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The amount of mental gymnastics to come up with (and justify) this is insane (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by pastermil@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.world

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[+] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works -13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well that's the thing though, he claims he did a bunch of stuff at Microsoft and all of it is conveniently very fun to say in a YouTube video for views but literally none of it is verifiable. It would be fine if he was trustworthy but he's also going around claiming "as an intern, I shipped a lot of major features" which that's just straight up false, interns don't do that.

At the very least, I would take all claims made on his wikipedia article that are not immediately followed by a citation with a massive grain of salt.

The fact he then went on to sell registry cleaners and support contracts is telling.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is astoundingly weird.

I mean, he didn't show up from the ether to make this tweet, he's a semi-well known youtuber, his anecdotes about his time at Microsoft have been reported in specialist press often and to my knowledge nobody at Microsoft ever went "hey, we don't know who that is". No matter how many grains of salt you take on uncited Wikipedia content, there are enough citations there to verify his identity, from local newspaper coverage of his career to links to public talks mentioning his background. He has frequently namedropped coworkers at the time, who to my knowledge haven't contested his accounts. The Wikipedia page in question isn't even a hagiography, bringing up his failed companies and legal issues surrounding them.

I don't mind skepticism, but this is paranoia. Is it possible the guy is a bullshitter whose wide reaching lies have somehow not triggered a rebuke from the people he has specifically named? I guess weirder things have happened. Would you be questioning his background if he was saying something you don't perceive as disagreeing with you? Absolutely not.

I have no more reason to question this guy having worked at Microsoft (and on the Task Manager specifically, which is a really weirdly mid-tier thing to brag about for twenty years if you didn't do it) than to think Niccolo Venerandi didn't contribute to KDE Plasma because he has a Youtube channel. It's just a strange way to react to this.