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by GaryBluto 182 days ago
I don't know what I expected from a blog written entirely in lowercase but I'm unsurprised it's something like this.

> if i can't feminize my compiler, what's the point?

I remember when people saying things like this would be considered strange, because it is strange, along with all the other bizarre and often fetishistic references in both the blog body and various screenshots. Same for the bizarre pull request screenshot referring to "the gay people in my phone", which is also devoid of grammar.

It's one thing to act stupidly, it's another thing to act stupidly write a self-important blog about it and how much you enjoy pissing people off (back in the day we called that trolling, believe it or not, and it was largely considered a negative thing). I eagerly await the paradigm shift when people stop condoning and supporting bizarre behaviour like this and I won't need to create proxies and extensions explicitly for filtering this kind of nonsense out.

I find the worst thing about this not the blog post itself, but the fact that the majority people on here see no problem with it and those who agree with me are being flagged to death.

2 comments

It's ok to be strange. It's ok to be bizarre. Be free.

I do not understand the desire for everybody else in the world to act exactly like you. Variety is the spice of life.

People can be strange or bizarre if they want too but they have to understand it means some people won't like them, especially if their shtick is deliberately making people uncomfortable and being annoying.

> I do not understand the desire for everybody else in the world to act exactly like you. Variety is the spice of life.

I don't want people to act exactly like me. I greatly appreciate the existence of people different from me with differing points of view and differing nations with differing cultures. This doesn't mean I have to like one specific archetype that I feel acts obnoxiously.

Why do you feel uncomfortable? Why do you think anyone is trying to make you feel uncomfortable?
The author quite literally mentions that part of their motivation to do things is to make people want them to stop, not to mention the deliberate and conscious choice to write the article in lowercase.

It's also natural to be uncomfortable because of the various references to sexual fetishes throughout the article.

> to make people want them to stop

in the sense of "writing a brainfuck compiler in ed," not in making them so uncomfortable they beg for release. plus, "feminization" is not a fetish, at least in the sense of making rustc say "i love you;" that feels incredibly uncharitable.

You're being intentionally obtuse, you know what they meant when they wrote that and you're pretending not to.
I don't see any references to "sexual fetishes" in the article.
That's impressive considering the article mentions "feminizing" things in big text the moment you load the page.
I am sorry that you consider queer hackers having fun to be strange.