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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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There are a few weird guys in there that I wasn't already aware of. I knew that Louis Rossmann was kind of an asshole, but being openly active on kiwifarms is actually fucked up.

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[–] lproven@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are several distros like that…

Perhaps so, but this one is the giant 10km tall giant space elevator base station that stands out far above all. I pitched a story on it when he raised $8M in sponsorship for this dross. By the time I wrote it, a couple of days later, it was $10M. By the time it was published it was $12M.

That was a week ago and it's $18.5M now.

So long as it was kept out of corporate clutches, that kind of cash could do wonders. It's very sad to see.