Hello,
On 6/2/23 00:33, Per Jessen wrote:
I want our moderators to be neutral. However, as the openSUSE community was never even given the opportunity to choose our moderators, I guess neither opinion counts for much.
Yeah, I agree. Full neutrality is important. Once upon a time in the 90`s I joined the technology world, because real-world problems, politics, whatever did not exist within technology projects. No matter of the background (far left, far right, etc.), you could work together on wonderful projects. And that is how SUSE / openSUSE worked for at least two decades (I started using it in 1996 with S.u.S.E. Linux 4.3). Just think of ReiserFS: we kept using it for a long time, as the focus was technology, not how people behaved outside the technology world. I'd prefer to see this level of neutrality again.
Amen to that. These times are but a fading image getting ever smaller in the rearview mirror, though. And I believe that the introduction of politics into technology is actively harmful. There is a constant buzz of politics now. Vast minefields of things that cannot be said. And like the void in the Neverending Stories, these minefields are growing. And at an alarming pace. One needs to spend considerable amounts of time keeping up to date on what's banned language. You don't do that, you get cancelled. For wokeness is a jealous god that will quickly and mercilessly punish even the smallest offenses. Technology is not fun anymore. Neither is open source. I still enjoy tinkering with code, enjoy the elation of "well damn, this thing works". But lots of things end up staying somewhere in $HOME, never even making it to Github. For while this was always a thankless endeavor, publishing any software adds attack surface that may by pure stroke of bad luck draw a cancel mob - or a concern troll submitting a code of conduct pull request, ready to call up a cancel mob if you reject it. Do we really want to live like that? Walk on eggshells at all times? I for one don't. Regards, An Anonymous Techie