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

[AlexJonesGotMePregnant]

Any way to stave off the VC vampires? My ideal hires would be all men, no HR dept. What can you do when every department in the organization is arrayed against you and against meritocracy?

It's largely on economic factors. Products that try to bootstrap almost always get leapfrogged by VC-backed businesses that can take an idea and throw 50 engineers at it, all on VC cash. Everyone wants to get big real quick; software has centralized a lot over the past decade.

 

[Least Concern]

Apparently this is a thing that is happening.



Granted, some of those results are screenshots of this thing that is happening itself, but even ignoring those that's not quite what you'd expect to see. And to be fair, DDG and Bing give you similar results.

 

[Sgt. Pinback]

Based Yandex lol

 

[Coolio55]

Apparently this is a thing that is happening.

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Granted, some of those results are screenshots of this thing that is happening itself, but even ignoring those that's not quite what you'd expect to see. And to be fair, DDG and Bing give you similar results.

"white woman with baby" and "white couple" used to be good ones on google although I think they toned it down once people started meming about it.

 

[ditto]

Not sure when this happened, but the Plan 9 distribution 9front - which once bundled the complete text of Mein Kamph on the DVD - has gone woke.

Complete with pride month favicon

 

[Coolio55]

Not sure when this happened, but the Plan 9 distribution 9front - which once bundled the complete text of Mein Kamph on the DVD - has gone woke.

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Complete with pride month favicon

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Happened years ago. Who'd've thought an obscure alternative OS named after a tranny might have trannies as it's userbase?

 

[корона-тян]

Not sure when this happened, but the Plan 9 distribution 9front - which once bundled the complete text of Mein Kamph on the DVD - has gone woke.

9front has been an explicitely antifa thing for many many years duder.

 

[Sgt. Pinback]

...the Plan 9 distribution 9front - which once bundled the complete text of Mein Kamph on the DVD - has gone woke...

If they've always been pozzed, what was their publication of Mein Kamph about - was it just them being provocative assholes?

Happened years ago. Who'd've thought an obscure alternative OS named after a tranny might have trannies as it's userbase?

TIL that Ed Wood was a 'transvestite'. Hunh.

 

[ditto]

9front has been an explicitely antifa thing for many many years du

Had hoped that the Plan 9 userbase stayed as Terry Davis like as it was a decade ago.

The legit cool tool GNU Parallel is honoring someone called Floyd in their latest release:

GNU Parallel 20200622 ('Floyd') released

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/2020-06/msg00011.html

https://archive.vn/SUGWX

 

[Jolyne THICCujoh]

Had hoped that the Plan 9 userbase stayed as Terry Davis like as it was a decade ago.

The legit cool tool GNU Parallel is honoring someone called Floyd in their latest release:

GNU Parallel 20200622 ('Floyd') released

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/2020-06/msg00011.html

https://archive.vn/SUGWX

Pink Floyd?

 

[awoo]

Robert W Floyd, creator of Floyd-Warshall algorithm and Floyd's cycle finding algorithm, and actual contributor to society and not numerous conviction felon

 

[Pee Cola]

The terminology 'master/slave' has been in use in computing since at least the '80s

Master/Slave terminology has been used since way before the 80s, dipshit.

Learn to read, faggot.

 

[CIA Nigger]

Not sure when this happened, but the Plan 9 distribution 9front - which once bundled the complete text of Mein Kamph on the DVD - has gone woke.

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I've heard their Discord/IRCs were pozzed for a while but I'm not even shocked anymore. An observation I've had is that people attracted to fringe operating systems either tend to be either "woke" or "based", while the average normie will use something very mainstream like Windows/Mac or a popular Linux distro.

It's made worse by the fact that nobody who is relatively normal is going to touch plan 9 and use it as a day to day operating system. You're more likely to see someone run a server or computer on BSD or even fucking illumos.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

I've heard their Discord/IRCs were pozzed for a while but I'm not even shocked anymore. An observation I've had is that people attracted to fringe operating systems either tend to be either "woke" or "based", while the average normie will use something very mainstream like Windows/Mac or a popular Linux distro.

It's made worse by the fact that nobody who is relatively normal is going to touch plan 9 and use it as a day to day operating system. You're more likely to see someone run a server or computer on BSD or even fucking illumos.

I don't even get why someone would want an obscure OS, other than an open source one that you modify as a hobby. But that's a pretty dorky hobby. Otherwise, the only reason I can think of is to be basically an OS hipster.

 

[Shaka Brah]

I don't even get why someone would want an obscure OS, other than an open source one that you modify as a hobby. But that's a pretty dorky hobby. Otherwise, the only reason I can think of is to be basically an OS hipster.

Extreme autism. The people who work on these are like people who build accurate scale model train sets of their local area. Very talented and very, very introverted.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Extreme autism. The people who work on these are like people who build accurate scale model train sets of their local area. Very talented and very, very introverted.

It's kind of sad. When I am 80, I want to look back on my life and remember going out and having fun with my homies. Not working on some obscure OS that no one but me and 3 other people will use.

 

[Shaka Brah]

It's kind of sad. When I am 80, I want to look back on my life and remember going out and having fun with my homies. Not working on some obscure OS that no one but me and 3 other people will use.

I guess they just don't think about it that way. I mean look at Richard Stallman, he lives like Diogenes in the Agora but seems to like what he does.

 

[Least Concern]

I don't even get why someone would want an obscure OS, other than an open source one that you modify as a hobby. But that's a pretty dorky hobby. Otherwise, the only reason I can think of is to be basically an OS hipster.

Well, you kind of answered it. It’s a hobbyist thing, or, similarly, a student thing - if you want to learn about the inner workings of an OS, a smaller, “incomplete” system like plan9 is going to be more greppable than a full-sized one, even though the smaller system will probably be much less usable.

And sometimes an OS which starts out at the hobbyist level can turn into something actually pretty usable. Haiku is probably the best non-unixy example of that.

 

[ditto]

Well, you kind of answered it. It’s a hobbyist thing, or, similarly, a student thing - if you want to learn about the inner workings of an OS, a smaller, “incomplete” system like plan9 is going to be more greppable than a full-sized one, even though the smaller system will probably be much less usable.

And sometimes an OS which starts out at the hobbyist level can turn into something actually pretty usable. Haiku is probably the best non-unixy example of that.

Plan 9 is strange because it hasnt really evolved in the last 20 years because noone writes software for it.

Even TempleOS has heaps of weird games and programs. It feels lived in. Plan 9 is so empty and austre.

 

[CIA Nigger]

It's kind of sad. When I am 80, I want to look back on my life and remember going out and having fun with my homies. Not working on some obscure OS that no one but me and 3 other people will use.

Well fringe/unpopular/experimental OSes can vary. TempleOS is seen as a meme thanks to the programmer but it also has a lot of unique ideas. It also has it's own games and the infamous RNGs. Haiku, AROS, and the various closed source OS/2 continuations have fans because they were unofficial successors to OSes that never caught on. Then there's all the weird *nix OSes that got left by the wayside thanks to Linux such as the BSD family, illumos (Solaris/SysV fork), and whatnot.

Plan 9 is kind of interesting, but it also feels very stuck and abandoned. It reminds me of those beta OSes where you get the feeling that at one time this could have evolved into something great, but then internal office politics happened and now it's just a tech demo sitting there as a "what could have been" experiment. It's pretty clear the world chose UNIX and later Linux/BSD instead of plan 9 and it didn't help that Bell Labs/what was left of them went to develop Inferno instead.