Fuck lmfao š¤£
Fuck lmfao š¤£
That was way back in 2007. Probably close to when I read his stuffā¦ but even then he was clearly still clinging to the Halloween Letters and seemed extremely old school.
Emphasis on used to. He worked fairly hard at becoming a household name, but ultimately his fame was pretty brief. Stallman achieved meme status, love him or hate him. Torvalds actually ships shit people use. Thereās just no discourse around Raymond these days, good or bad.
Every once in a while someone trips over one of the pitons heās driven into the wall of FOSS to try and climb it, discovers his abysmal takes, amd everyone promptly forgets about him again.
Youāre being perhaps too generous to consider ESR a famous FOSS personality.
Least insane ESR post
Theyāre gonna ruin cities by further limiting the rights of pedestrians to work around their mediocre programming.
Definitely, there was no coming back from that debate.
fuck the accelerationists for pumping shitheaded propaganda into the fediverse, for the victory lap theyāre taking now, and for the general idea that their revolution is worth our deaths
So much this
still, something gets me about completely generated, transient-when-youāre-not-looking, constantly shifting worlds. might have to collect more examples
Itās dream logic.
The writing has been on the wall since they reprinted Alpha as non playable $250 packs.
You missed his most important job, reminding everyone about previous discussions of PG essays whenever someone reposts a PG essay.
Russia complaining that the US sells too many weapons is an awkward line when the AK platform is the universal symbol for armed conflict across the globe.
Apple Envy
Launch all the nukes?
Itās just a question of when they pull the trigger on this.
Especially leadership of a political organization thatās basically just there to turn his opinions into code and publish his essays.
I donāt think anything in the report is new, is it? Isnāt this the exact weirdness that got him kicked off the board in the first place? I was shocked when he was quietly added back to the board; I really thought the allegations would stick the first time.
Nice to have it all in one place though.
When the music stops canāt MS just let OpenAI go bankrupt and keep the tech?
RIP rationalist moonshot. Takes a special kind of SV-libertarian brainrot to think the world will be saved by a company. Do we have EYās reaction yet?
I didnāt think today was gonna be a day where Iād read about sounding then breaking glass rods but here we are.