Diseased Open Source Software Community - it's about ethics in Code of Conducts

[Kola]

To his credit Linux maintainers are a bunch of ossified old farts set in their ways and refusing to ever do anything differently than they learned 40 years ago. What they lack in competences, they make up for in their retarded contribution process.

 

[GNU Abyss]

To his credit Linux maintainers are a bunch of ossified old farts set in their ways and refusing to ever do anything differently than they learned 40 years ago. What they lack in competences, they make up for in their retarded contribution process.

The old ways seem to work. Change for the sake of $current_year is something reserved for areas of IT where half the paycheck comes from rewrites, managerialism and rehashes. The kernel would probably not survive this in its current, working form.

 

[Kola]

The old ways seem to work. Change for the sake of $current_year is something reserved for areas of IT where half the paycheck comes from rewrites, managerialism and rehashes. The kernel would probably not survive this in its current, working form.

It's wrong to assume that any change must be for the worse. Linux keeps chugging along because there are billion dollar businesses built on it, and those businesses are keeping it alive despite, not thanks to, the attitudes of many of its maintainers. But if you want to see old farts rolling around in stagnating failure, take a look at any of the GNU projects, with Hurd as the most prominent example, Emacs following closely.

 

[GhastlyGhost]

It's wrong to assume that any change must be for the worse. Linux keeps chugging along because there are billion dollar businesses built on it, and those businesses are keeping it alive despite, not thanks to, the attitudes of many of its maintainers. But if you want to see old farts rolling around in stagnating failure, take a look at any of the GNU projects, with Hurd as the most prominent example, Emacs following closely.

It's wrong to assume any of this change could possibly be for the better.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

The old ways seem to work.

The kernel would probably not survive this in its current, working form.

The Linux kernel has never worked. It's always been riddled with flaws and, in all likelihood, always will be. This is because it's over ten million lines of code in one of the shittiest programming languages ever seriously used in projects of that size. The kernel's genius strategy for solving memory exhaustion problems it caused with a different retarded design decision is to randomly kill a process.

It's used in critical systems only because corporations don't want to pay for a true real-time system or do proper engineering, and in a decent society this would have the decisionmakers executed in public.

 

[skunt]

The Linux kernel has never worked.

The lengths people will go to to make their contrarian posts.

 

[Blamo2000]

On the topic of advertising of Linux Distros and Operating Systems, social media is pretty much worthless for other things than posting status updates. At least the "this project's official twitter account" style of social media. If there is a community that actually talks about it that's a different thing.

I think word of mouth and an existing install base is the important thing. Simply put if it's useful/used, people will talk about it and you will run into it. Sure you can market in a B2B context, but that is not happening on Twitter. In that case you pretty much have to sell the product and the services based around it and babysit the company and adapt stuff for them etc.

Of course I find it amusing that we have reached a point where people are passing deep judgement on you based on which rubbish microblogging service you are using.

 

[Guy who lurks]

one of the shittiest programming languages ever

what's so bad about C?

 

[analrapist]

what's so bad about C?

It's used by people he doesn't like to do things that don't agree with what he was taught in university.

 

[419]

what's so bad about C?

You're asking this question to the guy who will not go every other post in the I&T sub without shilling Smalltalk of all languages. Just keep that in mind.

 

[skunt]

what's so bad about C?

It's not ADA. Or whatever other fag boomer language he won't shut up about. Like a tranny and rust except worse because it's here.

 

[Eternal Spirit of Light]

C is for retards. Javascript is where the real intellectuals are.

 

[Coolio55]

The Linux kernel has never worked. It's always been riddled with flaws and, in all likelihood, always will be. This is because it's over ten million lines of code in one of the shittiest programming languages ever seriously used in projects of that size. The kernel's genius strategy for solving memory exhaustion problems it caused with a different retarded design decision is to randomly kill a process.

It's used in critical systems only because corporations don't want to pay for a true real-time system or do proper engineering, and in a decent society this would have the decisionmakers executed in public.

It's absolutely true. We have a beautiful fully functional kernal written in C++ and none of the lemmings will use it because they've got hippie crap stuck in their ears and turn pale at the idea of paying for something.
All the experts have agreed on NT's merits but there's just no convincing a certain segment of uneducated fools. The same fools that hamstrung us in Vietnam and The Cold War!

 

[analrapist]

Javascript is where the real intellectuals are.

Unironically, the prototype-based object system in Javascript was a lot of fun to work with. I wish more languages featured such.

 

[Flatline]

Javascript is where the real intellectuals are.

That's TypeScript.

 

[419]

It's absolutely true. We have a beautiful fully functional kernal written in C++ and none of the lemmings will use it because they've got hippie crap stuck in their ears and turn pale at the idea of paying for something.
All the experts have agreed on NT's merits but there's just no convincing a certain segment of uneducated fools. The same fools that hamstrung us in Vietnam and The Cold War!

I have no issue with the NT kernel nor any trouble believing that it is as solid as people make it out to be. I'd just rather it wasn't tied to the rest of the baggage that is Windows and Microsoft.

 

[Jeff Q. Anime]

STOP MAKING NEW LINUX DISTROS
OPERATING SYSTEMS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE FORKED SIX MILLION TIMES IN A CALENDAR YEAR
DECADES OF DISTRO FORKS YET THEY ALL APT GET INSTALL WGET

"I've improved Ubuntu by changing the default wallpaper and preinstalling hyprland!!! My distro is better because look at this default bashrc!!" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

Hellooo, I would like to inroduce my new distro! It's Arch but without SOYSTEMD!!!

 

[bort420]

Unironically, the prototype-based object system in Javascript was a lot of fun to work with. I wish more languages featured such.

no u don't. it sucks. I will die on this hill

I like systemd mainly because it makes the worst kind of nerd buttmad

 

[Coolio55]

Unironically, the prototype-based object system in Javascript was a lot of fun to work with. I wish more languages featured such.

It's all fun and games until you have to reason about what fields they have.

 

[analrapist]

no u don't. it sucks. I will die on this hill

Nigger, you have no idea how much I hate OOP in general. My favorite language is Prolog. This is very low in my personal heterodoxies.

It's all fun and games until you have to reason about what fields they have.

for(var field in nigger)

you nocoder (should be "nigger in field", but storing the field in nigger when it's from object named field is just too dedicated to the bit to be comprehensible)