I watch this video of this guy try to install FreeBSD and every minute he is talking about people giving him shit for other videos on sun servers and keeps lamenting how he is going to get shit for the way he is doing the install. The constant sniping criticism that exists in these communities aside, what bothers me is watching it bother him so much that he can't shut up about it. It's a cliche but they live free in his head.
When I do watch these videos it's usually either NCommander or boomer greybeards because they aren't into cringe meme shit and are really bad at the content creator grift mindset.
It's also really disheartening when I see people freak out about code of conducts and drop out of projects because they can't live without snide remarks or abusive behavior. They are technical projects, why can't you keep it technical?
they give each other social clout for being the most correct. anything other than robotic precision and encyclopedic knowledge is a weakness to be purged. so it should come as no surprise that the same crowd despise formal mathematics, where precision is important but the creativity to find your own way is far more precious, exactly because these shibboleths exist to mask their own internal emptiness.
This is equally true for programming and formal maths is very helpful to computer scientists. Chip design is very linked to formal logic which is very linked to set theory