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tombert ◴[] No.45133786[source]
I remember I played with some software called "The Illumination Software Creator" [1], and I remember the saved project files were just SQLite databases.

I actually thought it was kind of cool, because I was able to play with it easily with some SQLite explorer tool (I forget which one) and I could easily look at how the save files actually worked.

I haven't really used SQLite for anything serious [2], but always found the idea of it kind of charming. Maybe I should dust it off and try it again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumination_Software_Creator by Bryan Lunduke before I realized how much of a pseudo-intellectual dimwit that he is.

[2] At least outside of the "included" database in a few web frameworks.

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wakawaka28 ◴[] No.45135124[source]
What is it that makes you think Lunduke is pseudo-intellectual? He certainly doesn't try to pose as a scholar. If you are like most of his haters, you just refuse to believe that smart people can be conservatives.
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tombert ◴[] No.45138637[source]
I used to think he was reasonably smart but after a certain point I realized that his knowledge of basically anything he talked about was extremely surface level, and doesn’t appear to know much after that.

I disliked him before he went super conservative, but now his YouTube channel boils down to “OMG GUYS LOOK AT HOW WOKE EVERYTHING IS WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE PEOPLE ARE HATERS ON ME BECAUSE I SAID SOMETHING THEY DONT LIKE WOKE WOKE!”

It’s typical low effort grifter stuff.

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1. wakawaka28 ◴[] No.45144992[source]
I think Lunduke probably has moderate or high technical skills. However, the more technical you get, the smaller your audience can be.

I do get a little tired of the woke stuff, but a Youtuber has to follow a specific pattern to get traffic. It's an important message. I'm sure he takes it at least a little personally that he is banned from forums, conferences, talking to various companies about their activities, has his technical achievements (see: the top comment I replied to here, and his awful treatment by OpenSUSE folks), ignored due to irrelevant (and popular) political views, antagonized for being Jewish, etc. He wants to be a tech journalist but he is persecuted over politics. So if he complains about it a lot, I expect that and appreciate him taking the heat for saying what we all think.

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2. tombert ◴[] No.45145847[source]
> I do get a little tired of the woke stuff, but a Youtuber has to follow a specific pattern to get traffic. It's an important message.

Yes. This is why I called it a low effort grift.

The anti-woke stuff was overplayed in 2016, and it's even more tiring and stupid now. You're free to think it's "important", but it's not. It's just lazy shit he does instead of actual "journalism" (which I suppose is what he calls it).

> I'm sure he takes it at least a little personally that he is banned from forums, conferences, talking to various companies about their activities, has his technical achievements

> He wants to be a tech journalist but he is persecuted over politics.

He's not "persecuted" over politics. He's putting his opinions out there specifically to get a reaction, and then he pretends to be surprised that people actually react to his opinion. You could say it's persecution, but it's really not: everyone draws a line on this stuff.

For example: if someone was super public about lowering the age of consent to three years old then you probably wouldn't be super upset when he's no longer invited to conferences. That could technically be considered a "political opinion" and I'm sure that he would claim he's being persecuted and we would collectively roll our eyes.

Obviously Lunduke isn't that bad, at least as far as I know, but my point is that he's making provocative statements and unless he's the biggest moron on the planet then he has to know that.

It's something that bothers me; people like Lunduke will write shit specifically to be provocative (like writing a completely braindead thing about trans people not existing) and get a reaction. That is his goal. Then he acts surprised that people react negatively to the thing that he wanted and expected people to act negatively to. It's low-effort attention-seeking behavior.

I have said lots of provocative stuff throughout my life, it can be fun to make people uncomfortable. Some of it I am a bit embarrassed by, but I haven't made an entire career out of making people upset and pretending to not understand why they're upset.

> ignored due to irrelevant (and popular) political views

A viewpoint being "popular" pays no bearing on whether or not it's harmful so I have no idea why you brought it up.

If Lunduke has posted a very public negative opinion about a group of people that are active in a community (e.g. trans people in the FOSS world), then it's not "irrelevant" for people to not want to affiliate with him.

> I expect that and appreciate him taking the heat for saying what we all think.

We don't "all" think that. Pretending to be upset over a trans person working on software or purposefully misgendering people is not something I have ever really wanted to say, and even if I did I would just fucking say it instead of parasocially bonding with some wish.com wannabe demagogue.

Also, I'm not even completely convinced by his "achievements". I'm sure he worked at Microsoft and OpenSUSE, but that's not saying much. I used to work for Apple for several years. I didn't work there but I did at one point get an offer to work at Canonical. I don't want to give too much correlation data about myself but I have also worked at an extremely popular social media website. A lot of people on this forum can make similar claims. It doesn't make me or him particularly special.

Big tech companies hire a lot of very stupid people. They hire a lot of very smart people too, but even if he worked at Microsoft, even in the 90's, isn't an indication of intelligence or making major achievements, and frankly I kind of get the impression that he embellishes his achievements to try and make himself seem more credible, though I have no evidence of that.

