Let me do one serious post chat, and I'll resume shitposting. This is important to make explicitly clear. Two weeks ago, fellow Dane, David Heinemeier Hansson (@dhh) went on a public tirade about Nix and the Linux ecosystem. ​ "Goddamn maniacs." "Clowns." "Goblins." "Cancer." ​ In the same conversation, he called Nix “amazing technology.” ​ Two days ago, it became clear that he is planning to build his "distribution" on NixOS. ​ That is worth dwelling on. ​ NixOS can be criticized. Of course it can. We criticize ourselves constantly. ​ What I find deeply gross is arriving as a tourist to an ecosystem, using an enormous platform to ridicule the people who built it, then deciding their work is good enough to become the foundation of your own project. ​ Much of his indictment is not even about NixOS. Land acknowledgements? That is not some defining debate here. It is Twitter culture-war material imported into a caricature of a community he barely knows. ​ For someone so insistent that technology should be "apolitical", David spends a lot of time talking about politics, culture, codes of conduct, and community governance. ​ He rails against codes of conduct, then writes rules for how people in his own community should behave while insisting that somehow does not count. ​ Call it whatever you want. Communities require governance. ​ And governance, packaging, security, infrastructure, release engineering, review and maintenance are not distractions from building a distribution. ​ They are the work. ​ So far, what he has is a configuration and installer layer on top of years of work by Arch, Linux, Rust, and soon NixOS and Nixpkgs contributors. ​ Using Claude to produce that glue does not make the work underneath disappear. ​ Packages, infrastructure, security and technical knowledge exist because people did the difficult, boring work required to make this ecosystem function. ​ You are not replacing those people. You are depending on them. ​ Which makes the rhetoric about creating a home for the "competent" people obnoxious. ​ David, the competent people are already here. ​ They are the people your project depends on — including people and communities you have been calling clowns. ​ You do not get to praise the "amazing technology", dismiss the people who sustain it as politically deranged, put a layer on top, and cast yourself as the serious technical adult in the room. ​ That is not escaping dysfunction. It is standing on other people's work while sneering downward. ​ People mock NixOS. They declare it insane. They explain why nobody should want it. ​ And then they use it anyway. So who's competent here? ​ You can hate us. You can mock us. You can call us clowns. ​ But when the answer to your own technical problems is to build on our work, that tells its own story. ​ So, David: welcome to NixOS. ​ But understand what you are standing on. ​ If you intend to build on years of work from this community, the attitude adjustment is overdue: less culture-war posturing, more respect and humility toward the people doing the work you now depend on.