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Comment by gjsman-1000

10 months ago

It's deeply ironic that he's complaining about kernel maintainers supposedly forming secret cliques.

However... this is the same man who made a sock puppet V-Tuber account, and acts in every way like they are two people; even though they've accidentally on-stream shared the system username, shared they have exactly the same kernel version, same KDE configuration, same login, same time zone, even (if I recall correctly) accidentally making GitHub commits as the other person once in a while. He also did this on the Linux kernel mailing lists, where he still maintains the charade.

Point out that's weird, or that it's weird for a maintainer to have a fake persona as a walking female stereotype; and you're the one he shreds and mocks - while simultaneously not denying it. For me, I caught on immediately when I saw the supposed "hijacking" of his stream on April Fool's day, which was her first appearance; and stopped donating. I don't pay people to support stereotypes about women in STEM.

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danw1979  10 months ago

How does having an alter-ego make it deeply ironic that he complains about secret cliques? I don’t get it.

I’ve been supporting Hector since week 1 of the Asahi project and I think it’s a shame he’s thrown in the towel but I can understand why.

I don’t know enough about kernel development to have an opinion about about the Kernel policy of “no aliases” for contributions.

I certainly don’t care that some people think it’s weird for a man to have a female alter ego.

Maybe those things matter to you.

  • asksomeoneelse  10 months ago

    Having an alter-ego is one thing, but I strongly suspect that he had at least one sock puppet here during the drama with HN [0]

    * a brand new account suddenly appears, defending Marcan's behavior (the only comment/post ever of this account) with a very similar writing style

    * Marcan immediately "notices" the new comment while doing "random search" (how ? he claims he doesn't browse HN, and even posted a screenshot of news.ycombinator.com being routed to 0.0.0.0 to block his own access to it the day before)

    * Marcan highlights the comment in question on his media account [1], praising them "at least [this commenter] gets it"

    Only circumstantial stuff, but sure smells very fishy to me.

    [0] https://archive.ph/zdVbA

thw8419  10 months ago

Even if he did that, which I'm not in a position to judge:

That is an entirely different situation from facing inner circles in an open source project while contributing to a major port.

Sock puppets aren't taken seriously while the word of the inner circle is taken as gospel.

  • gjsman-1000  10 months ago

    Reminder that he did this on the Linux kernel mailing lists. If I was a Linux maintainer who found out that two of the people I'm talking to, are actually with high likelihood the same person secretly maintaining a charade, I wouldn't be far from banning both.

    I also certainly wouldn't take any of his complaints about cliques or brigading with any seriousness or self-reflection afterwards.

strunz  10 months ago

Wait, what? I haven't heard about any of this in all the articles I've read over this drama.