technology has always been social: update draft notes

content/blog/DRAFT-2024-03-17-technology-has-always-been-social.md

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 title = "Technology Has Always Been Social"
 description = "add date field and remove DRAFT previx to link this from the index"
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-stuff:
-- NixOS (board) accepts Anduril as sponsor
-- community is divided
-- role of the community in decisions formally delegated to the board is unclear; not formalized
-- only two actors can make direct decisions here: the board, or Anduril
-- what's the responsible thing to do?
-  - both parties have the ability and the responsibility to make the Bad Thing go away.
-  - if the board does not, or can not (legal restrictions), Anduril remains responsible.
 
-- but what *is* open source?
-- volunteers
-  - from every country
-- dreamers
-  - tell my own story
-- people who refuse to compromise
+draft notes:
+- open source is people who refuse to compromise
   - on ideals
-    - morals
-    - technical limitations
-  - but wait, how can we collaborate if we refuse to compromise
-    - compromise being "win-lose" scenarios
-    - mpv has 1000 options because each of those options greatly benefits _someone_ while being ~neutral for everyone else
-  - group-level consensus can not exist
-    - therefore, hypocratic
-    - nearly every open source project starts as a worse version of something else, but with a dream of being better
-    - we are, after all, *dreamers*
-    - take the route which does no harm, even if it sets the project back in a technical sense: because that's exactly the type of setback we're equipped to deal with
-    - in the extreme, this means no sponsorship, period.
-- however, we already *do* compromise
-  - starting from scratch is truly infeasible
-    - we use closed-source microprocessors
-  - so it's a minimization game
-  - foregoing Anduril sponsorship is *possible*. it's a set-back, not an ending.
-  - foregoing all sponsorship is.. plausible. not immediately, but we can plot a path to it.
-
+  - on technical limitations
+  - on morals
+- hierarchy, power, group-level decision making once the group is sufficiently large: requires compromise; *forced* compromise.
+- fear of ordered society
+  - gov is barrier to p2p commerce.
+  - can't be paid for FOSS; can't commission artwork or vice-versa, because the payment rails leak my identity.
+  - could build my career for a decade, only to offend the wrong person in power, and be censored.
+  - sure, i *could*, if i were to always play nicely with power. if i were to sacrifice my freedom of expression (see: Canadian trucker protest)
+  - ^ insert the above into the section on Snowden
+- the internet is fundamentally anarchic
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 this is one of those posts where i try the impossible of sharing everything which makes me _me_, with a stranger behind a screen.