And it has some puzzling examples. For example if you want to kill a process according to the presenter you need "ps auxwww | grep process_name | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9". He compares that to GUI Mac OS process manager and how the Unix way is exclusionary for anybody other than straight white men.
Well, how about "pkill process_name"? How can you put the GUI way into a script? Should we replace all code with GUIs, even the presenter's Rust and Python? Why does he pretend that Linux graphical desktop environments like Gnome or KDE don't exist? Can we answer any of these questions without whitestraightmansplaining? Press the flag story button to find out.
That's not what the talk is about, that's one of the examples of brokenness he's talking about, as is the kill example, and yes they are deliberately troll-y examples.
The talk is about the very last statement "sometimes you have to drop your tools and make new ones" whether that's "everything is a file", "do one thing and do it well" (the ps example), or the way communities are structured. You don't have to agree with him on any of them but to dismiss them as "whitestraightmansplaining" is to duck as the point flies over your head.
They each get in their car, fasten their seatbelt, and back out of their storage bay onto the road. They tune their radio to a morning zoo being visited by a reeling ninth caller who didn’t win the free party pack.
They depart the trunk line and park in a fragmented matrix of similarly unique cars, de-safety their belt, rummage the console for an identity token, and head into their own morning zoo, paned wall-to-wall with one-way glass, seemingly installed backwards.
The humans shed the remaining vestiges of their real human mornings and dutifully touch base on how to liven up their portable document that contentfully explores, ”how can technology further deliver value to our audience?” perhaps using hypertext, while drinking more coffee.
Anyways… If you haven’t clicked “client value” at the top-right, I strongly encourage doing so. Ten points and a free party pack if you can read the entire thing with a straight face.
Its not that someone writes that sort of stuff, its that it people read and think "yeah! give me some of that!" that makes me worry for humanity.