I am not aware of an article summarizing his greatest hits. Principally, he’s a person who talks a lot and likes some mild conspiratorial thinking. From what I gather, he’s also a liability for anyone who ever employed him in their marketing department, because he’s only interested in furthering his own brand. He does make a lot of videos these days, so I guess you can decide for yourself if you like him and his style. :)
The first line says “Seriously. This isn’t satire.”, but a few of the other posts are satire on the site (not all), such as “KDE Foundation hires Dwarf Paladin as new Executive Director” and “NetBSD Ported to Cheese Sandwich”. So this is probably malicious satire.
Edit: The first line says it’s not satire, but poking around the site there is definitely some satire articles on there, so I think this is probably malicious satire.
Satire or not, it does raise a few points that seem valid. Particularly that “She does not seem to have any experience with GNOME or Linux. In fact… she does not seem to have any experience related to software. At all. In any way.”
Based on the official blog it looks more like GNOME hired her as “an experienced communicator and fundraiser”. So maybe they don’t care whether she even owns a computer as long as she can raise money and woo investors?
What this basically means is that nobody that works for GNOME is presentable to the public and they need SOMEONE that's showered in the past nine months to go out and raise money. ANYONE.
Or it means that the project is growing and they need to act like a fucking business and not a loose-knit association of nerdasses with zero actual business skills.
You know... the reason every fucking tech company has a CEO.
Another user did some digging too and pointed out that the archive was the only one and was made on the day before the article, so the shaman website seems to have been created specifically for that article beehaw.org/comment/1430242
Holly brings three decades of invaluable experience in nonprofit management, having served as a consultant, director of development, executive director, and board member for numerous organizations. Notably, she founded the nonprofit organization Artists United, dedicated to empowering individual artists and fostering collaboration across artistic disciplines for the collective good. Additionally, Holly served as the Executive Director of the BioBricks Foundation, an international, open-source biotechnology nonprofit.
The rest of her merits seem reasonable for the position. The post also says she has a masters degree in education and a bachelors degree in English from Harvard. I have to assume that the GNOME Foundation put a lot of thought into this based on interviews and investigation that we’re not publicly privy to, and it’s not as simple as “GNOME is stupid and they hired a crackpot shaman off the street haha!” People can do great things at their job without adhering to your specific worldview in their personal life.
Nobody uses 6y old kernels, that’s why the decision was made not because of “a lack resources blah blah”. Why waste our man hours backporting to an unused kernel.
He was in the opensuse board of directors at some point I think. I knew him from his Youtube channel that talked about Linux and related topics, it was fairly popular in the Linux community for a while. I mostly watched it for Linux related news and technical opinions. A bit after he left that position, he started occasionally mentioning how now that he wasn't representing opensuse anymore he could finally "speak freely". That's when the channel started taking a weird turn.
At first he started going on weird political tangents while doing the whole "I don't talk about politics" thing. Some videos started popping up where he would attack some person or organization for what seemed to be mostly political reasons, but under the guise of his reasoning being purely technical.
Eventually, he just started sounding like someone who fell into a conspiracy rabbit hole, or some weird far right cult. I stopped watching then, most of his videos by then had little technical interest anymore and they sounded more like someone who was losing their mind. I don't know if it's a mental issue or something, but his whole persona shifted dramatically into something... weird. I haven't kept up in the mean time, though.
To add some extra context to the other comment, the guy is a raging bigot.
There’s a well known post of his where he repeatedly and intentionally deadnames and misgenders Danielle Fore from elementaryOS, just from the top of my head.
my brother in christ, who told you my comment was directed at you personally
wait, actually? even if it was, imagine thinking anything that comes from Bryan “Nerds Are The Real Oppressed Class, Actually” Lunduke is worth talking about, lmao
Yes, it’s true, the linux foundation is less about linux, but more about “Decentralized innovation” (Directly from their website). I don’t think that’s a bad, thing, as it’s also important to create open source software for other platforms and other technology.
First time encountering one! I’m almost impressed how you can write about something as technical as Linux in the writing style and cadence of shady medical supplement ads for the elderly, including bolded accusatory questions and poorly-supported italic statements placed mid-sentence.
Windows was just another “special add-on” too really until NT.
Still, interesting. Wish there were more details. I’m curious how Wendin DOS and the other native multitasking ones worked though. Must’ve been preemptive multitasking since DOS programs wouldn’t have been able to do cooperative multitasking.
Sure, it’s like how you could get GEOS for the Commodore 64, or even how you can run Linux either in console mode or with various display systems and WM/DEs. DOS was the real OS and windows merely a graphical shell and some other stuff.
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