Close enough. Graphics are about equal
parens
joined 6 months ago
I think the face in the comic convey quite well that "haha why" was not a "wow, I'm interested" but "the fuck you doing, bro?". Especially since it's literally prefixed with "what the hell are you doing?".
You don't think there's a difference between "Why the fuck would you do that, you nincompoop?" and "Haha, why"?
Looking forward to the memes once this dies
(Zed's dead)
Valheim too?
Does Trump need money to be president?
HackerNews is full of these kind of people
Contributor: Hey guys, I wrote this proof of concept in a fortnight that does something fun!
HackerNews: Why the fuck would you do that, you nincompoop?
Contributor: I... thought it would be fun after shitty days at work
HackerNews: You could be spending your time making money or contributing to $subjectivelyMoreImportantProject. Be ashamed
People who can't accept that some people just want to have fun and do what they like.
That requires a population willing to vote for such legislators.
That's your opinion and I don't share it.
Looking at the posts right now, most of them are pretty much what the bot would post: blog posts, announcements, interesting repos. A bot would add more of that.
To have people talking, you need to give them something to talk about and news is what people talk about, I think. We just have a large lurking community, which IMO isn't bad. To have people talk more, the only things I can think of are
- projects the community works on together (bot may be one)
- podcasts or videos with the community
- questions from the community
A bot seems like the easiest in terms of investment.
I think it's difficult to grow programming communities. The rust forums themselves aren't the most active (a post an hour and maybe 2 comments an hour?) and those are official. Can we hope to grow beyond that?
Personally, my presence here is mostly passive to read news about rust. I wouldn't mind a bot posting links to:
- official blog entries
- blog entries from rust maintainers
- merges to "awesome rust" repositories
- videos uploaded by various rust conference channels
- announcements from rust conferences
Basically a "global" rust RSS feed that I don't have to do the work of cobbling together.
If that bot were opensource, then there could be suggestions to add RSS feeds or some other integration to get news.
And if you're European, participate in the elections in June to get more parties into the EU bodies that will take legislative action against companies like Apple. The EU is the reason Apple is even attempting this silliness because Apple was designated a gatekeeper in the Digital Markets Act: one of the great EU acts for consumers.