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SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
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Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
#352Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mate, thats just rules. rules you don't agree with.
Often these "rules" extend to conduct far outside of the purview of a project - typically crossing into identity politics. "If you espouse views I don't like on your personal Twitter, you can't contribute to this entirely unrelated software project."
This can sometimes, in practice, be reasonable. If letting muh_dick_1488 open PRs means everyone else stops contributing, well, you're gonna have to pick a group to keep.
Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
#353hi, phil here — post on adafruit here: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/01/12/discontinuing-the-teens... i’ll stop back and answer anything (sparkfun will not?). sparkfun is the exclusive maker and distributor of the closed-source teensy and informed us we will not be able to purchase the teensy. this happened after i sent an email reporting the founder, nate, for multiple harassing actions directed at limor, including…
Post the emails
Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
#354Earlier quoted context omitted.
What would you have them publish instead? Your curiosity does not overcome the right to privacy of those involved.
It seems like releasing more would have probably broken the exact same rules they are claiming AdaFruit broke.
if they didn't want to say more, they should have said less.
the way that normal serious businesses handle situations like this is to simply stop carrying the product, instead of publishing vague, unverifiable accusations of wrongdoing. and then if somebody notices and asks questions, you'd give a statement like "unfortunately we could not come to an agreement to continue our relationship with this vendor, but we're happy to be able to continue offering a number of other comprable products".
Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
#355Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it means anything, the first thought I had reading this post was "I wonder how SparkFun is exaggerating or misrepresenting this situation, because I can't believe Adafruit of all organizations is in the wrong here."
> because I can't believe Adafruit of all organizations is in the wrong here. I've been hearing about this drama through a group chat for a long time. To be honest, neither side looks good in this one. Both companies have behaved disappointingly at different times for different reasons. I'm not doing this is an arbitrary "both sides" dismissal. There have been actions from both companies that would have been unaccept…
Thanks for the message. Which IRC channel should I join?
Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
#356Earlier quoted context omitted.
Levar Burton did get into some hot water over the Reading Rainbow app.
Hah, really? He's a treasure, met him a few times at poetry readings and such. A quick search isn't bringing anything up but google has been failing me a lot lately. Or I'm failing at google a lot lately.
Or Google is failing you lately. Seems like it's not a recent event, which Google is also REALLY bad at these days.
https://current.org/2016/03/wned-and-rrkidz-trade-lawsuits-o...
Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
#357Earlier quoted context omitted.
i asked if the person was going to "dox" me if i purchased a sticker that was in my cart already. there are multiple people making accounts using my handle, so i'm now on a server where there is some due process before fake reports or others pretending to be me.
> i asked if the person was going to "dox" me if i purchased a sticker that was in my cart already. That implies you asked this of some random Etsy seller you happened to be interested in purchasing a sticker from, due to general privacy concerns. However, as I understand it, you instead tracked down the Etsy store of someone who had criticized and blocked you on social media, specifically to send them further unwant…
> However, as I understand it, you instead tracked down the Etsy store of someone who had criticized and blocked you on social media, specifically to send them further unwanted messages related to your previous conversation about "doxxing" another user.
I have zero knowledge of the drama beyond reading the posts here, but if this is true then that clearly falls into the harassment arena.
Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
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I clicked one of the top level links ITT and mostly it was triggered by two grown-ass children having a disagreement about the ethics of using gen AI and deciding to hash out that disagreement by doxing each other instead of simply talking to each other. But yes, there's also pronoun stuff in the background here, because of course there is.
My new rule of thumb is to steer clear of anybody with a fediverse bluesky whatever account. The whole thing is an echo chamber for amplifying insanity.
Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi phil, appreciate the supposed candor here. I'm just an uninvolved HN observer interested in piecing together all the details of this dispute, here are some follow-up questions: - The first public claim is that you engaged in targeted social-media harassment of an individual ('discatte') [1], linking various personally-identifiable information to their public profile without consent (name, email and gmail profile p…
user: xyzzyxy created: 2 hours ago ... ok, so you created it for this... the individual you reference had already been removed from multiple retro and maker communities prior to this dispute for documented behavior. i contacted them privately using an email address they themselves used on the site they used, specifically to ask for a stop to the pile-on and to see whether there was a constructive way to resolve their…
> the individual you reference had already been removed from multiple retro and maker communities prior to this dispute for documented behavior.
Their response when you made this claim in November was “what communities?????”. Are you perhaps mixing them up with someone else? (Source: https://digipres.club/@discatte/115595517911363679.)
Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
#360Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What’s the deal with 5v, 3.3v and 24v “standards” for sensors? Historical garbage and different manufacturing technologies. Be happy if you can get away with only 5V and 3V3 rails in your project. 24V is usually to interface with industrial sensors. And sometimes you see 12V as well, for stuff that's RS232 based. And on top of that you got a fifth standard, 4..20 mA current loops. That one is used for long range tr…
don't forget 0-10v and 2-10v analog signals.
Never used 2-10V but I learned about 0-10V when someone approached me to design a device to input 0-10V position signal and output two phase-shifted sinusoids to retrofit to a controller that only took resolver inputs. We shipped a couple dozen of them to repair broken machine tools. Fun project, but not going to get rich from it!
I'm guessing that the 2-10V is to detect line break conditions?