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I'm in Texas. A LOT of Californians disagree with some of the laws that Texas has passed. How long will it be until my hard drive gets reformatted by some protestor in San Francisco who localizes my IP address?
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No, not taking sides is just not taking sides. There's no need to turn such a position into a shortcut to something else. It's as stupid as the kids saying "if you are not with us you are against us". Typical populist bullshit.
How hard is it to just say "I think Russia is wrong for invading Ukraine and killing people"? That's all you have to do. Just write it. If you can't do that, but still want to engage in the discussion on the topic, your standpoint is clear. You're not some holier person not taking a stand. You have taken one, you just don't dare to spell it out.
That's not the topic at hand. The topic is, you don't need to pollute every thing you work on out there with your preachy opinions on every single topic, especially when you are whole-fully ignorant about what's actually happening, the in-and-outs of the conflict, because you are in a state of constant propaganda, whether you are in Russia or in the West.
And this is not just about the conflict at hand, it's about this disgusting habit these days of bringing politics in all walks of life where it was not before.
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Not taking a side is agreeing with the oppressor.
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For anybody looking for an easy way to do this, https://infowarship.pages.dev/howto-en may be interesting.
Add a single script tag to your project website, and all visitors from Russian IPs see a popup providing real information about the war in Russian, and links to accurate Russian-language reporting & Telegram groups, from outside the Russian state propaganda bubble.
Not malicious or damaging, no problem for anybody in Russia visiting who doesn't support the war, but a quick & easy way to inform those who do, and to push back against Russia's internal propaganda & censorship.
I'm in Texas. A LOT of Californians disagree with some of the laws that Texas has passed. How long will it be until my hard drive gets reformatted by some protestor in San Francisco who localizes my IP address?
You pretty much summarise what is wrong with the title. It is not "Protestware" that harms open source. It is politics and ideology harms open source. And the rate things are going may be Open Source will not only be split between permissive and copyleft, but progressive and libreRight. Edit: Now I remember Douglas Crockford's "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." license. I wonder if there are still any o…
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I have legitimately argued against using NodeJS as the foundation of our next product for this very reason. NodeJS' culture is very much "move fast and break things", and "all software is political". Look at the TSC drama. Leftpad.js. This isn't an ecosystem that you want to build and maintain a product on.
So you’re basically saying, don’t use X tool chain because the 3rd party software doesn’t move on your pace? Or they have different “views” than yours? I don’t see how that makes any sense. Why do you have to be beholden 3rd party developers and the pace they work at?
> Why do you have to be beholden 3rd party developers and the pace they work at?
You don't "have to", you only are beholden to them if you use their software.
I'm in Texas. A LOT of Californians disagree with some of the laws that Texas has passed. How long will it be until my hard drive gets reformatted by some protestor in San Francisco who localizes my IP address?
Bram Moolenaar famously uses Vim to raise awareness. A VPN package, dead drop website, steganography package, onion router, multi-point P2P routing mesh drivers, or other software and education on how to use them could really make a difference for dissidents. There are certainly productive ways to use software to support protests, organizing, workers' strikes, or even support targeted sabotage or insurrections withou…
He uses it to help starving children by including a message on startup. That's a little more agreeable and less political than all of the things you listed. To try and compare it is fucking absurd.
It is betraying that trust to make indescriminant attacks that harms. If peoole want to do more than just add a message, the author pointa out a number of types of software that people can cobtribute to that would have a more direct positive impact.
I'm in Texas. A LOT of Californians disagree with some of the laws that Texas has passed. How long will it be until my hard drive gets reformatted by some protestor in San Francisco who localizes my IP address?
Another fun scenario: your project has two dependencies, made by two different developers: `left-pad` and `right-pad`. `left-pad` will format your hard drive if it geolocates you being in a state that allows X. `right-pad` will format your hard drive if it geolocates you being in a state that criminalizes X.