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Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]

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659 points jolux | 3 comments | 19 Sep 25 08:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.431s | 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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1. the_gastropod ◴[19 Sep 25 21:49 UTC] No.45307098[source]▶
While it's jarring to see someone call DHH a "white supremacist", the shoe fits. In that blog post he laments that London is "no longer full of native Brits" (what does that even mean? It's clear by the numbers he gives that he's counting "white people born in Britain") and frames demographic change as a "nightmare". That isn't neutral nostalgia (something he's claimed he doesn't have: https://world.hey.com/dhh/legacy-without-nostalgia-b19708c9) it's the same ethno-nationalist logic as "America for Americans", that old KKK slogan. When you argue that a city (especially one that's always been a multi-cultural hub) becoming less white is inherently a loss, you're not just being contrarian. You're espousing a white-supremacist worldview.
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2. immibis ◴[20 Sep 25 09:13 UTC] No.45311715[source]▶
And yet the comment is flagged. On HN, you may not call anyone a white supremacist for any reason, ever.
3. GreenWatermelon ◴[20 Sep 25 10:50 UTC] No.45312186[source]▶
I can't reply to the parent any more because it's flagged, so I'll reply to you, because I need to get this out.

Overtime I gave him so much benefit of the doubt, and steelmanned his arguments because I really respected him as a Software Engineer and I aligned with him on his views in technology... But that blog post was the last straw. It's clear-as-day racism. No room for misinterpretation.

I was willing to overlook his remarks about DEI, Trump, Kirk, etc.... because there were nuggets of truth and genuine pain points.. but it turns out he was a racist, white supremacists all along. Sigh...