• rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    20·
    2 days ago

    S***, I’ve been meaning to learn Rust but didn’t know where to start, thanks

  • genevieve@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    446·
    2 days ago

    Don’t worry.

    No catgirl’s gonna get anywhere near the fetid odour of RMS.

    Don’t ask me why I know it.

    • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub
      51·
      2 days ago

      Newsflash: felines stink, the bigger they are the more they do. A big furry wouldn’t have a problem with body odor even in the scale of RMS’s.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      55·
      2 days ago

      It has to be. RMS browses the internet by e-mailing a remote machine that wgets the page and e-mails it back to him, then views it in lynx so that JavaScript doesn’t run. There’s absolutely no way in Hell he’d be on corporate social media.

      (I’m not joking, by the way.)

      • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        71·
        1 day ago

        I’ve seen a lot of FOSS purists before, but this guy has gotta be the Linux equivalent of one of those dudes who lives in the forest with a tin hat so the guberment can’t read his thoughts.

        • grue@lemmy.world
          8·
          16 hours ago

          He literally invented the concept of Free Software. So yeah, of course he’s extreme about it!

        • unhrpetby@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          6·
          15 hours ago

          The difference would be that RMS is extremely well-versed in computer technology. He understands the problems with non-free software.

          Someone with his knowledge could choose to disregard those issues for convenience, but Stallman is willing to make great sacrifices.

        • grue@lemmy.world
          11·
          2 days ago

          What makes you think the fake screenshot is Mastodon? I don’t use it so I don’t know about fonts and colors and margins matching up, but I’d at least expect there to be an instance name attached to the username.

          Also, RMS is certainly not the kind of guy to use social media at all, libre and federated or not.

          • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
            20·
            2 days ago

            The page behind your link above actually solves the riddle in question:

            I have a Mastodon account, @rms on mastodon.xyz, which mirrors the political notes of stallman.org. The person who set up the mirroring chose that site.

            The profile picture and colour scheme fits. I’m guessing just the text is edited.

    • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
      1261·
      2 days ago

      Everyone knows that transwomen prefer Rust due to its borrow checker which ensures memory safety without the overhead of garbage collection.

        • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
          30·
          2 days ago

          The joke is that trans people in the tech community are typically developers+Linux users with a propensity to prefer Rust for a programming language.

          A lot of people have been pushing for Rust to be incorporated into the Linux kernel more, rather than being mostly C.

          It’s a joke based on a stereotype.

          • parrhesia@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            2 days ago

            The joke is that trans people in the tech community are typically developers+Linux users with a propensity to prefer Rust for a programming language.

            Wait how did that happen?

            • Dragonstaff@leminal.spaceEnglish
              10·
              2 days ago

              Transness and Software development are both correlated to neurodiversity. (I am a neurodivergent trans developer, ftr)

              I haven’t especially heard the Linux or Rust stereotype, but it’s fair enough for a funny joke.

              • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
                6·
                2 days ago

                I haven’t especially heard the Linux or Rust stereotype, but it’s fair enough for a funny joke.

                Stallman is one of the world’s most prolific C developers, so that part of the joke may be just making fun of his (likely) reluctance to adopt Rust, which is often recommended to C programmers.

            • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              1 day ago

              Personal pet theory that may also play into it: Trans people are also often in information security roles. Potentially, because when you have to hide your real identity, you start to get good at it.
              And Rust also has various security benefits, especially when compared to C, but also when compared to garbage-collected languages (race conditions are largely prevented).

              • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                2·
                16 hours ago

                also because on the Internet you can just be the opposite gender and not have to correct everyone all the time, or just be anonymous and not have a gender

    • Gladaed@feddit.org
      54·
      2 days ago

      Also: stallman is a character and has been associated with a pedophelia/ebephilia yikes semi reasonable Epstein takes and a lack of understanding that consenting sex with a minor causes harm.