Since I'm sure this is going to get linked to by HN-loving ignoramuses asking, "Why is jwz so mean to HN?"
It's a VC fan club, your go-to spot to simp for billionaires. Bad enough! But there's also Y Combinator's stochastic terrorist, cryptofascist, christofascist CEO Garry Tan.
This — that attitude, and that piece-of-shit motherfucker in particular — is what you're supporting every time you click on or share a "Hacker" "News" link.
Stop hanging out at the Nazi Bar.
BTW, since I assume I'm getting sent to the camps regardless, I'm going to spend my remaining time calling stochastic terrorist christofascist piece-of-shit motherfuckers what they are. Oh, did I swear? Was it indecorous? I'm so fuckin' sorry.
@jwz Regardless of whether you enjoy reading what's there, how is "mean to HN" even a thing someone can say?
@jwz what do you recommend instead to aggregate links and let people comment on it?
@CarbonCarrot I say "Don't hang out at the Nazi Bar" and you say "But I don't have anywhere else to hang out besides with Nazis."
Not my fucking problem, man. Not relevant.
@CarbonCarrot If "I wouldn't hang out at the Nazi Bar, except their chicken wings are so tasty" is something you would say, then we have established where your ethical priorities lie.
See also Twitter, and the Ongoing General Catastrophe.
@jwz I mean valid concern. But what if "I wouldn't hang out at the nazi bar, but are there places with chicken wings as good as there?" is something I'd ask?
@jwz @CarbonCarrot besides this reply being wildly childish, HN really has a plethora of interesting content daily discussed in a more civil manner than other link aggregators. Who’s reading it to support their CEO? They don’t make money off of a forum.
Edit: cry baby cursed me out then blocked me, lol
@oceanhaiyang Hey pal, how about a nice piping hot cup of go fuck yourself? *plonk*
@CarbonCarrot lobste.rs
@swym @CarbonCarrot
"nothing" is worth considering as an alternative too. It's totally ok to miss out on most of that noise.
@naught101 @CarbonCarrot @jwz
Lemmy is dead and I doubt he ever cared about that nerd crap
@Doomed_Daniel @CarbonCarrot @jwz
It's 10% of the entire fediverse. It's the third biggest fediverse app after mastodon and misskey, and it's growing. If Lemmy is dead then so are most other fediverse apps.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=30
I was answering the question, not speaking for jwz.
@naught101 @CarbonCarrot @jwz
sorry to break the news but he died in 2015
Wtf are you talking about?
@Doomed_Daniel @naught101 I assume you are either joking or not familiar with the same-named ActivityPub Software — https://joinfediverse.wiki/Lemmy
@jwz 100% take on HN and the rest of their network.
Its nothing more than a contrepreneur's haven for bootlickers.
@jwz You might feel like you're screaming at the tide.
I read someone saying much the same thing years ago.
And I listened.
And my life has been a tiny bit better for it.
So, on behalf of whatever random Internet dweller that you happened to push over the line: thank you.
@jwz Is it really that fucked?? I'd not paid attention!
@jwz what's the software you're using to include mastodon comments on your blog?
@jwz thank you!
@jwz AI "communities" also generally fit this pattern
@jwz now, what about lobste.rs?
@grimmauld @jwz Unless something has changed, don't you basically need to be invited to lobste.rs in order to be able comment/post?
@RenewedRebecca Yes, it's invite only but as per https://lobste.rs/about#invitations - not artificially limited. Just not "click here to join" but of course YMMV. @grimmauld @jwz
@RenewedRebecca @grimmauld @jwz You do, but I got my invitation by joining their IRC channel and saying ’please can I have an invitation?’
@david_chisnall @grimmauld @jwz Ah, good to know.
@jwz I think there's a very strong case to make against Tan, and has been for a decade+
@jwz It always puzzled me how people would get their knickers in a knot over even mild swearing, especially when warranted.
I'm sorry, my house is burning down and you're screaming indignantly at me because I described it as "my bloody house is burning down!"?!?!?!?
Fucking loony I tell you.
@nuintari @jwz @psa, let's throw in humorous use of this kind of letter (or word) replacement:
“Well, ---- me,” he said. “A ----ing wizard. I hate ----ing wizards!”
“You shouldn’t ---- them, then,” muttered one of his henchmen, effortlessly pronouncing a row of dashes.
(from “Mort“, Sir Terry Pratchett)
Also, a bit of Python: https://youtu.be/K8ANSnM-vRE
On the flip side, in the 1990's the publicly funded youth radio station in Australia would play "I might be a cunt, but I'm not a fucking cunt" uncensored.
Let's just say that moving to the USA was a culturally jarring experience.
@psa @lp0_on_fire @jwz We really are prudes here.
@jwz We had to do that a while back to get our app approved because a song had fuck or shit in the title displayed in the song history, and Apple rejected the app! So we set a flag to make it F**k or S**t we'd set when the app was in review. Their policies are changed now so we no longer do that.
@somafm Oh yeah Apple wouldn't approve XScreenSaver until I stealthed this module: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJDxZXbO8mY
"We found that your app includes content or concepts that some users may find upsetting, offensive, or otherwise objectionable.
Specifically, your entertainment or gaming app inappropriately references the COVID-19 pandemic in the metadata or binary. Entertainment or gaming apps that directly or indirectly reference the COVID-19 pandemic in any way are not appropriate for the App Store."
@jwz But yes, it's stupid. It's like saying a pointer to the word is OK but the actual word isn't.
@jwz Yeah, that one has always struck me as particularly infantile.
Humans gain object permanence around 7-12 months. There aren't going to be many people fooled by hiding a character or two.
My go-to all-encompassing label: the Creepy Weirdos
https://inaniludibrio.com/2025/03/25/the-most-important-thing/
@jwz please, these people have nothing to do with Christ, leave him out of this
@CubeRootOfTrue If they would leave him out of it, so would I.
@CubeRootOfTrue @jwz they spend an awful lot of time giving interviews about how much they have to do with Christ
@CubeRootOfTrue @jwz
Except they keep invoking him; Matthew 7:21-23 applies
@CubeRootOfTrue @jwz I wouldn't have a problem with christians if they would just keep their religion the fuck out of my life, but here we are.
@kentenmakto @jwz I wouldn't mind them calling themselves Christians, if they *actually behaved the way Jesus said to*, but yeah, here we are
@jwz You can swear as fucking much as you want here. This is a swear-as-fucking-much-as-you-want-zone
@jwz Bring it on! You had the best "blog" on the web before there were blogs. And you pissed of the whores of the plutocrats from the start. Remember putting that parachute over your cube? Don't let the bastards grind you down.