Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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Hello dear Fediverse, if you receive this message this means time travel is successful. In my timeline it is the year 2006 and I am curious what will await me in the future.
Please tell me how is the world like in your timeline and what are some changes I can expect when my timeline catches up with yours.
I will reply to you back later. In the meantime I will check out a Linkin Park CD I got from a friend.
Please tell me how is the world like in your timeline and what are some changes I can expect when my timeline catches up with yours.
I will reply to you back later. In the meantime I will check out a Linkin Park CD I got from a friend.
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This is your random reminder, asking for help takes spoons and courage, but also, sometimes, is actually helpful.
I would encourage you to identify who the tech dude is in *your* FOSS community with a governance problem, and start drawing more attention to their role in the issue
@freakazoid Oh yes, that is absolutely the root of it.
@freakazoid Oh, certainly, I think it's very important that we actually do that work, and I don't think that the man-on-a-pedestal approach is a *good* one.
I only wanted to emphasize that fixing this problem is a long process that involves commitment from a lot of people; not something we can "just" do. That doesn't make it impossible of course, it's just important to acknowledge that it is hard :)
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This ICE entered Köln Hbf without stopping on the bridge. I didn't knew that was even possible. 🤯
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I think that’s the most stylish Kleingarten hut I’ve ever seen though. Halensee
@freakazoid Or to put it more succinctly: the exact same task is made 10x harder by social norms if you are a group of people trying to work together rather than a singular Dude With A Vision.
@freakazoid That's easier said than done, unfortunately. There's not exactly a widespread collective skill at collaborative project management (or resource pool for it), and often collaborative projects end up stalling.
That's not because the model fundamentally doesn't work - but because everything in society optimizes for the mythical man-on-a-pedestal, and all the social processes that people learn and resource distribution mechanisms are optimized for that.
Moving away from that model is going to require an active effort at teaching people to work and coordinate together, and to create the circumstances in which people *can* work on such things (given their lack of privilege, and resulting disadvantage in time and money).
@0x4d6165 Hm, I mainly see it used to describe the kind of FOSS enthusiast who is unreasonably evangelist about it and - crucially - ignores individual circumstances in the process. AFAIK that's the root of the term - techbro behaviour, but applied to FOSS evangelism.
I would *hope* that that is still how it is used, but perhaps it has scope-creeped...
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Never know when that information might become relevant later
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I would subtly suggest to start taking notes of who in your tech circles works for companies like Anduril
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Dear vegans: be very cautious when buying orange juice in the Netherlands. The largest producer is now adding 0,02% cow milk to some variants to avoid the recently raised sugar taxes 😵💫
@serapath @balrogboogie I have strong doubts about that approach, to be honest - ultimately the gatekeeping rarely happens on the actual technical level, so I don't think that's really the right problem to be solving.
Even with a nominally distributed development model, the vast majority of users are going to have some notion of an 'official' or 'canonical' branch, and it's going to be the one with the best marketing (which is where privileged folks have an advantage).
Even excluding that, you will run into interoperability problems; just look at how much Mastodon is imposing its constraints on the rest of fedi, despite the protocol nominally being open, purely by its relative size and fame in the ecosystem. Same deal with Element and Matrix.
So no, I don't think that "avoiding governance" (which is what decentralized repos boil down to) is a sustainable solution. We're going to have to actually engage with the deeper governance problems and find ways to avoid these problems specifically, while still doing governance.
Perhaps the most frustrating part of this all is that if the situation continues for long enough, lateral violence often starts happening - nobody can hold the dude at the top accountable, therefore people start trying to hold *each other* accountable, even if nobody involved in those conflicts actually has the power to do anything about it
@balrogboogie As usual, the most dangerous form of privilege might well be the *unrecognized* privilege
@balrogboogie That is definitely often a factor, though I've seen the same thing happen without the bigotry component too. My working theory is that the most privileged among us are accustomed to the system Working For Them (ie. things "just magically work") and therefore do not recognize that they have a role to play themselves in making things happen
Like, I've seen and been involved with tons of governance issues in FOSS communities over the years, and I've lost count of how often it's just a situation of "everyone in the community is working really hard to make this work, and solving all the difficult problems, and then the entire effort grinds to a halt because of one singular white tech dude at the top being uncooperative or 'not seeing the problem' or being unwilling to delegate responsibility"
Behind every FOSS governance problem is seemingly a tech dude who holds the keys but just doesn't care
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- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
