On a Friday in March, employees at an international technology foundation received a 38-page document outlining leadership’s vision for the foundation for the next 1,000 years.

I own no crypto and am generally not a fan for reasons, but I can’t help but feel something is off, in this story,

Am I wrong?

  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    6·
    3 天前

    Not wrong. Crypto, AI culture in silicon valley and its offshoots has long had weird cult-like at the top. The weirdness flows downstream from there.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    3·
    3 天前

    Authors, maintainers, editors and distributors of “this software” would pledge to ensure the software remained free and publicly accessible, and would also vow to “take his or her own life with a sword upon failure to uphold any of the pledges in this license,” the illustration read. It was labeled “Source Seppuku License,” an apparent reference to a traditional Japanese ritual suicide.

    lol can they be less lame?

    • Maeve @lemmygrad.mlOP
      1·
      3 天前

      This is exactly the part that stuck with me.

      I get they want the software to be free and I’m OK with that. The wink coupled with a seppuku pledge is weird. Are they saying it’s a joke? A joke but not really?