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

I think they're a terrible idea, specifically the "license" part. I think the 'ethical constraints' part is good (if anything, a lot of ethical licenses don't go far enough IMO!), but a license is the wrong tool for this.

Why? Two reasons:

1. Licenses are *very fundamentally* a part of the copyright system. The same copyright system that systematically advantages exactly the parties you want to prevent from using your thing, against whom it is notoriously difficult to get a ruling.

Licenses are a copyright mechanism. Copyright serves the wealthy and the powerful, not the marginalized. FOSS licenses are a necessary workaround to mitigate the harms, but crucially they are not and can never be an effective enforcement tool. It's not how the power dynamics work.

2. License conflicts are a huge problem. Ethics are as varied as favourite foods, and that's a *good* thing, but it's incompatible with one of the desirable properties of public licenses, namely consistency and interoperability.

Things are not built in a vacuum. They are built on other people's work, which is built on yet other people's work, and so on. As you stack more and more pieces onto each other whose licenses all forbid subtly different things, you eventually end up with something no one can use due to the non-overlapping exclusions.

This makes any projects of serious scale (say, those trying to build a stateless society and its infrastructure...) pretty much guaranteed to paint themselves into a corner due to the license constraints piling up, and that is probably not what you were trying to achieve with your license choice.

You should absolutely enforce ethical constraints in your project, but if your goal is to sabotage powerful actors, there are much more effective solutions that don't have these problems - like making it abundantly clear that they are not welcome in the community, they will not receive support, their bugtickets will not be handled, and their needs will not be designed for.

The kind of organizations that people usually try to keep out with ethical licenses - corporations, militaries, etc. - are ultimately looking to exploit free labour (*especially* support-wise), and if you deny them that, their interest will wane. You don't really need a license for that, especially if you couldn't afford to sue anyway.

I *really* want Result and Option in JS tbh

This post is not hyperbole and I am being 100% serious

Economics is a pseudo-science and its primary purpose is to act as a credibility shield for capitalism

I think my only real complaint about the Glove80 so far is that the tenting mechanism is kind of terrible

I have rearranged my keyboard layout again and now it goes ESC, F2, F3, F4...

I didn't need F1 anyway

At least no tech has broken on me yet today

Today's score so far:
- Spilled a third of the pancake batter all of the furnace and counter and spice rack while cooking
- Dropped the kettle into water
- Spilled boiling water over my hand (at least the burn isn't severe, just painful)
- Knocked over everything I've touched

Today really is one of those days, huh?