“The crimes of her ancestors”
I’m just going to link to this little… event… that happened one decade and a half into HER reign.
Keep in mind the hopelessness you feel at times is the desired result of the capitalist society we exist in, so we don't fight it.
Every act we do, from calling it out to housing unhoused people and creating sustainable methods to how we feed each other, matters.
We are limiting ourselves if we fight how bigots fight.
And there are more of us than them.
Karte von Matrix Servern dt. Universitäten
Ich wusste nicht, dass so viele deutsche Unis einen Matrix Server betreiben, hier gibt es eine interaktive Karte:
https://doc.matrix.tu-dresden.de/why/
(ID&T Radio used to broadcast hour+ long mixes by serious DJs over FM in the Netherlands, but when they rebranded to SLAM!FM, it all changed to the standard format of "guy talking about bullshit and a bunch of ads interspersed with some EDM tracks")
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I wonder whether this can be convincingly explained to people (who have bought into that ideology) by equating it to the saying about "teaching someone to fish", as that saying seems to resonate with a lot of tech folks on an emotional level - an opinionated framework is giving someone a fish, providing guidance on how to select options and what options there are is *teaching* someone to fish.
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I really have to write Properly(tm) about these intersections between authoritarian ideology and software development culture some day, because this is *far* from the only case where this crops up
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I also feel like this ties into authoritarian ideology in interesting ways. The broader belief that the only way you can make people do something "for their own good" is by forcing them into it and giving them no other choices, rather than giving people agency and trusting them to be responsible and competent in handling it.
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It boggles my mind how it's *still* a widespread belief that libraries/frameworks must be opinionated "because otherwise people would get lost in the options" - as if "technically forcing people into a specific choice" (with all of its significant downsides) is somehow the only possible way to help guide someone towards a sensible solution.
If we allow such concentrations of power, we place ourselves at the mercy of the moral fiber of whoever claims it, because ultimately they will not be accountable to anyone else. And eventually, either the people put in power will begin to use it for their own gain, as I said, or those who are more ruthless and more comfortable ordering people around (because anyone whose long term goal truly is freedom can never be comfortable destroying it) will rise to power and take advantage themselves.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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.