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Inside: Tech's benevolent-dictator-for-life to authoritarian pipeline; and more!
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@pluralistic 1. This takes me back to the days when I was mactech@supra.com, writing white papers on using Supra modems with Mac apps. I specifically remember sitting up all night getting SLIP […]
2024-12-11 philbetts ┃ edited ┃ 1🔗 1#️
@pluralistic Guido van Rossum, inventor of #Python - one of the most significant programming languages the last 10 years - is another like Jimmy Wales. He formally relinquished his role as […]
2024-12-10 ByronCinNZ ┃ edited ┃ 1🔗
@pluralistic Thank you for a wonderfully epathetic look at tech BDFL's. This clarifies much of my thinking. Jimmy Wales is a well chosen example of a way forward.
In my work, in geospatial […]
2024-12-10 pluralistic ┃ 1🔗 1💬
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