Notices by h (h@social.coop)

This account is deprecated,

if you followed recently, please know I will be deleting this account as soon as I make new arrangements.

In the meantime I'll be here:

@h <-- @ h @ sunbeam.city

Arcane tech alt:
@haitch <-- @ haitch @ m . s

It's been a ride, thank you all for the friendships and the good times.

Here's a little letter.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PGG5u19RG6f-jfP17rim5MD-zCXz5nG-5KF_51f5B94/edit?usp=sharing

I'll be around in the fediverse.
Cheers.

#SocialCoop

@Matt_Noyes

"The timorous sailor has no dependence on a painted stern"...

@wakest Some people condoned nazis. Some others bikeshedded when we needed to only write two words: "No Nazis". When asked to offer a mea culpa and asked to quit being horrible for once some men still take it personally, act offended and irritated by other people using their voice to say things they don't like, mostly just and fair complaints, and objective appraisal of the disastrous collective performance. There are some ongoing polls that will hopefully get the coop out of this situation.

@Matt_Noyes Everything else was debatable. But this is the bare minimum.

@Matt_Noyes

6. Don't force out your most skilled, dedicated, loyal, and hard working servant. Don't insult them and devalue them periodically.

7. Let women lead.

8. Don't appease Nazis.

9. Don't appease Nazis.

10. Let women lead.

11. Let women lead.

12. Don't appease Nazis.

@meltheadorable

@hattiecat I'm sorry, I have no immediate solution for that, I'm trying to figure out what to do next. Although you're probably missing out on a lot of things if you keep staying at your current instance.

@hattiecat It's possible that your instance is blocked or silenced by sunbeam.city?

@hattiecat

It's:

@ h @ sunbeam . city

Without spaces. Some clients may wreck the address when highlighted here:

@h

Thank you.

@6gain @Floppy

Even in cases where ethical concerns aren't a top priority (say, you're just running an auto parts company and you don't really care that your upstream code is ethical) it would still be in your best interest to be able to trust your code, in case you're not building all your software from scratch, which is the most common case in business.

So it's not solely an ethical problem for individuals, there are many other concerns too, also in business.

@6gain @Floppy

Even in cases where the code is audited and it doesn't present any obvious defects, the FOSS ethos runs in the direction opposite to giving back to the unethical party (in the form of patches or any other type of contribution)
Say for example, it's difficult to ethically justify staying around Java or Mysql sending patches to Oracle these days, unless you have a massive dependency on those projects and you have no workable substitutes for them.