Promising Linux Project Dies After Dev Faces Harassment (neowin.net)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/11/1858209/promising-linux-project-dies-after-dev-faces-harassment
- Source link: https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-dev-quits-after-personal-attacks-from-user-over-kapitano-antivirus-tool/
> Kapitano, a user-friendly GTK4 frontend for the ClamAV scanner on Linux, has [2]been killed by its developer 'zynequ' following a wave of harsh, personal attacks from a user. The tool was meant to simplify virus scanning but quickly became a flashpoint when a user claimed it produced malware.
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> After defending [3]the code calmly, the developer was nonetheless met with escalating accusations and hostility, leading to burnout. The project is now marked as "not maintained," its code released into the public domain under The Unlicense, and it's being [4]delisted from Flathub.
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> zynequ said: "This was always a hobby project, created in my free time with none of the financial support. Incidents like this make it hard to stay motivated."
[1] https://slashdot.org/~darwinmac
[2] https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-dev-quits-after-personal-attacks-from-user-over-kapitano-antivirus-tool/
[3] https://codeberg.org/zynequ/Kapitano
[4] https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.zynequ.Kapitano
‘tis easier to destroy than create (Score:3)
I hate reading about things like this. My heart goes out to Kapitano. Thank you for trying!
Obligatory XKCD (Score:4, Insightful)
> I hate reading about things like this. My heart goes out to Kapitano. Thank you for trying!
[1]https://xkcd.com/2347/ [xkcd.com]
[1] https://xkcd.com/2347/
Re:This is why (Score:5, Interesting)
For you that might be true but for me Linux has been part of my desktop environment for almost 30 years now.
I don't care how popular something is but rather does the tool work for me. Does it lock up my information? Does it force me to conform to it or does it conform to my requirements? Does it spy on me? Does it force me to stop in order for it to run an update?
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There are a few good reasons why Linux has not taken over the desktop. This is not one of them, and is entirely and totally irrelevant to the issue.
The real reasons are:
Windows (or Mac OS) is preinstalled on 98% of PCs - most people don't really even know what an OS is or that they could change it.
Certain key software only being available for Windows (and maybe Mac OS) e.g. Adobe applications
Some laptops (particularly) having missing or poor driver support for e.g. webcam / wifi / fingerprint reader
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Linux has been on my desktop since 1997 and it is on my phone, my tablets
Can Windows claim that ?
The joke is on people who keeps making that joke
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You _do_ realize that most virtualization is running under Linux... yes?
IA to the rescue (Score:3)
The issues linked in the [1]post [codeberg.org] are:
#12: [2]https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://codeberg.org/zynequ/Kapitano/issues/12 [archive.org]
#13: [3]https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://codeberg.org/zynequ/Kapitano/issues/13 [archive.org]
[1] https://codeberg.org/zynequ/Kapitano/issues/14
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://codeberg.org/zynequ/Kapitano/issues/12
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://codeberg.org/zynequ/Kapitano/issues/13
Post Title Reads Like (Score:1)
An Onion headline
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> An Onion headline
The Onion can no longer keep ahead of reality.
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The Onion is a look back at humor from before our propaganda driven post-truth existence
Headline: virus creator successfully wins (Score:2)
Could be that the harasser wanted it to be easier to deploy viruses, so taking down a friendly user interface to a virus/malware tool is a win for them.
Penny Arcade - Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory (Score:2)
Penny Arcade - Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory (GIFT)
[1]https://www.penny-arcade.com/c... [penny-arcade.com]
I've had my run-in with Internet assholes about 25-years ago while writing a Quake Console documentation website on PlanetQuake, and started getting hate emails for no apparent reason from assholes. Shut down that comment section and email link because of the abusive emails that wouldn't stop that weren't even on-topic to the site and documentation.
Then when social (misinformation) media showed up on the horizon, this mad
[1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboards-and-other-anomalies
flatpak lol (Score:2)
this is why flatpak (and snap) sucks.
A valuable life lesson (Score:5, Insightful)
There's a valuable life lesson that everyone needs to learn. It's that's some people aren't worth your time. Block and move on. Even if they have some axe to grind that you can't fully understand and you think they're damaging you, just ignore them and eventually others will realize they're unhinged and not worth listening to either.
Re:A valuable life lesson (Score:4, Insightful)
I give it 80% chance the "user" was a malware developer.
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> I give it 80% chance the "user" was a malware developer.
Or developing similar, perhaps lower-quality, software ...
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Whew, a linux-mint-running-malware-developer won't ever amount to much.
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Or a anti-virus developer... or in the case of Kaspersky... both
Parameters (Score:5, Insightful)
Especially in this case, which looks like it was a public domain project. My copypasta answer to any unhinged accusation would be "fork the code and do it yourself."
Re:Parameters (Score:5, Funny)
> Especially in this case, which looks like it was a public domain project. My copypasta answer to any unhinged accusation would be "fork the code and do it yourself."
I'd aim more for "fork yourself, and if you want, fork the code."
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It's too bad. Many people, like me, who are professional software engineers, would contribute more if the environment weren't so toxic. It's a shame.
I took my ball and went home. I'm not sorry--they should be.