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Certain things should be a-political. Like the international space station, football, and open source software. But a software development has yielded to deman
by bjt2n3904 5y ago
Certain things should be a-political. Like the international space station, football, and open source software.
But a software development has yielded to demands that it adhere to causes. Redis isn't just a key value store, it's engaging in anti-racism by removing terms of whiteness, like "master" and "slave".
And here we are. Uninstall nginx, unless you're a fascist that supports Putin! Did you hear? Russia is using leftpad.js! Quick, unpublish the repository in solidarity with... We have to reduce harm! No one is neutral! You're for us, or against us!
Lending software to "social progress" leads to the insane place we are today. (And not to mention, it hasn't achieved much.)
No, my software isn't a tool for your social goals, noble as they may be. And that doesn't make me a bad person.
- rosndo 5y ago> Certain things should be a-political. Like the international space station, football, and open source software. Why? > And here we are. Uninstall nginx, unless you're a fascist that supports Putin! You know that nginx has been US owned for a while now, right?
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- SamoyedFurFluff 5y agoI think this is a straw man. It takes the relatively lukewarm “master/slave terminology should be moved away from” and somehow uses it as an example for “if you use ngix you support Putin”. Please consider actually looking at reality how it is, instead of how it might be if it was convenient to bash.
- frozenlettuce 5y agoStates will never allow a-political things to last for long, there's just too much money and power involved. Even the Olympics has been coopted - the event was created on the premise of reuniting warring nations around sport.