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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Decemberās finally arrived, and the run-up to Christmas has begun. Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
A lobster wonders why the news that a centi-millionaire amateur jet pilot has decided to offload the cost of developing his pet terminal software onto peons begging for contributions has almost 100 upvotes, and is absolutely savaged for being rude to their betters
https://lobste.rs/s/dxqyh4/ghostty_is_now_non_profit#c_b0yttk
bring back rich people rolling their own submarines and getting crushed to death in the bathyal zone
all things aside, is current ghostty any good, or still an
audiophileconsolephile-ware?iām generally reluctant to try something which reeks of intensive self-promotion, but few months ago i decided to finally see whatās the hype about, and, well, itās a terminal emulator.
wezterm does much more, and with a much cleaner ui, and itās programmable, and the author doesnāt remind me that hashicorp is a thing that exists.
second person today I saw mentioning wezterm, guess I should look sometime for familiarity
I took psychic damage by scrolling up and seeing promptsimon posting a real doozie:
āoooh! look at the vanity project go! weeeee, isnāt having a famous face attached to it fun?ā with exactly no reflection on the fucking daunting state of open source funding in multiple other domains and projects
enter hashimoto. cringe intensifies
(note: out-of-order to linked post for comment cohesion)
what a fucking sentence
hyper? like this?
oh good so the rentier bridgetroll wants to do just a monopoly play? thatās fine Iām sure. note: I donāt think thereās a more charitable reading of this. those shared underlayers already exist, in the form of decades of protocol and other development. many of them suck and I agree about trying to do better, but I (rather strongly) suspect hashi and I have very different ideas of what that looks like
āuwu, think of the poor projects. yes sure I could throw $20m at this in some kind of funny trust and have it live forever but that wouldnāt allow me to evade the point so much!ā
āIām not as bad as the other billionaires I promiseā
Iām too fucking old to care about hipster terminals, so I had no idea ghostty was started by a (former) billionaire. If forced to choose a new terminal I will certainly take this fact into consideration.
ghosTTy is the username of a schizoposter on Something Awful who only shows up to post bitcoin price charts and get mocked into oblivion. I wonder if thereās any connection?