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[-] RegularJoe@lemmy.world 125 points 4 days ago

While the image is "Gottfrid Svartholm, one of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay in his work station", he sure looks like Shaggy from Scooby Doo.

[-] affenlehrer@feddit.org 41 points 4 days ago

I can't really tell why but he also looks extremely Scandinavian to me

[-] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 20 points 4 days ago

I'm gonna choose to take that as an insult to all Scandinavians

[-] ptu@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 days ago

I mean he’s right but I still feel attacked

[-] ForestGreenGhost@literature.cafe 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Why? That guy looks awesome

[-] affenlehrer@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago
[-] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

He looks like he is about to murder a rival band member and burn some churches

[-] affenlehrer@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

True Norwegian Black Raggae?

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago
[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world -4 points 4 days ago

Afaik it's not him but some rando.

[-] 0x0@infosec.pub 20 points 4 days ago

That is most definitely Gottfrid.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world -3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Mind telling me why Gottfrid Svartholm, a Swede, would be reading a Polish physiology book?

The pic has been around forever, that's not proof by itself.

[-] Zombie@feddit.uk 12 points 4 days ago

I have books in languages I don't or barely understand, some in topics I know fuck all about. Does that disbar me from being the nationality that I am?

Is this an American comment that I'm too European to understand?

Like... wtf, people can't own books in other languages now?

Who's to say he doesn't know Polish? Who's to say it's even his and not a family member's?

This is such an arbitrary and meaningless detail to pick up on in an attempt to disprove the legitimacy of a photograph of a guy who looks very likely to be Gottfrid, that it reeks of anti intellectualism.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world -3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You pulled plenty out of your ass there, so indeed I imagine it does reek around you now.

[-] 0x0@infosec.pub 6 points 4 days ago

Where have you seen him reading it? Definitely not in that photo.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world -5 points 4 days ago

Oh, so the room that is carefully made to his image as you imagine it, somehow by pure chance includes a thousand-page A4 tome on physiology in Polish? Because Swedish hackers are known for their love for Polish university textbooks as decoration, of course.

[-] 0x0@infosec.pub 2 points 4 days ago

How do you know it is his room?

You're doing an awful lot of speculation to get your point valid.

[-] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 days ago

The title of the photo is:

Gottfrid Svartholm, one of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay in his work station

So it follows that it's his room?

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago

Your trolling is too fat. Try trolling more subtly.

[-] 0x0@infosec.pub 3 points 4 days ago

There is no trolling, I honestly believe that is anakata due to the similarity, and others do to based on image search results.

You're basing your entire evidence on a single books language.

[-] olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 4 days ago

Oh no, it's the installation wizard

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 48 points 4 days ago

Man, I haven't seen this image in a decade and I can still spot it.

[-] Stache_@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago

Spot what? I’m sure I’ve seen this image, but dunno if there’s a deeper meme connected to it

[-] jve@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Lmao incredible

[-] Zidane@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 days ago
[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 4 days ago

The book or the actual entity?

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

There's a sort of white rectangular bag behind him. To the right of it is a large penile object on a string. I suspect this is it.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 days ago

This is how you know tech was good in the 90s.

These overly nerdy and grim looking setups were actually just a good time since the tech was worth their salt.

It’s also funny how there isn’t the same allure to having lots of modern tech the same way the 90s tech had the cyberpunk allure.

[-] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 30 points 4 days ago
[-] pmk@piefed.ca 13 points 4 days ago

A while ago my girlfriend ran into Peter Sunde at a conference, and she asked if he was still in contact with Gottfrid these days, and Peter replied "No, he's a full on nazi now."

And Peter is a socialist, I think. Makes sense.

[-] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago

Dude looks like shaggy cosplaying serial experiments lain

[-] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Like Zoinks!

[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

Judging by the age of those laptops, it may be a few dial up modems instead. “Local network? Nah, we’ll just have a bank of us robotics 56k modems. “

[-] db2@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago
[-] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

What is this book doing in this cave?!

[-] db2@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

It appears to be bracing a shelf. It would probably be holding a window open if there were any.

[-] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

He's probably more of a Linux guy than fan of windows

[-] db2@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

That level is definitely Hurd.

[-] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

I was thinking Plan 9.

[-] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

This I know, but how a book with clearly polish title happened to be on this photo?

[-] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago

“Can’t stop the signal, Mal.”

[-] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Only if it's a pot Scooby snack.

[-] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 days ago

Cyberpunk Shaggy.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

wróćmy do tajemniczego vana Scooba!

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