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Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger

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Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger

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Post by tomrod »

pigbearpig wrote: post #33
DevKoala wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that they don’t trust the maintainer. However 4chan raids like this are often run by third parties that can benefit from attributing this type of behavior to “anonymous” individuals. I wouldn’t be surprised if the people who bullied this individual had the goal of getting the original independent fork abandoned while also getting the new fork cancelled on the grounds of hate speech all along. I visit 4chan an…

So you're telling me that a bank is going on 4chan to start raids? Please, no CEO knows what a 4chan is.

Actually, this is mostly incorrect.

But, to be fair, CEOs know PR professionals that know what 4chan is.

Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger

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Post by Bancakes »

risky_opinions wrote: post #11

Not posting this under my main account for reasons, but 4chan harassed me for developing software too. They're a bunch of anonymous assholes that have nothing better to do. Their commentary was degrading and demoralizing. They thankfully didn't find me in real life, but I pulled down all social media to avoid them. Edit: I want to say one more thing. Sometimes people defend 4chan and say stuff like "that's just how t…

4channers are not real, they cannot hurt you physically.

Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger

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Post by TMWNN »

salawat wrote: post #89
obviouslynotme wrote: post #26

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>Sneed is short for special needs, i.e. retards ...Okay. I could be totally wrong here, but I was fairly certain the Sneed thing came out of a Simpson's joke w.r.t. Sneed's Seed and Feed, formerly Chuck's. This would quite frankly be the first time I've heard the Sneed->"special needs"->retards connection, which to be frank, is nowhere near direct enough for what I know of memes with a Channic origin. Not that I'm an…

>...Okay. I could be totally wrong here, but I was fairly certain the Sneed thing came out of a Simpson's joke w.r.t. Sneed's Seed and Feed, formerly Chuck's.

Correct. Sneed is 100% from "Sneed's Seed and Feed / Formerly Chuck's".

Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger

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Post by Erwin »

ezoe wrote: post #86

So, the moral of the story is, to develop a free software, avoid living in a place where 4chan thugs can physically harass you. So basically, avoid English speaking countries. Or get enough capital to hire the armed security who guard your house 24 hours a day.

He seems to live in Germany, near Heidelberg (as the German federal police, BKA, of Heidelberg are investigating). The town has a large university, and used to have one of the largest US Military presences in Germany though I think they've all withdrawn now.

Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger

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Post by szszrk »

kurofune wrote: post #56

>This site is the most disgusting place in the whole world, and I think all the people that are active in /g/ should get put in jail and be ashamed of themselves for making the world a worse place than it already is. >They are cyber terrorists, not cringe cancel kiddos. I sympathize with his case but this post seems a delusional, hyperbolic rant that will make his harassers target him with renewed fervor. They are tr…

So people should just shut up and get beaten, but less? That's exactly what is wrong with "our" attitude and he is right on this one.

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Post by immibis »

panny wrote: post #62
owlbynight wrote: post #10

There need to be harsh, harsh penalties for showing up uninvited to someone's house based on something that's happened or been said on the Internet. This is little kid shit and they either need to learn or have their toys taken away so they can't keep doing it.

>There need to be harsh, harsh penalties for showing up uninvited to someone's house based on something that's happened or been said on the Internet. This is little kid shit and they either need to learn or have their toys taken away so they can't keep doing it. Interestingly, this happened on a much larger scale yesterday too, https://twitter.com/DannyEFreeman/status/1412193024734601216 Same rules? Lock them up?

Yes, he should be safe from that sort of thing at his house, they can protest outside his government office or something.

Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger

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Post by immibis »

shadowgovt wrote: post #2

When all is said and done, in this era moreso than ever, interpersonal concerns influence software decisions at least as much as technical concerns.

Software has always been a social thing. Everything is. What use would Linux be if people didn't write Linux programs? What use would Audacity be if sound was conventionally stored on tapes? What use would Audacity be if there was a better free alternative?

Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger

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Post by immibis »

newbie789 wrote: post #22
sillysaurusx wrote: post #17

Am I the only one who would just … walk outside and talk to the 4channers who showed up? Probably offer them a cig and a meme. I’ve been thinking of tweeting my home address, so this is a relevant concern. What do you even do when someone comes to your house, other than listen to them? It could also be true that they did something a lot less friendly, like “bang on the windows and run away laughing.” That would be un…

I would strongly advise against tweeting your home address as some sort of experiment.

Obvious follow-up: do you think it's illegal to tweet your home address plus or minus 5 houses?

Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger

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Post by immibis »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #48
todd3834 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm guessing you don't have kids

You're right. I wish we did though. IVF is so expensive in America that it's cheaper to fly to South Korea and get the procedure done there, by $10's of thousands. Even still, would 4chan really dare mess with someone's kid? Generally they try to avoid going to prison, or vigilante retribution. I guess you're right though. Thanks for pointing that out. I can think of a few ways 4chan could troll someone's child witho…

Would 4chan really dare mess with someone? Clearly they do. And they don't care about prison or vigilante retribution in that case.
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