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this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2025
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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I got jumpscared by Gavin D. Howard today; apparently his version of
bcappeared on my system somehow, and his name's in the copyright notice. Who is Gavin anyway? Well, he used to have a blog post that straight-up admitted his fascism, but I can't find it. I could only find, say, the following five articles, presented chronologically:Also, while he's apparently not caused issues for NixOS maintainers yet, he's written An Apology to the Gentoo Authors for not following their rules when it comes to that same
bcpackage. So this might be worth removing for other reasons than the Christofascist authorship.BTW his code shows up because it's in upstream BusyBox and I have a BusyBox on my system for emergency purposes. I suppose it's time to look at whether there is a better BusyBox out there. Also, it looks like Denys Vlasenko has made over one hundred edits to this code to integrate it with BusyBox, fix correctness and safety bugs, and improve performance; Gavin only made the initial commit.
Pretty sure this guy has some serious mental health issues.