Oh, egads! My Fediverse is ruined!
But what if… I were to censor it, and disguise it as a server error?
Ohoho, delightfully devilish, Patrick
Honest question, has he tried to defend the DDOS attack? Can’t imagine how one would justify that
I haven’t seen him acknowledge it yet
It was especially stupid when everyone already was scrutinizing his code. Like users found his secret block list that was better hidden than this, and didn’t think anyone would find the ddos code? What a freakin’ moron.
I like that we all know who you’re talking about without naming names
oy vey-- I can be a real pill. but at least I can admit when I’m wrong. A lady/gentleman apologizes and exits stage left. One doesn’t simply ragequit with a side of DDoS!
in all my years of slashdotting, Stumbling, Farking, Digging, redditry, and Lemming, I’ve never known anyone to go down this hard nor this bitter. WHAT A CUNT!
This beloved character’s namesake deserved better
WHAT A STUPID ASSHOLE
And to top it all off, startrek website is going to defederate from db0 for TOTALLY REAL REASONS that aren’t just being a salty little bitch. They just can’t show you proof, cuz it’s doxxing.
Get used to it.
Anyone with a Claude Code account can spew out a Lemmy (or any other service) client and make antisocial changes and dump it in the App Store. ✨
As a lemming, this whole drama is categorical censorial bullshit, but also peak comedy because the fuckwad got caught and publicly called on the carpet
As a software engineer, this is stupid implementation, because you can trivially make this a configurable blocklist of strings and regex. It never needed to even be an argument. Which of course means that it was never about the implementation.
As an open source enthusiast, take the software engineer response, but add: and he’s intentionally pushing his (visibly fucked up and warped) worldview and values onto users, and he tried to obfuscate it to be sneaky. That falls in the realm of malware imo - as in, intentionally mutating the functionality of a project with a specific intent of impact on users, and then attempting to hide the evidence. And then he got called out on it, and got super butthurt, and rage quit the whole goddamn platform.
TL;DR: Good fucking riddance.
He even tried to wash it off with “but there is a setting to disable it, just navigate 32 sub menus and click toxic mode” and never addressed the fact that his software would hide the shit behind a “technicall issue” excuse
Did anyone bother to check if that “toxic mode” even existed, or existed prior to the jackass getting caught?
It only worked for one of the lists, not the other
Tbh, doesn’t matter.
Dude clearly designed it to be included in his releases in a difficult to detect fashion. That’s “malicious developer” behavior.
In the context of OSS, you design <thing> to do <function>, and you set things up to allow users and implementers to customize it as they see fit and necessary. Intentionally hiding opt-out mechanism - let alone shipping with shit you want or need to opt out of is very much a big tech bullshit tactic, and OSS devs who do that are objectively caustic OSS devs. Dude tried to foist his views and sensibilities onto everyone who used his shit in a very, very sneaky fashion
It’s correct and appropriate that he got blackballed from the community.
Hello there, fellow Culture enjoyer.
The absolute cherry on top for me was the trigger: a good old-fashioned post upgrade debug session. Your TL;DR ++
I identify as a General Systems Vehicle, and I appreciate your support <3
Valid as hell. I shapeshifted into a GSV in the astral plane once or twice. My polycule thought I made a very attractive GSV.
You should know about !transspecies@lemmy.blahaj.zone.
Your instance admin(s) found it upgrading your instance right?
He wasn’t actually a part of that debug session, or was he?
So the story goes, I wasn’t there to check it. I guess it doesn’t really matter, but I can appreciate a bit of poetic justice when I see it.
“I’ll write a whiny multipage diatribe to rage quit and insert a script to DDOS the instance that hurt my feelings. That’s the behaviour of a well adjusted adult that’s doing the right thing.”
The disturbing thing is that a LOT of people are like this. The older I get and the more I see of humanity the more it becomes clear most don’t mentally age past early teens and many who have big parts of them that don’t age past toddler behaviour.
Dont forget locking the post so no one can comment and call you out
Then coming back to argue on alts
Yo really, is he actually doing that?
Was as of a few hours ago, I haven’t been on since then
Definitely the actions of a person who should be unquestioningly trusted to be the sole arbiter of determining what is fine and dandy and what goes too far on Lemmy. Totally not indicative of every legitimate concern that every single person opposing this brought up being accurate, surely not!
