I swear FOSS discourse has evolved into the same reactionary infighting seen in leftist spaces. It is wild to me, how a bunch of people scream “nazi bar”, when a certain guest speaker in the KDE space brings up Omarchy as a bad example and publicly denounces DHH.

And then extending on that thought with “I knew he wasn’t trustworthy, when he mentioned having worked for Google and Apple” (not a direct quote) after also stating that they are working for notable open source projects. The notion, that somebody needs to have been a FOSS-evangelist since their very birth is absolutely ridiculous.

Sorry to be age-ist about this, but some of you clearly never have tried to get their Wifi-Stick working with ndiswrapper and it shows. Almost nobody knew what Linux was 25 years ago. There was no money in open-source, big tech wasn’t as big as today and actually driving innovation. *I* and many people I knew, wanted to work at Apple or Google when I was a teenager. And that wasn’t something you had to be morally defensive about.

Are we really blaming people for trying to make a living?

And of course all of this has a heavy overlap with the most insufferable parts of the Anti-AI crowd, but I don’t have it in me to go there today.

@drakulix “leftist infighting” “insufferable parts of the anti-AI crowd” yea i smell nuancetrolling all over your post

@hsza @drakulix no I would say this is accurate and I agree with it

There are people being horribly insufferable about all of this in bad ways. They make life a living Hell for the rest of us who just want a fucking working desktop and don’t wanna spend the next 50 years of our finite existence arguing about stupid shit

@hsza @drakulix people look down on me for having ever worked at Microsoft. People look down on others for what editor they use (yes that still actually happens). I’ve seen friendships end over OS choice. It’s ridiculous! It’s childish! And anti-AI advocacy is one thing but shitting on people for “not doing enough” is bullshit. It really needs to fucking stop.

And an enormous part of this problem is people like you assuming bad faith from others. Maybe just don’t do that.

@Elizafox @drakulix see i would agree but when a statement follows the tropes of & kinda reads like nuancetrolling bashing on people for demanding better of their peers, and the purpose of a message is what it stands for, i might as well assume it dubious at best. sigh