he's claiming he is taking no llm money with exception of specific cases, but he does accept api credits and access to early releases, which aren't payments only when you think of payments in extremely narrow sense of real money being exchanged.
this would in no way stand if he were, say, a journalist.
fuck, i can't imagine someone doing this, even though we do have fascists and neonazis in poland, but man, horst-wessel-lied is a fist-in-the-face offence level.
there's a bit more; tanja lange, a notable cryptographer herself and djb's partner was appelbaum's phd advisor (and didn't drop him after he got outed as a rapist).
oh, i'm laughing now. it's actually beautiful that it was the anubis' anime jackal girl that forced him to drop the plausible deniability shield and go full queerphobic.
you also clearly don't care about labour (as in labour costs being driven down, people's labour being used without consent, people's labour being stolen and used for enrichment of few.)
not even just an apologist, a literal hardcore german neonazi. matthew garrett surfaced a 2018 mail to a devuan mailing list chock full of nazi historical revisionism that you don't get into casually.
fwiw, there's a telling detail about ptaček's attitude to people who he doesn't see as his equals or peers: today is a second day in a row when he's not able to use proper pronouns with regard to hazel weakly (who dared to criticise his article), despite being corrected by more than one person.
it's either malice, or the principal engineer at fly dot io is not able to remember a single fact despite being informed about it three times.
he's claiming he is taking no llm money with exception of specific cases, but he does accept api credits and access to early releases, which aren't payments only when you think of payments in extremely narrow sense of real money being exchanged.
this would in no way stand if he were, say, a journalist.