@colin
@lemmy.uninsane.orgokay so the furries are all in on frontend while the Linux graybeards do the low level C shit. the femboys can't get enough Rust and are somewhere in the middle doing web backends and services, the transfems like Rust too, but also weirder things like Nix or functional programming and lean more towards OS and systems type of stuff right?
i like this because it explains why the furries seem to have more visibility than the other groups, it lets each group have a little bit of space while still all being part of the same team, and honestly it matches the people i've worked with like 80-90%.
nah, the weebs have mastodon, the furries left for bsky, it was a mutual breakup. they left because it wasn't hip enough, we stayed because oh my god they're so full of themselves.
source: my avatar (weeabo) and my three intolerable roommates (furries)
from my limited experience, about half? i had to finally set up a robots.txt last month after Anthropic decided it would be OK to crawl my Wikipedia mirror from about a dozen different IP addresses simultaneously, non-stop, without any rate limiting, and bring it to its knees. fuck them for it, but at least it stopped once i added robots.txt.
Facebook, Amazon, and a few others are ignoring that robots.txt, on the other hand. they have the decency to do it slowly enough that i'd never notice unless i checked the logs, at least.
breaking the fourth wall IRL? i think it's brilliant. my generation got halfway there with "meta": "chat" is just the next step past that.
as a NixOS-on-Pinephone user i 100% support funding upstreaming efforts 😉 that's the type of thing which can have really broad reach. you'd never know it unless you were specifically looking for it, but we've also got people maintaining those OpenEmbedded musl+systemd patches for our distro (along with way too many other non-musl systemd patches: like you point out, it's just not the type of thing that gets cleaned up without some focused effort like this).