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jochem9today at 5:10 AM2 repliesview on HN

One does not rule out the other. In the end it's nerds messing with hardware.

Lots of computer culture is rooted in anarchism, anti-capitalism and a fight for fairness. E.g. early internet culture, the open source community.

Imo it's very nice to see explicit anti-capitalist movements within tech, because the other side of tech is so completely over the top capitalist.


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lynx97today at 5:39 AM

anti-capitalism, while a bit strange a lable, is something I can sympathize with. But once we are talking anarchism and (intersectional) feminism in a computing context, I am definitely out. I miss the time when computing was a lot less political. It was nice hacking on projects without having to identify with something totally unrelated, or being forced to support idiologies just to be a part of it.

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tolerancetoday at 5:19 AM

> In the end it's nerds messing with hardware.

Am I being lazy or does this imply that all (or true) nerds are anarchist anti-capitalist feminists.

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