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From linked page: "This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions." From Wikipedia's definition of Eugenics: "Eugenics is a se
by squarefoot 5y ago
From linked page:
"This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
From Wikipedia's definition of Eugenics:
"Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population, historically by excluding people and groups judged to be inferior or promoting those judged to be superior."
- okasaki 5y agoFiltering out the inexperienced has nothing at all to do with genetics.
- squarefoot 5y agoThe mindset behind that attitude, however, is pretty much the same.
- okasaki 5y agoAnd what would that be?
- squarefoot 5y agoDisrespect for people perceived as inferior because of limited knowledge in one field. Those elitists totally ignore that the newbie asking stupid questions about a Linux app could be the heart surgeon who one day saves their mommy's life.
- Kantberg 5y agowhat a stupid misunderstanding and interpolation of it! Very few software is so accessible than suckless to anyone who wishes to use and fully understand it. Reading a source of 2000 lines is a comprehensible size indeed and there's no barrier. Quite the contrary: helpful manpages, web-browsable file trees and comments in the sources, mailinglist archives, tons of reviews in blogs and youtube, irc.