From 5b7ea7d03e73fc9d9c0cc849ebcfa614565cc6d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Starfall Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2023 13:36:20 -0500 Subject: new blog post draft --- src/blog/techbros.md | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/blog/techbros.md diff --git a/src/blog/techbros.md b/src/blog/techbros.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4aa112c --- /dev/null +++ b/src/blog/techbros.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +draft = true +title = "" +categories = [] +--- + +this draft can probably be multiple blog posts + +need to find where i stuck my old writing about these things + +libertarian bullshit in open source communities +- hyperindividualism +- "entitlement" somehow contorted to mean "someone else actually cares about a change in my software or service" or even "anyone asked me for anything" + - hint: if you don't want to take feature requests or bug reports, don't publish software somewhere other people can use it + - frequently combined with actual entitlement to everyone else's output + - freedom 0, as applied against noncommercial licenses + - i'm so, so sorry that you want to make money off of what i do without royalties or even contributing anything back upstream. fuck you pay me + - complete lack of understanding of the difference between a primary and secondary audience + - this applies to so much of social media as a whole and plays with parasocial relationships, probably another post + - the constant annoyance of scraping + archival of all-but-explicitly-ephemeral social media (mastodon / other fedi stuff) +- the assumption that other people have the skills, time, and energy to deal with doing whatever themselves + - self hosting + - doubly so for suggesting single-user instances on fedi, because that's not just technical but also social bullshit + - it can simultaneously be true that self hosting is the best way to own your own stuff and that it's infeasible for the vast majority of people to do so + - "just fork it" + - often in combination with being ridiculously virulent towards forks because how dare you change what i wrote to suit your own needs better + - just join a committee / moderation team / whatever + - do i even need to go into how this plays with ableism even when it's not explicitly so + - example of explicitly so: the bullshit thrown on the Glimpse fork of the GNU Image Manipulation Program which had *specific examples of academic institutions &c. avoiding the GNU IMP, which they would have otherwise used, because the official acronym is also an offensive term for people who walk with a limp* backing their decision to fork -- cgit