This is all entirely Michael’s fault because he refuses to have anything resembling of a moderation.
Use adblockers. Never give him any of your precious money. He doesn’t deserve a single penny of it.
Edit: Fun fact: Karol also stopped visiting Phoronix forums a fair bit of time ago. GEE, I wonder what caused it to happen?
Edit 2: That particular forum post is now loginwalled LMFAO
The Unix Haters Handbook was so real for that rm rant.
But of course, there is an Emacs command to do that.
Good ol’ C-x M-c M-butterfly!
The “you wouldn’t download a car” statement is made against personal cases of piracy, which got rightfully clowned upon. It obviously doesn’t work at all when you use its ridiculousness to defend big ass corporations that tries to profit from so many of the stuff they “downloaded”.
Besides, it is not “theft”. It is “plagiarism”. And I’m glad to see that people that tries to defend these plagiarism machines that are attempted to be humanised and inflated to something they can never be, gets clowned. It warms my heart.
Based Serious Sam 4 meme
I feel like as long as there is money to be gained from it (be it via clicks or whatever), these people will stay.
So you gotta, in video game terms, “hit the boss on its weakpoint”.
What also grinds my gears is that one guy in there who ban evaded twice, everyone else knows who they are, yet they still remain on the forums to this day. If that doesn’t tell anybody that that site has a serious moderation problem, I don’t know what will.