Comment on I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me - ratfactor

shortrounddev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Bit of an unhinged and unreasonable nerd rant but here it goes:

  The second dot com boom in the 2010s ruined us. Like holy shit. As someone younger looking down the line, living in tech bro culture, but exposed to the likes of the jargon file, y combinatorial and their venture capitalists literally ruined hacker culture.

  We used to have a thriving culture that cherished freedom, real freedom, not freedom for the rich. What happened to the culture that spawned Windows buyback day? What of the dream that networked freedom would one day break the chains of economic heirarchy?

  Like holy fucking shit. If you’re not here for the love of the machine stop touching a compiler or better yet go loose your fucking hands.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Preach.

    Information wants to be free.

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    • orclev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Can’t stop the signal.

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      • Kichae@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Techbros killed me, Mal.

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  • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A total crash would scare the money away but leave all the hardware and software behind

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Marching orders if I ever saw some. Drop a neutron bomb on the investors class. I think a good anti-AI FUD campaign might get off the hook. Something good enough to crash every silicon valley bank!

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      • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Bring back little websites ran by furries

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  • daddy32@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Minor note: Jargon file is much older than any of that (and most of us).

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    • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I know that was my point. Thing was mostly finalized by my birth year lmao.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I just wanna build cool shit and solve puzzles using the smallest amount of code possible that still makes sense to read. That’s fun to me. I’ve honestly gotten incredibly sick of renting by brain out to people for the majority of my waking hours mostly just to put a roof over my head.

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• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I have a couple friends that are software devs, and they echo the exact same sentiment. We’ve bonded over computers over the years, and they all wish they’d chosen a different career path at times because there are so many morons, and typically the morons are the worst devs out there.

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Studying software engineer, the amount of weird looks I got from windows users for having a terminal open on my linux pc is scary

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  • shortrounddev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Windows has a terminal now too!

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• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Hey, I’m only money-obsessed because I’m trying to retire.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I saw my retirement fund .

    I’ll probably be in the ground and STILL working.

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• underwire212@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Who also have absolutely ZERO moral compass. Like literally don’t give two shits if they’re coding a piece of software going into a baby killing machines.

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• jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  i wish there was a place where normies didn’t want to work so we could all go there

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• futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If it’s any consolation, it’s really fun when you become senior enough to be able to weed out the no-talent greasy-pole climbers.

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• EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I read scifi books and enjoy reading about the lore of the tech industry.

  If it’s any consolation, we’re kinda heading into the futuristic dystopian tech hellscape portrayed by so much sci fi. So that’s fun.

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  • Static_Rocket@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    One hell of a consolation prize

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• CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  who have invented their own language about syncing up, achieving alignment, creating action items

  My soul contacted in upon itself a little as I read that.

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m the same way. I thought websites were cool and wanted to make one. So I did and taught myself. Then I took a class at my high school, then again at the local community college once I could do concurrent enrollment. In college, I worked on software projects to relax from my CS classes, and I still do that today.

  Even if AI takes my job, I’ll probably still hack on stuff. I’m in it because I love software dev. I probably could’ve climbed the ladder long ago, but that would’ve required sacrificing what I want to do.

  So yeah, hopefully I can keep making money with my hobby, but I’m not interested in becoming a corporate hack just to make a buck.

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• ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I work at a soulless megacorp these days, but I have to say I’m lucky and the vast majority of developers I work with arr not like this.

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