2026-02-12 13:03 UTC
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer 2026-02-12 13:04
@dtemme @bodil @janl Old is good. It means you made it this far.
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@xinit@mastodon.coffee 2026-02-12 18:35
@dtemme ESR was trying to convince a bunch of us to go shooting with him at Linux Expo or whatever it was, pre-911. A handful of Canadians. He just couldn't understand how we could live without The Freedoms. Not 15 minutes before that, RMS got angry at some guys that photoshopped his head onto a Star Wars poster ad R2D2. Didn't even take sexpest stories to kill them in my eyes. @samir @bodil @janl
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@dpnash@c.im 2026-02-12 20:22
@dtemme @samir @bodil @janl Writing CATB was the *one* good thing he did (even if you don’t agree with all the points in it, it’s a good intro to the kind of open source software development culture present in the 90s). Yeah, you have to fall back on the 90s to find that one good thing. Well, ok, two good things. One of his earlier Ayn Rand-ish screeds about how “Hackers are the best; screw the rest” pointed me to Python as a language worth picking up - and that was *still* the 90s.