:-o

Ew.

the non stop glazing

I don’t understand what this word means here.

Glazed eyes?

There are several distros like that…

Perhaps so, but this one is the giant 10km tall giant space elevator base station that stands out far above all. I pitched a story on it when he raised $8M in sponsorship for this dross. By the time I wrote it, a couple of days later, it was $10M. By the time it was published it was $12M.

That was a week ago and it’s $18.5M now.

So long as it was kept out of corporate clutches, that kind of cash could do wonders. It’s very sad to see.

I didn’t either.

He’s an odd dude, but I haven’t seen anything that makes me think he’s fash-tinted TBH. Most of his tech opinions are sound, IMHO.

I don’t like Wayland myself – not as much as he hates it, but it brings nothing I want or need, breaks a lot of stuff that I really like, and is so utterly pathetically technologically unambitious it actually angers me. Also, just like GNOME, like Flatpak, like everything to come out of RH, everything about it betrays its developers deep, broad, profound ignorance of all the prior art except the bits they had to work on.

I am heartily sick of this constant BS dialog of “X is bad, W is the brave new future”. It’s bollocks, and I am glad someone is standing up and saying no.

Friiiick, the ladybird dev?

I’d heard some rumours but this spelled it out and it’s not nice. I was formerly engaged to a Norwegian, and learned quite a lot about Scandinavian culture and beliefs. Some of it is nasty and the Mullvad dude, DHH, and “Awesome Kling” as well, are saying the quiet part out loud.

surprised to see him on this list

:-o

Oh hell yes. He emailed me angrily when I wrote a piece saying the new GNOME Exec Dir was a shaman. He was angry I didn’t make more fun of it. I said it’s no weirder than the dead-Jew-on-a-stick religion, and he flamed me and started calling me names in the blog.

He’s always been a loudmouth but I think he’s worked out that being an alt.right loudmouth wins him fans/viewers/subscribers and thus $… so he has gone all in.

Oh this is good.