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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 Ygg2 »

DevKoala wrote: post #9
tomrod wrote: post #4

Weird. Why does 4chan care about this?

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…

Damn, that's some sci-fi level shittery. Reminds me of something I watched - where a person created an impromptu hacker persona, to expose a corporation corruption.

Then that hacker pseudonym was reused by other corporate actors to cause PR nightmares for each other.

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

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Post by newbie789 »

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.

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

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Post by ggreer »

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.

I get where you're coming from, but my guess is that such a law would cause more harm than benefit. Think of all the potential for abuse. Politicians (and other government officials) could use it to imprison almost anyone who protested outside their homes.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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

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Post by DenseComet »

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…

The issue with having your address known isn't a random person showing up to your door, because the chances of any of them actually coming to your place is very low. The issue is having the police showing up at your door with guns blazing. This has become a huge issue for live streamers and youtubers and has led to deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting

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

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Post by [deleted] »

ggreer wrote: post #23
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.

I get where you're coming from, but my guess is that such a law would cause more harm than benefit. Think of all the potential for abuse. Politicians (and other government officials) could use it to imprison almost anyone who protested outside their homes.

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Post by applefangirl »

willhinsa wrote: post #19
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…

It could very likely not be 4channers who show up at your house, but a SWAT team looking to take you out for holding someone hostage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Wichita_swatting

Or more they may send pizza deliveries and subscribe you too every mailing list known to man. Don’t post your address. Use a PO BOX if you must.

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

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Post by personjerry »

The absurdity is that these trolls clearly found Audacity useful. But because of them not knowing when to stop, they're going to end up with a much shittier product, possibly having just killed the future of Audacity, without the support of real devs like this one.

After all, what serious developer would continue working on this knowing this project is going to endanger their life?

"Congratulations, you played yourself"

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

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Post by boomboomsubban »

bawolff wrote: post #7

Does anyone have a tl;dr as to wtf is going on? How does something like this escalate to this level?

Audacity gets forked, forker puts up vote for new name with a joke option, forker regrets decision, trolls go to war over memory of Boaty McBoatface.
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