thekernel

I like the concept, but hate the configuration schema and tooling which is all needlessly obtuse (eg. helm)

Cos its considered cool and people follow the herd.

For techbros a while ago an .io domain was a thing because its sounds like i/o and projects an image you are tech literate.

i used to call them passive smokos

systemd was 2010

nor bodies.

Uh, what? How do people do stuff without debuggers? :D

printf.

The Thailand cave rescue was all over the news and they were poor.

Its about novelty, nothing more nothing less.

A bunch of rich ppl have died on Mt Everest this year, nobody gives a shit as its a common occurrence.

seems like a lot of revisionist bullshit in this rant, eg:

WhatsApp rose by trapping previously-free beings in their corral and changing their habits to create dependence on masters

WhatsApp rose because:

a) If was free

b) it used data vs sms/mms which was becoming cheaper

c) it was cross platform at the time (blackberry, android, nokia, etc)

d) It used your existing phone number as your identifier, so onboarding and finding existing contacts was swift