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also publicly coordinating with DHH on Twitter are the guy who started Tailwind (terrible Fisher-Price CSS) Adam Wathan and the leader of the Ladybird web browser Andreas Kling; both are actively brainstorming with DHH ways to make their projects more hostile to non-fascists. while the Tailwind guy turning fash might be surprising, Andreas has a bunch of fash shit on his Twitter and a history.
now's maybe the time to stop advocating for that unserious non-working web browser
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by popular demand, here's an answer key for my fashtech vaguepost, in order of urgency.
the package repositories currently being taken over are RubyGems and NixOS' nixpkgs. it's quite well known that DHH, a Shopify board member, is behind the corporate takeover of RubyGems. he's also coordinating openly on Twitter with the defense contractor Anduril and other actors to ensure that nixpkgs meets an even worse fate. this is the culmination of a long project to make Nix fascist.
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DHH and the fascists taking over Nix being in league might seem too convenient to be true, so here's some links. these are just analysis, but if you click through to Twitter you're going to get hit in the face with bare bigotry so fair warning:
https://fedi.slightly.tech/@joepie91/statuses/01K6AHA0BNBBX616JGDJHYET36
https://fedi.slightly.tech/@joepie91/statuses/01K6E3G2Z19M82BWRB3SPADHP9
https://mstdn.games/@KFears/115286316219357517
the tactics the fascists used to take over nixpkgs and RubyGems are old, and they worked. now that they know their tactics work, they'll be coming for other projects.
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also publicly coordinating with DHH on Twitter are the guy who started Tailwind (terrible Fisher-Price CSS) Adam Wathan and the leader of the Ladybird web browser Andreas Kling; both are actively brainstorming with DHH ways to make their projects more hostile to non-fascists. while the Tailwind guy turning fash might be surprising, Andreas has a bunch of fash shit on his Twitter and a history.
now's maybe the time to stop advocating for that unserious non-working web browser
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@zzt the only one of the projects discussed in this thread that's breached my bubble has been #tailwind and it being #fashware explains so much about it.
like how people en masse insist on using it even after it's been demonstrated terrible and pointless, and simply refuse to engage with any argument that hasn't been drilled into their heads already (by who the fuck?!?!)
@unspeaker that’s been my and @fasterandworse’s thoughts on it exactly. this last bit of information makes the fanaticism and lock-in around Tailwind make so much more sense. like hell, I’m a month into a web project and I’m still picking pieces of tailwind’s classes out of my components (from a —no-tailwind project template; they just couldn’t help themselves)
@zzt laravel guy also cheering on dhh
the fash papertrail for Ladybird really shouldn't have to go much farther than them receiving money from fascists in a group that included other fascists but here's more anyway:
https://possum.city/notes/a504c0e7vwdj000h
I legitimately do not know how this shitty browser got so popular on fedi, but Andreas controls it so tightly he pretty much single-handedly switched all future development to Swift over his own community's objections
anyway, hyprland is the most toxic part of Wayland
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no I won't dig up links, type "hyprland toxic" into a search engine of your choice. other parts of Wayland fucking suck too.
but speaking of fucking sucking, XLibre is a fash X server that also barely works, because the point of fash tech isn't that it works, the point is that it's metaphorically and sometimes literally a weapon. see also the defense contractor currently taking over Nix, but see also the OG fash language, Urbit, the worst functional programming language I've ever known
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Urbit is fractally wrong; every part of it that claims to be original isn't, every time it claims to be distributed it's a lie, and when it claims to work it's almost definitely broken, though you wouldn't know cause it was written by an asshole trying to convert Hacker News types to neoreaction and it worked
ask me about Urbit, I have so many notes
the Chromium fork is Brave, a browser by an asshole that claims to be privacy-focused but which is there to push LLMs and cryptocurrencies
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@zzt@mas.to @deneb@wetdry.world while i agree with some claims in this post, take bit auf caution before insulting a whole community with very different individuals.
do some research on the history of suckless, cat-v, 9front etc. before writing and spreading words like these.
and yes, suckless dev here - antifascist by heart.
@zzt - “diverse sponsorship” but it’s all MilTech companies
- you’re surrounded by a rich market! of drone and other murder manufacturers
@zzt and let us not forget how extremely calculated all these sponsorships are!
e.g. https://lobste.rs/s/zfktn9/google_continues_invest_350k_rust
google could literally add two zeroes there and not notice a thing. but no, this shit is about influence and control, every fucking time
how could I forget
- a non-working web browser moving to a proprietary language that only supports macs, which appears to exist purely to divert funding away from Servo
- a working chromium fork whose only business purpose is to push slop extruders and a scam cryptocurrency
- slop extruders
- cryptocurrencies
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>proprietary language that only supports macs
this is a) not true and b) completely news to me. is it some kind of rewrite it in rust thing where they can't use rust because rust is "woke"?
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What about the web browser which runs single-process so that if a single website freezes or crashes then the entire session freezes or crashes?
@zzt when people read a post about fascism in tech and treat it as a personal attack on their tech choices, that's a tell that saves a lot of time going forward
@davidgerard I feel like I need to post a Q&A about how no this isn’t a list of tech I don’t like and also no, not all bad/assholish people in open source are fascists (but yes all fascists are bad people and assholes) but I know the people missing the point don’t fucking read anyway
also: am I telling them to drop their entire tech stack right now? it’d be nice but nah, sometimes you can’t. you know what you can do? stop advocating for fash shit and look for alternatives.
@zzt these people can't read, as we just discovered
@davidgerard @zzt well FWIW I can’t for the life of me figure out what packages or products you are talking about in this thread.
@zzt wait what’s the browser one?
@zzt i wonder if kling abandoned serenityOS to take ladybird on the road because of a specific fashtech funding offer
@davidgerard @zzt Ah, Ladybird was the one here, I was wondering! Haven’t heard about the language change.
@frumble @davidgerard here’s one of the github issues begging them not to https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/issues/5017
@frumble @davidgerard (though I gotta be clear, even if it was a perfectly good cross-platform swift app, I’d never willingly use it: https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/115272693237698193)
@davidgerard wait what's up with stripey socks?
Are those woke now?
@davidgerard @frumble @zzt this one's assumption is that these large companies that are pumping money into ladybird don't like servo because servo threatens their control of the web
ladybird has decided that "independent" means "independent code" rather than "not controlled by large financial interests" and a company like cloudflare has a *lot* of vested interest in keeping control over general internet goings-on
We evaluated Swift and got tired of having to rewrite everything on the regular because Apple had a new bright idea.
@davidgerard @frumble @zzt well, there are two major web browser developers, and one of them already knifed servo by coercing mozilla to fire the whole rust team in 2020. the other one happens to have a vested interest in said language. but this is all supposition
@zzt@mas.to where can i signup?! tho one question, does fashtech also include "stable" software libraries with ABI breaking changes on minor releases? I want something that deprecates brand new functions the next minor release. It really helps me keep up with reading documentation and being on top of things
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