[hypfer]

Business in this case means a clear transactional mindset. And you do get paid, just not in cash. You push your brand, your credibility as a security researcher and all that. You earn social credits and reputation.

And that is why you tried to hook people to watch your talk.

I bet the talk is good. Great, even. But this (maybe even not conscious) transactionality just does not belong in that space. HN, for example, is a much better place for it.

[braincode]

> And that is why you tried to hook people to watch your talk.

Hook people? Hey, it's not *THAT* good of a talk. I'm not even a security researcher myself, but thanks for the street cred ;)

I see your points, let's agree to disagree on some of them but overall, thanks for sharing your thoughts over here, good intellectual sparring.

[fgbarben]

Is this entire account just performance art?

"I Pretended To Be The Most Insufferable Maintainer in Open Source and Everyone Hated Me For It"?

[matheusmoreira]

> And you do get paid, just not in cash.

> And that is why you tried to hook people to watch your talk.

I gotta wonder if whoever you banned really deserves this. I think there's a world of difference between an individual just sharing something they worked on and a corporation spamming your channel for profit.

[hypfer]

Sure, but the action is still incorrect and that's why the reaction was removal.

Deserving sounds like a punishment, but it's just action => reaction. Attendance privilege was misused so it was revoked for a while.

I get where you're coming from, but the question there always ends up "where is the line?"

The answer in this case makes it simple. The line is crossed the moment transactional self-promotion happens.

No surprises for anyone. No discussions about which groups might be allowed to do so and why. A simple "no transactionality full stop".

Btw, most bans in my space expire after a while, because I do believe that people can and will change, but, as per the CoC, there is also another way to appeal a ban.

[matheusmoreira]

> The line is crossed the moment transactional self-promotion happens.

I understand where you're coming from now. I was confused at first because I make a conscious effort to differentiate this from commercial advertising.

I think it's only natural for people to want to share their work with peers. I agree that sites such as this one are the appropriate places for posting such things. I just hesitate before calling it advertising which has much darker connotations.

[Raptor75]

> but, as per the CoC, there is also another way to appeal a ban.

massive lie here, people who get banned cannot contact you in private because they are blocked both on TG and on GH

[hypfer]

I see that you're back to your old self, Stefan, after for a moment it almost looked like you've dropped it and moved on.

Will you ever move on? You do know that what you want is for me to stop being me and that is something I simply cannot do, right? This can't be fulfilling, especially given it's a reaction to once being part of the in-group.

As a fellow adult, I would really wish for you to somehow make peace with this fundamental incompatibility.

It is probably me. I am incompatible with the world how it is now. You're okay the way you are.

What else can I do other than putting up many, many warning signs?

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Anyway.

Lie is a very strong word you're using there. What is true is that I'm certainly not providing a high-speed instant path to achieve that, but just because there isn't a large neon arrow pointing at a high-speed industrial conveyor belt, doesn't mean that there wouldn't be a set of stairs close by.

Finding those stairs and bothering to walk up is in itself another filter in the spirit of the CoC and the appeal process. Essentially, selecting for caring and bothering instead of "needing to fix this one thing to get back on track".

[Raptor75]

> doesn't mean that there wouldn't be a set of stairs close by.

sure, force people to create various accounts on various other social media just to follow an inexistent appeal process.

>back to your old self, Stefan

there is no old self. I never stopped working in the background, collecting and publishing information, encouraging people to discuss various features they could build, giving visibility to the people who do, and taking care of the people you ban, especially the ones who were highly confused about what happened.

> You do know that what you want is for me to stop being me

Not at all, you continue doing you. I know you cannot change - ironic since this is one failing you berated me for. But don't expect me to stop highlighting the inconsistencies of your actions and words, especially when these help people come to terms with your treatment of them on your TG groups.

> Will you ever move on? ... given it's a reaction to once being part of the in-group.

I've moved on a long time ago from your in-group of sycophants. I laugh when I see them posting on other social media attacking someone they deem doing something against your philosophy, and cry remembering that I was once one of them.

But funny saying I should move on, since you clearly haven't given your last release notes, and still publishing and pointing to your slanderous post. for that reason my reply on reddit is still highlighted and pinned.

[hypfer]

Question:

I see that you have a lot of energy to fight for what is right and that's great!

Have you considered directing that at the vendors? Any vendor. Roborock, Dreame, Ecovacs, whoever.

These are those responsible for why you are still being forced to engage with me in some way. And you have a clear paid customer relationship with them. They must listen.

Imagine how great it would be if my whole project would become entirely irrelevant, because there is a proper vendor solution with paid commercial support and without some weird ideological Hardliner.

That to me sounds like the ultimate win. It would even side-steps me completely, stripping me of all my undeserved autocratic power.

Instead of fighting over a tiny cake, what about making that cake much, much bigger? Just some food for thought.