Brutkey

Tyla (Combat Waifu Yuri Arc)
@FinalGirl@blackqueer.life

It's wild that we all just straight-up sold our souls to technology because some white dudebros talked about yoga classes, free lunches, and unlimited vacation.

It's like some fucking dystopian novel.

We all just walked right into that fucking meat grinder like "Yay, companies care about us" as if it wasn't the same shit over and over again.

And now we have no physical media, no privacy, no control over our own data, and even the shit we actually buy we don't own because it can be shut off remotely or just abandoned by the servers it needs to talk to.

And we have no viable options for DIY because even the DIY shit became too complicated and corporate. So we're all stuck paying for crappy shit that doesn't work and steals all our data.

The road to fascism was paved with people like me saying "This is gonna make it better for everyone."

I fucking hate it here.

Tyla (Combat Waifu Yuri Arc)
@FinalGirl@blackqueer.life

In the early 90s, I started working with FreeBSD and NetBSD. Then I moved to early Linux before it was even a viable OS. I remember having to manually build my windowing system. KDE and Gnome were still over the horizon, I was using X Windows builds. I didn't even really have workable software. You ever try to use Emacs as a web browser and email client? Because I have. It was god awful.

But I was on the cusp of beauty. Free software, making computers accessible to everyone. Early Linux absolutely fucking sucked, don't let any neckbeard tell you different. It was the worst experience you could have. But I thought that if people like me fought that worst experience, and submitted patches, and wrote code, and made things better, then people without that time or experience could have something great.

Tyla (Combat Waifu Yuri Arc)
@FinalGirl@blackqueer.life

I remember working on early robotics in the 90s that I thought were going to help disabled people have better access to everything. I wrote software to help kids learn about programming. I wrote software that helped communications protocols that I thought would bring isolated people into the world. Fuck I submitted Linux kernal core code in the goddamn 90s!

I was A BELIEVER. Like a full on fucking zealot. I was a priestess in the cult of Fully Automated Luxury Communism 25 years before that stupid ass book was even written. I wrote essays is print Linux magazines about cooperation changing the world. I built computer educational programs for underprivileged children. I wrote software languages. I built robotics programs. I started multiple tech companies. My twice dead name is on all kinds of shit from that age.

And if I could go back in time and burn my entire history to the ground I would do it in a hot minute because fuck all of that naive and childish bullshit. It was all a fucking scam.

Tyla (Combat Waifu Yuri Arc)
@FinalGirl@blackqueer.life

I'm so fucking stupid.

I actually remember when RedHat went IPO. I remember thinking that was a sign of success. Like finally we were getting somewhere. Making a difference. Our vision was becoming a reality that was accepted by the broader world.

I actually thought we were winning.

I'm so fucking stupid.

Stéphanie
@Stephanie@thetransagenda.gay

@FinalGirl@blackqueer.life I get that you're angry and hurt that your passion and ideals were ripped up and sold to big corporations, but please don't be mad at yourself. We're humans, we build community, we trust strangers who say they want to join our community. I love what you did for your community. And fuck the people that betrayed your trust. Fuck the people who sold out, and fuck the people who bought it. May they pay for what they did, in this life or the next. But you, community builder, take none of that blame. Though I get wanting to stay away from it all now.
With love,
Someone who thought Bitcoin was an amazing idea until it turned into a shitshow of hype, waste, and scam.