if you ever wanted a reason to never buy from adafru1t again, it would be how they like to doxx people freely after getting their email through a kofi donation

AND THEN DO IT AGAIN when being told not to harass someone else.

I already have enough ptsd from when those stalkers from transistor cafe doxxed me, I don't need this anymore.

worth spelling out:

my only interaction with this guy was 'took screenshots of him harassing people as the adafruit account using vqgan+clip prompts after backlash from an nft promo' years ago.

and yesterday I stood up for my friend in the face of his continued horrendous behavior towards others.

How to _not_ handle basic criticism of your company 🀦

The owner of Adafruit has now spent hours crashing out about a person who is definitely not me. Because I've never done those things he claims. 🀷

Continually doxxing intentionally in every post.

Names and incorrect pronoun usage redacted.

The person running Adafruit doxxing (repeatedly), intimidating, threatening, and harassing people over a random quote post critique about their adoption of ai.

Thats all that prompted this.

now the adafruit guy is harassing me on fedi with a fresh account accusing me of photoshopping them????

what communities?????

what is going on??????

this guy needs serious help.

He's still doing it.

The adafruit guy has now spent several days doxxing and stalking and harassing me online. This time with a clever 'I remember other [similar names]'

He is now just making alternate fediverse accounts to ridicule me.

A warning to anyone attempting to interact with the adafruit guy.

He WILL search your bio and come at you with little bits of personal info, your sad posts, mischaracterize you.

If you block, he will harass you.. on ETSY

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https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/115599931317645220

@discatte What a spiteful and sad person.
@discatte ah yes, last interaction someone had in a forum that i know of ended in words flying back and forth. so not only is his code quality shit while he claims its the best (like, a driver that does three integer divisions for each pixel it draws?!?) but also he gets mad over literally everything and has trouble letting go of a conflict. honestly just makes me wanna buy more stuff from sparkfun or aliexpress
@discatte VRO?? HOW IS THIS STILL GOING ON!??!

@discatte ideally link to this thread on further reports, citing "block evasion" and "continued harrassment" in your reports...

#NitLegalAdvice but if you were in #Germany I'd recommend to get in touch with like @wbs_legal cuz that's seriously unprofessional!

@discatte wtf?!?! i'm so sorry
@discatte this whole thing is insane on steroids. and i don't mean you or your part in this.
@discatte What a pathetic loser.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] don't waste your time assuming incompetence when assholeism is a possibility. - I made that mistake and it got some serious mass-harrassment going because I dared to critize the transmisogynist messiah of the fediverse and his associates.

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@discatte What the fresh hell??

"Serious help" is an understatement.

@discatte Just block them and move on... I don't get what they are trying to do

@chengdulittlea I did. I'm just documenting each offense as it happens.

They got suspended from mastodon thankfully.

@discatte Founder of Hackaday?

Oh. That explains a few things.

@thomholwerda @discatte yeah...

Some people seem very dedicated to be awful, thats so sad.

@f4grx @thomholwerda its a long pattern of his unfortunately. but a good reminder hes still.. the same.
@discatte what in tarnation
@vxo hes still at it, so report if you please.

@discatte you're living rent free in this guy's head, shame it's such a shitty neighborhood.

Sorry you're forced to deal with this, but I do appreciate you taking the effort to share so I can preemptively block this clown as well.

@notthatdelta Thanks friend. Yeah.. its not the ideal weekend pastime thats for sure.

@discatte Phil's such a weirdo. I once bought the domain "philtorroneprivateeye.com" and put a splash image on it of a conspiracy board with all the people he had harassed online doing his "journalism." He emailed me saying it was illegal and he could sue and that I had "24 hours to transfer the domain to him and Limor" lololol. He CC'd my boss and we laughed about it together.

Anyway, that's how they came to own that domain (which is long gone by now)

@discatte Anyway, I've never heard anything outright _fucked up_ about him, but he's always been weird to people around me. I think it's just... one of those genX "hacker" archetypes. He wants to be Spider Jerusalem so bad.

@discatte He just emailed the entire management team at my previous job as well as my fiancΓ©'s current employer to tell them I'm a cyber bully. He signed it "you monsters, or rather, i am the monster you help create."

Incredible.

@North  what is going on. my god. guys not digging a hole, hes digging a well.
@discatte 🀷
@North @discatte my god I think he's had a regression in his mental health treatment or something. He wasn't doing this for a few years.
Btw I muted him a while ago so uhhh I wonder if he's in the room with me now.
@Stinkie Not my circus. He already thinks I'm part of some kind of hate mob against him and/or Limor. I'm not inclined to poke the bear.

@North @Stinkie @discatte don't waste your time assuming incompetence when assholeism is a possibility.

  • I made that mistake and it got some serious mass-harrassment going because I dared to critize the transmisogynist messiah of the fediverse and his associates.

https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/111057008704869394

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@discatte @North some folks seem to not be busy woth real enemies enough so they need to makeup some new ones...

@North that is pretty hilarious actually.

vaguely knew of him from going to open hardware summit. but in 21` they did that spacejam nft mocking people https://web.archive.org/web/20210717212354/https://twitter.com/adafruit which scanlime pointed out 'must be phil'. I just posted archival screenshots.. he went on to send $100 to my kofi, then post a screenshot of an email to me with my real name on to twitter.

guess he has held a grudge since then and has hallucinated other things ive 'done' 

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@discatte I don't know him either, really, we just run in the same circles sometimes. That seems extremely typical of him from my POV, though.
@North tfw you think your zero cool, but come off as discount eugene belford
@discatte HUGE "The Plague" vibes hahahahaha
@North @discatte this is such a great way to get under the skin of a character like this, you know you got em trembling w rage when they start threatening legal actions over silly stuff like that
@discatte Apparently he has a lot of ears. πŸ‘‚οΈπŸ‘‚οΈπŸ‘‚οΈπŸ¦»οΈπŸ‘‚οΈπŸ¦»οΈπŸ‘‚οΈπŸ‘‚οΈπŸ‘‚οΈ

@discatte First of all: Sorry for all the shit you went through with this guy.

I'm currently looking into Phil's behavior online, possibly working on a blog post, and I've got a question: You're calling him "the owner of Adafruit" here, but as far as I can tell Limor is the founder, owner, and lead engineer, and he's the "managing director", which is basically the same thing as a CEO? Am I getting this right?

(Feel free to ignore if you don't want to engage with this whole mess again.)

@scy I could care less what his title is. they're a married couple running a company together. its kinda moot.

I have lots of wayback links if you'd like for your article though.

@discatte Thanks! I agree that it probably doesn't matter all that much, but I want to get my facts straight nevertheless.

Feel free to dump anything you'd like into my DMs. I can't promise that I'll be using it, of course, but I'll look at all of it.

@scy (im also being a bit of a troll by using random titles, since disinformation seems to be his forte)

will do! theres a few old twitter threads, like the time he decided not to notify people of a github user data breech, then got called out, and a users synopsis of the happenings of the time (will dm)

@discatte shit :( are there better alternative companies?
@0x4d6165 hmm I would say "anyone" at this point. Sparkfun is a contemporary. You can also just find distributors in your region, (digikey etc)
@discatte i am so sorry, this is beyond fucked up

@discatte well that's shitty. That's not protecting oneself; it's weaponizing social media

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