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brennen

@samir questions like this get a lot easier to answer once one has concluded that software is fundamentally a harmful activity.

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kosure

@ekennedy80 To be fair, there's no such thing as ethical software under capitalism. 😉

Edward Kennedy

@kosure moral software development? Def no! Ethical software development? Absolutely! In my opinion, it all depends on the culture of the company/team/project you’re working with/on.

Asnabel

@brennen you are literally using one right now?

brennen

@Asnabel on the one hand, to a first approximation no humans have much choice about engaging with software, so i'd say no it's more like i'm trapped in a matrix of evil by forces vastly beyond my control.

on the other hand, it's actually much worse than that: i work on software _for making software_ for a living, so really i'm deeply entangled in the operating machinery of said matrix and too constrained by my own past choices and fundamental cowardice to extricate myself in any meaningful way.

Wilfried Klaebe

@brennen But why would a sane person come to that conclusion?

@samir

brennen

@wonka i dunno in my case all it took was decades of experience with software.

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