- be John McAfee
- born in 1945, Britain, raised in the U.S.
- math genius + lethal programmer
- helped build software for NASA’s Apollo program
- worked at NASA, Xerox, Univac
- killed his abusive father at 15
- wanted in multiple countries, Belize, Guatemala, U.S.
- survived 50+ assassination attempts
- marries a former escort who was literally hired to poison him
- creates McAfee Antivirus, the first mainstream antivirus on earth
- becomes insanely rich, lands on Forbes lists
- walks away from his own company before it becomes a giant
- reinvents himself as a crypto prophet + digital freedom extremist
- runs for U.S. president twice just to troll the system
- mentors the whole “leak culture,” inspires whistleblowers like Snowden
- early Bitcoin whale, makes a fortune, loses a fortune, repeats
- hacked Hillary Clinton’s office by sending “free computers” filled with spyware
- belize saga: shootouts, dead dogs, missing neighbors, corrupt police
- lives on a yacht in the Caribbean with ex-military guards
- openly boasts about never paying income tax
- he used to blackmail the official U.S. agencies
- escapes Guatemalan custody by faking a heart attack
- arrested years later in Spain, found dead in prison
- fans still claim he faked his death + dropped coded messages
- part tech pioneer, part outlaw, part cult figure
- the most ungovernable man the tech world has ever seen
Is there anything left for him to shock the world with?
Meet Nikolai Durov the genius behind Telegram’s tech backbone. @Kolja_Durov
->Built MTProto, Telegram’s ultra-secure, lightning-fast protocol
->Co-founded Telegram but stayed behind the scenes
-> PhD mathematician, Olympiad gold medalist (Math & Informatics)
-> Architect of Telegram’s privacy-first, decentralized system
-> His engineering made Telegram scale to billions
-> Quietly built one of the world’s most trusted platforms
Python refuses to back down on DEI.
Imagine turning away free money because you want to keep hiring based on discrimination instead of merit.
Python went woke over a joke in 2013. Dongle-gate at PyCon, which went viral for mildly dirty jokes about dongles which were overheard by a very woke Karen. The jokes?
"I'd fork that guy's repo"
and
"Big Dongles"
People got shit-canned and cancelled.
You have no idea how much of Open Source was absolutely taken over in 2014 - 2020 because of this moral woke panic. Anybody refusing to bow to it was painted as a racist, misogynist or worse.
Codes of Conduct were forced onto open source software as Maoist Struggle Sessions. Devs were berated and badgered and framed as -ists until they "admitted their sins" and adopted a CoC that was , in effect, a huge cudgel that activist contributors, mostly community managers and non developers, used to oust based devs and bring in woke devs.
And of course, a lot of scared devs went woke, loudly, to protect themselves.
This is how all of open source got corrupted, and it's high time to destroy the virus there, root and stem.