@lzg damn right! but hell, an ad I dont understand is a better ad than one I do understand for two reasons:
there is no need anyone has to ever see an ad. they are parasitic
and non-comprehension mitigates that.
theoretically my non-comprehension could prompt curiosity, yielding an opportunity to learn something. which is insane because even though accidental, it would mean an advertisement yielded mutual value -- which has heretofore been considered impossible.
@skinnylatte@danilo@lzg honestly? I’m a little sad my first job out of college was a little early for that window; we invented a very recognizable command line invocation that at the time was “cool” and “cutting edge” and now is “a giant gaping security hole” and if we’d come along a few years later we would have plastered that all over the T
@danilo@luis_in_brief@lzg I have a pet hypothesis that this stuff actually makes a lot of tech folks feel incredibly lonely even if they don't realize it because a lot of it is super reminding you about gatekeeping and that tends to be bad even for people who are SAFE behind the gate
@danilo@luis_in_brief@lzg it's like "only you can get it you're so special" and then you're like "wait oh god only I can get it..." The nightmare of faux belonging
@grimalkina@danilo@lzg there’s this weird simultaneous “it’s cool to live in a place that is so deeply fitted to me” and “it’s a nightmare to live in a place that is so deeply fitted to me”
@lzg Because in this case the "language" is meant to be understood by a small group who have disproportionate wealth, whereas actual minority languages are generally spoken by people without much power?
@lzg all I really remember of the discussion was “pero que is this ‘mining’” and we were all several bottles of wine in, but not enough to make my Spanish any good
This ad also annoys me because they're trying to lure me into yet another vendor-lock-in trap. Obviously that's not going to happen, but I'm kind of offended that they tried.
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