I tried to post this in #nix-offtopic, but my client claimed it was rejected by one of the servers involved. I don’t care to find out why, I only used Matrix for the Nix spaces.
Matrix doesn’t let you write out “part messages” so I’m sending a final message instead. Please forgive me.
Hi, you know who I am. Earlier this year I stepped back from Nix things and took a “wait and see” approach to see if things like the assembly would help move the needle in the right direction in face of the governance and moderation crisis. As of last night, my canary died when a certain contributor was added back to the GitHub org as a nixpkgs contributor.
This is not me trying to threaten to leave as a way to make that one contributor no longer have membership to the NixOS GitHub org. This is a statement that I’ve personally given up hope and I am just leaving. I’m going to be ripping out Nix over the next few months and write off all the time and energy I’ve put into trying to make this technology better and more understandable as a mistake and wasted effort.
We all create the futures that we live in. Now that the dust has settled and the future has become the present, I guess all that’s left is for us to live in it.
I hope you enjoy the future we’ve all created.
You can find my future writing and videos at https://xeiaso.net.
