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CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by oefrha »

boredpudding wrote: post #27
account42 wrote: post #14

Complaining that they give money to people you don't like is not a good look when you want them to give money to people you do like.

Because being friendly works doesn't work. Open source maintainers have been screaming about funding for years. One dude comes along, adds some scripts on top of all the work of those maintainers, and gets millions in funding? You can't expect people to be nice then. It's completely messed up.

In this case CSS-Tricks got paid $4m first, so probably the wrong entity to be complaining about funding. But maybe the lead editor in question who’s not the creator didn’t see much of that?

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

#32

Post by boredpudding »

IslandRebel wrote: post #28
prinny_ wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it’s a very good look when the people you complain about are racists.

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There's a difference between when people have a platform. Made a mistake 10 years ago? Fine.

But that's very different than using your huge platform today to spread your hate.

Pretending those two are the same is dangerous. One of them does actual harm today.

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

#33

Post by boredpudding »

oefrha wrote: post #31
boredpudding wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because being friendly works doesn't work. Open source maintainers have been screaming about funding for years. One dude comes along, adds some scripts on top of all the work of those maintainers, and gets millions in funding? You can't expect people to be nice then. It's completely messed up.

In this case CSS-Tricks got paid $4m first, so probably the wrong entity to be complaining about funding. But maybe the lead editor in question who’s not the creator didn’t see much of that?

CSS-Tricks didn't get paid $4m. They got acquired. The previous owner of CSS-Tricks got $4m.

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

#34

Post by chunkyslink »

thrownaway561 wrote: post #9

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They guy writes things like this https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64.

Let me say that the generalisations made in here about a far right minority march as if it is 'all brits' is brazen, but not naive.

He want's you to think all Brits think like this, in order to push his racist agenda. Let me tell you his mate Tommy Robinson is despised by many.

Don't fall for it. Divide and conquer. As old as British Imperialism.

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

#35

Post by mb_thd »

account42 wrote: post #14

Complaining that they give money to people you don't like is not a good look when you want them to give money to people you do like.

"people you do like" in this case refers to a website that DigitalOcean owns. "people you don't like" is a singular (racist) guy who slapped a bunch of scripts on top of Arch and somehow receives hundreds of thousands of dollars for it.

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

#36

Post by lgl »

sintaxi wrote: post #20

Wow, Omarchy is hot right now. Great to see all these companies contributing to a future with Linux on desktop. Good on Digital Ocean for making such a substantial commitment. It would be a shame if css-tricks went offline after all these years. I can understand it winding down now that we are in the age of agents but I hope to see it preserved in some way so it stays online for a very long time.

> Great to see all these companies contributing to a future with Linux on desktop.

I'm thinking they're merely riding the free publicity wave. Who, in their right mind, would contribute to the super narrow definition of linux desktop preached by DHH?

Was "being agentic" and "being keyboard shortcut oriented" the big gaps preventing the adoption of linux on desktop?

I honestly fail to see why everybody is so convinced that the linux desktop will be "saved" by Omarchy, a set of scripts specifically designed to mostly satisfy a narrow slice of power users and developers.

Also, sponsoring a multi-millionaire's AI generated side project to the sum of many millions of dollars instead of contributing to the dozens or hundreds of thankless developers that have built and maintained most of the current linux ecosystem is pretty disgusting imho.

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by IslandRebel »

boredpudding wrote: post #32
IslandRebel wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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There's a difference between when people have a platform. Made a mistake 10 years ago? Fine. But that's very different than using your huge platform today to spread your hate. Pretending those two are the same is dangerous. One of them does actual harm today.

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