If I were seeing OSS (the calling, not the practice) generating good results for those who can't help themselves, I'd have patience for this argument
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What's OSS in this context — open-source software? I'm not seeing business models generating good results for those who can't help themselves; I'm seeing them left increasingly vulnerable to exploitation and violence. We need a workable alternative and we don't have one.
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Replying to @bahstgwamt @kragen and
Wasn't claiming a societal comparative advantage to libertarian asshattery
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Can't parse this at all, sorry; want to unpack?
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Replying to @bahstgwamt @kragen and
I see diseases in every direction. Profitable forms only care (and build) for those with dosh. OSS projects follow suit, failing to acknowledge or take a high ground based on user's lived experience
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Oh, well, I wasn't advocating that we should do more things like current OSS projects. I was advocating that we shouldn't trivialize human beings as "customers", because that simplification is the root of many of the problems we face…
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Replying to @bahstgwamt @slightlylate and
…and the problems with markets are not limited to inequality — it's not as if "those with dosh" have access to a secure operating system or a decent browser, for example. As far as I understand it, that's more a "market for lemons" problem?
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Replying to @bahstgwamt @kragen and
It's a huge issue, and a source of great technical inequity. The assumption that everyone carries a $500+ device does much to embed and exascerbate these biases.
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Yeah, probably. Twitter was totally unusable on my netbook, which is ridiculous; it's IRC with more font sizes and shittier social dynamics. I've been noodling around a lot about what a hypertext system designed for predictable performance might look like…
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Do you remember the bit in "As We May Think" where he's envisioning flipping through several hypertext pages per second to find a particular place? No HTML browser I've ever used even comes close to the kind of performance Bush imagined in 1946.
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We venerate those with no attachment to occasion or place at our collective risk. My current feeling is that JS is sinking the web's chances.
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