• vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    361·
    4 months ago

    Politics is just another name for the way we decide how to run things. Everything that is not absolutely trivial is political to some degree.

    “Apolitical” is just a dog whistle for establishment politics.

    • MagicShel@programming.dev
      7·
      4 months ago

      It feels awfully political when I know my job is supporting a company that donates heavily to causes and people I despise. Fortunately, I’m not in that position currently (but I have been), but I’m looking hard for jobs and one of the companies I applied at asked if I’ve ever previously been employed by Koch or its affiliates and I have to say it’s a hard fucking choice between putting food on my family’s table vs. supporting fucking Koch. Not that most of them don’t donate to bad people but those fucking guys?

  • Ziggurat
    161·
    4 months ago

    Everything is political. Bill gate’s letter to the hobbyist in the 70’s is a political pamphlet

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    Software is not political, it’s just code executing on a machine and doesn’t care what you believe.
    There is a lot of politics surrounding software.

    Politics is the tool we use, as a society, to decide how we’re going to run said society. There will be areas of politics where different factions will adopt different attitudes about different bits of software. So, some software will be politicized. But, the software itself is only political in so far as we are having political discussions around it, the software itself doesn’t care.

    • Catsrules@lemmy.ml
      2·
      4 months ago

      Software is not political, it’s just code executing on a machine and doesn’t care what you believe.

      You can’t convince me printer software/drivers/firmware doesn’t have an agenda. They work for every single test page any time or any where but you need to print something important they will riot.

      • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        You can’t convince me printer software/drivers/firmware doesn’t have an agenda.

        Yes well, but they are coded by pure evil incarnate. Otherwise known as HP.

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
    81·
    4 months ago

    Software inherently establishes an assumed level of control between the user and other entities. That baked in relationship can be influenced by politics.

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    4 months ago

    In what way? Software isn’t inherently political. The usage of software can be for political means