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You guys are awesome. You've taken a bunch of sand and made it do some amazing things. FOSS devs especially, you do this for the good of everyone for little benefit to yourselves. You all deserve a medal.

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[-] auzy1@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Except the ones that submit AI slop patches to projects without even understanding it or being upfront about it

[-] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 days ago

Are those people really developers or just sloperators?

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 49 points 3 days ago
[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

I wonder what the guy in this photo is up to now?

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 days ago
[-] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

The link to his youtube still works, and he's been posting fortnite videos recently.

There's a video from 10 months back, and his health doesn't look great.

[-] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

After being widely disseminated online, Messing was labeled "Fedora Guy" and the picture became synonymous with "neckbeard" and "nice guy" stereotypes, as well as a joke at the expense of zealous atheists.

This is such a funny way of putting it

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 7 points 3 days ago

"zealous atheists" links to the article for New Atheism which is even funnier

[-] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Hah, I wanted to check what it linked to. Both funny and accurate.

[-] Bullerfar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Jerry went Messing

[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Wow I did not have to wonder about that for very long!

Never knew it was that Freaks and Geeks kid..

Thanks!

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

He got a bad case of COVID-19, was in a coma, and is permanently paralyzed. Looks like he's got a GoFundMe for medical transport from Florida to Texas, where he'd have better support and hopefully be able to do voice work.

[-] mik3dd0@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Oh my days! Freaks and Geeks if one of my favourite shows and never did I make the connection! Holy crap. D:

[-] Attacker94@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

FOSS devs especially, you do this for the good of everyone for little benefit to yourselves.

I guarantee that most contributors who aren't being paid are doing their commits out of spite, but I can definitely applaud them for being as vindictive as they are.

[-] mik3dd0@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago

This. The best code I've ever written and the one I'm proudest of, has been written out of spite. XD

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

i wonder if spite is the reason why the grapheneos people do their thing. lol

[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Almost certainly.

[-] farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 days ago

friendly reminder to donate to open source projects if you can. those devs work hard

[-] crash_thepose@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago

Agreed. Thank you for what you do

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