Title text: The heartfelt tune it plays is CC licensed, and you can get it from my seed on JoinDiaspora.net whenever that project gets going.

Transcript

2003:

[Cueball approaches a bearded fellow.]

Cueball: Did you get my essay?
Bearded Fellow: Yeah, it was good! But it was a .doc; You should really use a more open-
Cueball: Give it a rest already. Maybe we just want to live our lives and use software that works, not get wrapped up in your stupid nerd turf wars.
Bearded Fellow: I just want people to care about the infrastructures we’re building and who-
Cueball: No, you just want to feel smugly superior. You have no sense of perspective and are probably autistic.

2010:

Cueball: Oh my God! We handed control of our social world to Facebook and they’re DOING EVIL STUFF!
Bearded Fellow: Do you see this?

[Inset, the bearded fellow rubs his index and middle fingers against his thumb.]

Bearded Fellow: It’s the world’s tiniest open-source violin.

  • Klear@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    71·
    11 months ago

    I went from “he was probably defending pedophiles not acting on it” to “HOLY FUCK” real fast…

    • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      I understand this is not an easy topic, but what is the “HOLY FUCK” bit you’re referring to here?

      • Klear@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        21·
        11 months ago

        That I can’t find any sort of charitable explanation or missing context for those quotes. They start utterly awful and only get worse.