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his is inspired by Solene's "open letter" to Open Source and free developers
nd something I decided not to keep to myself until I've read it. You can find
t here:
gopher://dataswamp.org/1/%7esolene/article-dear-developers]
ear developers, any kind of developer, anyone who got his hand "dirty" in the
onderful world of computing science and electronics.
et a fucking grip. Seriously.
hy you think humans built machines? To do what human themselves are slow or not
apable to do of course. It's pretty obvious and simple answer.
o what you are supposed to do is to fullfill needs through the use of computers.
re you really aware of what boils down?
T technology and semiconductors industries are not in their infancy anymore. Ju…
nd TVs: they were supposed to allow anyone to hear and see music, news, movies,…
o on but now those are mere brainwashing tools in the hands of corporations, go…
uge religious entities and the like. People have the illusion of being free by …
mpowered by internet, by computer themselves... They all ignore the very same p…
t.
t's nothing by people for people with people's interests in mind when someone o…
ee it as an opportunity to make money or exploit people.
nd this is a so widespread concept that's true almost everywhere.
ave you ever asked yourself why there are less long lasting devices nowadays th…
ecades ago? Is because many, if not all, companies are outsourcing to Asian fac…
he mold on their roof has more rights than their workers)? Is because technolog…
o rapidly that everything turns to be outdated (and then unsuitable to accompli…
o you really need a eight-core 4GHz, 256GiB of RAM, 2TiB internal memory smartp…
at photos, being bothered by notification of "friends" taking a dump or shoot p…
ourself in front of the mirror in a bathroom?
o you really believe that a damn thin laptop with soldered CPU and RAM cooled b…
low taken from under the keyboard built with unreplaceable custom sized batteri…
omething designed for you to last?
hat makes you convinced that a house filled with hi-tech shit is really capable…
ifestyle?
oddamn marketing.
es, marketing. What empowered civilization into developing is now choking freed…
ever did before because now marketing learned to take advantage of computers to…
s everything behind money itself not your needs.
o, lots of old computers (even smartphones technically can be considered comput…
rashed despite the fact they are perfectly working. They don't have enough memo…
low... Because what runs inside is designed to be slow and huge! How can an ins…
pplication be supposed to take more memory than an entire operating system?
ecause marketing wants you to buy a more capable device to run it spending more…
he VERY SAME thing. With more emoji, icons, colors and bullshit. Because having…
ersion is cool! Trends over needs? Is what assholes wants to be able to enslave…
ow much pollution is behind designing, manufacturing, packaging, transporting, …
epairing and disposing of your old and slow device?
sers are responsible of all of this shit. DEVELOPERS DOUBLY SO! Manufacturers e…
evelopers are responsible of every anti-feature that affect devices: reinventin…
loating, (mis)use of proprietary parts, unneeded features, shitty user interfac…
o on... Getting rid of this shit is nothing easy that can be done with a shovel…
lectronic devices are made of pollutant chemicals.
xactly, something like lead, mercury, plastic polymers, solder fluxes, and the …
rashed, forgotten and then bought again and again because is going always to en…
ame way.
f course nothing can stop the life cycle of a machine but it's repeating too fa…
ears and in order to keep this world and this society a bit less shitty it's ne…
low it down.
omputers are meant to be modular so develop in a modular way. Don't force peopl…
verything or nothing. Computers are meant to be users' tools. Not the opposite.…
mportant and basic tasks can be done even without recent and powerful computers…
here is no a real reason to update shit keep supporting old devices. That's ano…
ot international standards.
olene wrote: "I would like to see my hobby affordable for anyone."
'd rather say: "I want to see the noble computer science be a mean to grow anyo…
ife with new opportunities not just a mean to fill landfills and corporations' …
ever stop looking around you. The most dangerous ones are those who never quest…
nd I will never throw my old equipment in the trash because of them.
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