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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)
Starting off with a weapons-grade sneer: How to Dehumanize Accessibility with AI
I just want to harp on this one:
Wtf, can you imagine saying something like this about literally any other profession than software engineering? āExisting methods for checking brake pressure are often very technical and not very attractive, neither for mechanics nor for usersā. āExisting methods for sterilising surgical equipment are often very technical and not very attractive, neither for surgeons nor for patientsā. āExisting methods for checking voltage are often very technical and not very attractive, neither for electricians nor for usersā.
The lack of any fucking standards that devs are held to is insane, so the excuse for accessibility in the web being shit is that itās TOO TECHNICAL and kinda annoying for web devs??? Again, can you fucking imagine saying this about anything else, āye, cars kinda suck because making sure they donāt is all technical and kinda boring for mechanics to doā.
Itās YOUR JOB. Literally YOUR PROFESSION. PROFESSIONALS ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE STANDARDS you fucking piece of shit, have you no honour, not a single care in the world for your craft, you fucking babies. āOh but itās very technicalā YOUāRE A TECH SPECIALIST. THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU GET YOUR SALARY FOR???
The worst bit is, the devs who arenāt like this are basically forced to comply anyway. Whenever I justify a delay in some release with that testing/bugfixing takes time, I get slapped with release it anyway, you can patch it later, and although I am lucky to be in a privileged position where I can fight this for some amount of time, every young programmer who comes into a job with a good mindset is not and has to bend over or face shit like negative performance reviews because theyāre too slow.
This is so fucking infuriating. I donāt want to release shit software, I want to make sure the stuff I ship works. Back when patching meant you had to ship a physical medium to a non-trivial amount of users, that was how things worked, but apparently only because IT HAD TO and not because itās good fucking work ethics to have. Now that you can just zero-day patch everything itās apparently okay to ship unfinished shit and use your customers as beta testers.
I hate this so much and I try to avoid doing this as much as I can professionally. And whenever I canāt I actually feel bad and want to apologize to everyone who has to use that shit release.
A great example of āwe are bad at our jobs and if you rely on us everybody will dieā
Thanks, that was infuriating to read.
Whenever techbros use the word āstorytellingā, some disaster followsā¦