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