diff --git a/content/blog/DRAFT-2024-03-17-technology-has-always-been-social.md b/content/blog/DRAFT-2024-03-17-technology-has-always-been-social.md index 9f02caa..f40a2a8 100644 --- a/content/blog/DRAFT-2024-03-17-technology-has-always-been-social.md +++ b/content/blog/DRAFT-2024-03-17-technology-has-always-been-social.md @@ -2,40 +2,20 @@ title = "Technology Has Always Been Social" description = "add date field and remove DRAFT previx to link this from the index" +++ -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 ---- this is one of those posts where i try the impossible of sharing everything which makes me _me_, with a stranger behind a screen.