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Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]

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659 points jolux | 4 comments | 19 Sep 25 08:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.087s | source
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davidw ◴[19 Sep 25 15:37 UTC] No.45302820[source]▶
Seems relevant: https://ruby.social/@getajobmike/115231677684734669

I'm just reposting it though. I haven't followed any of this myself.

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mijoharas ◴[19 Sep 25 15:47 UTC] No.45302944[source]▶
> The unstated reason for this change was that many of the existing Rubygems maintainers have recently quit (including their only full-time engineer) due to their continued relationship with DHH.

Can someone expand on what this means? Is it a continued relationship between Ruby Central and DHH, or the maintainers and DHH? Why does the other party have a problem with that?

EDIT: It seems the post was clarified since I copy/pasted this, and it's RC and DHH. Why do the maintainers have a problem with this? I though the stated reason was about RC removing everyone's access with no warning.

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mperham ◴[19 Sep 25 15:57 UTC] No.45303111[source]▶
DHH is a white supremacist. Here he complains about too many brown people in London.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

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baggy_trough[dead post] ◴[19 Sep 25 16:04 UTC] No.45303231[source]▶
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mijoharas ◴[19 Sep 25 16:10 UTC] No.45303305[source]▶
In the linked article, DHH links out to a wikipedia article titled "Ethnic groups in London"[0].

He then uses a statistic that "only a third" are native brits in 2021, which roughly lines up with the "White British" line in the chart.

You can argue that "white supremecist" is a charged and problematic term, but I'd say that "Here he complains about too many brown people in London." is a fairly accurate representation of the article. I'd say "disgraceful slander" is a bit too strong as a rebuttal.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London

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1. mijoharas ◴[19 Sep 25 16:22 UTC] No.45303447[source]▶
just double checked, there is a separate section of the article that has the "foreign born" population of london, which is 36%, so he's definitely excluding any non-white english people there.
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2. paulbjensen ◴[19 Sep 25 17:10 UTC] No.45304012[source]▶
I used to work at a Ruby on Rails shop many years ago (New Bamboo, now part of ThoughtBot) which is in London.

I got pointed to the blog post, and it was such a strikingly-bad hot take that I had to write a response: http://paulbjensen.co.uk/2025/09/17/on-dhhs-as-i-remember-lo...

In my opinion, initially I thought "Oh David's been sucked into some kind of social media bubble (on X) or disinformation space", but then as I read the post, down to the bit where he started talking about "demographic replacement", I came to the view that this is who he is a person.

It's shocking and disappointing.

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3. properpopper ◴[19 Sep 25 20:40 UTC] No.45306291[source]▶
Thanks for your post! Is there a way to add a comment there?
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4. paulbjensen ◴[19 Sep 25 21:40 UTC] No.45306995{3}[source]▶
You're welcome.

Unfortunately not - the page is a html export from a markdown editor (Typora), not a blog engine.