Also about:profiles if it’s already running

I agree with what NuXCOM said, but to add a little more detail in this situation…

For me, it’s a little different because of perceived influence.

DHH has always been the software equivalent of an Instagram influencer. He’s been selling himself as the mythical 10x programmer and wrote a corny business book with his co-founder.

Meanwhile, he was mainly working on Basecamp and racing million-dollar cars. A lot of his personal cars have been sold to YouTube influencers.

He has had a cult of personality built around him for years, and stupid people in some small software circles love him (clearly, by the rubygems takeover).

The Lemmy devs have no influence at all over software development. Just Lemmy.

As a former long-time Ruby developer who also used Rails (Ruby since 2006, Rails came along for me later), I’ve always known DHH was a total douchebag.

It’s nice to know he’s being super obvious about it now. He’s always been awful. He’s just been slightly quieter about it, other than buying million-dollar cars and pretending he’s still relevant.

Edit to add that here’s a presentation talking about “The DHH problem” in 2014. The updates are darkly humorous.

Oh my god it really does say that.

Not even quoting someone. Just blatant editorializing by ABC7 News’s Irene Cruz.

Don’t get your news from TV networks, ever.

I too have a military family, and it’s ok to be angry at them.

The inherent integrity of the military has changed a lot over the past two or three generations, but the blind worship of the military has not.

What would most people have said to the soldiers who committed the Mai Lai Massacre? Or the Abu Ghraib tortures?

“Thank you for your service.”

The best you can do in any job is to care as little about them as they care about you.

They will barely read it, and they won’t care nearly as much as you do.

I resign my position as a [position], effective [DATE].

I’d never get my clothes out

Huh.

Does anyone else think that ChatGPT is still using the data, they’re just not referencing Reddit directly?

This is how you can tell Reddit’s $200+/share price is insane. Over 10% of its value dropped based on a different unprofitable company’s references to ingested content.

Yikes!!

Can’t forget paving the rose garden to make an eXcLuSiVe ClUb. Now not only do we get “lobbyists” but also “club members.”

Pathetic douchebags.

He is for the military what Donald Trump is for business. He’s a weak, stupid person’s idea of a tough, smart military man.

Literally played one on TV (Fox News), just like Trump.

I never noticed until today, when Pete has been in the news so much – are those his military medals he wears on his suit all the time? Is that the type of thing he is allowed to do if he is not in uniform? I’ve never served so I don’t know.

I don’t think so, I’m pretty sure it’s an American flag handkerchief folded so part is showing. You can see it on his Wikipedia photo where it is more clearly a flag.

I would suggest he’s making it thin on purpose so it looks like medals nowadays though.

Medals are I think most often worn in uniform. He is wearing a designer suit, so would look weird if he wore his medals on his suit OR the uniform of his former service, so he settles for the thin American flag of respectability.

A previously-posted Gizmodo article said

Kabas reports that 1.7 million was 436% above a subscriber loss that’s typical for the same period

Which I thought was very useful.

I’m wondering if they used AI to name the talent studio.

“Xicoia” sounds like a prescription my elderly parents would ask their doctor about after seeing it on TV.

I love the guy from the suburbs confidently saying “most of Chicago does want this.” Classic.

He’s been told his entire life he’s better than everyone else, it’s no wonder he convinces others.

He spent part of his youth benefiting from apartheid and being a German kid in an African town that literally glorified Nazism until the 1980s.

He got all of the $100,000 he first lost in bad investments from family and friends.

Celebrity billionaires, they’re just like us… lmao

That’s hilarious. Sling has been around for a decade… and now they care.

You can tell traditional television is dying. An industry that isn’t struggling doesn’t consistently embarrass itself like this.

It reminds me of the major labels in the music industry, pissing their pants for ten years when iTunes and streaming became popular.

5 of those 8 people voted for this exact crisis.

The specificity of this really made me laugh

Lmao it was so fast too.

Good job, no one can tell your middle-man industry is failing.

I’m wondering if they were on the top of his head and they fell down off-frame to the granny look? I can’t remember where they were before butterfingers dropped his gun.