I routinely delete my YT history and it’s true almost all paths lead nearby, but gaming related videos are definitely an “algorithmic shortcut” to chud bait.

Edit: also Reacher and Breaking Bad clips

Mostly interesting that they immediately leaked this info to attempt damage control.

Inside Games speculated this may be a result of Sony burning billions on failed live service starting to cut budgets on other projects. The Kojima news sort of correlates.

But basically all these annoying systems make sense in an open-world Spiderman game, where getting lost is even more annoying, but not here and so that possibly speaks to a scope change in the middle of development.

That is addressed directly in the article: it’s not the distro, it’s setting Omacon up as one of the largest funding sources, and therefore a gatekeeper to success and failure in FOSS.

It’s not that complicated. He’s just trying to get all the people he doesn’t like out of open source. With millions in the bank he can fund projects of people who think like he does or promise to.

A dotfile repo with a personality cult.

I think it’s just part of the grievance politics playbook. I delete my YouTube algorithm every few months which reveals the kind if low-effort chudbait bullshit they feed to people they don’t have a profile for. A very popular video type is “CAR DEALERS ARE FINALLY PAYING THE PRICE” videos. I have no idea what this about, as far as I know car dealerships mirror the rest of the economy. But people fucking hate car dealers so this type of thing is comforting: bad thing happens to people I don’t like.