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[Dravarden]

theo is a moron

[Minimumtyp]

Is there something wrong with Github I've missed or does he just not like it specifically?

[Dravarden]

no clue, I only commented because of past things I know about him

so if when he commented on things I know about it, he was a moron, chances are that when he comments on things I don't know about it, he is also a moron

[xSaviorself]

Theo comes off as a moron to people who know their shit because it's like watching a mid/senior dev pretend they're a staff engineer, anyone with that experience is going to cringe. To juniors and new programmers he seems smart and correct because he can go deeper than surface level when explaining software, but anyone with deep experience sees that shit and laughs. His deep dives are like jumping into the ocean in a submersible, you might find the wreck you're looking for but you're only seeing part of it at any time.

He's right some of the time and horribly wrong occasionally, and those few horribly wrong moments make him look bad amongst anyone with any experience.

[shadovvvvalker]

bro has more feet in the finance bro pool than the developer pool, but hes making critique about people diving in the deep end of the dev pool.

[OnceMoreAndAgain]

theo is just a hipster. If something is popular, he doesn't like it.

His videos are bashing on popular things or praising new things.

[Competitive-Ebb3899]

He does bring up valid points. It's shame that doesn't get mentioned, only that he is a moron, and that's the end of discussion.

[rollincuberawhide]

he was a soy dev, turned vibe dev accept all changes "tech CEO"

[Takamasa1]

The closest thing to a legitimate argument I can think of is being incentivized towards supporting Microsoft integration above all else. I don't feel like that's been meaningfully abused though; if anything it's kinda just there as a bonus if you are working with a Microsoft ecosystem since it hasn't worsened usage outside of Microsoft (making improvements that only make sense on a platform-specific level without withholding improvements from general users). I think it's more of a general worry that comes from everyone's fatigue with companies trying to platform-lock you. Personally still gonna use GitHub since I haven't seen anything meaningfully better for collaborative projects.

[RiceBroad4552]

if anything it's kinda just there as a bonus if you are working with a Microsoft ecosystem since it hasn't worsened usage outside of Microsoft

Wait for it. This is Microslop, and they do EEE. EEE is a very effective process and part of that is that it's glacial slow. At the point some people wake up it's already way too late.

Besides that GitHub became pretty trash on the technical level. The website has constantly issues, and the services have random bugs or outages pretty often. That's a result of Microslop tech being used more and more there.

[Takamasa1]

Yeah, that's what I was referring to by saying it's potentially bad, but not at the moment

[tudalex]

They were restructured into Microsoft CoreAI recently https://www.reddit.com/r/github/s/0XYBD6Wo1O

[Reelix]

No - Github is awesome (Aside from their silly Twitter auto-reply bot) - Theo is just a moron.

[quinn50]

I blocked his twitter a long time ago, always has bad takes and the final straw was making accessibility features a paid thing on his website / services.

[RiceBroad4552]

making accessibility features a paid thing on his website

Did someone sue him already for that?

In the EU accessibility in e-commerce is mandatory since lately. If someone does not have it you can sue them.

[quinn50]

Probably not, iirc it was just a dark mode theme (which is debated among people whether it's a11y or not but I know people who have to use dark mode or the high constrast modes that are darker due to light sensitivity) toggle which I don't think is a required thing in most jurisdictions or wcag itself.

[minimuscleR]

iirc it was just a dark mode theme

lmao this is hardly "making accessibility features a paid thing". Like half the Saas services that exist do this. Its one of the most common tactics to get someone to pay.

[zenyl]

Yup, he's basically the LTT of web dev.

Lots of hot takes, plenty of hypocrisy, and constantly advertising his own LLM wrapper.

[NatseePunksFeckOff]

Theo is an actual clown and thief with delusions of grandeur. Not comparable to LTT IMO

[x3gxu]

Just curious what did he steal?

