now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

(adapted from a series of mastodon posts that somewhat blew up, so the format's going to be weird)

why not embrace fashtech! they’ve got:

• terrible Fisher-Price CSS
• the most toxic part of the Wayland ecosystem, and that’s saying something
• the worst part of the X11 ecosystem, and that’s saying something
• suckless tools and they all fucking suck
• corporate control over the packages you wrote, for your own protection
• distributed functional programming that doesn’t function or distribute
• a non-working web browser moving to a proprietary language that only supports macs, which appears to exist purely to divert funding away from Servo (for anyone posting to tell me Swift technically isn't proprietary, here's how that's going)
• a working chromium fork whose only business purpose is to push slop extruders and a scam cryptocurrency
• a web browser which runs single-process so that if a single website freezes or crashes then the entire session freezes or crashes (credit: 2something)
• “diverse sponsorship” but it’s all MilTech companies; you’re surrounded by a rich market! of drone and other murder manufacturers (credit: @froztbyte@awful.systems)
• slop extruders
• cryptocurrencies

if you're puzzled by the above vaguepost, I've written a little answer key:

got a favorite I didn’t list? comment with your receipts!