It’s not often someone can stick to their “convictions” but he has the wealth he never needed to build a following to have a career. He could have retired young, tinkered with computers and raised his family.
His “heel turn” as is was was shocking at first but to double down on being anti-vax, sympathetic to January 6th protesters, and complaining about the existence of LGBT people (who have been around in Computer Science from the beginning) is just disappointing.
I loved his take on how GNU/Hurd should work. The idea of releasing a piece of software and only doing security updates after getting it to boot on common hardware is an interesting idea. Nothing he’s had to say in the past 4 years has been insightful or interesting. There are more than enough voices in the Linux community that can champion the cause these days without supporting the kind of tired, identity politics and culture war driven nonsense that he focuses on now.
I personally found 3/4 of that video to be extremely insightful.
> There are more than enough voices in the Linux community that can champion the cause these days without supporting the kind of tired, identity politics and culture war driven nonsense that he focuses on now.
You need to see that between this statement of yours and what Lunduke said in his video, you are promoting identity politics and culture war, and he is actually trying to fight against it.
If being tired about hearing from conservatives who freak out about the existence of trans people is promoting a culture war, I don’t know how to respond to that. I just want people to be able to live their lives and be left alone, especially if they aren’t hurting anyone. For some conservatives, this is somehow an attack against them because I don’t care to listen to their opinions on why trans people shouldn’t be left alone to live their lives in peace.
Ooof, this is a really bad look. I had no idea he sympathized with a group of unarmed boomer LARPers. His technical positions should be immediately disregarded because he has the wrong opinions about due process applying to people who put their feet on someone's desk. What a Nazi.
It took my literally two seconds to Google up some photos[2], they don't look very "unarmed"[3] to me.
[2] https://apnews.com/article/photos-election-jan6-trump-washin...
[3] https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/01/05/gettyimages-1230...
There is not such a thing as apolitical. If you say something of sort you are just in agreement with the current political status quo you are inserted on. Just by his definition of "I only talk when things really get political" is statement to that.
Open source software is political statement, and imho it benefits from being more political (or open about it) not "less".
Also this whole videos plays like a series of click baity phrases, I couldn't watch through.
There was nothing of interest here. I should have abandoned the video right away when he said he doesn't get political and then jumped into crap about "anti-white oaths".
Hard pass.
You don't just walk away from Qanon with your reputation intact. Bryan's slipping into conspiracy theories, grifting, and even tacit support for fascism is enough for me to stop caring about what he says.
These "Linux Sucks" videos do tend to be pretty good and he's rarely off-the-rails on the subject of technology, so I'm sure he makes some good points in this one, but I just can't look at his face or listen to him for 74 minutes.
Once you realize that someone is rooting for the downfall of democracy and the oppression of marginalized people, you tend to want to make sure that as few people as possible listen to anything that person has to say.
Can you give an example that he's expressed?
Yeah, it could be worse. Wish MS did not drop ball on IORing why can it only do disk I/O?
Holy crap, what happened? This video is all about complaining about DEI and then throwing shade at the Linux Foundation for "vaccine passports"