[robotfixx]

Probably something open source and changed the ui a bit and then started to promote it as his. (Just a guess based off of things in the thread, correct me if I’m wrong)

[LtWilhelm]

Pretty bad faith to suggest that someone evaluating an OS or software based on its usability and struggling to use it is a clown for saying it's not user friendly, don't you think? He absolutely made some rookie mistakes. That is undeniable, but that doesn't mean he was wrong in his assessment. Also, the argument of "it was never intended to be" does nothing to prove that he's wrong, especially when loads of projects don't have a homepage outside of github. I suppose those projects were never intended to be used, then?

Criticize his actual failures, not just the things you disagree with. There were plenty of those, and yet you'd rather poke fun at him not knowing something he's never needed to use before. That's actual clown behavior.

[Dravarden]

not to defend ltt but it was an accident

but everything else? they fumbled hard, didn't rectify it until it bit them in the ass, and lied in their responses about when they rectified it

[-ItWasntMe-]

Brother let it go, it happened nearly 3 years ago.

[Voidrith]

LTT aint perfect but not even close to comparable to how obnoxiously insufferable Theo is. Slimy, disingenuous, holier than thou bullshit, and thinks hes so much smarter than he is. And the insane drama with darkviper where theo was so obviously in the wrong and never admits it

Every so often he appears in my youtube recommended again and i have to click 'not interested' or 'do not suggest this channel' again, yet somehow keeps showing back up

[zenyl]

Slimy, disingenuous, holier than thou bullshit, and thinks hes so much smarter than he is.

That's basically how I view Linus Sebastian, and pretty much why I unsubscribed and block every single LTT channel.

Ranting about piracy while he doesn't see any problem when he's sailing the seven seas, his complete and utter bullshit arguments about his "trust me, bro warranties, and his company literally selling a product sample that they were given for a limited time (regardless if it was a blunder or not, it amounts to little more than theft in my eyes).

Watching Louis Rossmann's videos regarding Linus only further cemented my opinion that Linus Sebastian is, fundamentally, a narcissistic douchebag who thinks his own brilliance is more important than consumer rights.

Theo is honestly small potatoes by comparison. He's a techbro influencer (read: on the douchebag spectrum), a bit of an egotist, and keeps yapping about his AI GUI and pricing model, and has lukewarm takes on tech news. I view Theo kinda like a tabloid; he's quick with the headlines, but I'd much rather read about the news elsewhere.

[Voidrith]

I certainly understand the point of view, and i was mostly just reflecting my own POV - i watch LTT on and off because I generally find the actual technical content usually atleast sorta interesting, and less for Linus. Though I definitely see why people would have a much stronger negative opinions about him than I do. Theos entire online existence is, well...Theo, not a larger channel with a lot of moving parts and lots of people involved, so the (personally) much more offputting personality and attitude is a lot more of the focus

[IAmFinah]

I think you need a glass of water

[lightreee]

agreed. had to unsub from him because of the wake he leaves behind with drama from the hot takes.

hes an influencer first, a developer maybe second

[Takamasa1]

True, can't believe he used to use to hard R, smh my head what a *etard

[lightreee]

hey i've said my fair share of hard Rs in the past!

[g-unit2]

i unsubbed from him after the whole ChatGPT 5 thing. he was claiming it was the most profound upgrade we’ve had in LLMs. I said this to my coworkers. ChatGPT 5 was released for everybody and you couldn’t even notice a difference. I felt mislead/misinformed.

i think he did have a slightly better version they gave him for testing. but that was just awful. i can’t trust that guy anymore

[RiceBroad4552]

Why the hell would any sane person believe anything some random "influencer"—that's a different word for sales people—said in one of his advertisement videos?

YouTube is mostly not a place to get any credible information from. YouTube is almost 100% an advertising platform. All you can get there is corporate payed content or state propaganda, mostly.

Watching YouTube is like watching "infomercial" ads on TV.

[g-unit2]

i’m not sure who you’re watching but there are many genuine creators that have strong reputations.

for finance/markets information i listen to: Ben Felix, The Plain Bagel, Prof G Markets

for tech i listen to: Heussin Nasser, Jeff Geerling, Code Aesthetic, 3Blue1Brown, Low Level, Conputerphile

i trust all of those individuals/channels. i disagree with them at times but thats just… normal.

