Gregory's ServerLook I’d love to get a new #RaspberryPi5 - I love playing with this sort of tech. I have a few older ones kicking around still too! But I won’t be buying one because I don’t like to support a company that belittles people for taking an ethical stance against hiring known surveillance police to help support that particular market. It was dismissive, exclusionary, and pushing minority groups out of making spaces. And they still don’t think they’ve done anything wrong.
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 @jsbilsbrough @CatherineFlick I'm definitely not torn--I'm no longer buying #raspberrypi There are lots of alternatives that can do the same thing for cheaper anyway. This issue just forced me to search for them.  @davidr @jsbilsbrough @CatherineFlick > There are lots of alternatives that can do the same thing for cheaper anyway. Would you share your list, please?! I've been looking for equivalent units (small, non-ARM, SBC, PoE, relatively cheap) and I've come up short. @neil @davidr @jsbilsbrough @CatherineFlick There are (only) three Intel boards in the list here: https://explainingcomputers.com/sbc.html. Don't know if any of the three meet your PoE req though. @neil @jsbilsbrough @CatherineFlick I started here: https://hackerboards.com/ But I eventually picked the #esp32 to use #micropython.  @jsbilsbrough @CatherineFlick They proudly hired a Spy Cop, James https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/series/spy-cops-scandal  @jsbilsbrough @CatherineFlick It's a near certainty they hired him for his skills and contacts to sell devices to the police. He said he was proud of the work he did. This isn't someone who feels bad and just wants to go back to making wholesome machines. He spent his career doing surveillance and wants to continue.  @Kye @jsbilsbrough @CatherineFlick building this kind of surveillance equipment is part of the UK's tech history and something British companies have specialised in for decades, its only in recent times they have been open and blatant about it - and installing privately run covert cameras at home, with or without consent of others living there is likely to be a popular project amongst right wing "my home is my castle" types.. @carlotes247 https://raspberrypi.social/@Raspberry_Pi/109476972427437410 was their OP. Depending on your client you may or may not see the replies here but suffice to say they were not … a constructive discussion on the part of RPi. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/raspberry-pi-hired-ex-cop-mastodon-controversy has more. @Demios @CatherineFlick Agreed 👍, think I'll pass on the #rpi5 - there's a lot of inexpensive processing power to explore on the grey market. Also, #riscv is getting exciting! @CatherineFlick give a shot at the competitors! Rockchip-based SBCs are definitely promising, fully featured mainline kernel is incoming with lots of community efforts, computing power wise you get a better bang for the buck.  @CatherineFlick Don't worry, you wouldn't be able to buy one even if you wanted to! 😅 @CatherineFlick I was probably out of the loop with this one. What happened? EDIT: Oh. I see. |
@CatherineFlick not going to lie, this is one I’m definitely torn on.
I don’t mind who they hire, and some of those skills can be useful, but it’s how a company responds to feedback from those with genuine ethical concerns.