While post-viral illnesses like Long COVID and ME/CFS exist, I’m hesitant to link disabilities to mediocre tech bros being assholes. They were assholes before COVID, taking credit for colleagues’ work. Now they take credit for the bots’ work.
I know plenty of people with brain fog who were and remain against every torment nexus that comes along.
@akareilly I think you’re looking too closely at specifics, and not at the wider picture; software development is going to shit because *everything* is going to shit, because our species as a whole took a baseball bat to the head, and has refused, indeed is largely incapable of recognising & acknowledging it.
It’s not just douchebros going AI psychosis. It’s formerly respected, measured people. The leadership classes who should have been the conservative stewards of the next generation.
I am looking at specifics and the wider picture, including changes in politics in the wake of the mass disabling event of 1918.
“Techbros are disabled now” is not an explanation for the current AI slop invasion of open source, and it leads down a road I’d rather not follow.
@akareilly I’m not saying they’re disabled either. Disability is something done TO a person with a medical condition BY society, and techbros are certainly not experiencing any systemic disadvantage as a result of the ableist obliviousness of others. BUT the widespread AI psychosis that is infecting every single aspect of the formerly stable, respectable leadership classes of all these open source projects has to be accounted for. Were they always bad actors in disguise, or have they changed?
@metaning @akareilly they were never respectable
maybe you didn't notice before but there's a reason open source has always been so hostile to minorities
@anhedonie @akareilly Sure, but it at least produced something good. Now it’s not even doing that. Bigoted #Slop is worse than bigoted Michelin cuisine.
2007 is when a guy with a Nazi tattoo harassed a woman off the internet for having the gall to write really good books about learning to code.
There's a man convicted of having child abuse materials who is allowed at C++ conferences.
It's not safe to leave a drink unattended at a hacker event in Berlin or Hamburg, and the likely culprits are known. Shit hit the fan in 2015.
Ableism in FOSS has long taken the form of flagrant discrimination, or a refusal to even try to incorporate accessibility in a project with the resources to do so. Con crud is a form of violence against disabled people - see the whining about putting on masks from hackers who claim to be risk analysis geniuses.
Open source was a Nazi bar long before COVID.
Don't blame this on post-viral disabilities. No, bringing up the social model of disability doesn't save you. What's the solution if Long COVID is the problem? Is it horribly discriminatory? Of course it is. You had a bad take, and you don't have to hold on to it.
@akareilly @anhedonie Yes, these are all terrible things, but did the CSAM Man’s software carry the implicit threat it might erase your data suddenly, or leak your bank accounts because his fetishes made him an incompetent programmer?
His Covid acquired brain damage that made him incapable of recognising his AI psychosis did that.
@metaning @akareilly are you really making the point that CSAM is less bad than data loss because of poorly coded software? please get the fuck out of my mentions
@anhedonie @akareilly Yes, collapsing infrastructure relied upon by everybody is absolutely worse for society as a whole, than the bad personalities of some of the people behind that infrastructure.
@metaning @akareilly ok so you're a rape apologist
get the fuck out
now
The bar is truly in hell.
There is always someone who could replace a rapist, and even if an open source project can't exist without abusers, well, *let it perish*
fuck off.
@metaning @akareilly They were never stable and respectable. That is what people have been saying for literally decades. There is no sudden change happening. AI's mass output has just drawn yet more attention to what critics have been saying for years.
@distrowatch @akareilly The personal politics of the bad people in the open source community didn’t make their products *untrustworthy* as functional infrastructure.
The Covid brain damage that made them more susceptible to AI psychosis, and reach for LLM tools to recover their former “brilliance” did.