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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • It’s the same delusion and corruption from a neoliberal corporate-whore political class that led to every country growing dependent on US tech companies, and Chinese manufacturing. They represent corporations; not their constituents.

    If they’d all committed to open source and domestic companies for support and infra, the compounding effect of tens of thousands of engineers across governments working on linux and other FLOSS products would have made everything significantly cheaper and more efficient for all of them in a matter of years, compared to paying a foreign tech company for everything in perpetuity… and that’s before you consider the multitude of other risks and vulnerabilities to national security.







  • Trust is built with time and effort. AI killing the Bazaar “drive-by” approach to contributions was inevitable, and not necessarily a bad thing for critical or complex projects. It’s arguably better to have a high bar for entry and a small group of dedicated engineers, than them spending their time sifting through a mountain of slop from newbies trying to build github activity for their cv.