rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually6d ago

I’ve noticed that there is often an alignment between extreme minimalism in software and edgelordy falling into the libertarian trap that goes full Nazi, maybe accidentally.

Xlibre, sure (blatantly), but I remember for a while the 9front home page had a photo of Auschwitz “as a joke.” The docs at cat-v.org (which is associated with 9front/suckless) has a “libertarian” manifesto filled with straw men

It’s frustrating because I like minimalism in software and I hate Nazis

Show threadVivien, cyberconcombre6d ago
@rk I think people who reject accessibility and internationalization easily get into minimalism, so maybe that’s where the correlation comes from.
Show threadrk: it’s hyphen-minus actually

@gugurumbe

Heh. Most of my software has a BUGS section in the documentation, and one of those bugs is “The only human language in which output is generated and in which documentation is available is English, regardless of the user’s preferred language.”

Because yes, it’s a bug. I’m just not qualified to fix it most of the time

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