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Eh, reading that over now, it sounds like it came out all wrong.
By "manifesto" I only mean, a list of project goals.
And a dictatorship, in this context, is not *automatically* a bad thing.
But the larger an open-source project gets, the more users it has, the more it benefits from some form of governance; and the basis for that governance is communicating the project's goals clearly and explicitly, so that they can be shared goals.
I would go so far as to say that any open-source project that does not publish a manifesto tends towards dictatorship.
If I have a change I want to make, how do I know if it will be welcomed? Should I bother to submit it, or should I fork instead? If there are principles on which such decisions can be made, writing them down saves everyone time. If not, it comes down to the tacit opinions and gut feelings held by the dev junta, and the messy business of unearthing them.
Or:
Tired: Code is data (von Neumann architecture)
Wired: Code HAS TO BE data at some level; otherwise, you can't execute it!
Every CPU implements the Command Pattern.
Incomprehensible retrospective on what, if any, light Equipage shed on f:SĆAāS that I was babbling about:
f:SĆAāS is a way to "reify" f:SāS, which is just a fancy way to say: computers are no good at pure functions because they're too abstract; they need to be given a concrete representation in order to be tractable. This does that.
Due to the IWCTS DB restore a few days back, this account now has, on other instances, pinned toots that I will never, ever be able to unpin.
For the most part, people use social media ephemerally. Yet the default is that the content sticks around forever.
After my experiences on a.w.e and here I feel very strongly that the default should be that the content expires after some time.
Given the uncertain situation currently with #i_write_codethat_sucks, allow me to just note our alt accounts:
And allow me to encourage others to do the same: post your alt(s) to the local timeline. And if you don't have an alt, register one somewhere! (I went through all this with a.weirder.earth not too long ago...)