Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Was handling disposal of a spicy pillow today, and it felt a bit like a slapstick movie - first I ran into an unexpected ice sheet (battery was in water overnight for discharge, and it had frozen over), then I got it out from under the ice, dropped it into a ziploc bag, and it fell straight *through* the bag

This is the first time ever that one of those bags has broken on me, what the hell

"But I don't have the energy to constantly be outraged about everything all of the time!"

Well maybe you should do some work on dealing with your own emotions around that then, and learn to deal with the reality of not being able to affect everything, instead of offloading that work onto others by arguing that their concerns are not real or trying to trivialize them.

And don't come at me with fucking rationalizations about how "it's your choice to come" or "some people just want to continue living" or whatever the hell else.

If you believe that it is a worthwhile or acceptable tradeoff to exclude vulnerable folks in exchange for "not being inconvenienced yourself", then actually stand behind that view and call it what it is - don't try to hide it behind euphemisms and justifications just to make your own emotional discomfort go away.

Since it's that time of year where people everywhere start asking me whether I'm coming to #37c3, here's my answer:

No, it is not possible for me to come, because the orga has chosen not to implement any COVID safety precautions, forcing me to choose between "keeping my kidneys working" and "attending a hacker event".

On a less philosophical note: why is there no explicitly commons-first anarchist dependency repository yet?

Something that I see occasionally cropping up is an interpretation of "anarchist software development" that boils down to "code as small as possible, no dependencies".

While yes, it is desirable to keep code approachable, this particular interpretation bothers me, and I do not believe it is a good example of anarchist praxis.

Society is complicated, and societal systems are complicated. The "minimalism" interpretation to me is the software equivalent of anarcho-primitivism; rather than recognizing where minimalism is or isn't appropriate, it instead tries to ignore the complexity of the entire system, pretending that everything could or should be reduced down to simple systems.

A successful implementation of anarchism is not one that has minimalism as a prerequisite; for anarchism to be successful, it *must* be able to deal with complexity of systems and social relations in *some* way.

That doesn't mean it need to accept complexity in any and all places where it occurs; but in *some* undefined subset of situations, complexity is going to be unavoidable, and solutions will be needed for that.

To take software dependencies as a concrete example (but it is not limited to that); is building up a healthy culture around collaboration through dependencies not an excellent example of something that anarchism *should* be good at, rather than wholesale rejecting the notion of such collaboration at all?

If it is believed impossible to make such collaboration possible within an anarchist context, is that not an indictment of anarchism as a social ideology? Is that not the view that is supported by rejecting the concept of dependencies in its entirety?