Tech CEOs can eat my shit all they do is build closed gardens and use lawfare to protect them.

Yeah, but this is the problem. You understand strong political fervor in cases you agree with, but you refuse to in any other. Zos, I really, really dislike AI. It should not be surprising to you that I also dislike its users.

You brought up homophobia as something you dislike earlier. If Tridgell had instead gone on some f-slur, f-slur, f-slur bender with his Medium account, don't you think that this "oh, but he's an uwu smol bean volunteer" thing wouldn't really fly? If he had said he said those slurs because he was upset that no one was helping him, would that really be enough for you? Just a pat on the back and a "yeah, everyone goes on a homophobic rant every now and again."

Making non-technical github issues to insult a maintainer

1, I took a look and I mostly see people being annoying more than rude.

2, the nature of protest is to be uncomfortable. Sticking forks into the gears of the machine is par for the course. This is, like... centuries old knowledge.

you just want rsync to remain available to you free of charge,

He's welcome to start charging. I would prefer that over what he's doing now.

Because he's been calling for help which isn't coming,

This is not actually an answer.

If things were acceptably moving at a "snail's pace" before AI, what has changed? It's load bearing? It was already, but also, that's exactly why he shouldn't be using AI.

I have to reiterate, it is really obvious that your contention here is only with punishing people for their bad behavior. Because you are pro AI. On the FuckAI board. Is this like a masochist thing? Like, what are you doing here?