This week I had couple more encounters with brave new world of modern Free Software, and I actually wrote two gemlog drafts about it. Wrote and discarded, because I already said enough more than two years ago. The world didn't get any better since.
What the hell is going on? We don't need more of clueless, soft-skin pseudo-programmers, who are going to cry every time they are pointed at who they are. On opposite, we need more of harsh trials, by fire, by manpage, by SIGSEGV, by mail client. Community of those who pass these trials -- hardened, determined, reasonable adult hackers -- is not going to need code of conduct and its peacekeepers.
But as I was writing these drafts, I realized that I was looking at all that happened from a completely wrong angle. Yes, my home is no more, overrun by the generation of web-2.0 (or is it 3.0 now?), yet there is no point in complaining that inevitable happened but one should wonder why it happened so late instead.
This world is full of "learn JavaScript in 3 months on our online courses and make $$" programmers. Almost every human own a computer, yet most do not want to learn how to use it. Any business would cause another Eternal September without any remorse if doing so can make them $10.
There is only one thing that can stop people who want to make money allied with people who do not want to think: laws of nature. Anything else will eventually be defeated.
True miracle is that against all odds, the flame of the Unix spirit is still alive. There is SourceHut. There is Gemini. There is tildeverse community. There are small software gems all around the Internet.
No offence, dead hand of Hari Seldon will turn all your effords to dust, but I am alive and I am grateful to you.