<![CDATA[If I ever go back to foss after the genAI era ends, I will absolutely never so much as speak to so many people who became its toxic, mouth-frothing advocates, for the harm they did to our communities just so they could feel a little cool.]]>If I ever go back to foss after the genAI era ends, I will absolutely never so much as speak to so many people who became its toxic, mouth-frothing advocates, for the harm they did to our communities just so they could feel a little cool.

Cassandra is only carbon now (@xgranade@wandering.shop)

There's something truly dismal about watching foss go slop. Like, free software was supposed to be about ideals, a better vision for what computing could be. The rampant misogyny, transphobia, abelism, and racism already showed how limited that vision was, but now it seems like it doesn't exist at all. Just... volunteer work for giant corporations. The same extractive vision of computing, but now coupled to a Reagan regime oppression of labor rights and environmental deregulation.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/d15fea13-5fff-4b03-8c75-1e0e66011cb6/if-i-ever-go-back-to-foss-after-the-genai-era-ends-i-will-absolutely-never-so-much-as-speak-to-so-many-people-who-became-its-toxic-mouth-frothing-advocates-for-the-harm-they-did-to-our-communities-just-so-they-could-feel-a-little-cool.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 08:54:35 GMTThu, 14 May 2026 20:47:24 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to If I ever go back to foss after the genAI era ends, I will absolutely never so much as speak to so many people who became its toxic, mouth-frothing advocates, for the harm they did to our communities just so they could feel a little cool. on Fri, 15 May 2026 05:50:02 GMT]]>@xgranade@wandering.shop @eldersea@expressional.social @zkat@fedi.zkat.tech the fsf is responsible for the birth of the second one btw

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://brain.worm.pink/objects/dd9f251e-46b6-4ba3-b760-5e043403c4a9https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://brain.worm.pink/objects/dd9f251e-46b6-4ba3-b760-5e043403c4a9Fri, 15 May 2026 05:50:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If I ever go back to foss after the genAI era ends, I will absolutely never so much as speak to so many people who became its toxic, mouth-frothing advocates, for the harm they did to our communities just so they could feel a little cool. on Thu, 14 May 2026 21:04:15 GMT]]>@eldersea @zkat The "nonpolitical" one always has me seething. You can call out the racism and defeat it, but like... my nonbinary sibling in Lovelace, FOSS *is* a political movement, what the fuck do you mean "nonpolitical."

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/xgranade/statuses/116574955502076504https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/xgranade/statuses/116574955502076504Thu, 14 May 2026 21:04:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If I ever go back to foss after the genAI era ends, I will absolutely never so much as speak to so many people who became its toxic, mouth-frothing advocates, for the harm they did to our communities just so they could feel a little cool. on Thu, 14 May 2026 21:01:41 GMT]]>@xgranade @zkat

I really feel like the venn diagram of pros shouldn't be that hard to have, and yet...

So many weird "libertarian*" dudes, or "we're non-political**" stances, or "but we need it***" statements that just do not jive.

*always white, which means "free to benefit from supremacy culture
**this doesn't exist.
***this always means "we want it for free"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://expressional.social/users/eldersea/statuses/116574945376712224https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://expressional.social/users/eldersea/statuses/116574945376712224Thu, 14 May 2026 21:01:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If I ever go back to foss after the genAI era ends, I will absolutely never so much as speak to so many people who became its toxic, mouth-frothing advocates, for the harm they did to our communities just so they could feel a little cool. on Thu, 14 May 2026 20:54:12 GMT]]>@zkat FOSS as a political movement is dead and gone. At most now, it's a practical decision about what I run on my machine and make available to others, but we need an actual pro-user pro-labor pro-art pro-environment political movement in computing, and stat.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/xgranade/statuses/116574915953217638https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/xgranade/statuses/116574915953217638Thu, 14 May 2026 20:54:12 GMT