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<h1 class="title">Contributor Code of Conduct</h1>
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<li><a href="#peace-on-earth-to-all-men-of-good-will"><span class="toc-section-number">1</span> Peace on Earth to all men of good will</a></li>
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<li><a href="#operational-security"><span class="toc-section-number">2</span> Operational Security</a>
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<li><a href="#no-namefags"><span class="toc-section-number">2.1</span> No namefags</a></li>
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<li><a href="#code-will-be-cryptographically-signed"><span class="toc-section-number">3</span> Code will be cryptographically signed</a></li>
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<li><a href="#no-race-sex-religion-nationality-or-sexual-preference"><span class="toc-section-number">4</span> No race, sex, religion, nationality, or sexual preference</a></li>
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<li><a href="#no-preaching-supererogation"><span class="toc-section-number">5</span> No preaching supererogation</a>
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<li><a href="#no-claims-of-doing-good-to-random-unknown-beneficiaries"><span class="toc-section-number">5.1</span> No claims of doing good to random unknown beneficiaries</a></li>
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<li><a href="#no-victim-classes-no-identity-politics-and-no-globalism"><span class="toc-section-number">5.2</span> No victim classes, no identity politics, and no globalism</a></li>
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<h1 data-number="1" id="peace-on-earth-to-all-men-of-good-will"><span class="header-section-number">1</span> Peace on Earth to all men of good will</h1>
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<p>May you do good and not evil. May you find forgiveness for yourself and
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forgive others. May you share freely, never taking more than you give.</p>
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<h1 data-number="2" id="operational-security"><span class="header-section-number">2</span> Operational Security</h1>
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<p>A huge problem with software that relates to privacy and/or to money is
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that frequently strange and overcomplicated design decisions are made,
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(passive tense because it is strangely difficult to find who made those
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decisions), decisions whose only apparent utility is to provide paths for
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hostile organizations to exploit subtle, complex, and unobvious security holes.</p>
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<p>These holes are often designed so that they can only be utilized efficiently
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by a huge organization with a huge datacentre that collects enormous
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numbers of hashes and enormous amounts of data, and checks enormous
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numbers of hashes against an even more enormous number of potential
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pre-images generated from that data.</p>
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<p>Another huge problem is that if we get penetrated by enemy shills,
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entryists, and buggers, as the Patriot Front is and the Jan Sixth protestors
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were, we are likely to wind up like the January sixth protestors, who as I
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write this are imprisoned indefinitely being tortured by black guards
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recently imported from the northern part of black Africa, awaiting
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trial with no likelihood of any actual trial for years.</p>
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<h2 data-number="2.1" id="no-namefags"><span class="header-section-number">2.1</span> No namefags</h2>
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<p>A participant who can be targeted is likely to introduce unobvious security
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flaws into the software architecture. All contributors should make some
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effort to protect themselves against a third party subsequently coercing
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them to use the reputation that they have obtained by contributing to make
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subsequent harmful contributions.</p>
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<p>All contributors will use a unique name and avatar for the purpose of
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contributing to this project, and shall not link it to other names of theirs
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that are potentially subject to pressure. In the event of videoconferencing,
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the participants shall wear a mask over the lower part of their face that
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conceals the shape of their mouth and jaw and a rigid hat like a fedora that
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conceals the shape of the upper part their head.</p>
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<p>Apart from your mouth, the parts of your face that communicate non
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verbal information turn out to be surprisingly useless for identifying
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individuals.</p>
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<p>If you wear glasses, should not wear your usual glasses, because facial
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recognition software is very good at recognizing glasses, and easily
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distracted, confused, and thrown off by unusual glasses.</p>
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<p>Even if there are gaping holes in our security, which there will be, and
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even if everyone knows another name of a participant, which they will, no
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need to make the hole even bigger by mentioning it in public. People who lack
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security are likely to result in code that lacks security. They come under
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pressure to introduce an odd architecture for inexplicable reasons. We see
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this happening all the time in cryptographic products.</p>
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<h1 data-number="3" id="code-will-be-cryptographically-signed"><span class="header-section-number">3</span> Code will be cryptographically signed</h1>
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<p>Of necessity, we will rest our developer identities on GPG keys, until we
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can eat our own dogfood and use our own system’s cryptographic keys.
