Post ARAQ4dDuGe500QL5Um by Moon@shitposter.club
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 (DIR) Post #AR8s6b4TeHQMJKjaMa by Sterophonick@tech.lgbt
       2022-12-30T07:29:46Z
       
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       Is there a problem in OSS with developers acting like pricks to newbies?No, really.When I was working on my Gigatron MAME driver a couple years back I was met with a lot of unnecessary attitude, especially with me being a newbie. Yeah, I made stupid PRs and commits, but there were a couple of MAME team members that were just.. rude. I get they have to deal with trolls on Reddit a lot but I at least showed that I cared and wanted to contribute.
       
 (DIR) Post #AR8s6bXBvWOPkOAW7U by Sterophonick@tech.lgbt
       2022-12-30T07:30:29Z
       
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       I dunno, was just thinking about this again. I could go into more detail but that's the gist. Is this a common thing in OSS dev?
       
 (DIR) Post #AR8s6c0cA7vdDdw0yu by Ash@awoo.fyi
       2022-12-30T19:33:25.027465Z
       
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       More project dependent. Emulator communities centered around vintage computers and video games are some of the worst experiences I've witnessed, qemu devs are pretty chill though.
       
 (DIR) Post #AR8uBZ9aPCatigcZRw by pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net
       2022-12-30T19:56:38.485281Z
       
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       @Ash @Sterophonick Vintage computers are not as bad as video games IMO. With vintage computers, the issue is usually unmaintained emulators because one or two guys will be programming an emulator for a computer they used back in the day, or it'll be good enough and something obscure won't run. Aside from Japan for obvious reasons (thanks copyright laws) there's also a lot less of a "I'm not sharing this" mindset. They also have a very different demographic downloading the emulators, and a higher barrier of entry. Or if gamers are downloading the emulator, they're not the main target. They're also writing them for a specific purpose in many cases even.Here's an example of what I'm talking about; this FM Towns emulator was written by a guy who was trying to preserve the library and he needed a debugger...but the emulators out there couldn't debug right. So he wrote a FM Towns emulator for the debugger. http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/FM/towns/Tsugaru/e.htmlWhen you look into his site it's more interesting; the same guy became known for writing a flight sim that gained a cult following and just got released as BSD licensed.
       
 (DIR) Post #AR8xrSnqht0O357jIu by Sterophonick@tech.lgbt
       2022-12-30T20:18:38Z
       
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       @pawlicker @Ash a luttle off topic but most of the one-off computer emulators that i have personally seen come from Japan for things like the fm-7 or the pc-880x
       
 (DIR) Post #ARAQ4cgaGXQOL4kTYW by wuest@hachyderm.io
       2022-12-30T13:46:03Z
       
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       @antifuchs @Sterophonick precisely this - and additionally, the welcoming communities are the result of ongoing herculean community management effort by people whose energy COULD be spent thinking about software if not for the eternal tide of people who think that being assholes is somehow good behavior.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARAQ4dDuGe500QL5Um by Moon@shitposter.club
       2022-12-31T13:28:03.112517Z
       
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       @wuest @antifuchs @Sterophonick assholes will always be with us and you accept this and build resilient systems. You are like companies that think computer security is a waste of money.