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Isn't there someone you forgot to ask? (feddit.uk)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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Stolen from https://wetdry.world/@fish/115696056626379861

"The myth of 'consensual' Rust" showing the Tux and the Rust language logo both saying "I consent" while Bryan Lunduke is off to the side saying "I don't". Below all this text reads "Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?"

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[–] 123 points 9 months ago (1 child)

I asked my roommate who that guy is. Showed me a 4 minute clip of rambling. Now I have brain cancer.

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    • [–] 81 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Who's that?

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  • [–] [S] 161 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Bryan Lunduke, Linux Youtuber/'influencer' who went down the antivaxx rabbit hole and became a raving conspiracy theorist.

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    • [–] 53 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I never expected to see a lunduke in the wild

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    His haters make him famous

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  • [–] 69 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    He was famous for the Linux Sucks talks, and used to be pretty chill always signing off his vids with "be excellent to each other" often playing around with old tech, then idk suddenly brain worms.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Does he actually think Linux sucks? I'll have to look up these "Linux Sucks talks". I like Linux. I kinda like Rust too.

    edit: OK question answered in first two minutes of the first "Linux Sucks" talk. He likes linux and I guess these talks are about improving it.

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago

    No he is a big proponent of FOSS and quite likes Linux. His Linux Sucks talks were more of a state of the union on big Linux distros and supporting software just going over pain points and what needed improvement. He used to be the public affairs manager for Open Suse if i recall correctly.

    But yeah sometime in the last few years he went hard conservative and not in the classical don't change anything way. These days he complains about trans people, insists Rust is a woke cult, and at one point called for his followers to document everyone in FOSS who has ever said anything about supporting anti-facism so he could report them as terrorists. Dude legit lost his marbles and jumped off the deep end hard.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    No his "Linux sucks" talks were more like a roast of people in the Linux world. It was done in good fun and at most just poked fun at people.

    He went off the deep end a little while ago.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    Yup. "Linux sucks" was how I encountered the guy; he seemed like a friendly, goofy guy. Had a lot of fun watching his Lunduke journal videos regularly back then and they went along well with my beginner's journey into the Linux world. He always seemed a bit politically naive and tryhard centrist/apolitical, whenever something remotely political came up.

    Then I lost track of him for a while, maybe during one of his attempts to ditch youtube altogether. When I came back a few months into the pandemic: boy did this guy get off the rails!

    It really saddened me to see, what had become of him.

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    • [–] 46 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    His YT comment section is an experience. They're breeding a unique kind of right-wing, tinfoil hat Linux extremist, whose software usage is determined solely by esoteric association and "suspicious timing" like seeing widespread adoption during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The phoronix comment section is a garden of rationality and level-headed thinking in comparison.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    The phoronix comment section is a garden of rationality and level-headed thinking in comparison.

    Any time Rust is brought up in Phoronix, half of the comments are bad-faith idiots making strawmen and whataboutism arguments amounting to "skill issue, C is 300% safe and nobody needs better" and thinly-veiled contrarian antagonism against Rust because it's popular.

    A comment section worse than that? Impressive.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    The more I scrolled through the comments, the more I longed for the familiar comfort of the braindead phoronix forums. It's one thing to be convinced that C is the peak of programming language design (sometimes without having ever written a productive line of code), but it's another thing entirely to be convinced that Rust is some sort of figurative (or even literal) trojan horse pushed by a global woke conspiracy and/or connected to the "planned release" of COVID-19.

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    • [–] 43 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I watched a video of his a few years ago, and thought "interesting take". Then I saw another video of his recently and thought "this guy's nuts. Prob a flat earther too"

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Oh hey, the Jordan Peterson experience!

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Pretty much. It seems to be the way a lot of these grifters go.

    Even Tucker Carlson. I'm Canadian, so I knew nothing about Carlson when I first saw some clips about him (like 8 years ago now). And in those clips he said some innocuous and fairly reasonable things. Then YouTube's algorithm did what it does best (you watch one new type of video and then that's all it shows you for recommendations) and then I started to see the "real" Tucker Carlson and was grossed out.

    Seems to be a common formula.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    Even Tucker Carlson. I’m Canadian, so I knew nothing about Carlson when I first saw some clips about him (like 8 years ago now). And in those clips he said some innocuous and fairly reasonable things.

    oh look, it's me with Prager U and their piece on Modern Art.

    "These idiots are shitting in jars and putting balls in folmaldahyde and calling it art. That's bullshit" You're right!
    "The true reason for art was for JEEEESSUUUUUSS" Fucking hell no.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    I remember seeing JP on YT when he wasn't really that famous yet, arguing against that Canadian law about not using the correct pronoun for someone being a criminal offense when regular swear words aren't and I thought okay, that's reasonable I guess, inconsistencies are bad. Let's see what else he has.

    And then came the lectures about natural hierarchies or something and some other things where I went okaaay, I guess I don't have the full context of his lectures. Suspense of disbelief and such.

    But three videos in and it was clear. Glad I got off that train before it left.

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    • [–] 40 points 9 months ago*

    Let me guess, Rust is too woke? "It's being pushed onto users and not adopted naturally'?

    Would fit Lunduke well.

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    [–] 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    He hates Rust too? What doesn't he hate now?

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    [+] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Not wanting to maintain a multi-language repo, and not wanting to maintain support for rust integration

    Edit: I kinda assumed the guy in the pic was that kernel maintainer who kept throwing a stink about Rust code, but it's apparently not

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    He referenced how self hosted compilers can have malicious code as part of their binary file and how it would be impossible to detect once a backdoor had been introducedin some version.

    He argues since rust people are "too political" and "actively harm non-rustaceans", he doesn't trust the software built by them as he is a conservative.

    This is from his video title "can we trust rust?"

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    • [+] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)
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    • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Fixed:

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    [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    While I respect Marc Maron's work, why does he care what I'm using?

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    [–] 0 points 8 months ago

    IDK who he is, but I don't want Rust on my PC :(

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