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Cake day: September 5th, 2025

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  • Two things:

    1. I don’t really get what posting this as an image gets. I would understand if the image was related or incorporated with the message but this is just some vague space motif.
    2. The lord that "owned"¹ the pitchforks couldn’t use them to spy on and control his subjects. And the lords opportunities to enrich himself with the sold pitchforks were very limited compared to computers. However while the analogy is a bit scruffy it is ultimately valid. We are limited by the tools of the current regime, even if we want to overthrow it, as not using them would make us invisible.

    ¹: how much ownership of an object do you really have if it’s in the hands of someone else?


  • Thanks! That’s exactly the answer I was looking for.

    The premature optimisation quote at the end of your blog post is very relevant to me. I try do find the most efficient way right off the bat so very frequently the first questions I have in a project are like this one. Which in turn lead me to understand the underlying basics, which make me want to implement those basics myself, which sends me down a spiral to wanting to write my own kernel. All the while the project I started with gets forgotten, until I pick it up a month later and the whole thing starts again.

    Maybe I should just try and learn C… or zig. And try and hold myself to the higher quality standard they demand. Especially since it feels like I’m doing that already.




  • The quote is in the context of socialist/anarchist ideas. If you are referring to the USian right then they are doing it because they are fascist who want to remain in power. and they’ve been making voting harder for a long time now in order to disenfranchise voters and get in power. From my anarchist point of view both neo-liberal democracy and fascism are the status-quo.


  • I know. I deliberately chose to use a different scale for the word to make a point. By that I mean reformist/traditionalist instead of reformist/revolutionary. Using reformist for anyone who wants to change(reform) society.

    I do this quite a lot. deliberately misinterpret the point to point out the fuzziness of terms. I should probably remember to point that out whenever I do it.