Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Finally something good to report about Firefox: the new tab groups feature works well for me!

TIL dat iemand in de familie Buwalda ooit zelf een achtbaan heeft gebouwd, en dat die nu rondreist op de Belgische en Franse kermis

(De familie Buwalda runt al die identieke kermisbaantjes in Nederland)

And yeah I've definitely stopped being polite or friendly about this shit, the people in question have had plenty of opportunity and offers of assistance to turn things around, so now all you get is complaining

(To clarify, there were definitely people involved in Matrix years ago who *did* recognize these issues. But they weren't the ones with the power to change things)

Just fucking admit that you fucked up for once, cowards, and then we can start *actually honestly* talking about the reforms needed to keep this ship from sinking

What *really* pisses me off about the whole #Matrix situation isn't the problems that they have, it's not the funding model, it's not even them ignoring years of warnings from the community, really.

It's that they seem deathly afraid to ever honestly admit that they've made a serious error in judgment on project governance, and every single thing they put out is PR spin that tries to reframe the situation like circumstances forced them to do these things, like they've done the best they can - when they absolutely fucking didn't.

Like, the whole thing is on the verge of bankrupcy and collapse, and they are *still* spinning bullshit yarns about how that massive matrix.org homeserver was only ever meant as a starting point, when anyone who has looked at the evidence for five minutes would know differently and tons of people warned them of exactly this outcome.

I have had tens, if not hundreds of long discussions with old-guard core Matrix folks and *not once* have they shown willing to admit fault on *literally anything*, it is always someone or something else's fault and solutions are always just around the corner

So there's that Wat talk by Gary Bernhardt. Pretty funny, I felt at the time it came out - not something to take seriously, of course, just something to blow off some steam.

And then I noticed people starting to take it seriously. It started coming up in discussions, as if it were a legitimate argument about a language being 'bad'. It started being used to attack programmers writing in those languages, and question their competence.

And then Gary Bernhardt himself, the speaker in that talk, turned out to be somewhat of a language-elitist ass.

Since then I've taken a rather more grim view of these kind of overly simplified 'jokes' about programming languages. Because it turns out, they mostly punch down, and quite often they're not really jokes at all, they're just someone looking for an excuse to talk down on others.