Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
https://basedlinux.com/
Do… do you think he realizes that Debian is “woke”?
Also I wonder what his beef with Rust is? Is Rust woke?
I’ve seen this before. There is a special type of person out there who feels emasculated (yeah it’s always men, isn’t it) by the idea of a language statically enforcing memory-safety. Because, you know, real men write C or C++ with no safety rope and no seatbelt, juggling with raw pointers and chainsaws with their bare hands. They think that the only reason why C/C++ has produced an infinite abundance of bugs and security holes is because other programmers just suck. But they are different, they can handle it, they are very clever after all. And they won’t let some wusses take away their powers with all these ideas of memory safety by design.
As a C++ programmer some Rust people can come on a little strong, as if I’ve never thought about the importance of memory safety before and don’t know how to write secure code (well excuse me for building on top of decades of libraries that no one thought to write in rust in the '80s).
But that’s normal programmer flame war stuff. Rust people tend to be young and enthusiastic about security which is all good.
pretty much every programming language discussion I’ve ever been in has at least one person come in with a chip on their shoulder, ready to burn down civilisation in the name of readability or ease of use or memory safety or what have you.
IMO it’s an abyss staring thing; you spend enough time in the code mines and you’ll discover some gleaming orb of fascination. Hypothetically this is cured by grass touching. I have been both places.
That is why I’m proud to announce my new, everything safe programming language: C’thlaglthorp, or Ctt for short.
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Linux puritans are as fissile as the OG Puritans. There’s already Devuan which is Debian minus systemd, and now with XLibre. Not sure why this nerd thinks his particular non-denominational chapel will bring in the crowds to hear him sermonize.
Edit BTW Devuan for me is the epitome of FLOSS techfash.
it’s good.
Rust has a Code of Conduct and is allegedly highly popular among trans programmers, so you’re likely on the money
Looking at their Twitter and it’s apparently going to use GNOME. Wonder how that’s going to work with GNOME removing X11 support.
It’s probably going to just use an ancient version, if this thing ever even gets made.
Imagine devoting your precious life to making MATE for GNOME 3.
this is very fashtech coded, happy to be proven wrong though.
It is, that’s why I was sharing it. I probably should have made that clear.
Well, at least the website isn’t vibe-coded. Considering the creator’s an out-and-proud promptfondler (as seen on his Twitter), that’s genuinely shocking.
m’lady
I honestly don’t know how these people are comfortable posting those things with their real name and face attached.