I don't know you, but I'll give you an example of someone I do know

• Didn't give a crap about computers throughout highschool. Didn't really know what he wanted to do in general

• Picks computer science last minute because it supposedly makes a lot of money

• Cruised through shitty community college doing the bare minimum, no side projects or any sign he's even interested

• At graduation time, he barely knows how to code. Has a github profile with some homework assignments he was forced to do

• Is part of the job market now, competing against you and me.

I don't know if he's employed as a software engineer right now, but I've worked with people who obviously fit the same profile. People who expect real work to be as simple as submitting a homework assignment last minute using shit you copy pasted from SO (or I guess ChatGPT now), and then fucking off to enjoy life while your coworkers are burdened by your incompetence.

This is a field where actually giving a shit is a requirement.

Well, that's because they removed it after WW2. The original IBM keyboard had this, and other Nazi symbolism. (IBM collaborated with the Nazis, if you weren't aware)

Another fun fact: the Windows logo today is where the swastika used to be. If you look closely, you can see how the swastika's influence on Microsoft's iconic logo persists to this very day

The american dream is still alive: enterprising young men can pull themselves up by the bootstraps, purchase an abandoned lot with their inheritance, and turn it into an affordable housing lot for struggling college students!

And after a few years, they can have a flashy exit when they sell their lot to a private equity firm for big bucks!

Ublock has a feature to disable javascript by default. There's no better way to use the internet in 2025

That probably won't work. It will get basic video and maybe audio through, but not features like VRR, which is why you'd care about HDMI 2.1 support at all

Wrong. If that were true, it wouldn't have suddenly gone up 22% this past year.

...I wonder, did something happen recently that might have led to an influx of incels/cucks/betas into the chad Linux community?

Please build AI shit on our patent-laden technologies. Look: we bought Arduino so you kind of have to now if you're an Arduino user!!1

Qualcomm's pitch in a nutshell

I don't agree with OSI either, and think their licenses are exploitative. But their definition is useful to call out orgs like FUTO.

The solution to devs being exploited by big tech is the GPL or AGPL, not whatever FUTO is doing. They're trying to have their cake and eat it too: earn the goodwill that comes from claiming you're open source, while keeping the same restrictions in place you'd see in a commercial software package, which keep users locked down to one vendor (aka "free beer" rather than "freedom")

This isn't a new idea invented by FUTO, it's called "source available". Gitlab is another example of this, as is Unreal Engine, and many others.

Not being the language for programming beginners and data scientists, probably aides that impression, though…

I think it was that back when it was relevant (but replace data scientists with web devs)

I never got interested in the ecosystem myself, but I've run into it every now and then. I feel like it's in the same place as PHP today: still used a lot for legacy reasons, but you'll get weird looks if you start a new project with it and you're under the age of 40

• Futo's software (incl their keyboard) is not open source
• Their founder has ties to Curtis Yarvin. Look him up.

Drew Devault is a controversial personality, but his article on this topic has a good summary of the facts: https://drewdevault.com/2025/10/22/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.html

Just use a throwaway email. The point of the account is to sync your watch history and (most importantly), your plugins/configs, which are what do the piracy stuff for you.