@davidb For viral Mastodon also see recently hyped hashtag #RaspberryBye

#JohnMastodon

I got curious and decided to check #RaspberryBye .social again, and they posted an aircraft tracker (vaguely mentioning @elonjet) and "plans" for the Pi 5 which included a flux capacitor and spy gear.
It seems that instead of apologizing for being so cruel, they're tripling down on it like it's just a joke.
Don't buy RPi products anymore. They don't want your business.

I've dusted off a #Teensy 4.1 and started playing with it tonight. I'm not a fan of the Arduino IDE, but thanks to arduino-cli I've now got the Teensyduino core and a test program compiled all from the same Makefile, and even better: with teensy_loader_cli, I can flash and run the new program onto the Teensy without having to press any buttons.

It would be nice to say #RaspberryBye to my Pico in my hardware project and replace it with the Teensy!

Politics aside, the biggest challenge to #RaspberryBye is superior software support, which #RaspberryPi have always excelled at. The best I know is #Armbian (link below) but beware of hidden details, such as closed or non-accelerated GPU drivers. It might be difficult to get #Kodi #LibreElec or #RetroPie #RetroArch working on some of these boards. You might need to forget x265 or 4K video in hardware. I suspect the genuine Pi is currently unbeatable in these areas. https://www.armbian.com/download/

My pre-#RaspberryBye vision was to create these little home appliances that used Pi 3's or Zero W's to provide local "cloud" (fog?) services.

This dream grew out of a pre-Pi project where I wrote a home accounting web app (just hosted on a PC) that my wife and I used to track our household finances. This meant we could share information with only each other, but also avoid the headaches of trying to share data with a single-user desktop application.

My #Recap 2022 :

- #Twitter out, #Mastodon in 🦣
- #Gmail out, #MXroute in 📧
- #RaspberryBye out, #ThinkCentre thin client in 🖥️
- #SteamDeck in :steamdeck:
- #halogen out, #Hue in 💡
- #FormalShirts out, #FunnyTshirts in 👾
- #soda out, #tea in 🫖
- #sugar out 👋
- #protein in 💪

@gpowerf repurposed 2nd hand Thin Clients, _loads_ of cheap ones to be found on eBay, OLX, etc. #RaspberryBye

Me encanta raspberry pie, pero me dejó perplejo la frialdad que tiene su cuenta en #mastodon para responder a sus detractores con un "bye bye! now!" No sé si es un tema de su comunity manager.
Eso no quita que hagan excelentes productos. #RaspberryBye #RaspberryPi

The heart of this problem is that we now know that RPi loves spy cops who use their kit, something we didn’t previously know because they hadn’t previously bragged that they do.

They love them so much they want to brag about it and are surprised that others might not love them so much that them announcing a spy cop hire would have repercussions.

Marketing is an intentional action that tells us about an org. This was marketing.

#RaspberryPi #RaspberryBye

Let's organize...not a book burning...

...but a RaspberryPi burning!

Think big. Livestream your local event. Organize virtual events.

Or if that is too risky, how about a RaspberryPiInTheFaceContest?

Or a RaspberryPiEatingContest?

LFG!

#RaspberryBye
#RaspberryPi

@lotographia @davidgarywood ‘troll’ is in the eye of the beholder. they will not be defederated from surveillance-positive servers, and we can only conclude that they have made a calculated marketing decision rather than the epic fuckup it appears to be from our point of view. #RaspberrySpy vs #RaspberryBye

When in doubt, it's always a conspiracy #dogpile #raspberrybye https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/raspberry-pi-hired-ex-cop-mastodon-controversy

Have concerns about @Raspberry_Pi 's new hire? Their co-founder thinks it's because it was planned on Discord by people who have ulterior motives due to that new hire's actions as a police officer against organized crime.