My favorite reply from him when I called him out in a different thread: “why can’t you just let people use their own computers how they choose”
I’m guessing he has never heard the wisdom of not throwing stones in a glass house. The cognitive dissonance is hilarious, though.
That dude is an unbearable cunt as a mod as well. I am absolutely not surprised for the fact that he is an unbearable cunt as a developer.
IIRC he banned people in all communities he moderated if he found someone that you broke a rule in only 1 community, idk what rules though
Yes, he does. And he is very flexible in his own interpretation of the rules. He’s the kind of power-tripper I hoped leaving behind on reddit.
You don’t leave them behind here; you manage their reach.
Yes, but I hoped that would make this right here so unattractive, they would fall behind.
Hopefully he won’t come back, though evidently he’s rage quit before and come back
New accounts probably already created.
Most mods do that, though.
Really? That’s kinda messed up (unless it’s like, they ban someone homophobic or racist which then make sense)
Just how mods are. Every server’s got a few.
Everyone’s wrong sometimes that’s just the stale croutons in this human ceasar salad they call “life”. It takes a special kind of grit to be such a massive dog-rocket when your wrong tho
puts “dog-rocket” in purse for later use
Be careful where you use that it may bring unwanted attention
Takes a narcissist
Being wrong in good faith is okay. He definitely was not acting in good faith.
hmmm, i wonder who left the one downvote
Doesn’t even need to be intentional. Voyager’s mouse gestures make leaving an accidental downvote while scrolling way too easy for example.
I’m constantly doing this on accident
Gotta increase your swipe distances (I assume, I exclusively use mobile)
Any modo that can check 😁 ?
You can check, its all transparent. I just don’t remember how lol. If you search around you should be able to find it.
Isn’t startrek.website the tesseract guy’s own private instance?
One of the downvotes actually is from him, lol!
that explains SO MUCH about that instance. lol
Isn’t startrek.website the tesseract guy’s own private instance?
His own: Not that I’m aware of but I could be wrong. Private: No, there are a couple of thousand registered users.
Wasn’t dubvee his instance?
Again, another post celebrating that I’m on the blocklist and Charlie Kirk isn’t.
He’s not saying anything about it though. 🤔
Really proud of him for toning down the rhetoric. Guy hasn’t said a racist thing since he last went viral.
He’s done a lot to improve the world since starting that event.
Fr, he’s never been more tolerable
Yeah. Believe it or not, when I saw him last, he was leaning left.
And wearing his heart on his sleeve. And his collar. And his chest. And the ground.
That’s more his neck.
I bet he was gushing to say something, but now? quiet.
I get like that too sometimes… you get really excited and amped up over something, but then afterwards you just feel drained and dead tired.
when Im that tired, sometimes I like taking a nap in the dirt.
Yes, but not on top of it, where it’s loud and hot, more like snuggled some feet below, where it’s refreshing and quiet.
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Is lemmy turning into reddit or something? I just see bits and pieces of this drama, don’t really care enough to deep dive in it… but found out I’m on the “list”.
no, someone tried to turn it into Reddit using their frontend to try and act like an admin on instances they’re not an admin on, acting like an entitled reddit powermod/admin doling out shadowbans; and the fediverse collectively told him to fuck himself.
Most people, I’d think, would consider thousands of other people yelling all at once telling you you’ve done a tremendously dumb thing, to be a fine moment for self-reflection. AdmiralPatrick is not one of those people.
Frankly, my own block list is huge. Mostly keywords, very few users. I would recommend it to everyone. Any social media is unbearable without blocking shit out. Everyone should personalise blocklists to their tastes.
But you can’t make this decision for people. This is why I also don’t like that some instances defederate a lot of other instances they don’t like (and no one tells newbies). There’s a niche for pre-populated block lists that are available and curated and transparent (like for ad-blockers).
Yeah I think sharing them is a great idea as long as people can opt in or out. Respect people’s agency.
I personally don’t block anything that isn’t already blocked by my instance.
The most dumbfounding thing to me is that the list isn’t even base64 encoded. Its just sitting in the repo plain-text. I can’t decided if its laziness, a lack of data integrity standards, lack of imagination, or if he wanted all this drama one day.
(Tesseract Guy, self-portrait c.2026)
Rorschach was a principled man of strong morals I feel bad for everyone misunderstanding him.
He’s a great comic book character, but a lousy role model for “they’ll beg me to save them, and I’ll whisper ‘no’” narcissists, unfortunately.
