Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Hmm. I really need to unlearn my habit of hedging compliments, for most cases at least...

Oh and I literally did the mid-sentence "oh look, a squirrel!" thing, unintentionally

Also it probably didn't help that I was already having a pretty shitty day, but that wasn't Toverland's fault

Toverland really needs to fix their acoustic problems at their food places, it felt nearly impossible to order food, I had to shout over the noise and the ordering kiosks were broken

I wonder how many people have gotten so burned out from fruitless arguing with people on Twitter and other engagement-driven social media, that they no longer have the energy for good-faith discussions and organizing in friendlier circles anymore either

And to understand this problem better, ask yourself this question: what is more marketable and brandable, something that does one task well within a narrowly-defined scope, that you will only think about when you have that specific problem... or something that promises to solve all your problems (but turns out to do so poorly because of the impossible scope, and you'll only find that out 3 months later)?

And no, I am not talking about tools like grep, sed, or awk - those do lots of things, and have a very broad scope.

"You are not immune to propaganda" also applies to developer marketing, basically, and the problem is far far bigger than a bunch of startups *deliberately* propagandizing; there are masses of developers unknowingly contributing to the problem by unquestioningly accepting the dynamics involved, and developing new things in their shape, with the same problems

And if you think this is a shitpost, I can assure you that it is not, and that I have seen hundreds of people do exactly this thing for exactly these reasons, and every single one of them believed that they weren't

Seeing technology as a politics-free endeavour is how you end up wasting hundreds or thousands of hours of your limited time on this earth because you don't realize that that framework isn't popular because of its high quality and developer efficiency, but because of a combination of social and political dynamics, and that you could've saved all that time by using something that works much better but isn't as marketable

(Incidentally also something that seems to co-occur with loud FreeBSD usage in suspicious amounts)

Also, if your toot history is full of strong claims about technical things being 'harmful' or 'bad' or 'dangerous', but completely devoid of anything about *non-technical* things, sorry, but I'm gonna treat you with extreme prejudice

This applies to the user I just ran across, but also more broadly

Can't help but notice that loudly FreeBSD users come accompanied by shitty takes suspiciously often, what's up with that?

The people who are suddenly very concerned about Gamers Nexus having "poor journalistic practices" after they criticized LTT, need to do some careful introspection, I think