Antranig Vartanian :freebsd:

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2025-09-27 14:09:25 UTC

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who has more money, the person who has created more, the person who has invented more, the person who has taken risk.
Mastodon's general audience is a collection of people who lack personal responsibility.
Which is why they are miserable.
I want to see them happy, I want to see them creating, but they all have adopted the miserable victim mentality and they will suffer until the end of their life.
Unless they take action, unless they do something about it.
Life is awesome. enjoy it.

2025-09-27 14:06:27 UTC

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of course not.
I do write from WordPress, you do engage from SocialHome, I do use BSDs, and you do use Gentoo. we are outliers, in almost every thing we do.
However, the majority of people on Mastodon, are the people using a typical mastodon instance, hosted by a friend or a community, and they are always miserable.
Why miserable? because they do not create new things. They only complain. And who is at fault? them? their actions? no no no. its the big man who is at fault, the person \

2025-09-27 04:57:51 UTC

Mastodon makes me sad, most people here are miserable. Twitter/X makes me angry, which makes sense because their algorithm, but I am very disappointed that with no algorithm I am sad.
Sad that most people here are miserable and in a bubble.
I hope they get better. I hated being miserable.

2025-05-09 08:15:35 UTC

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you are basically if a standard liberal was watching CNN, or a standard conservative was watching Fox News. have no ideas of your own.
My point is: go f*ck yourself, no one cares about what you say anymore. Everything you suggested in the last 20 years were all shit. they were so shit that you had to “jump ship” every time something else was hyping…

2025-05-09 08:13:51 UTC

Every time I go to a hacker’s forum (the orange site, Lobsters, etc) and read comments, I keep thinking to myself:
You fucking pieces of shit. 99% of you has done only the top 1% of programming languages, you’ve never seen any crap other than Node/JS, Go, Python, and now Rust.
And you want me to take your opinion seriously? You’ve never done functional programming, you still think Pascal is different because it uses BEGIN instead of {, and basically, you just copy other’s opinion.

2024-10-19 17:56:24 UTC

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yeah true, but the real question is: how?

2024-09-25 07:35:05 UTC

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I’ve been told so. Most of my American friends also comment about how old my devices are (iPhone XS, Nokia N900, iPods). I guess small and old is not common in the US. Everything has to be new and big.

2024-08-30 15:06:05 UTC

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agreed, but they are documented to some degree.
For example, couple of weeks ago I was doing macOS development on the road. then I realized that I've been coding for 3 hours without inet.
Meanwhile most Linux distros don't come with `man(1)` anymore :/

2024-08-30 14:25:52 UTC

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any operating system except Linux would fit this.
Including macOS and Windows.

2024-08-30 10:58:30 UTC

Back in the day I got into a directory, ran `make` and I had the software that I needed.
These days I have to look into some Dockerfile, understand which CI is being used, that that weird YAML file is, how the software is compiled, which libraries/dependencies I need, so I can finally install that software.
And people keep telling me that we're in the golden age of software.
Golden age my ass.

2024-08-27 07:45:01 UTC

There's a large number of #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, and #illumos users out there.
We don't talk much because it "Just Works™"
I was not able to prove this for a very long time, so I used the most powerful weapon available out there: asking!
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1f1hr4m/unix_but_notlinux_club/