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I would say, finally, in an era of bitter political struggle even in the free software world, finally we see a good humoured hacker joke again

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Kling has promoted the nonsense white replacement conspiracy theory

This is news to me. I'll look into them saying that and change how I talk about this event. Because before knowing this I would've described it similarly as the other person. But yeah, any grace I was willing to extend goes away if they're parroting white replacement.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

https://nitter.net/awesomekling/status/1874518295350837401

https://nitter.net/awesomekling/status/1969350008538370216

Lets combine that with the contributing.md here as a response to "Your docs could be written better, I can do that", and how he stands with DHH (note Lunduke there btw), which was a response to DHH+Ruby....

Well it kind of paints a picture. A very specific one, imo.

Lunduke, the video of the post, is also a pretty notably tech right wing, which is why I mention to note that earlier.

I will say, I think Kling hides it better than DHH, same with Vaxry, but... yeah its pretty small and specific circles that seem to gather.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 2 points 7 hours ago

Yeah.

It can get real ugly in tech sometimes, and I really hate seeing it.

For a long time I considered tech the more inviting and accepting bunch, but that has definitely changed over time. There's some real gross stuff out there.