Also, wasn't he basically just a spokesperson for OpenSUSE? I didn't think he was doing anything technical there.

ETA:

This is all to say, it's not like Lunduke has been cut out of conferences and the like just for voting republican or anything. I've met plenty of people in tech who are conservative, don't try to hide that fact, and they're not shunned or anything, so I don't buy the conspiracy theory that conservative voices are "persecuted" in tech spaces.

Lunduke goes a step further by being outwardly hostile towards LGBTQ groups, and then pretends he's not doing that. This is why he's been considered so unbelievably insufferable in the tech world: his entire way of speaking is dishonest.

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3. wakawaka28 ◴[] No.45153645[source]
>The anti-woke stuff was overplayed in 2016, and it's even more tiring and stupid now. You're free to think it's "important", but it's not. It's just lazy shit he does instead of actual "journalism" (which I suppose is what he calls it).

The woke stuff directly affects my job prospects and quality of life. That makes it important. I've been suffering because of it every since 2012. It escalated between 2016 and 2024, and only now is the pendulum swinging the other way.

>We don't "all" think that. Pretending to be upset over a trans person working on software or purposefully misgendering people is not something I have ever really wanted to say, and even if I did I would just fucking say it instead of parasocially bonding with some wish.com wannabe demagogue.

He finds much more lurid stories to report than "mere" misgendering nonsense. The pronoun thing is just a litmus test to see whether someone is in a woke cult or not. He reports on actual interesting stories, like lawsuits, new software, outsourcing, layoffs, drama in various communities, etc. (some of which occasionally involves pronouns, yes, but it's no exaggeration to say that these woke people want you banished or even dead if you refuse to go with their delusions).

>Big tech companies hire a lot of very stupid people.

It happens. I don't think Lunduke is stupid though. He is in PR more than pure tech. That doesn't make him stupid. Neither does him being conservative.

>I don't buy the conspiracy theory that conservative voices are "persecuted" in tech spaces.

It's not a theory. He regularly reports on awful treatment of conservatives. You'd be surprised at how malicious some of these woke people are. People have been banned from conferences for being seen on Twitter wearing a MAGA hat. They have been fired for being lukewarm about woke shit. I don't blame you for being out of touch, since only Lunduke seems to be willing to report the stuff, and you refuse to watch. But closing yourself off to all evidence against your views and saying "No you guys are just imagining it!" is the actually dishonest take.

>Lunduke goes a step further by being outwardly hostile towards LGBTQ groups, and then pretends he's not doing that. This is why he's been considered so unbelievably insufferable in the tech world: his entire way of speaking is dishonest.

He is not speaking to them or about them in the way they demand, you mean. People have a right to simply refuse to engage in the constant celebration of certain lifestyles and worldviews. Going to work should not require being lectured about how awesome it is for people to engage in abnormal sexual behaviors, or celebration and advancement of people based on their race or sex alone. Liberals have no problem demanding such things on a constant basis, ostracizing and seeking to banish anyone who disagrees even 5%, and that is exactly why we need people like Lunduke to bravely issue scathing critiques of these practices. Besides that, his tech news is kind of interesting and unique, and he has a good sense of humor.

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4. tombert ◴[] No.45174690{3}[source]
> The woke stuff directly affects my job prospects and quality of life. That makes it important. I've been suffering because of it every since 2012. It escalated between 2016 and 2024, and only now is the pendulum swinging the other way.

I don't know anything about you, but I'm a white male born in the US who makes dirty and inappropriate jokes all the time who lives in one of the most "woke" cities in America, who has been working since 2006 and living on my own since 2012, the class that is claimed to be the victim of all the "woke" culture, and I can tell you that the woke stuff was overdone in 2016 and it's even more tired now. I somehow manage to do ok, despite what conservatives constantly claim.

If you really think that that "woke" stuff is hurting your job prospects in itself, I simply do not believe you. I believe that you believe that, but I do not think that that's actually the reason, I think it's an excuse you've come up to justify your lack of success. I think you should do some self examination.

> It happens. I don't think Lunduke is stupid though. He is in PR more than pure tech. That doesn't make him stupid. Neither does him being conservative.

You're right, being in PR doesn't make you stupid. I do think Lunduke is stupid, or at least acts like he's much smarter than he actually is. Also I think he was an engineer at Microsoft in the late 90's; he at least claimed to be part of the team that worked on IE for Unix.

It doesn't matter though; as you said being in PR doesn't make you stupid and being an engineer doesn't make you smart.

I am just saying that touting him working at Microsoft and OpenSUSE as some way saying that he has this well-informed opinion doesn't work for me. I've seen too much.

> It's not a theory. He regularly reports on awful treatment of conservatives. You'd be surprised at how malicious some of these woke people are. People have been banned from conferences for being seen on Twitter wearing a MAGA hat.

