🇵🇸 @small-tech/cross-platform-hostname module deprecated

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@small-tech/cross-platform-hostname

The release of version 1.1.0 deprecates and removes support for this small module that normalised hostname reporting between Linux/macOS and Windows.

We no longer support Windows as Microsoft is complicit in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people¹ and Small Technology Foundation² stands in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement³.

Windows is an ad-infested and surveillance-ridden dumpster fire of an operating system and, alongside supporting genocide, you are putting both yourself and others at risk by using it.

When supporting Linux/macOS, just use the built-in os.hostname() method which works the same way on both platforms.

¹ https://www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft
² https://small-tech.org/
³ https://www.bdsmovement.net/

#SmallTechnologyFoundation #crossPlatformHostname #npm #module #deprecation #BDS #Microsoft #Windows #NodeJS #web #dev #FOSS #SmallTech #SmallWeb #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine #techIsPolitical #codeIsPolitical

@joepie91 @sil what part of

[…] a net negative in my experience […]

is not clear?

Sorry, but it only takes few things to sour something for people.

• So far I've only seen #JavaScript being used to make sites more #inaccessible, more #bloated, less #privacy-friendly and more obnoxious!

Obviously #JS, alongside #Cookies and #Tracking, are mere tools of #Enshittification but that certainly is as much warranted as the shitstain #Blockchain and #NFTs got due to #CryptoBros using #Shitcoins to #PumpAndDump-#scam #TechIlliterates and #FinanceIlliterates that are "#HornyForMoney!"

• OFC that hurts honest people just like #Shitcoin-Scams hurt #Monero despite being technically incapable to being weaponized for #NFT-Bullshit like #NFTmalware.

Either we say "#Tech is #apolitical!" and accept diverging opinions and experiences to exist as equal

or

We say "#TechIsPolitical!" and ask "Who benefits?" from the rapid onset #Enshittification and purposefully engineered, #PlannedObsolescence due to #Bloatware, regardless if JS or #Windows11 or purposefully bricking support for legacy versions of #iOS.

#QuiBono #bloat

All our tech topics get so, so small and unimportant when you consider that hundreds of thousands of people are FORCED to play Squid Game in an area of 365 km².

Up to 335,000 people have already been killed, and we should look at the higher numbers b/c it never helps the dying if people want to be “more correct” by broadcasting a smaller number.

To help someone in a matter of life or death, you assume the WORST.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides

#palestine #techispolitical

"... companies like Uber typically want to grab and hold as much data as they can. When, in 1975, [Stafford] Beer argued that 'information is a national resource', he was ahead of his time in treating the question of ownership—just who gets to own the means of data production, not to mention the data?—as a political issue that cannot be reduced to its technological dimensions."

#EvegenyMorozov, 2014

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machine

#data #TheNewOil #TechIsPolitical

Got some fancy new stickers on my laptop from @thibaultamartin at #fosdem :)

Checkout his podcast: https://ergaster.org/podcast

#techIsPolitical #techIsPublicInfra

Okay this is interesting: he's telling his buddy that he uses an RSS reader (I think?) to aggregate from thousands of news sources. He says he reads the headlines and then reads some of the "trustworthy" articles to get more information.

Clearly, he's subscribed to some whacko stuff. If you're designing an RSS or news reader, consider this guy and how you could help bring him back to reality or help prevent his radicalization in the first place.

#RSS #TechIsPolitical #EthicalDesign