Did Lunduke now entirely jump on that bandwagon? Seems he now does 3 videos a week "calling out" wokeness and "extreme" leftists and it's become quite monothematic.
I can't stand the guy. Seems like all he does is post videos about him getting triggered about software being developed by people who are vocal about their care for others.
Like buddy, do you understand what the FOSS community mostly consists of?
Yeah, he got a bit nuts over time... but i still watch him for his shit stirring and his ranting - but sometimes, even now, he still unearths really interesting bits like that one.
Indeed, the story is funny and weird. Though he used to share lots of interesting and funny perspectives. And these days the Youtube comments underneath are way more funny and on point than all his content.
Idk, I can't find that supposed Bluesky and Mastodon discussions, I think he made that up. And he fails to mention the email address is just a text field, people can put anything in there. And while highlighting it, he also completely fails to spot the timezone which is right next to it. And that's set to UTC-4 so America east coast. And as a blogger/influencer he could at least have sent a mail and see if it bounces before reporting on it... And then he invents what the reviewer's thought process was according to him, while the real next joke is their nationality, but he doesn't spot that either. So I don't know what to make of this. Sure he has a community and reach, and brings attention to niche things. But his own take on it tends to be wrong(?) and not in an inspiring way... In the old days he used to play devil's advocate and I think that was extremely on point. But you can't really fabricate "facts" and argue against that, because it turns it from a sarcastic, Socratic dialogue into just framing, spiked with misinformation and the next 15 minutes are just rambling and bullshit... And I think that's a bit sad because we know he's able to do more than that. And there's no shortage of people rambling and talking bullshit, so there is no need for him to jump on it as well. It turns him from the troll he used to be into just your average anti-woke nut without any originality, just a Linux theme slapped on top...
If a yt channel is unpredictable enough that you can't turn it on at work where folks can hear it, it's crossed beyond "rant" and into "inappropriate" territory. I would personally question what I'm getting from this guy, but I'm not here to make your choices for you.
i don't actually know the guy you are speaking of, just saying that to be fair work can get stuck up and imposing on the most innocuous shit. "nsfw" can often be overbearing.
It was a general statement, I was using "work" as a Lithmus test of "playing the video in public".
Cute how the only term he has for the "left" is "extreme left".
I suppose if you're that far right the gap between yourself and other points on the political spectrum is quite a gulf.
aww it's a joke? I actually want this. I'm tired of being surprised by this crap.
What did Ladybird do?
Well, as far as i have observed this (from safe distance, far, far away...) Andreas Kling rejected a proposal from a new contributor to change documentation to use gender neutral terms... and as usual with those things, people tend to get mad.
Edit: A simple to the people downvoting: Why?
Kling has promoted the nonsense white replacement conspiracy theory, whined about "leftist activists".
The answer is because just a tiny bit of looking at kling - just like with DHH - will reveal so much more far-right attitude and behavior beyond kling rejecting an offer to fix the poorly written documentation.
I am not involved in the Ladybird project, do not really follow the development or the community thereof in any close fashion, so i do not want to take any sides here. What i can say for sure after spending ~ 30 years online is, that the net often amplifies drama beyond any rational measure... so, until i find the time and energy to look into that (unlikely) i will stay with a neutral "oookay...."
As someone who has been online since the late 80's (BBS) and early 90's (internet), I'm well aware of how things can be amplified.
However, this does not require in-depth review. These are things you can discover with a cursory search that would have taken less time than writing that comment, FYI. I don't think anyone is sitting here suggesting Kling has grand plans for a gassing center, just that he promotes far right conspiracy theories and other hard-right ideology. This is a simple, easily verifiable statement.
i will stay with a neutral “oookay….”
Just so you know, this can come across condescending. I'm not going to say that was your intention, but that is absolutely how it would be read.
Just so you know, this can come across condescending. I’m not going to say that was your intention, but that is absolutely how it would be read.
Just to clarify: It is not meant that way, it is meant as an "Okay, i understand what you say but i will take anything i read online with a truckload of salt - no offense"
Kling has promoted the nonsense white replacement conspiracy theory
This is news to me. I'll look into them saying that and change how I talk about this event. Because before knowing this I would've described it similarly as the other person. But yeah, any grace I was willing to extend goes away if they're parroting white replacement.
https://nitter.net/awesomekling/status/1874518295350837401
https://nitter.net/awesomekling/status/1969350008538370216
Lets combine that with the contributing.md here as a response to "Your docs could be written better, I can do that", and how he stands with DHH (note Lunduke there btw), which was a response to DHH+Ruby....
Well it kind of paints a picture. A very specific one, imo.
Lunduke, the video of the post, is also a pretty notably tech right wing, which is why I mention to note that earlier.
I will say, I think Kling hides it better than DHH, same with Vaxry, but... yeah its pretty small and specific circles that seem to gather.
Yucky 🤮
Yeah.
It can get real ugly in tech sometimes, and I really hate seeing it.
For a long time I considered tech the more inviting and accepting bunch, but that has definitely changed over time. There's some real gross stuff out there.
Lmao there's actually something kind of hilarious about a person trying to push gender neutral terms into documentation for a program called "Ladybird".
Did they want the project to be renamed to "Lady/Man/Thembird" too? /S
One joke
For some, sure. For me, no... I genuinely feel bad for anybody who's head is so far up their ass that they fail to see the humour around the irony here.
I am also genuinely confused as to how there can be documentation for a web browser that has gendered terms in it in the first place... Aside from the browser name, what other gendered terms would there be?
For example developers or users could be referred to with a default male pronoun (if the user wants … he can …) when, and that might surprise you, women and queer people do exist and might even use browsers or develop software. There's no need to be exclusive.
Why would it surprise me in even the slightest? It surprises me that people would default to a specific gender when all there is to go by is a username - I would expect they/them/[username] to be the typical reference.
What surprises me more is how judgmental and hostile people are here in the absolutely horrible assumptions they're making about me, because of a very obviously sarcastic remark I made about changing the only thing I could think of having a gendered term to a gender neutral term in the documentation for an application... My bad for mistaking "documentation" for manpages, and for somehow thinking a thread about Ladybird would be about the project's previous name and a myriad of other projects. How foolish of me not to be psychic in a thread calling out people for trying to be psychics in commits and code comments, right?
It wasn't for Ladybird. It was for SerenityOS.
The irony youre laughing about isnt there.
So wait, what does any od that have to do with Ladybird? The comment they replied to was literally about Ladybird.. Ooooookay then.
Ladybird started as a SerenityOS browser, and is now being made standalone.
Same (problematic) developer.
Ah, thanks!
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