No it's still a conspiracy if you think it's a huge widespread thing. I'm sure you can find plenty of one-off cases of people acting stupid. The US has more than 300 million people, of course you're going to find plenty of people acting inappropriately. I would be against firing someone because they were caught wearing a MAGA hat, but I haven't seen any evidence that it's a widespread thing.

Your response might be "no even one is too many!!!!!", and sure, I agree, but let's play this a bit more. Would it be fair to call conservatives part of a "cult" because I can find examples of evangelicals abandoning their kids because they're gay? I'll bet I could find a lot more examples of that...

> He finds much more lurid stories to report than "mere" misgendering nonsense. The pronoun thing is just a litmus test to see whether someone is in a woke cult or not.

> He is not speaking to them or about them in the way they demand, you mean. People have a right to simply refuse to engage in the constant celebration of certain lifestyles and worldviews.

The fact that you (and Lunduke) call using a proper pronoun as part of a "cult" is precisely why people Lunduke so insufferable.

Frankly the opposition to using the pronoun that someone wants to be called has always baffled me. It really isn't hard. You can say it's hard, but then you're just actively lying, because it really isn't.

There are plenty of cases like this. If your name is "Stephen" but I insisted on calling you "Wally", then you might find that pretty annoying, especially if you corrected me multiple times.

You can use the term "demand" if you'd like, but that's kind of stupid. If you were to come into my house, for example, I would "demand" that you speak to me with a certain level of respect. The cool thing is, in my house, I get to define what "respect" means. If you didn't treat me in a way that I found respectful, I would tell you to get the fuck out of my house, and that's not weird; the same would apply to you and your house.

The people who run FOSS projects are allowed to put whatever definition of "respectful" that they would like. If you're going to be an asswipe about not respecting pronouns, then you are under no obligation to contribute to this project and these project maintainers are perfectly within their rights to tell you to fuck off. Again, this isn't weird. You're free to run your own project and have whatever moronic conservative standards you'd like.

Of course you have a right to "refuse to engage" with things that they disagree with, but you don't have the right to my, or anyone else's friendship, or to work on any specific project. It's not written in the bible "Thou Shall Be Allowed To Merge Arbitrary Pull Requests".

> Liberals have no problem demanding such things on a constant basis, ostracizing and seeking to banish anyone who disagrees even 5%, and that is exactly why we need people like Lunduke to bravely issue scathing critiques of these practices. Besides that, his tech news is kind of interesting and unique, and he has a good sense of humor.

You don't know me, but I'm in the category that would easily be shunned if there was really this huge epidemic of "shunning if you disagree even 5%". I grew up reading FYAD, I say very offensive jokes all the time, and I haven't been canceled yet. In fact, I think that only time I've ever been threatened to be "canceled' was when I was threatened by Richard Spencer's lawyer.

I have accidentally misgendered people who have transitioned, and you know what happened to me? Absolutely nothing, they understood it was an honest mistake and I wasn't trying to be a dick. I'm sure you can find a transgender person who's a jerk about that, but most people are reasonably understanding; they can tell if you're trying to be mean, and if you're not they usually don't get too upset.

> Lunduke to bravely issue scathing critiques of these practices.

It's really not brave. You said yourself that constantly talking about "woke" stuff is an easy way to get engagement on YouTube. I guess it might feel dangerous if you're really naive but I was pretty active on YouTube in 2016, and lots of creators with multi-millions of subscribers were able to be super "Anti-SJW" and it didn't seem to hurt their numbers at all. It's almost like finding an example of a feminist acting insane isn't really that hard, and also isn't really representative of anything.

I actually think it's cowardly; he says all this provocative shit, knowing it will upset people, and instead of owning it like a fucking grown up he just pretends that he doesn't understand why people are being so mean to him. You can't have your cake and eat it too; if you want to be provocative, that's fine, but then you shouldn't act surprised when people have a reaction.

> Besides that, his tech news is kind of interesting and unique, and he has a good sense of humor.

I haven't watched his stuff in awhile, so that might be true. The reason I stopped watching (predates before his idiotic "Conservative Nerds" blog) has already been explained: I got the impression that he would pretend he knows more about stuff than he actually does. It seemed like he would speak with authority on lots of stuff but it would immediately fall apart with any amount of examination.

I was actually a direct connection with him on LinkedIn for awhile (keep in mind, I used to be a fan), which is how I even found out how hard right he had become.

I highly doubt he's somehow become better informed on anything now than when I stopped watching his stuff like nine years ago.

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This can go on forever. I answered your question, which is why I think Bryan Lunduke is a pseudo-intellectual dimwit and then some. You're free to keep responding but I think we have thoroughly derailed this into politics, and I don't think that's productive for a post about SQLite.

Feel free to email me if you'd like to continue this discussion but I doubt either of us are going to be able to convince the other of anything.