• Evinceo@awful.systems
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    9 months ago

    Techbro was originally used to describe the type of men who made it difficult for women in tech, then somewhere along the line the general public realized the same dudes were also making it difficult for lots if people in lots of places.

    If tech folks never actually acted like frat bros, the bro appellation never would have happened. I’ve worked in offices with Kegs cor crissakes.

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      9 months ago

      I’ve worked in offices with booze, ping pong, and arcade games!

      but not for us. it’s used as a hiring incentive and plonked into the middle of the office, but any use of those things at work will quickly result in a PIP. the booze, ping pong, and arcade games are for techbros only — the founders and their nepotism hires, specifically. any engineer caught using any of those things clearly isn’t working hard enough, because they haven’t converted their entire body and mind into a machine for writing shit code for shit capitalists.

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    9 months ago

    ‘nerds taking over the world’ no it was finance with techbros taking over the world. If nerds had taken over there would be a lot more open source and we wouldn’t all be familiar with the word ‘enshitiffication’.

    One of the most famous techbros wants people to print out code and has trouble running a python script.

    E: that these fucks can play with their venture capital shit while Real Tech Nerds(tm, do not steal!) like Foone have to ask for donations is pretty terrible. (Foone is a fun account to follow if you like somebody who takes old hardware and stuff apart in fun ways).

    E: related skeet “1980s techies: Imagine a World Wide Web where all human knowledge can be shared and accessed by everyone. 2020s techbros: We will steal every word you’ve ever shared, every artwork you’ve ever displayed, lock them away in datasets without your permission, then sell them all back to you, but shite.”

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    It’s almost like they’re missing the point that techbros are misogynists and it describes a sexist mindset.

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    9 months ago

    What if we used different words in a different context? Wouldn’t the meaning change? Checkmate atheists

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    9 months ago

    “What would the reaction be?” It would be different. It would be far more negative. Do you know why it would be more negative? Because women in tech do not hold power in tech. They do not hold power in the world. A misogynistic name for that category of people would be punching down.

    By contrast, “techbro” is acceptable because we know who’s in power right now, and it’s punching up.

    HTH

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    9 months ago

    Imagine being richer than god and still being mad about how nerds were treated in 80s teen movies.

  • DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    The term techbro specifically refers to someone with a business/finance background who acts like they have tech knowledge without actually having any tech knowledge.