This article again. Drew Devault is a shitstirrer that lives from drama. Painting Louis Rossmann as a nazi, white supremacist, or monarchy supporter is just misinformation and I’d go as far to say that it’s slander. He has thousands of videos trying to hold the state accountable, is nearly rabidly pro-privacy and pro consumer rights, and rails on and on about how shitty big tech companies are that have their way with their consumers.

I happen to agree with FUTO: the opensource licenses are not that great. Open source developers should get paid and if that means the definition of opensource has to evolve, so be it.

We should stop treating the opensource definition like gospel and quoting it as if it were a religious text. We should think for ourselves, not let our thoughts be dictated to us and then just go “this person said it, so they are right”.

FUTO funds great software. If that came out of the pocket of Hitler, Stalin, or Mao, I’d be happy ad it means less money going to whatever evil main endeavors they have. If a monarchist spends his fortune on opensource instead of raising a monarchy, fucking good. Don’t stop him. Demand he spends more.

“Improve documentation”. If they make it like the nixos documentation, that’ll make the framework documentation worse.

Ayaya ayaya!

Just put an MCP on it and let the AI play the game at the slowest speed ever

Ah, the “only closed source should make money but I will demand opensource compete with it” take. Love it.

That could’ve used an example of debugging recursion to show how useful the repl is. I knew about the repl and have used it to find duplicate packages for example, but what it doesn’t help with is finding out how stuff was added to environment.systemPackages and, most importantly, why.

The most glaring omission in nix is the lack of a debugger with conditional breakpoints. Nix is interpreted, is it not? Shouldn’t it be possible to have breakpoints?

My memory of it is how unnecessarily arcane it is. I had (and still have) a better understanding of assembly than COBOL. COBOL has hundreds of keywords. And while an instruction set can have thousands of instructions, COBOL still felt more difficult.

Also, nearly any executable can be decompiled to assembly. If you understand assembly, it has a plethora of uses. COBOL can make big bank, but it currently has very limited use.

I’d much rather write in assembly than COBOL

Haven’t heard or read about it since it was kicked out of the kernel! Does it still exist?

Ho boy. Don’t ruin the good ol’ memory of the dude. Some things should be left untouched, just like the movies you watched as a child.

Pushover licenses show how much influence big tech companies have over opensource. It’s in their interest of promote these licenses.

Unpaid and using an MIT license so that the megacorps dont contribute back? Golly, I wonder who that would be!

So what, it’s still a trash language.

I think you’re right. CSS was more understandable to me after reading that it came from the world of print media. It’s how things were laid out there and it was transformed into a language from those with domain knowledge.

But I would be curious if those who studied art also use the same terminology. If so, then it would make sense that it would seem more intuitive to them.

I do not envy the monkey apt at throwing shit. If you find it a useful aptitude, good for you.

Yeah, using trash is definitely a skill issue. You’re right about that.

CSS is trash. Always has been, always will be.

Yeah. Easy. So easy. Text size changes, svg not centered anymore. Add margin (or whatever that inside margin is called), and tada, not centered.

Compared to untyped languages? Sure. Compared to C or C++? Then maybe it’s a skill issue 😋

And yet people still happily use the platform. À la “smash capitalism” sticker on a Macbook Pro.