrc, runit, etc.

          Last time I looked (and it has been a while) the anti-systemd origin story had attracted a few nutters, but I didnā€™t see anything suspicious about the dev team itselfā€¦

          EDIT: I see a couple connections to cryptocoin crap, but no smoking gun yet. Still digging.

          EDIT2: wtf am I looking at: https://dyne.org/software/dynebolic/ strange vibes all over this.

          EDIT3: Seems like the cryptocoiner, Set Hallstrƶm AKA Setto Sakrecoer, is the main dev/organizer of devuan? The structure of devuan and dyne.org does not seem to be set out, instead itā€™s an informal ā€œdo-ocracyā€ with a whole mess of normal and weird projects in a loose constellation.