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[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 41 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Considered harmful.
It's the IRC channel for https://cat-v.org/ There are some very clever people there with very specific ideas and opinions about computing.

[–] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I open the site and see:

‘The Internet is not for sissies.’ -- Paul Vixie

It's always important to make a good first impression or whatever.

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think it's achieving the intended goal of gatekeeping the site to 50+ year-old graybeards with narcissistic tendencies and a persecution complex which have decanted over the decades into a nasty brew of unfiltered bitterness.

[–] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I looked at some of the other pages and the whole site has this charm.

Best example was "dangerous" software that no one even needs an alternative for and among them were GNOME and KDE...

[–] big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well it's always nice to get an unbiased opinion

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I guess being queer is an incompatible bias with whatever these curmudgeons have going on

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Clearly they can't adjust the CSS to make it fit for phones

[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 2 months ago

they can, they don't want to.