And here I thought I had legitimate concerns. Silly me.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/raspberry-pi-hired-ex-cop-mastodon-controversy

When one finds oneself in a hole, the first priority is to stop digging. #RaspberryPi #RaspberryBye

@enron can you recommend some competitors here? I was literally about to hit the buy button on one for a PiHole and now I need an alternative #raspberrypi #raspberrybye

@enron #RaspberryBye - thats great 😂​👏​

"Brands seeking to join the Fediverse will need to invest not just in a social media manager, but compentent and long-time administration for the instance that is aware of the political dynamics of the Fediverse, in order to ensure that they are able to stay on the fediverse." #raspberrybye #fediblock #maincharacter #chill https://eiara.nz/posts/2022/Dec/09/a-case-study-on-raspberry-pis-incident-on-the-fediverse/

I'm a maker. I've been using your boards for years. I've recommended their use to countless people, advocated for your goals, and remained excited for everything you had done to further coding in education. You were doing good work, and had an immense amount of goodwill within the maker community. Have credit where it's due.

But your recent antics are wholly unacceptable.

Firstly, you have abandoned the maker community in recent years by prioritizing your industrial customers over them. The very same maker community that fueled the wide adoption of your products, the people who tirelessly evangelized your mission, are being left behind.

You're right - people are cross that they can't get your products any more. And that's because you're not making them for us any more. And we know it.

Secondly, your recent "Hey, we hired a cop!" post is concerning. UK law enforcement has a long history of terrible behavior in infiltrating activist circles, establishing sexual relationships with activists, and in some cases abandoning the children they fathered in those relationships.

This is a well-documented pattern of behavior, and is still playing out in the courts. The individual you hired most likely had a direct hand in enabling that behavior, as his role was in developing surveillance techniques. That history should be considered shameful, yet somehow you've decided it's a selling point.

This raises further concerns when considered within the context of your recent pivot towards prioritizing industrial customers over the maker community. In many perfectly reasonable ways, this could be considered a signal to government and law enforcement agencies of your willingness and intent to expand your business with them.

After all, you also manufacture small cameras as well as small, network-enabled computers. Now you're advertising that you've brought someone in-house with extensive experience in law enforcement under a dubious title (what exactly is the job description of a "Maker-in-Residence" anyhow?).

It's clear that your original vision has changed, and not for the better.

All of this is concerning enough. But when these perfectly valid criticisms and concerns were brought to the attention of your Fediverse instance, your brand ambassador responded with glib dismissals and began blocking the very people who have supported you for the past decade.

Not to mention the absolutely ridiculous recent claims by your co-founder, Liz Upton, that this backlash is due to not putting a CW on a picture of pigs in a blanket. That's patently absurd, and had she taken any time whatsoever to seriously look at the conversation, she would know it.

But, again - we're not the customers you care about any more. And we know it.

The fact is, you have managed to burn down a decade's worth of goodwill in the span of a day or so by being condescending, inconsiderate, and tone-deaf towards your most loyal customers and their extremely valid concerns. And on a personal level, I'm wildly disappointed and feel a certain amount of betrayal.

Of course I'll be vigorously recommending your competitors from now on, for both moral and practical reasons. There are far superior alternatives on the market already. At the basest level, I'm quite comfortable forgetting that #RaspberryPi is even an option for a single-board computer, and never mentioning the name to another potential maker again.

Not that it matters, since we can't even get your boards without an obscene markup anyways.

#RaspberryBye

@korreckj328 in the end, most of the anger wasn't about the policeman, but about how the manager handled the situation and banned people rather than make any attempt to clear up the concerns that were brought up.

That being said, death threats? Really, people? What the fuck is wrong with you? We're better than this!

#raspberryBye

"It's not that he's a former cop, this is about pigs in blankets" is possibly the most hilariously self unaware comment ive ever read on the internet. #raspberrybye

@aral I only found out about the whole thing the next day.

I thought the announcement was badly done, and could have leaned into ANYTHING other than how awesome it was that he used to be a cop building spy gear.

How many people have built home security setups with Pi? Maybe he could use those skills for good?

Instead, when people criticize, they seemed to have some sort of breakdown.

I guess the next Pi-level machine I build will be Orange, Banana, or Rock.

#RaspberryBye