Artisan of bytes, lover of low-level stuff and game development.
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Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council ha...
If your corporation's business model relies on lawbreaking, your corporation has no legal legitimacy.
We don't let narcotic cartels and trafficking rings list themselves on the stock exchange: why should OpenAI or Facebook be any different?
Good progress today but the workload is getting a bit overwhelming 😅
Checking everything, cleaning up, coloring, defining the animated parts further… I’m putting this software to the test!
@neauoire Sad and so disappointing. Not what the community (and the world) needs at this moment.
At least the biases and the failure of leadership are now laid bare, and decisions can be made in light of them. Let's redouble our own efforts to make sure that:
- Open software and open technology is valued highly as a societal good
- Paths less traveled, be they esoteric or otherwise, can be beautiful and worthy of exploration and discussion, regardless of whether they lead to utility in the eyes of capital
- It's safe and encouraged to acknowledge that our acts (technical work absolutely included) have political implications
- Trans/nonbinary people are welcomed, celebrated, worthy, and beautiful
Thanks, Devine for shining a light on this and providing leadership around this. You are valued and we appreciate what you've done to rally all of us. Onward.
Some months ago, attendees of the Handmade Seattle conference expressed their grievances with the conference in regards to its pivoting to include talks with mentions of social justice awareness and a slightly more diverse panel of speakers, at the cost of the usual guy-packs-bytes-in-the-right-sequence talks. Which I have nothing against as someone who tend to give talks of that exact flavor.
In any case, the conference organizer apologized for the poor selection of speakers which did not correspond to the expectations of ticket holders, promising to resolve the issue in the following year, and in passing, that free and open source software developers would no longer be welcomed as speakers.
I happened to be present in the chatroom when the apology letter went out and merely questioned whether the choice was really about the lack of low-level talks, and not something else. It did not take long for bigots of all sorts to come out and lament the good old days of the conference and soon the chatroom was ablaze with some pretty vile things against trans people, this went on for hours without intervention, the usual.
What I did not expect, was that after the conference organizer ghosted me for months, they finally broke radio silence to slam me for speaking out and partially blamed me for the unraveling of the conference organization, and decided against covering the agreed upon travel stipend. I have since requested for the talk videos to be removed.
"So why is software so terrible?
We made it terrible."
— The Handmade Manifesto
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