I asked my roommate who that guy is. Showed me a 4 minute clip of rambling. Now I have brain cancer.
It is really a shame. His old stuff, wich you can find on YouTube was really good.
Who’s that?
Bryan Lunduke, Linux Youtuber/‘influencer’ who went down the antivaxx rabbit hole and became a raving conspiracy theorist.
I watched a video of his a few years ago, and thought “interesting take”. Then I saw another video of his recently and thought “this guy’s nuts. Prob a flat earther too”
Oh hey, the Jordan Peterson experience!
Pretty much. It seems to be the way a lot of these grifters go.
Even Tucker Carlson. I’m Canadian, so I knew nothing about Carlson when I first saw some clips about him (like 8 years ago now). And in those clips he said some innocuous and fairly reasonable things. Then YouTube’s algorithm did what it does best (you watch one new type of video and then that’s all it shows you for recommendations) and then I started to see the “real” Tucker Carlson and was grossed out.
Seems to be a common formula.
Even Tucker Carlson. I’m Canadian, so I knew nothing about Carlson when I first saw some clips about him (like 8 years ago now). And in those clips he said some innocuous and fairly reasonable things.
oh look, it’s me with Prager U and their piece on Modern Art.
“These idiots are shitting in jars and putting balls in folmaldahyde and calling it art. That’s bullshit” You’re right!
“The true reason for art was for JEEEESSUUUUUSS” Fucking hell no.I remember seeing JP on YT when he wasn’t really that famous yet, arguing against that Canadian law about not using the correct pronoun for someone being a criminal offense when regular swear words aren’t and I thought okay, that’s reasonable I guess, inconsistencies are bad. Let’s see what else he has.
And then came the lectures about natural hierarchies or something and some other things where I went okaaay, I guess I don’t have the full context of his lectures. Suspense of disbelief and such.
But three videos in and it was clear. Glad I got off that train before it left.
That’s how we all met Lunduke.
Some stuff is interesting but the rest are just annoying hot takes that nobody asked for. He’s always complaining. Dividing a fragile open source community
His YT comment section is an experience. They’re breeding a unique kind of right-wing, tinfoil hat Linux extremist, whose software usage is determined solely by esoteric association and “suspicious timing” like seeing widespread adoption during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The phoronix comment section is a garden of rationality and level-headed thinking in comparison.
The phoronix comment section is a garden of rationality and level-headed thinking in comparison.
Any time Rust is brought up in Phoronix, half of the comments are bad-faith idiots making strawmen and whataboutism arguments amounting to “skill issue, C is 300% safe and nobody needs better” and thinly-veiled contrarian antagonism against Rust because it’s popular.
A comment section worse than that? Impressive.
The more I scrolled through the comments, the more I longed for the familiar comfort of the braindead phoronix forums. It’s one thing to be convinced that C is the peak of programming language design (sometimes without having ever written a productive line of code), but it’s another thing entirely to be convinced that Rust is some sort of figurative (or even literal) trojan horse pushed by a global woke conspiracy and/or connected to the “planned release” of COVID-19.
Let me guess, Rust is too woke? "It’s being pushed onto users and not adopted naturally’?
Would fit Lunduke well.
I never expected to see a lunduke in the wild
His haters make him famous
He hates Rust too? What doesn’t he hate now?
Trump?
What are his arguments against Rust? It’s not vulnerable enough to memory-based attacks?
He referenced how self hosted compilers can have malicious code as part of their binary file and how it would be impossible to detect once a backdoor had been introducedin some version.
He argues since rust people are “too political” and “actively harm non-rustaceans”, he doesn’t trust the software built by them as he is a conservative.
This is from his video title “can we trust rust?”
“Too politicial” apparently. At least that’s what he said in the 4 minute snippet I managed to endure.
Removed by mod
While I respect Marc Maron’s work, why does he care what I’m using?
