@adingbatponder@fosstodon.org writes:
Very sorry about the Russians comment; especially since they contribute so much to culture, science and technology, and nixOS (thanks! we love you). Nothing against âRussiansâ, just the war they started. âThe Russiansâ is a sloppy, but idiomatic, way of saying âRussiaâ in the context of war. âŠ
Thereâs a simple solution for that: just state how it really is by inlining definitions, then your
When my kids, or kidsâ kids, are conscripted to fight the Russians etc. I want their tanks running nixOS and not stuck in the mud due to some Chinese trojan living undetected in a hacked OS till activated at doomsday.
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When nomenklatura (Nomenklatura - Wikipedia AKA the political class) holding the bridles of power in my country conscripts my kids, or my kidsâ kids, to fight the Russian kids conscripted by the nomenklatura holding the bridles of power over there, I want their tanks running NixOS âŠ
And now you can deliberate whether you would really prefer that over, for instance, tactical-nuking nomenklaturaâs bunkers instead of letting them play toy soldiers by enslaving children to kill other children (and letâs be honest, 18-21-year-olds are children regardless of what the laws say, forceful military draft and military mobilization are types of slavery, slavery is a crime against humanity).
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Now, having signed the âagainst MIC advertisements on NixConâ petition, personally, I think above stated principle should be applied to all NixCon advertisements.
I.e. I would prefer it be more granular so that NixCon sponsors could freely advertise and hunt hires into projects that respect and protect individual freedoms but canât do those things for projects that exploit and/or kill innocent people. (Yes.)
In cases where companyâs main products are all dystopian and so the simple association is counter-productive I would prefer NixOS foundation to only take donations instead of sponsorships, yes.
(And yes, for me that means that I would rather both Google and Microsoft not be sponsors anytime soon. And, yes, I was against staying on GitHub after Microsoft bought it.)
I.e., in the case of Anduril, my problem is not with the tech itself. I just highly doubt that they sell any of their tech (that one could not replicate with off-the-shelf components) to any non-nomenklatura private individuals.
The state of the world where all The Presidents and Prime Ministers are safe but all inconvenient investigative journalists and whistle-blowers are assassinated by AI-controlled micro-drones running memory-safe dependently-typed Haskell code running on purely-functional NixOS Linux distribution (all the things to which Iâm an eager contributor to) seems disheartening and demotivating to me.
Also, yes, code contributions are donations, kind of. But letâs not pretend that contributing a chunk of code to a FLOSS project is a purely selfless act, it also eases your own maintenance burdens.
Also, if âbut they contributed such and such chunk of code to Nix communityâ is an argument for allowing advertisements on NixCon then I propose that all individuals who contributed code to Nix should also be allowed to advertise whatever they want on NixCon website and in official materials in proportion to their past contributions.
(Like, if we are doing that, I â who happen to be on-and-off contributing to Nixpkgs since SVN days â would love to see advertisements for https://perkeep.org/, which I like very much, and my own latest baby over-project Own Data Privateer · GitHub both of which are virtually unknown, highly useful, and respect your freedoms.)
Let those evil advertisements drown in stuff useful to more than the âtopâ (generously speaking) 0.00001%.