I've seen other terms, but I use the label "fossbro" to refer to a set of toxic attitudes which through their vocalness defines the software freedom movement to those outside it.
Comprising:
* Ableism, thinking everyone should have the skills & desire to modify their software.
* Entitlement, thinking they're the entirety of the community a FOSS project may wish to serve. Harassing you if you e.g. reduce the visibility of configuration options.
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RT @TheAuracl3
Welp. What Klint is saying about his granddad is what just about every white person with racist relatives has said: it’s not just racism handed down from a bygone era. It is active radicalisation and no one else in the family wants to or is equipped to deal with it. https://twitter.com/cwebbonline/status/1649242754537644039
RT @paulbristow79
We are not a serious country https://twitter.com/dominicraab/status/1649334236216713219
RT @AndyPeacock999
Frightening disabled people to stop claiming benefits, to kill themselves, to live in fear?
This is fascism. https://twitter.com/DWPgovuk/status/1648998758766575619
RT @Normanjam671
Attacking the poor during a cost of living crisis, I'm shocked. 🙃 https://twitter.com/DWPgovuk/status/1648998758766575619
All the folks putting on the tin foil hats because there's going to be a test of an emergency warning system. Calm the fuck down.
Get angry about the right things. This isn't one of them. People doing their jobs and testing a system designed to warn you of danger are not your enemy. This smells like Daily Mail paranoid nonsense.
Mark Zuckerberg is an ineffective, incompetent, and directionless executive, one bereft of complete or concrete ideas. He has entirely failed to innovate since the very beginning of Facebook — a product that he never envisioned as a business — and nearly 20 years later, he appears completely and utterly out of ideas. https://open.substack.com/pub/ez/p/fire-mark-zuckerberg?r=cfvq7&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
RT @Phil_Free_
“Marr—the recipient of Chomsky’s disdain all those years ago—still claiming to be independent & then, in the next breath, Richards explaining that Ian Hargreaves absolutely told him what to write.”
A wild ‘no one tells me what to write’ - @brokenbottleboy https://open.substack.com/pub/brokenbottleboy/p/a-wild-no-one-tells-me-what-to-write?r=da5yr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
If you're being chased by management over generative AI this book looks worth a read https://illusion.baldurbjarnason.com/
RT @keepnhspublic
Remember when the govt is telling #NHS staff their pay demands are ‘unreasonable’
The same government was happy to pay Deloitte staff £6000 A DAY to set up a test and trace system that ‘largely failed to meet its targets’
They think we’ve forgotten
We haven’t.
Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.