@baalroga @vurpo Found it: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/raspberry-pi-hired-ex-cop-mastodon-controversy
#raspberrySpy
@RadicalAnthro All of them welcome at Raspberry Pi.
The whole #RaspberrySpy / #SpyCop saga just over a couple of years ago. This gives a fairly good roundup: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/raspberry-pi-hired-ex-cop-mastodon-controversy
The funny thing was they blamed the backlash on an army of militant vegans, because I asked them very nicely a couple of weeks before to CW their picture of pigs in blankets, which they refused and doubled down on, causing a minor uproar, which then intensified once they hired the ex-cop...
Dammit, I should really have thought to archive their #PigsInBlanketsGate post too at the time 😂
#RaspberrySpyCopDay #SpyCopsInBlanketsDay #RaspberrySpy #RaspberryPi
@nixCraft So they will keep hiring surveillance cops and insulting their customers?
@zenheathen Check the replies in this thread, or try the #RaspberrySpy hashtag. There's definitely a few links in there.
This is what could get you hired as "Maker in Residence" at #RaspberryPi:
Reminder that #RaspberryPi boasted about hiring a surveillance cop, then insulted their customers for raising ethical concerns: https://petapixel.com/2022/12/09/raspberry-pi-under-fire-by-creators-who-are-upset-it-hired-a-former-cop/
https://youtu.be/P9vna9jao9I Good news everybody: #RaspberrySpy, the SBC for Spy Cops is back in inventory!
"Technoking" and his oligarch brethren will lose at playing whack-a-mole with this: https://www.raspberrypi.com/tutorials/build-your-own-raspberry-pi-flight-tracker/
#ElonMuskIsANationalSecurityThreat
#FlightTracker
#raspberrypi
#raspberrySpy
We all fell down on the job by not making a #RaspberrySpy hash tag take over the world.
Oh noes, the #RaspberrySpy has blocked me! 😱
But how will you "keep an eye" on me now, Toby? Will you "disguise it as something else", like this commonplace hashtag???
"If you take away their ability to see any brand that ever makes a mistake, pretty soon they won’t be able to follow any brands at all."
#RaspberryPi #RaspberrySpy #BrandStrategy #MastodonAdministration
The reaction of many server admins:
#RaspberrySpy You do all realise that other single board computers are available and you don't have to use the raspberry pi flavour of operating system anyway. #raspberrypi
I'm pretty sure, for example, that the #RaspberryPi / #RaspberrySpy PR disaster hitting the news has had more of an effect than my waning interest in helping with the #TwitterExodus, despite it being spun as a “coordinated attack” rather than an organic network response.
@Raspberry_Pi @TobyRobertsPi Funny, but sad, that you think the response to this is being “organized somewhere”. That’s the kind of conspiratorial thinking might lead you to, I dunno, teaming up with the surveillance state. #RaspberrySpy
Good of the never-bootlickers at @Raspberry_Pi to send out a top exec to clear up... Wait it's our fault they were smarmy and dismissive? Voicing concerns was a concerted effort, planned on Discord, to punish them for posting pictures of hot dogs? I see, that seems logical
#raspberrySpy #raspberrypifoundation #raspberrypi
@lizupton this is embarrassing
I'm going to be honest, I found the people losing their shit over the raspberry pi hiring a former surveillance specialist to advise them on miniaturisation highly amusing. #raspberryspy
À tout à l’heure #RaspberryPi
On Mastodon, this is only fitting: #tootaloo
From #RaspberrySpy to #RaspberryBye 😂
If you desire the freedom to understand what's going on inside your device (or wish to respect the freedom of others to do so), please consider voting with your wallets for open hardware. I'd personally recommend @olimex or Beagleboard, as they are OSHWA-certified.
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