alt Hacker NewsNot very keen that the whole story of trust is basically centralisation - requiring "big cloud" and essentially promoting lock-in.
Did I get that right? Seems a bit anti-pythonic.
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You got that right. In this thread we have a ClosedAI employee promoting ClosedID services. Look at the sponsors of ClosedID:
https://openid.net/foundation/sponsoring-members/
We know why PyPI ripped out PGP support and has refused any verification mechanisms that other distributions use for decades.
It's anti lots of things, but I don't think it's anti-Pythonic. Python is about pragmatism & empathy if it's about anything -- bitcoin and such don't factor into it. See: Astral/OpenAI, Anaconda, most of the PSF board historically being employees of big corporate users of python, NVidia's relation to the ecosystem in general, etc.
As a passionate anarchosyndicalist, I, for one, am thrilled about it. Decentralization is a tool in our toolbox for identifying and dismantling unjust hierarchies, but it is not a panacea, and can be quite damaging when taken to the extreme. See: cryptocurrency speedrunning 200y of bank regulations in 20y.
To put my trust for Python in more concrete terms: they support GitLab. As a passionate GitLab shill, I really couldn't be more impressed! It continues to shock me how infrequently the second most popular forge is acknowledged, much less supported. This shows they're not just, IDK, bowing to Microsoft's demands.
I think at this point the group of devs+ who are not fully on board with control by and dependence on big tech/VC is a small niche unfortunately.