The creator of FOSS BIOS Libreboot, Leah Rowe, wrote a book. It's called "a mostly bloodless coup" and it's a sort of memoir and it's on her website. The contents are really frightening. In it she:

  • Breaks a man's nose at a gay bar because he won't have sex with her
  • Verbally abuses her girlfriend daily
  • Later moves the now-ex-girlfriend back in with her because she "wanted a driver" and "wanted a maid". Keeps her there for 4 years, verbally abusing her the entire time
  • Cynically joins the "Stallman Support" campaign, despite not supporting him actually (and knowingly collaborating with white supremacists on the campaign), to distract from the coup she was doing at Libreboot. (For the record I hate Stallman too, this is just to highlight the scale of consciously manipulative stuff she's happy to do to entire communities when it serves her interests)
  • Stalks, while calling the police to snitch on, a family because they offered her heroin
  • Gets kicked out of more trans support groups/IRC channels/Discord servers than I can count
  • Identifies as a compulsive liar. Describes many of the lies in detail
  • Wrecks seemingly every hotel room she stays in, with vomit and physical destruction from drunkenness
  • Describes terrorizing everyone around her and feeling no remorse
  • Describes that she is not capable of feeling remorse
  • Identifies as a sociopath/ASPD, but insists that cognitive behavioral therapy and talk therapy are equivalent to conversion therapy for sociopaths, that fearing sociopaths is discriminatory, and that society should be restructured to accommodate sociopaths
  • So many more things

Look I hate the FSF and Stallman, and I have a Librebooted computer that I rely on every day. I knew there was a bunch of drama around Leah but I had no idea that it was like this. In all the things above, I'm not "reinterpreting" the events, it's her words. For example with the guy whose nose she broke, here's what she said:

"There was one person who tried to seduce me all night, before deciding not to come home with me, which annoyed me as I was indeed quite horny. My taxi arrived. I asked the driver to wait, went back inside, hugged him, smiled, and broke his nose. I saw a blur that was his face falling backward as I calmly and quickly walked out of the bar, my whim now satisfied. His friend called me a dirty [T-slur] as I quickly entered the cab, unscathed. I did it on a whim, feeling no hatred or malice in me whatsoever. I felt great satisfaction as the driver took me home, and I worked on Libreboot all night."

I just haven't seen this being discussed anywhere and I don't know how a community manages a person who has done these things.

There's two kinds of projects in FOSS: those made because someone hates something and wants to replace it, and those made by people who love something.

The first is often made by assholes and sociopaths. I try to fill my life with the second kind.

I think you should avoid things created out of hate.

why was this account created 6 hours ago and has only made this post?

Because I'm literally afraid of Leah. In the book she describes ruining people's lives for slighting her.

I guess thats true. I was worried it was gonna be another unfounded smear job of a trans woman but im reading the thing and... yeah...

Does she know society is already structured to accommodate socio and psychopaths and thats why we are where we are now?

I'm not willing to claim that she hasn't done any of these things and generally if a stranger tells you that they're terrible, you can trust it insofar that you likely aren't missing out if they're lying, but has anyone corroborated her claims so that we know she's not just self-destructing her public image?

Shitty people can do good work. She sounds like a straight cunt.

society should be restructured to accommodate sociopaths

JFC it has been. So much easier to get ahead in an authoritarian capitalist society, or even open source projects, if you have no empathy or guilt.

History seems like one great pendulum where the socio/psychopaths go so far being assholes that those with empathy overcome their desire to not harm to undo the evil and swing it back. Then become complacent until the next rise of the paths. Seems like it's been two steps back, three steps forward for a few centuries. Time for another swing, and this time it'd be really nice if we kept the paths out of power systemically.

Is it truly that hard to be a halfway decent human being in these times?

It is quite easy to be a completely decent human being in any time.

I didn't like her before. Now I like her less.

Why she have meth face though

Everyone is missing the most disturbing part:

My hero, Gordon Brown

I could fix her, tho

The community either doesn't know or care

I for one was not aware of anything.

ha Keith Moon of foss

That picture looks like Stan from Skins

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