Although trained in physics, I worked in the computing industry with pride and purpose for over 40 years. And now I can do nothing but sit back and watch it destroy itself for no valid reason beyond hubris (if I'm being charitable).
Ineffable sadness watching something I once loved deliberately lose its soul.
I spent my time trying to make it better. Not just write code, but find better or at least different ways to do so. Simpler, cleaner, more general, more comprehensible.
What's happening today is a complete repudiation of everything I was trying to achieve.
@xan @robpike I hope the seasoned veterans will start actively making IRL groups to teach even just the basics of how they can protect themselves, learn a bit, and become an active participant in their lives and not a passive victim.
Places like the fediverse are great but most of them outside the "geeks and gamers" have no clue this even exists. And if they do, it's an old nerds place with a high bar of entry.
I hope folks have enough energy to teach others.
I'm exhausted by people who want to say I'm weird for not joining the fruit-flavored bandwagon.
I've gotten to the point where I'm like, "Let me enjoy Linux, BSD, and whatever other cool FOSS OSes I can find and leave me alone."
Not proud of it. World-weary. 😮💨
@rl_dane @robpike The knowledge will be available to those who want it and for those who want to listen. The task is to make the performance so much more joyful than asking a robot to remix other people's laundered works.
We could have fed, clothed and housed the entire homeless population of the United States. But we chose differently because we have no fucking imagination.
rob pike
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Chad McCullough