How to be a software freedom purist:
Get rid of the software altogether and build the functionality in hardware.
My Categorical Imperative is from Theodor W. Adorno's "Minima Moralia", 83. Vice-President: "Advice to intellectuals: don't let yourself be represented."
That applies to middleware and other people's APIs in particular... #FOSDEM
Oct 30, 2019 • 15 tweets • 11 min read
@sycramore@th_sattelberger Derweil höre ich bei meinem Surprise visit in Arizona von der Kehrseite der Medaille. rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…@sycramore@th_sattelberger Menschen brauchen verlässliche Beziehungen.
Diese Beziehungen sind eine Frage von Leben und Tod.
Ein durchgeknallter Physiker am CCCamp 2015 hat den Verlust so einer Beziehung nur überlebt, weil er den Präzedenzfall kannte
@jwiechers Actual solution:
if men, even straight men, could _also_ speak about "touchy-feely" stuff, i.e., the really hard problems that don't have technical solutions, without getting stigmatized.
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@jwiechers I tend to seek a solution of the really hard, non-technical, problems from women because it's not as inconceivable for women than for men to talk about emotions in tech at all.
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Machiavelli writes [phil.pku.edu.cn/resguide/nicco…]:
In states ruled by 天命, it would be the act of a presumptuous and rash man to discuss heavenly Truth.
I used @realsexycyborg's @sino_bit to show Truth @ #GPN18.
The reactions to my cultural appropriation of @realsexycyborg's @sino_bit at #GPN18 were different and sometimes quite amusing.
Some younger hackers asked who that young man with the red star on his hat was
