It's much easier to shut down a project instead.
Alternatively, people can instead choose to NOT be dicks to people who are altruistically developing stuff for no compensation and the net benefit of our industry.
It's easy to walk away from an ungrateful community if you don't have gold in your pockets to soften the blows.
I think it's a bit problematic to use GitHub in 2025 if you are doing F/OSS
I find I am typically only browsing this site when I am not ready to present the best version of myself (tired, bored, demotivated).
I don't know how we end the cycle of cruelty in our industry.
Actually have consequences for it? When industry leaders like Linus act like assholes constantly but are given cover because they produce something so valuable, will always produce a situation where being empathetic becomes a social proxy for being weak or untalented
* the internet.
The vast majority of the internet is spurred by ragebait/loneliness-bait in some way. It skews heavily to the mentally ill.
Or to be more eloquent about it: being instantly connected to everyone on the planet also means you're instantly connected to every fucking asshole on the planet.
This sounds useful, I'll be building it and having a try.
> Joined on Jul 25, 2025
Probably a paid troll by a state actor would be my guess.
Anyway, if I'm reading this right, then these two people are just talking past one another, not understanding what the other is talking about.
Off-topic: It's absolutely mad from a security perspective that you can't download flatpaks as a simple bzip file for security analysis.
You can download Flatpak bundles: Flatpak supports exporting apps as .flatpak bundle files, which are single-file archives that can be analyzed offline.
These can be created using flatpak build-bundle or downloaded if the distributor provides them.
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