Well, my laptop just decided to not charge anymore and it's got just 2% of baterry left, so I guess I'm not programming anything in the near future. 💀💀
@mirabilos @eris luanti (formerly minetest) is a game engine for voxel games
minetest_game is a minimal game for luanti that used to ship with minetest by default (it is meant to be used together with mods the player choses to get a full experience)
voxelibre (formerly mineclone2) is a game of luanti that reimplements minecraft, but mineclonia is the fork of mineclone2 that all the competent people that used to maintain mineclone2 before they were bullied out work on, so mineclonia is recommendable over voxelibre
You have to define your propositions somehow, probably in English, but honestly this seems like a really good way to precisely specify the terms of a complex contract with a lot of conditions. It does lack a bit in human-readability, but propositional logic isn't all that hard to learn.
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Psst, hey: HACKERS ARE NOT TECH BROS. The vast majority of hackers never become tech bros. The ethics of hacking runs completely counter to that of tech bros.
Hackers make hardware do things they weren’t intended to do. They circumvent barriers. They string together contraptions that repurpose old stuff to do new things. Hackers aren’t that interested in money; they’re more interested in showing off their skills. They love to learn and make demos and create and share free tech that other hackers then build upon. All they want is acknoweledgement and the respect of their peers.
Tech bros are parasites. They’re greedy bastards who love to erect barriers between people and tech. They extract, addict, monetize. They turn everything fun and useful into a transaction, a dopamine trap, a subscription, a surveillance tool, an advertising outlet, and a vector to extract money from labor and suppliers.
I agree with you, but it's not fair to put the burden of making that distinction on the shoulders of those suffering under conditions created by tech bros.
hackers need to stand up loudly and often against tech bros for this distinction to make it into people's minds.
@datn That’s very true, but the battle feels uphill. Most people will make their own idea of what a hacker is based on what they read. And unfortunately, the media at large doesn’t paint the right picture. I sent letters to reputable news outlets asking to please differentiate between hackers and criminals in their articles. Alas, I have seen little to no change.
@datn come on, either hackers are said to be tech bros or hackers are the guys transferring all your money out of your bank account. Nobody acknowledges hackers as the good guys. Even sumup and google maps deny doing stuff with you if it matches the word "hack" somewhere. #truestorybro
@datn Uh, if people are directing their ire to the wrong group, and making them into a stereotype they're not, that is actually their burden to fix.
The question is why they believe men in tech are uniformly "bros" and the answer is that it's the news media that has had a vendetta against tech for a decade or so and refuses to make the distinction clearly.
@unconed @datn To me as a non-native English speaker the "bro" part seems very vague. The first time I saw the word "techbro" used (on fedi, not in a newspaper), I thought it meant any man in tech.
I wish there was a more precise term to refer to the tech rent-seekers...
I'm not sure I buy this distinction. Stephen Levy's description of the hacker ethic in Hackers (in particular free speech absolutism, what is now called "meritocracy", and the idea that rapidly accelerating adoption of technology will make the world better and decouple us from burdensome traditional power structures) is much closer to contemporary "tech bro" ideology than its opposition.
A decade later, this combination of ideas was criticized in the early stages of the dotcom boom as the Californian Ideology, and still mostly tracks with what we would call "tech bros" today. Occasionally, you see people from that era (e.g. John Carmack) be criticized for saying something that would've been a boring consensus opinion in online hacker circles back in the 90s.
The ideas that people find now find problematic were always present.
@zwarich Some of the ideas of today’s techbro culture are shared with hacker ideology, sure, but an important distinction to me is that the techbro’s goal is to use them to consolidate power, while the hacker’s goal is to distribute power, and destroy power structures altogether if necessary.
Transhumanism, cybernetics, pervasive tech, etc. are part of both cultures, but hackers want them so people become free of the shackles of power structure; techbros want to turn them into the shackles that they control.
I think it's a matter of scale. Certain behaviors seem quaint or quirky when applied to a local university computing environment (especially when they were in a more nascent stage), but the exact same behavior would seem much more obviously sociopathic when applied to a larger organization like the federal government.
For example, when Gosper was threatening to destroy the PDP-6 like Roark from The Fountainhead (the comparison is from the book, not me) if they implemented time-sharing, was that about distributing power? No, it's ultimately about one person thinking he is superior and therefore gets to decide the circumstances in which other people live/work.
I do have to speak up, from my own experience what you described in regards to "showing off their skills" and wanting "acknoweledgement and the respect of their peers" is only a small and, if I may say so, fairly toxic part of hacking culture; myself and most others I know in this community build, learn and do things on our own terms, for our own enjoyment, and barely even remember to share anything or intentionally don't share things due to past bad experiences, for me this is 50/50
More simply hackers are anyone with an interest in technology for the sake of technology, tech bros are grifters who's grift happens to include technology
hacker: I made this toaster play Doom, just because I can. techbro: I increased this website's engagement by 17% and in doing so raised teenage suicides by 5%.
@brouhaha @RobKopp Well, there's about 10,000 cults out there cosplaying as evangelical churches. The RDF in places like that would make Steve jealous.
There was more to Jobs than the RDF though. Apple was better when he was there. I mean really, what new thing have they really come up that's been successful? AirPods?
I also don't think he would have given $1 million to an inauguration.
@RenewedRebecca @RobKopp He was the only person who ever emitted an intense reality distortion field _before_ becoming a billionaire or high-level politician.
not to mention a "tech bro" probably couldn't cli their way into a different directory. one these groups are computer scientists. the other are just capitalists.
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Well, I just got my own Bluesky PDS running at pds.duanin2.eu. I don't know if it's the best idea to migrate my main Bluesky account immedietly, or if I should first test it with a backup account or something.
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minetest_game is a minimal game for luanti that used to ship with minetest by default (it is meant to be used together with mods the player choses to get a full experience)
voxelibre (formerly mineclone2) is a game of luanti that reimplements minecraft, but mineclonia is the fork of mineclone2 that all the competent people that used to maintain mineclone2 before they were bullied out work on, so mineclonia is recommendable over voxelibre
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