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Linus actually commented on this lack of identity handling in 2012 in his famous explanation of why he doesn't use GitHub: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17

"since github identities are random, I expect the pull request to be a signed tag, so that I can verify the identity of the person in question."

And:

"github throws away all the relevant information, like having even a valid email address for the person asking me to pull."

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Yeah, the GPG signing support in Git would be the best solution to this, unfortunately GitHub doesn't offer integration for that.

Maybe this is where Keybase.io could come in?

He called github "braindamaged". Isn't that against the CoC?

> He called github "braindamaged". Isn't that against the CoC?

So, you think he violated a Code of Conduct that did not exist at the time, in the course of explaining why he was not a user of the service (so that any Code of Conduct for that service would not apply to him even if it existed.)

Making the violation before it's formalized does not necessarily excuse it. Perhaps proper action is to remove the full post or specific parts.

He's making a sarcastic reference to this recent incident: https://b0wie.s3.amazonaws.com/second-response-full.jpg.

I wonder what would happen if I push some electromagnetic calculations to Github (I'm a physicist): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retarded_potential

You can't win an argument against people who gave up on logic.

Who knows, but further down when he calls someone a moron and starts a little rant surely breaks any form of code of conduct.

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