Post by @Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems

2026-09-25 01:04 UTC

Everyone I know from FOSS has a bullying story and this shit is NOT cool. Don't come into my @'s trying to tell me "but this time we're right Elizabeth. This time we're right. Because blah blah AI bad." AI IS bad but harassing people isn't the fucking way you deal with this. This is some terminally online crap. I've been in FOSS for 23 years and it's always been bullying, harassment, and coming up with new and exciting justifications for it. I have never bought it. I never will.

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@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems 2026-09-25 01:11

"But Elizabeth, this time it's a real problem, you see, AI is a real existential threat and so THIS TIME we should harass people" Yeah yeah you said that before and people have been bullying people for... gets cue cards out systemd vs sysv init vs openrc vs... whatever distribution choice... even when they're decidedly NOT run by Nazis... before anyone CARED if a distro was run by a Nazi (it's good that they do btw but HOLY SHIT don't pretend y'all suddenly grew a conscience overnight) fucking text editor choice desktop environment / window manager choice, BEFORE this KDE shit and everyone took stupid pills Using Flash. Yes. USING FLASH. PEOPLE USED TO FUCKING BULLY PEOPLE FOR THAT. codec choice (I am old enough to remember when people got flamed for using GIF... yes, GIF. Fucking GIF was CONTROVERSIAL AS FUCK once upon a time) encryption algorithm choice X11 vs Wayland using NON-FREE SOFTWARE INCLUDING NON-FREE SOFTWARE USING A REPO WITH NON-FREE SOFTWARE USING A DEVICE THAT REQUIRES FIRMWARE using a permissive software license over the GPL using a public domain dedication over the GPL using the GPLv2 instead of GPLv3 do you want me to continue? I got a whole-ass stack of cue cards here

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