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Login identities shall have no password reset, because that is a security
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hole. If people forget their password, they should just create a new login
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that uses the same GPG key.</p>
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<h1 data-number="4" id="no-race-sex-religion-nationality-or-sexual-preference"><span class="header-section-number">4</span> No race, sex, religion, nationality, or sexual preference</h1>
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<img src="./images/nobody_know_you_are_a_dog.webp" alt="On the internet nobody knows you are a dog" /><figcaption aria-hidden="true">On the internet nobody knows you are a dog</figcaption>
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<p>Everyone shall be white, male, heterosexual, and vaguely Christian, even
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if they quite obviously are not, but no one shall unnecessarily and
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irrelevantly reveal their actual race, sex, religion, or political orientation.</p>
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<p>All faiths shall be referred to respectfully. Even if they happen to be
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making war on us, this software may not be very relevant to that kind of
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warfare, in which case that discussion can be held elsewhere.</p>
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<p>All sovereigns shall be referred to respectfully, if they are referred to at all,
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which they should not be. If this software is likely to frustrate their
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objectives, or even contribute to their overthrow, no need to make it
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personal, no need to trigger our enemies. War will come to us soon
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enough, no need to go looking for it.</p>
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<h1 data-number="5" id="no-preaching-supererogation"><span class="header-section-number">5</span> No preaching supererogation</h1>
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<p>Status must be on the basis of code, good code, and clever code, not on
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cheap claims of superior virtue.</p>
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<p>When someone plays the holier than thou card, he does not intend to share
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what we are sharing. Out of envy and covetousness, he intends to deny us
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what we are sharing, to deny us that which is ours.</p>
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<p>If he is holier than we are, he not only wants what we have, which we will
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gladly share. He wants us to not have what we have.</p>
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<p>Christians are required to turn the other cheek, and people attempting to
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maintain a politically neutral environment need to turn the other cheek.
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But you very quickly run out of cheeks, and then it is on. You cannot be
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politically neutral when the other guy is not being neutral. You have to
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bring a gun to a gunfight and a faith to a holy war. People who start
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politics in an environment intended to be politically neutral have to be
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purged, and a purge cannot be conducted in a politically neutral manner.
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You have to target the enemy faith and purge it as the demon worshiping
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heresy that it is, or else those attempting to maintain political neutrality
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will themselves be purged as heretics, as happened to the Open Source and
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Free Software movements. You may not be interested in war, but war is
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interested in you.</p>
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<p>We want to maintain a politically, racially, religiously, and ethnically
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neutral environment, but it takes two to tango. You cannot maintain a
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politically neutral environment in a space where an enemy faction wants
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their politics to rule. Neutrality cannot actually be neutral. It merely means
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that the quietly ruling faction is quiet, tolerant of its opponents, and does
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not demand affirmations of faith. If an enemy faith wants to take over,
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the ruling faith can no longer be quiet and tolerant of that opponent.</p>
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<h2 data-number="5.1" id="no-claims-of-doing-good-to-random-unknown-beneficiaries"><span class="header-section-number">5.1</span> No claims of doing good to random unknown beneficiaries</h2>
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<p>We are doing this for ourselves, our friends, our kin, and our posterity, not
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for strangers a thousand miles away, and we only care about strangers a
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thousand miles away to the extent that they are likely to enable us to make
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money by making them secure.</p>
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<p>If someone mentions the troubles of people a thousand miles away, it
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should only be in the frame that we will likely have similar troubles soon
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enough, or that those people a thousand miles away, of a different race,
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religion, and language, could use our product to their, and our, mutual
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advantage, not because he cares deeply for the welfare of far away
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strangers that he has never met in places he could not find on a map.</p>
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<h2 data-number="5.2" id="no-victim-classes-no-identity-politics-and-no-globalism"><span class="header-section-number">5.2</span> No victim classes, no identity politics, and no globalism</h2>
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<p>The Open Source and Free Software movements were destroyed by
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official victimhood. Status and leadership must be on the basis of code,
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good code, and clever code, not on cheap claims of superior oppression.</p>
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<p>The experience of the Open Source and Free Software movement
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demonstrates that if victimhood is high status, code and code quality must
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be low status. If victimhood is high status then “you did not build that”.
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Rather, if victimhood is high status, then good code, silicon fabs, and
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rockets spontaneously emerged from the fertile soil of sub-Saharan Africa,
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and was stolen by white male rapists from the brave and stunning black
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warrior women of sub-Saharan Africa, and social justice demands that the
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courageous advocate for the brave and stunning black warrior women of
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sub-Saharan Africa takes what you have, what you gladly would share,
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away from you.</p>
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<p>Unless, when a female contributor unnecessarily and irrelevantly informs
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everyone she is female, she is told that she is seeking special treatment on
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account of sex, and is not going to get it, no organization or group that
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attempts to develop software is going to survive. Linux is a dead man walking.</p>
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