On 16.06.24 23:05, Simon Walter wrote:

> It's not quite the same because there is some moral reasoning in many
> religions against "other" opinions. Whereas with communism, there cannot
> be a claim to morality.

The communists/socialists actually *do* _claim_ morality. (been growing
up in the GDR and still remember all those talking).

Those ideologies are also like religions, just without god.

For the naive eye, these ideologies all look fine and benevolent. But
the problem is, those only work when they're enforced by brute force and
need to exterminate any opposing views. And that's where it gets pure
evil.

> In some recent (-20 years) film, there was some utopian society that
> wasn't optional. There were reasons given for it's enforcement. That
> could be considered similar to religion. The reasons in the film were
> not about morals, but about "Science". ;)

This "science" (just like what we've seen in recent years) actually is
some kind of religion - without god: "the Lord" is replaced be "the
Science".

And there's another problem: even if the "science" (natural Science) is
correct in itself, it's only limited to what can be directly measured.
Anything having to do with feelings, personalities, sprirituality, etc
is ignored by definition. Faust.

> There is a popular trend
> in software development called "opinionated software". That mindset has
> taken a foothold in the FOSS world. Screw that.

If that term just means some tool (or language or framework) only
focusing on specific ways to do things (not caring about other ways),
then I don't have a fundamental problem with that. The more appropriate
term would be: "domain specific". And that's how it should be treated:
if your use case is outside the tool's particular domain, you better
look for something else. (eg. writing web applicatons in shell script
is certainly possible, but really wouldn't like to do that)

And same goes for walled-garden OS'es like Apple or Windows: if one
just wants do the things the vendor has in mind for him(including
handing over all private date and just being tolerated guest on his
own machines), fine. It don't really care (because I'll just never
play along with this) - and when those people crying big tears on
problems they've moved themselves into, I'm just pointing to some
professional OS (maybe reminding that I've already told them so,
decades ago).

IMHO, the best thing we can do is trying to ignore all that crap as
much as possible and focus on getting our things things done with
our SW. And whenever somebody's trying to push us into their crap
again, just say no. Not just in tech/SW, but in all live, including
policitcal crap, like we've seen in recent years (and no, I didn't
do a even single c19 test, and the shops that didn't let me in back
then, never got a single penny from me again).


--mtx

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