[HN Gopher] PolyMC compromised by rogue developer having unabomb...
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PolyMC compromised by rogue developer having unabomber manifesto in
steam bio
 
Author : SuperSandro2000
Score  : 35 points
Date   : 2022-10-17 20:37 UTC (2 hours ago)
 
web link (github.com)
w3m dump (github.com)
 
| bullwalk wrote:
| I don't get it. One of the developers deleted the 'code of
| conduct'? And then lots of other people left strange comments on
| the commit?
| 
| What's the issue here? I'm not sure I understand the context.
 
  | Macha wrote:
  | They also locked out all the other developers. So effectively
  | this is a hostile takeover.
 
  | lonjil wrote:
  | No, the person who owns the GitHub organization kicked out all
  | other developers with zero notice and started talking about how
  | he's purging the "leftoids" from the project and that all other
  | contributors were "promoting radicalist leftist queer
  | ideology".
 
    | bullwalk wrote:
    | Ah okay that all seems rather silly. Sounds like one dev
    | decided to play a prank on the other devs.
 
      | IntelMiner wrote:
      | That's a pretty charitable interpretation of events so far
 
| SuperSandro2000 wrote:
| See reddit [1] for the deleted Discord announcement. Currently
| their Discord Channel and a GitHub commit [2] are being spammed.
| 
| [1]:
| https://www.reddit.com/r/PolyMCLauncher/comments/y6k4x7/swit...
| [2]:
| https://github.com/PolyMC/PolyMC/commit/ccf282593dcdbe189c99...
 
  | SuperSandro2000 wrote:
  | Also their steam profile is very interesting in containing the
  | first paragraph of the unabomber terrorist manfiesto.
  | 
  | https://steamcommunity.com/id/LennyMcLennington/
  | 
  | https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unab...
 
  | nalllar wrote:
  | The owner whose account might be hacked or might just have
  | decided to do this kicking out all the active devs from the
  | github project at the same time is some important context to go
  | with the issue.
  | 
  | The other maintainers have already started a fork.
  | 
  | https://github.com/PlaceholderMC/PlaceholderMC
 
| [deleted]
 
| wisnoskij wrote:
 
  | olliej wrote:
  | > The devs seemed very friendly and responsive, but are typical
  | exclusionary Leftists that are not welcoming to people with
  | different beliefs
  | 
  | What are the beliefs being excluded?
 
    | wisnoskij wrote:
    | Presumably all beliefs not their own, they definitely dog-
    | whistled that not that I can speak to that directly. But they
    | were clearly exclusionary to different sexuality/biology.
 
      | etchalon wrote:
      | What sexualities do you believe they're excluding?
 
      | sjcoles wrote:
      | It's open source! Don't like it fork it! Simple as that.
      | You're not forced to work with anyone you don't want to for
      | any reason.
      | 
      | This always feels like a self tell for people with a very
      | authoritarian mindset.
      | 
      | Just because someone like yourself would use conduct to
      | exclude individuals from participating does not mean that
      | others will.
 
      | IntelMiner wrote:
      | This feels very "I made a transphobic comment and got
      | removed"
 
      | olliej wrote:
      | I asked, what are examples of beliefs that are excluded by
      | CoCs?
      | 
      | Most CoCs I've seen simply state a variation of "don't be
      | an asshole", "don't act like some people aren't actually
      | humans", etc - which seems reasonable to me: being an
      | asshole drives away contributors, treating some people as
      | subhuman has a similar effect.
      | 
      | I have yet to see a CoC that limits beliefs (e.g. "no
      | christians", "no muslims", "no atheists"), nor politics
      | (e.g. "no democrats", "no republicans", etc), nor any other
      | group really - I have certainly never seen any CoC that
      | excluded sexuality or biology, and I would love an example
      | because I think that kind of discrimination is important to
      | acknowledge and avoid.
      | 
      | I'm sure that you could find some smaller projects that do
      | shit like the above, but by and large CoCs are generally
      | boring "respect other people in the community" drivel.
 
        | jeroenhd wrote:
        | You can read the CoC here: https://github.com/PolyMC/Poly
        | MC/blob/aecd158d3c9fce7e42143c... Doesn't seem to exclude
        | any normal behaviour.
        | 
        | Considering the torrent of transphobic posts related to
        | this issue, this could be a hostile account takeover or
        | maybe a transphobic developer. I associate the language
        | used here with 4chan above all else, though some far-
        | right groups use the same lingo.
 
    | chowells wrote:
    | Usually the beliefs being excluded are things like "white
    | people are superior to all others", "there is no reason for
    | the English language to have different words for sex and
    | gender", or "it's acceptable to use terms for immutable
    | characteristics as insults", etc.
    | 
    | And let's be honest - those ideas are excluded in the name of
    | inclusivity. If you interpret "inclusivity" as meaning
    | "accepts everything", you end up at a paradox quite quickly.
    | It's the paradox of tolerance, yet again. And its cause is
    | the same thing: misunderstanding the goals based on a naive
    | reading of the name.
    | 
    | Inclusivity isn't about including absolutely everything. It's
    | about maximizing the variety present. And doing that does
    | have the cost of rejecting people who drive others away.
 
    | huimang wrote:
    | What kicked this off was... adding a bog standard code of
    | conduct. The latest commit removes this, with the message
    | being "reclaim polymc from the leftoids".
    | 
    | So this is a simply knee-jerk over-reaction.
 
| aaron695 wrote:
 
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