Comment on Ladybird Browser adopts Rust, with help from AI
arcine@jlai.lu 3 days ago
I was enthusiastic about LadyBird until I learnt that the guy leading the project i s a white supremacist, via pivot-to-ai.
Now I hope either someone else takes it over, or that it crashes and burns.
If any creator can separate work from personal and the product is good I really couldn’t care less with what they use their own time for.
I’m pretty sure you could find people with other unsavoury opinions in the devteams for both chrome and firefox, what then?
No one can separate their creative idea from the rest of the brain. Any fool that thinks that’s possible is straight up stupid.
Google’s monopoly is a bigger problem than one guy having confused ideas, to me.
One could just hard-fork Chromium…
Go on, do it.
Came here to say this.
greyfrog@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I don’t think you should be able to make claims like this without hard proof.
Do you have any information about this?
Zangoose@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How many times do I have to give him the benefit of the doubt though?
First it was the “using they in documentation is political ideology” Github issue, then he publicly defended DHH when people called him out for being a white supremacist, he implied tech companies are discriminating against white people with diversity policies, and he tweeted that he hopes young people will carry on Charlie Kirk’s legacy.
If one or two of these things happened in isolation, I could maybe understand giving him the benefit of the doubt as a non-American (for that last one) non-native English speaker. But all of these things taken together? I personally don’t think I can look past that.
greyfrog@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
To be fair I hadn’t heard of some of these, so I think you’re right. I wouldn’t go so far as as to say he’s a white supremacist but it definitely seems like he has an ideology.
Zangoose@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s fair, I assume most people probably aren’t following ladybird that closely so it’s easy to miss. It just bothers me because shrugging off small individual problems and ignoring a bigger trend is arguably what let people like DHH get a platform in the first place.