Technology

[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Matt Mullenwag is a piece of shit extortionist that I hope dies in a comedic way.

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[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Extortionist?

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[–] glowie@infosec.pub 16 points 2 months ago

He was trying to force Wordpress hosts to pay his foundation money to use the WP name and whatnot

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[+] glowie@infosec.pub -20 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Wishing death on someone just because they’re a flagrant asshole is pretty extreme, no? That’s fucking wild if you’re serious.

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[–] spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app 15 points 2 months ago

rofl imagine defending a worse world. Wild.

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[–] Nutteman@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Not if they are CEOs

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[+] glowie@infosec.pub -22 points 2 months ago (8 children)

The Nazis would have loved your level of inhumanity with the Jews back in the 1940s

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[–] Nutteman@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago*

The non-zionist Jews are homies, and also mostly not CEOs.

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[–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

Why are you telling someone who looks down on CEOs that he should also hate Jews alongside the Nazis?

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[+] glowie@infosec.pub -10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Looking down on them is fine. Wishing death on them simply because you’re jealous and full of hate that they have more money than you is entirely different. And it seems that person is the latter.

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[–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Seems how? They didn't say anything like that. You think the issue with this guy is because he's rich and nothing else?

The funny thing is I've seen people saying the exact same thing you are to people laughing at Charlie Kirk getting killed, while doing their best to ignore all the things he stood for, said, and did. Right down to immediately accusing the person of adopting (an incorrect idea of) Nazism by not valuing all lives as precious. Just think about the brainpower behind people who think those laughing at Charlie Kirk are like the Nazis but not Charlie "Civil Rights was a mistake" Kirk.

There's gotta be a term for people who get all righteous about treating all lives as precious while they ignore that the person in question actively makes the world worse.

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[–] glowie@infosec.pub -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Their response was in direct to my reply that someone shouldn’t be killed just for being an asshole, and they said “unless it’s a CEO”. I don’t know how you don’t comprehend that.

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[–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Note the absence of any sentiment like "because he has more money than me".

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[–] Nutteman@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Precisely. Dingus here cant make the inference that CEOs, assholes or not, are morally bankrupt parasites that cause more death and destruction via email than a man with a gun.

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[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Username checks out

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[–] LuceVendemiaire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Hi matto, i see you're taking a break from harassing trans and black people on tumblr

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

booo

[–] giacomo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago

oh wow they're just like chatgpt, they must be very successful!

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

This is never a healthy thing

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago

Its like its the middle of winter and the forecast says its going to be sunny an relatively warm on the weekend. Then you wake up Saturday and it's freezing rain and thunder.

[–] fake@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago (9 children)

How has wordpress not been eclipsed by something else already. Most miserable piece of shit software.

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Are you going to code a replacement?

That’s why. Everyone hates it, but not enough to hunker down and euthanize it.

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[–] art@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I work with WordPress professionally and honestly I really do enjoy the platform, there's a lot of it that's very good. Having said that, none of my personal projects are on WordPress. Most of them are on Hugo and soon a lot of them will be on 11ty.

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

Wordpress has a lot of security issues due to its age and modularity. At some point devs needed to just say no, they never did, and now it’s everyone’s problem

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[–] skribe@piefed.social 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

It's not the devs but their clients that need to change. Plus many of the arguments against WordPress can also be made about Windows. Neither platform is going away any time soon.

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

Windows is being ditched in entire countries right now.

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Honestly coding a replacement wouldn't be difficult, there're already a few alternatives out there, it's the thousands of plugins you'd need to replace.

One of the issues with alternatives like ghost is not having a good plugin system.

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

The plugin system is what keeps popping vulns in Wordpress in the first place.

Also, this XKCD - standards

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 7 points 2 months ago

Oh I'm aware. In a way the plugin ecosystem is also one of the biggest issues with wordpress, it's full of freemium garbage that violates the spirit and in many cases the letter of the GPL.

But the point is that if you want a complete replacement for wordpress, it isn't just a blogging system you have to replicate. You also have to in some way replicate a forum, form builders, activitypub, an e-commerce system, calendar, booking system, SEO, page caching, ERP, CRM, etc.

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[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 months ago

I'm using PayloadCMS now. It's fauxpensource, but eh, so is WordPress in a lot of areas.

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[–] kazerniel@piefed.world 4 points 2 months ago

fuck I haven't heard of this, I wish he stayed off. I only think of him when I have to tick that childish pineapple checkbox on wordpress.org. I would be much more reassured if Wordpress was in a mature adult's hands.