What the fuck happened to the tech community? Entirely composed of NPC's now. I guess this is what happens when the technical barriers to entry rapidly drop through the floor. Here are recent caps from the Hacker News thread on the current events. HN is an image-board like forum dedicated to industry discussion:
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There are a number of HN users that are not histrionic, but they are very much fighting an uphill battle.
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Here is an uncharacteristically reasonable post with a response by Byuu/Near from an earlier HN thread dated March 2020 featuring Kiwi Farms:
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I've also attached Byuu's post history going back to mid-2019, with the most recent activity within about 10 days of the most recent event. I couldn't archive more than the first page of activity due to the way the profile pages are rendered.
I have not read his extensive history. It seems to be mostly just shop-talk. It's possible that early posts may yield some information. He appears to have to just changed his username when moving from "Byuu" to "Near" and the account was created in 2012:
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Attached are full page caps for all of this content, which are too large to post inline.