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@thatbrickster@shitposter.club It's beyond hilarious. Lennart has truly gone home. It must be what they hired him for.

@thatbrickster@shitposter.club Why do I find this so amusing?

Jim boosted

"rust is the vegan crossfit of programming"

-- TJ DeVries

@byterhymer@mastodon.social Also Redmond and others utterly entrenched in there. And Facebook.

@byterhymer@mastodon.social 'Big' open source is kind of icky. I went to a con in LA and really it was indistinguishable from a lot of blue chip things. Lots of foundations throwing money around, partying and while fun the disconnect between the values they're meant to have and the 'fuck it lets make it rain' vibe was really terrible.

@byterhymer@mastodon.social They got themselves into. a highly influential position in the ecosystem just by pumping so many LOC into various things, even running off Canonical which is kind of amusing. But to what end?

@byterhymer@mastodon.social I know some Redhat people that were not ecstatic about it, one container engineer even ocnsidered it completely irrelevant, ironic given this was one of its goals.

@byterhymer@mastodon.social I wonder how history will view systemd. It was about much more than in init war, it's about how entire projects can be steered by committed actors.

@Effortless@noagendasocial.com @opal @notaslut Also, perfect is the enemy of good in life.

@Effortless@noagendasocial.com @opal @notaslut I don't. I think there's people with attributes that complement each other, and if they're together, they work. I think 'the one' is bollocks.

@notaslut @opal @Effortless@noagendasocial.com Most people underestimate just how much work a relationship is, and this can all be forgotten when chemistry fires certain feelings off.

@notaslut @opal @Effortless@noagendasocial.com I used to laugh at people describing their relationships as 'its complicated' because, I bet it's not...

@Effortless@noagendasocial.com @notaslut They're just so unhappy, so they throw themselves into idealism or fads. None of it works.

@notaslut @Effortless@noagendasocial.com See also "you can have it all" No, you can't.

@dave Comparing $CURRENT_YEAR social media purity culture to shit from decades ago is so fucking dense.

@dave Watch any, any of Eddie Murphy's 80s standup. Gay Mr T? San Francisco faggot police?

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