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this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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My lack of a Bluesky account spares me again. Thankfully, I have Skyview.social to ensure my eyes are scarred anyway (seriously, do we have to fight another world war over if Nazis are bad or not, it shouldn't take the blood of tens of millions to make that clear)
Also found a nice summary of our current moment in the replies:
(alt: "I am old enough to remember when we all agreed Nazis were bad")
cue this lobste.rs shitshow where someone states "88 is a known Nazi dogwhistle", and multiple people come out of the woodwork saying even if it is, it's not so bad actually, get over it
https://lobste.rs/s/rvgvgj/best_line_length_is_88
Submitted blog post could without loss of generality be titled "Black's default of 88 for line length is not necessarily the best", yet author decided to go with the title they have now... edit author seems to be a good egg generally https://mastodon.social/@glyph
Something useful to know, which I'm not saying over there because it'd be pearls before swine, is that Glyph Lefkowitz and many other folks core to the Twisted ecosystem are extremely Jewish and well-aware of Nazi symbols. Knowing Glyph personally, I'd guess that he wanted to hang a lampshade on this particular symbol; he loves to parody overly-serious folks and he spends most of his blogposts gently provoking the Python community into caring about software and people. This is the same guy who started a PyCon keynote with, "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Python, not to praise it."
Glyph has weighed in here
https://lobste.rs/c/mhal5b
Apparently someone edited in the numeral in the title when submitting to lobste.rs. Another entry on the watchlist.
Sorry forgot to check, despite a friend of mine doing the same to me with tumblr and I'm also annoyed then.
Not sure i had it in me to alt text all that yarvin however