Notices by igor, the blessed algorithm (hirojin@mastodon.social)

i often get this feeling that the IT industry doesn't really know what to do with senior engineers. or what they even are, for that matter.

this is ironic, in the saddest way possible, in that we also don't know what to do with junior engineers.

when they told you that computers are really dumb, because they only do exactly what you tell them to do, that was a lie

a lie of omission.

they do what you tell them to do, while also doing what a million other people over the past 40 years told them to do to

sometimes, those commands interfere with, or contradict each other

@Sylvhem @Sylvhem not only that

it was important to them to promote open source because of its benefits to businesses

free software explicitly bestows users as having agency and rights, and the most important right is having access to the source, by which they also gain the right to modify and distribute it themselves

Free Software, in its naïvité, was trying to make us all into hackers

Open Source is trying to sell us support