why not embrace fashtech!

[zzt@mas.to]

why not embrace fashtech! they’ve got:
- terrible Fisher-Price CSS
- the most toxic part of the Wayland ecosystem, and that’s saying something
- the worst part of the X11 ecosystem, and that’s saying something
- suckless tools and they all fucking suck
- corporate control over the packages you wrote, for your own protection
- distributed functional programming that doesn’t function or distribute

[zzt@mas.to]

how could I forget

- a non-working web browser moving to a proprietary language that only supports macs, which appears to exist purely to divert funding away from Servo
- a working chromium fork whose only business purpose is to push slop extruders and a scam cryptocurrency
- slop extruders
- cryptocurrencies

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@zzt i wonder if kling abandoned serenityOS to take ladybird on the road because of a specific fashtech funding offer

[frumble@chaos.social]

@davidgerard @zzt Ah, Ladybird was the one here, I was wondering! Haven’t heard about the language change.

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@frumble @zzt yeah ladybird is moving off C/C++ to Swift but Rust has too many stripy socks i guess

so they picked a language with a shitty open source story that you can still only really write in xcode on a mac

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@frumble @zzt the funding for the experimental web browser that's moving to a language that doesn't fucking work except on macs is remarkable

real projects don't get that sort of funding, but wingnut welfare for experimental fashtech BRING IT ON

like who wanted to knife servo that badly

[3a29@gts.apicrim.es]

@davidgerard @frumble @zzt this one's assumption is that these large companies that are pumping money into ladybird don't like servo because servo threatens their control of the web
ladybird has decided that "independent" means "independent code" rather than "not controlled by large financial interests" and a company like cloudflare has a *lot* of vested interest in keeping control over general internet goings-on

[2something@transfem.social]

@zzt@mas.to

What about the web browser which runs single-process so that if a single website freezes or crashes then the entire session freezes or crashes?

[zzt@mas.to]

by popular demand, here's an answer key for my fashtech vaguepost, in order of urgency.

the package repositories currently being taken over are RubyGems and NixOS' nixpkgs. it's quite well known that DHH, a Shopify board member, is behind the corporate takeover of RubyGems. he's also coordinating openly on Twitter with the defense contractor Anduril and other actors to ensure that nixpkgs meets an even worse fate. this is the culmination of a long project to make Nix fascist.

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[zzt@mas.to]

DHH and the fascists taking over Nix being in league might seem too convenient to be true, so here's some links. these are just analysis, but if you click through to Twitter you're going to get hit in the face with bare bigotry so fair warning:

https://fedi.slightly.tech/@joepie91/statuses/01K6AHA0BNBBX616JGDJHYET36

https://fedi.slightly.tech/@joepie91/statuses/01K6E3G2Z19M82BWRB3SPADHP9

https://mstdn.games/@KFears/115286316219357517

the tactics the fascists used to take over nixpkgs and RubyGems are old, and they worked. now that they know their tactics work, they'll be coming for other projects.

2/

[zzt@mas.to]

also publicly coordinating with DHH on Twitter are the guy who started Tailwind (terrible Fisher-Price CSS) Adam Wathan and the leader of the Ladybird web browser Andreas Kling; both are actively brainstorming with DHH ways to make their projects more hostile to non-fascists. while the Tailwind guy turning fash might be surprising, Andreas has a bunch of fash shit on his Twitter and a history.

now's maybe the time to stop advocating for that unserious non-working web browser

3/

[zzt@mas.to]

the fash papertrail for Ladybird really shouldn't have to go much farther than them receiving money from fascists in a group that included other fascists but here's more anyway:

https://possum.city/notes/a504c0e7vwdj000h

I legitimately do not know how this shitty browser got so popular on fedi, but Andreas controls it so tightly he pretty much single-handedly switched all future development to Swift over his own community's objections

anyway, hyprland is the most toxic part of Wayland

4/

[zzt@mas.to]

no I won't dig up links, type "hyprland toxic" into a search engine of your choice. other parts of Wayland fucking suck too.

but speaking of fucking sucking, XLibre is a fash X server that also barely works, because the point of fash tech isn't that it works, the point is that it's metaphorically and sometimes literally a weapon. see also the defense contractor currently taking over Nix, but see also the OG fash language, Urbit, the worst functional programming language I've ever known

5/

[zzt@mas.to]

Urbit is fractally wrong; every part of it that claims to be original isn't, every time it claims to be distributed it's a lie, and when it claims to work it's almost definitely broken, though you wouldn't know cause it was written by an asshole trying to convert Hacker News types to neoreaction and it worked

ask me about Urbit, I have so many notes

the Chromium fork is Brave, a browser by an asshole that claims to be privacy-focused but which is there to push LLMs and cryptocurrencies

6/

[tauon@possum.city]

@2something@transfem.social @zzt@mas.to which?

[2something@transfem.social]

@tauon@possum.city @zzt@mas.to Pale Moon.

[tauon@possum.city]

@2something@transfem.social @zzt@mas.to oh lol

[tauon@possum.city]

@2something@transfem.social @zzt@mas.to wait it's fashware???

[2something@transfem.social]

@tauon@possum.city @zzt@mas.to

Here's Moonchild in 2017 explaining that he believes men are inherently better at programming than women:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16372&p=119333#p119317

Here's Moonchild in 2020 announcing that he will no longer accept donations through Patreon, because he claims they got "political" by putting a Black Lives Matter banner at the top of their home page. He instead endorses the "politically neutral" Paypal, owned by a billionare who has never done anything political.
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=192120#p192120

Here's Moonchild in 2022 complaining about "SJW"
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=27765&p=223145&hilit=SJW#p223145

Here's Moonchild's number two person Athenian200 in 2024 complaining about how terrible the gays on "Mastodon" are:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=30942&p=249637#p249633
(And Moonchild agrees with him in the following post).

Here's Moonchild in 2024 making an April Fool's Day "joke" promising "Fully-inclusive accessibility features for every gender identity."
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=31021

Here's Moonbat, one of the current developers, in 2024 talking about how Elon Musk taking over Twitter improved things by driving away "lefty control freaks" (though it's worth noting Moonchild disagreed with Moonbat in the following post).
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=31234&p=252614#p252431

Here's Moonchild in the same thread complaining that people on fediverse care about accessibility along with "warriors for the cause" BS.
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=31234&p=252614#p252617

Here's Moonchild in 2024 talking about how "SJWs" are "triggered" by SerenityOS:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=31322#p254004

Here's Moonbat in 2024 talking about Microsoft ChatGPT and Google Gemini. He criticizes them: not for any real reason, but because they are allegedly "politically biased" against conservatives.
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=31772#p256921
(To be fair, later in the thread Moonchild criticizes LLMs for good reasons.)

Now let's talk about Matt Tobin. To be clear, Tobin is not involved with Pale Moon anymore. For several years he was the number two person. He was a very outspoken Trump supporter, and he'd frequently derail Github discussions with rants about how SJW Marxist Killary is coming to force you to be gay. He would quickly ban from the forum anyone who criticized this behavior (even people who agreed with his politics but didn't want him to rant about it in unrelated git issues). Moonchild never criticized or reprimanded Tobin for this behavior and kept him on for a long time.

In 2022, Moonchild and Tobin got into an argument about the correct format for extensions, and Tobin ended the argument by insulting Moonchild and trying to deliberately break the PM website. Moonchild was able to restore the site and boot Tobin from the project. But it's worth noting that even after parting ways, Moonchild never denounced Tobin's bigotry.

(I thought I posted these receipts on fedi previously but I can't find the previous post to link to so here it is again.)