Unix Sheikh

>Brave also collects your data and sells it back to advertisers but they'll give you their fake coins to do it.

I was reading this page earlier today. https://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/choose-your-browser-carefully.html#brave

The criticism against brave seems pretty hollow without really any remaining criticism. Brave does have this: https://brave.com/privacy/browser/

Would be interesting to see a link showing Brave collecting data. My understanding is that they don't collect data.

I must admit I am rather ignorant about the fake coins.

>Let's also not forget Brendan Eich is anti-gay marriage. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26868536

~2014. I am curious if his opinion has changed. Sometimes you find yourself on the wrong side of history and re-evaluate positions such as these. Given your link is getting old... maybe he has?

If his opinion hasn't changed, I wonder if this political/religious stance really affects my decision of browser? I suspect it doesn't. People are allowed to have political opinions.

>He is also a COVID conspiracy theorist. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-ei...

I suppose this is more recent. The problem here is that how many 'conspiracy theories' are now not conspiracy theories.

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1339367981084672000

I suppose in dec 2020 Fauci had admitted that he lied about masks being ineffective. Overall though I really didnt see the content in this nytimes article to justify the title.

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> A giant saltation from most first world computer users being aware of Linux, to hardly anyone knowing what BSD is.

You seem to have misread my first sentence.

> Schade's few paragraphs here come across as equally gentle and humorous-he's not really aggrieved that FreeBSD is treated like a Linux distro; he would like avoid the confusion that might cause to users who end up liking it.

My commentary was in agreement with the blogpost.

Me:

>> It should go without saying that proponents of the latter have good reason to be grateful for any reason that new outsiders might even remember it exists.

But it doesn't go without saying, thus the need for Schade's blogpost. The elitism and intra nix resentment of BSD culture give rise to this problem. My comment aimed to address that.

> What, exactly, BSD users ever did to you remains a mystery;

They did nothing in particular to me. It's just a descriptive consensus that BSD culture has outsized hostility toward all things linux and toward being mistaken for linux. It's narcissism of small differences[1] and nerd blindness in action.

> alas, I haven't the spare lifespan to want to figure that out.

My comment contained a stringent critique of a community's corrosive norms, emphasizing how counterproductive those norms are for getting on with building useful things.

Your comment just aims to repackage the phrasing as a personal attack.

If you have time to work 'saltation' into a sentence, you have time to reply in good faith…

No problem! If you search around for "Debian vs BSD", you'll find more exhaustive explanations [1], but it mostly reduces to the fact that BSD is more coherent & organized than GNU/Linux; it's more feature-rich in the domains that sysadmins and hackers appreciate, but feature-sparse in the domains "normal users" appreciate. Depending on your needs these facts can be advantages or disadvantages.

I tend to gravitate towards projects like BSD, since they align with my principles, but you do pay a cost in terms of compatibility with common software.

For example, Firefox does not treat BSD as a first class build target, so it's up to community members to build and deploy Firefox binaries, and report feedback on bugs that break BSD installations.

If access to the most up-to-date compiled versions of popular software packages is a big sticking point, BSD-land may not be the right choice. But if you're living mostly in `vim`, `bash` and `man`, and are willing to roll up the sleeves, BSD feels cozy.

It's maybe a 20% correct analogy (don't read too deeply into it, or you'll draw incorrect conclusions), but C++ is to GNU/Linux, as D/Rust/Zig is to BSD.

[1]: https://unixsheikh.com/articles/technical-reasons-to-choose-freebsd-over-linux.html

> I would not normally be quite so much of a jerk about the numerous syntax errors, except that this ends with a suggestion that people, you know, pay for this writing. I don't expect perfection (God knows I make tpyos all the time), but the closing paragraph starts with a sentence that literally has no verb.

Are you really bashing the author for imperfect English? The about page clearly mentions that they are not a native speaker of the language, and even apologises for any imperfections in their writing as a result thereof [1].

I strongly agree with your parent comment that attacking the author for presenting their strong views in an area is unnecessary. Make arguments against what they wrote, not who they are.

A little kindness also goes a long way. What the hell is this obsession with hammering everyone down with unwarranted negativity on this forum.

[1] https://unixsheikh.com/about.html

I feel comfortable with asserting that the author has never worked on a complex web application. This web-dev hate borders on pathological: this is a guy that seems to specialize in Unix/Linux tooling, doesn't have a single tutorial on web app development [1], and yet has an intense hatred towards a space that he barely understands.

These types of arguments are incredibly embarrassing to read, not only because they betray a stunning lack of familiarity with the topic, but it's basically a conspiracy theory: everybody is stupid except me, all these successful companies making billions of dollars and attracting top talent are just throwing money into a fire for fun.

[1] https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials.html

Literally, today, was thinking about leveraging $tree for mindmapping when this dropped: Poor mans mind mapping tool with just the terminal [1] having been inspired by h-m-m (hackers mind map) [2]

Went with VimOutliner [3] instead which is one less thing to install and fits so well with a tmux-vim setup.

Now all that is missing a sparse tree mode like OrgMode that beats out tabs and splits [4]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32846124; https://www.unixsheikh.com/tutorials/poor-mans-mind-mapping-tool-with-just-the-terminal.html
[2] https://github.com/nadrad/h-m-m
[3] https://github.com/vimoutliner/vimoutliner
[4] https://orgmode.org/manual/Sparse-Trees.html#Sparse-Trees