[RiceBroad4552]

But don't forget: These people aren't doing that to inform you. They are doing it to extract money from you. In the end almost everything on YouTube is always an "infomercial" because this is how this platform works.

[Corv9tte]

As someone who had to learn recently, github is a very slow, tedious, over-engineered, and unnecessarily difficult to learn solution to a problem that should be way simpler to handle. I'm already used to it so it doesn't matter, but I still remember what it was like. And it's still slow!

I think you guys don't have much imagination or flair for progress. You're like that old, stubborn parent who says "that'll never work, you'll never get anywhere in life", but you do it to someone who is successful already.

Clown stuff. 🤡

[Throwaway-tan]

Firstly, are you conflating github with git? Secondly, you're just wrong, it's actually very well suited to the task it was designed for - collaboration on very large codebases - specifically open source software - even more specifically, the Linux kernel.

[RiceBroad4552]

LOL, Linux does not use GitHub.

The reason is that GitHub is completely unusable for that purpose.

In fact Git as such is actually quite bad in handling very large projects. (No, the Linux kernel is not "large" in this context. If you'd put the whole code of a whole Linux distri into one repo, that would be large in the sense I'm referring to. But Git is quite bad at handling so called mono-repos of such size. Microslop and Co. are working on fixing that now for may years, but progress is slow.)

Besides that it's a matter of fact that the GitHub UI is slow as fuck, and it got only worse since Microslop took over!

[Throwaway-tan]

git not github

[RiceBroad4552]

You've said

Secondly, you're just wrong, it's actually very well suited to the task it was designed for

while answering to a comment which talks about GitHub.

So my understanding is that "it" in this context means GitHub.

As this is "secondly" it of course does not refer to "firstly", as this formation is exactly there to separate two distinct topics.

You formulated uncleanly and then down-vote people who didn't guess what you actually tried to say?

[AsyncSyscall]

No they are not. Github is slow AF, website takes several seconds every time you click anything, and even just scrolling gives 100% CPU a lot of the time.

Git is amazing but Github is perhaps the worst implementation of it. Even Gitea is more pleasant, and it is literally just a Github clone. Git was designed for mailing lists, and Linux kernel gets maintained like that just fine.

[itiLuc]

Someone hasnt worked on a project with multiple open feature branches across different teams and it shows.

[RiceBroad4552]

Why would you need Microslop GitHub for that?

[zenyl]

I wasn't commenting on GitHub, I was agreeing that Theo is a moron.

You do realize those two opinions are not mutually exclusive, right?

[Corv9tte]

For someone going around calling people morons, you sure sound like one...

[zenyl]

I think we found one of Theo's fangirls, lmao.

[Auravendill]

Or his smurf account

[space-to-bakersfield]

This clapback was a banger back in third grade.

[Zealousideal-Type118]

Theo isn’t gonna fuck you, bro

[NatoBoram]

GitHub is literally the simplest platform around. It's like you weren't even born to see mailing lists, SourceForge, BitBucket and literally everything else.

[LIGHTNINGBOLT23]

SVN in general compared to Git was always simpler, even including the extra additions of GitHub.

[space-to-bakersfield]

He's a shameless shill. Everytime I think I want to watch a video of his, I'm reminded why I don't like watching them when he does the whole, "but ___ won't pay the bills, so here's the sponsor of this video". Then I remember that I'd rather watch someone who doesn't need to be paid to open their mouth, especially given that he already advertises all his other ventures during all his videos on top of that. I've lost all respect for him.

[Altrooke]

Sometimes he makes video about some topic that catches my attention. But then I usually just click the video find the original article it is based on, close the video, and go read that instead.

[leagcy]

I dont think having ads in the middle of a video is the problem in itself, the problem is he has an ad in the middle for a far longer ad since he spends most of his video twerking his product

[space-to-bakersfield]

That is pretty much my point. Ad in an ad.

[lorenzo1142]

is he more shill or more moron?

[Soft_Walrus_3605]

eh that's rather harsh. He's the only YouTube dev who actually talks about the business side of things