Title text: The heartfelt tune it plays is CC licensed, and you can get it from my seed on JoinDiaspora.net whenever that project gets going.


Transcript

2003:

[Cueball approaches a bearded fellow.]

Cueball: Did you get my essay?
Bearded Fellow: Yeah, it was good! But it was a .doc; You should really use a more open-
Cueball: Give it a rest already. Maybe we just want to live our lives and use software that works, not get wrapped up in your stupid nerd turf wars.
Bearded Fellow: I just want people to care about the infrastructures we’re building and who-
Cueball: No, you just want to feel smugly superior. You have no sense of perspective and are probably autistic.

2010:

Cueball: Oh my God! We handed control of our social world to Facebook and they’re DOING EVIL STUFF!
Bearded Fellow: Do you see this?

[Inset, the bearded fellow rubs his index and middle fingers against his thumb.]

Bearded Fellow: It’s the world’s tiniest open-source violin.


  • HellAwaits@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Hot take: while I do appreciate and use FOSS (I’m on Linux), that doesn’t make the people who talk about it 24/7 non-stop any less annoying.

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      1 year ago

      Hot take: people being annoying doesn’t make them less right about things and if you disregard the warnings you still only have yourself to blame.

      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Hotter take: Dismissing a warning because it’s annoying is a tacit admission that they are right and you just don’t give a shit. People are lazy creatures. We have to make fire alarms the most obnoxious and loud sound in the world because otherwise people wouldn’t leave the flaming building.