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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by hello_hello@hexbear.net to c/libre@hexbear.net

Another sequel to the https://stallman-report.org/ and the https://dmpwn.info/ (Drew Devault report).

Brodie Robertson is a somewhat well-known Linux enthusiast channels that pumps out daily videos on any recent news topics and give his "well-informed" spin. He also has a podcast which platforms anyone from Polish neo-nazis to distribution maintainers (or just some random enthusiast like himself).

Brodie Robertson is a net-negative on the free operating system space. His videos have led to death threats and harassment to be targeted towards Freedesktop volunteers and has platformed known chuds like Lunduke

It is a habit of pointing a spotlight against vulnerable individual to hate mobs and then disavowing whatever harm does come in the laziest way possible ("don't include my name"). All while being a racist creep in private where you think no one is watching.

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If Brodie can't stop sending harassment against our developers, I think we should just ignore him. He hasn't taken any responsibility yet and if you have build such a community around your videos you are accountable for it.

Period.

Could at least delete all the haters comments and actually start moderating, but apparently that's too much work.

this isn't a surprise. He refused to delete transphobic comments on one of his videos and I called him out on it. I forget the reason but I think it was something stupid like "free speech". After that I unsubscribed from him and told YouTube to not recommend his channel

I'm posting this in case there are any viewers of him here that weren't aware of this, he posted a very bad "apology post" that basically soft-confirmed the things mentioned and also includes things like how he apparently was an active participant in GamerGate from the very start.


Too many chuds in Linux peppino-shotgun

Support volunteers and workers actually doing the praxis like The Evil Skeleton or any of the volunteers on projects you rely on like KDE or GNOME. Don't engage with mediocre white middlemen. If you want news from the source, hop onto mastodon and start following people or subscribe to project newsletters and blogs.

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[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

YouTube is a cesspit of FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) info and has gotten worse with ai slop videos and bottom of the barrel seo farming.

Debian has a distribution handbook+wiki and I know Arch and Gentoo have extensive wikis as well plus all the software manuals that come bundled in, much better to rely on those than anything else.

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