Notices by ߋߡۺ৩֎ (y0x3y@hackers.town), page 67

Christmas through the harsh lens of reality:

Reminder to self.

Never buy kool-aid, nor offer it to anyone, ever.

Oh my fucking goodness, hyperswarm + multifeed DAT works like a charm under real-world circumstances.

I can’t wait to try out kappa-core next.

More excited than I’ve been in a long while. The DAT folks deserve a fucking medal.

public library usage has never stopped growing and any suggestions to the contrary are merely pretexts for further stripping the commons

And yes, even if the job were like "tech ethicist" or "ethics moderator" or whatever the fuck. There's no changing a capitalist death machine from the inside, no matter how much anyone says you can.

I'm not going to work for a big corporation or insidious government agency in any capacity. I'm just not going to fucking do it. If we ever want anything to get better in this world, people like me have to stop actively working to make it worse. At this stage, I feel like going off to work some job at Amazon or Google or Microsoft or Bloatass Bank or whatever the fuck, no matter what the job actually is, would be an act of surrender to late capitalism, and I haven't even started fighting yet.

boost if you literally want to destroy western civilization

'Technology' does not have a teleology. *Particular* technologies have biases -- particular behaviors they are a better fit for. We should be careful of naturalistic fallacies & technological determinism: when those biases don't fit our desires, we should replace the tools.