the bigger problem is that not enough people care enough to stop using it.

🤦

the definition of “easterner” also seems to have a hegemony of its own. a majority of latin americans likewise have an undeniably strong american influence; but they share this eastern definition of the word “american”.

however a majority of the world who share the non-anglocentric definition of the word “american” are literally in the east; so it defaults to an eastern-centric definition despite a sizeable minority share of its subscribers in latin-america being more closely aligned w the west.

the butlerian jihad must happen to get everyone on board.

this seems too new to be widespread yet

it literally is their business; they make millions of dollars off of it.

i was thinking how i have to code switch the name “american” based on the audience and it made me wonder if this was one of the defining characteristics of all westerners.

the anglosphere is probably the primary driver of the definition of “america” as you described it in your comment and your culture’s sociopolitical alignment depends on how much in common your idea of “america” matches the anglosphere’s definition of “america”.

in other words, the less your definition of “america” has we the anglosphere’s definition of “america”; the more eastern you are.

my professional experience in this field for the last 22 years has taught me that a overwhelming majority of the professionals of this community are members of the american/yankee aligned labor aristocracy; that should inform you of their perspectives when it comes to individualistic behavior and shared gains.

nevertheless – as it is in the real world – there are still many who believe in collectivism and also believe that we can apply our craft to build helpful/needful technology-based improvements to the human condition.

linux and it foss ecosystem was one of the most recent achievements of these efforts and my comment was intended to lament that it’s taken it’s first step towards becoming another capitalist tool.

The Hippocritic Oath

I swear by LinkedIn, “disruption,” and the invisible hand of the market that I will fulfill this oath to the best of my metric-driven ability.

I will critique my teachers for their lack of personal branding.

I will inform every patient that their illness is, ultimately, a failure of hustle culture, poor risk management, and not having a diverse investment portfolio.

I will refuse deadly drugs but will absolutely shame you for buying avocado toast instead of a high-deductible health plan.

Whatever house I enter, I will come for the sick — and leave a QR code to my Substack explaining how bootstraps could have prevented all of this.

I will not repeat what I see or hear in private — but I will monetize the general vibe as a case study in “choice architecture.”

If I keep this oath, may I achieve synergistic growth. If not… well, the market will correct you, not me.

i understand what yankee means and my use of the word “american” here was intentional.

yes, the yankee gov’t has captured linux.

a significant portion of the people in this community don’t know the word “yankee” but they’re capable of understanding it and to express the idea to them, you have to use words or expressions that fit the context this group’s frame of reference so that they can fully understand the idea you’re trying to express without it getting lost in translation; the people who exist at the intersection of multiple identities call it “code switching”.

My newest one is as impulsive as I am so the digressions he tasks me with have stalled out long term development plans, yet he’s oblivious enough of the situation to seriously ask why progress is taking so long every year during reviews.

didn’t want to run into smth and need to switch

That’s where I am. I failed at switching to other things because vim has become muscle memory for me

I’m glad to learn that irc is still a thing.

some O.G. social media sounds like a smarter thing to be doing rn considering the state of affairs on the big name platforms.

to-MAE-to

to-MAH-to

They rolled over on the American government’s demand to expell Russian contributors like puppies begging for a treat.

Linux has become as captured as any Western institution.

i used to think that firefox on linux and as plain-jane-generic as you could get besides windows; but no, i’m ultra unique:

Yes! You are unique among the 5084762 fingerprints in our entire dataset.

I have a router that has it built in with hardware acceleration

TIL

is it because you’re piping everything through your vpn?

that was the most worrying part of it to me; nothing is safe from ai apparently.

i was under the impression that fdroid was going to be hit hard by this since most of their apps are noncompliant w this change; how am i wrong?

did you ever use android auto?