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The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe (techtrenches.substack.com)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yep, literal, functional idiots, as in, they keep doing easily provably as stupid things, mainly because they are too stubborn to admit they could be wrong about anything.

I used to be part of this industry, and I bailed, because the ratio of higher ups that I encountered anywhere, who were competent at their jobs vs arrogant lying assholes was about 1:9.

Corpo tech culture is fucked.

Makes me wanna chip in a little with a Johnny Silverhand solo.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Fuck man, why don't more ethical-ish devs join to make stuff? What's the missing link on top of easy sharing like FOSS kinda' already has?

    Obviously programming is a bit niche, but fuck... how can ethical programmers come together to survive under capitalism? Sure, profit sharing and coops aren't bad, but something of a cultural nexus is missing in this space it feels...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Well, I'm not quite sure how to ... intentionally create a cultural nexus ... but I would say that having something like lemmy, piefed, the fediverse, is at least a good start.

    Socializing, discussion, via a non corpo platform.

    Beyond that, uh, maybe something more lile an actual syndicalist collective, or at least a union?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, a union would be great, although I feel like that would be something that would have to come quite a ways down the road of ethical devs coming together. After all, not even the FOSS community agrees on what is ethical to give away and to whom.

    Maybe a union is still the right term for the abstract 'coming together' I'm thinking of, since it's hard to imagine how they could go from a generic collective to a body that could actually make effective demands, but perhaps it's roughly the same process as getting a job-wide union off the ground.

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