ZinZirconium

Cancel culture claims another victim.

Social media and its consequences have been a disaster for nerds. Introverted nerds and intellectuals created the technology that enables social media to exist. That same technology is being used to exclude nerds from the internet.

What's left for nerds in the modern world? Nothing.

I don't use C++ right now but I might want to later and I don't like seeing its creator ostracized.

RMS achieved precisely because he is a bad people person. He did what he believed needed to be done to reform the software industry the way he wanted it and he succeeded without regard for what other people thought of him. Unfortunately capitalists adapted to make tons of money exploiting the results of his life's work and social influencers influenced him out of society.

And don't worry about me. I prefer to work alone and I'm in the process of getting banned from your fine forum right now for expressing unpopular opinions.

Yes. It's gatekeeping borne of jealousy. Keep introverted nerds in tech. Extroverted marketeers took our technology and perverted it into social media.

Woz said of his time building blue boxes purely motivated by intellectual curiosity:

> I was so pure. Now I realize others were not as pure, they were just trying to make money. But then I thought we were all pure.

Tech is so impure today it reeks. Bring back the hackers who build things for fun. Bring back the nerds who don't care to make money.

Team players don't work alone.

What has happened to all the introverts who work alone? They're not working in tech. Tech is for extroverts who get paid to copy from public GitHub repositories and paste into private GitHub repositories and sell proprietary products built upon code ripped from open source projects.

But that's okay. Not everybody can be an extrovert who gets paid to pretend to code. RMS said it best:

> I could answer that nobody is forced to be a programmer. Most of us cannot manage to get any money for standing on the street and making faces. But we are not, as a result, condemned to spend our lives standing on the street making faces, and starving. We do something else.

And then RMS was railroaded out of the free software movement he started by the social extroverts who replaced all the introverts in tech.

I'm an introvert. I'm a coder. I don't get paid to code. I do something else.

> They stream themselves coding at the same time each week without fail.

Nope. Anybody who streams themselves coding is not a real coder. Coding is not rapid fire typing memorized boilerplate code to techno background music. Real life is not Mr Robot. When they do it at the same time each week that's the reddest of red flags that they're performing an act. It's all staged. As staged as professional wrestling is kayfabe.

Real coding doesn't happen on a strict schedule. There's research, design, and testing to be done and mistakes to be made and corrected. Typing out the code is the least important part of coding and by far the least interesting. But real work doesn't hold the attention of techbro posers long enough to sell ads now does it.

I run a YouTube streaming server which theoretically will be blocked by Google after a burst of requests. I've found the very best way to avoid the problem is to have zero users.

After submitting to Show HN and looking at my own server log I can say definitively that mentioning a project on HN doesn't attract any users. All I see are spiders following links as idiot bloggers repost content from HN. Techbros apparently consider HN to be some kind of social shrine to the marketing industry that is big tech.

Judging by the number of comments here I would guess Lyrics-finder isn't in danger of being blocked by Google.

As a techy person myself who doesn't care about design, where can I find techy people? Obviously not Hacker News. I'm extremely dissatisfied with Hacker News which is full of web design obsessed marketing people who aren't technically inclined at all and are the exact opposite of "hacker" in every way.

Fascinating! I wished I could do this years ago.

Funny thing is I once had a dream exactly like this where I copied on one computer and pasted on a different computer. And now it's real. Wow.

I might actually use this. Well maybe. The truth is I don't use multiple workstations as often as I used to since remote access is so much easier now than it was.