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See NixCon 2023, but also in general universities and student organizations in the country mandating that you pretend the defense industry doesn't exist if you
by busterarm 3y ago
See NixCon 2023, but also in general universities and student organizations in the country mandating that you pretend the defense industry doesn't exist if you want to have a presence there.
Just about anything German-hosted in the Fediverse is absolutely allergic to the industry and users will lose their fucking minds and hound you to the ends of the earth and send you death threats if you forget this fact.
Basically shitty ideologues who put purity ahead of the technology dominate every level of the discourse there. It wastes everyones' time and distracts from things that actually matter. In fairness, America isn't far behind.
- _dain_ 3y ago> NixCon 2023 what happened there?
- alphager 3y agohttps://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixcon-2023-sponsorship-situation-from-the-nixos-foundation/33583 https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixcon-2023-sponsorship-situat... TL/DR: they accepted sponsorship by Anduril, a weapons manufacturer and publicized that fact 3 days before the conference. The German scene is quite pacifistic and threw a fit.
- busterarm 3y agoWhile "threw a fit" is accurate, it really does downplay the level of hostility that was expressed in response to the situation. It was unbecoming of any group that wishes to call itself a community and it certainly has chilled participation from reasonable people.