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Atlassian Rovo is considered utterly dangerous on my team (as we are still encouraged to use it…), the first time I did it erased a whole page - it couldn’t get the most basic instruction correct, would leave out 80% of what I input, respond to corrections with the same problem. It’s just a liability.
> Politicisation and intolerance
That the community is still such a place that there pretends there is a separation of “politics” from “non-political” or “objective” things, is itself a political ideology.
I have a strong bias towards the scientific method and empirical evidence, as I think many people share. But I don’t have the luxury of being “non-political” - my life itself is a ball being used for political ends, by the very people that run companies that prone here work for. Politics affect my day to day life as a programmer, as a person, as an employee, as a founder.
Events do not take place on a vacuum, and dissociating them in the name of politeness functionally only benefits the people doing the killing, the surveillance, and the oppression. I do want and am glad for this place as one of thoughtful discourse, but I avoid it for real conversations and connections because of how structurally it supports the now long-ascendant investor class - something fundamentally abhorrent to a hacker ethos to me.
The irony is that since this place started, people calling themselves hackers went from outsiders to now in control of the world. They’re the hegemony they once spent time and mental energy fighting against. One only wishes that the moral clarity when disrupting a system could stay alive when you take the crown.
This project is an enhanced reader for Ycombinator Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/.
The interface also allow to comment, post and interact with the original HN platform. Credentials are stored locally and are never sent to any server, you can check the source code here: https://github.com/GabrielePicco/hacker-news-rich.
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