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      <title>Consistency</title>
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      <author>joel@beckmeyer.us (Joel Beckmeyer)</author>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve seen a lot of talk about this stuff:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&amp;ldquo;Check out my FOSS project (hosted on Github)&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&amp;ldquo;Wayland is a great innovation and boon to the community! Also, there are very few tools/alternatives available yet for your favorite X11 tool!&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&amp;ldquo;We love open source! Also, we develop the most popular proprietary operating system!&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&amp;ldquo;Do as I say, not as I do.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We love to poke fun at and expose this kind of stuff, which is all fine and
dandy. I think it&amp;rsquo;s an interesting (and important) part of our humanity that
this kind of thing bugs us so much. Think about that last point, which at least
in my experience, is something I &lt;em&gt;loved&lt;/em&gt; to fault authorities for.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hypocrisy is fun and also infuriating to uncover in others, but how often do
we do a &amp;ldquo;consistency check&amp;rdquo; on ourselves? Is what we are saying evidenced by
the rest of our actions?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That&amp;rsquo;s a hard look sometimes. I know it is for me, since I&amp;rsquo;m &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; quick
to judge others, but don&amp;rsquo;t often think about how I fail at my own principles.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Example: As a FOSS advocate, it&amp;rsquo;s nearly natural to assume that everything will
be better and easier with more people using FOSS. When evidence seems to point
to the contrary (e.g. fighting with Matrix/Element to get it working for my
family and friends), I don&amp;rsquo;t own up to the fact that it isn&amp;rsquo;t easier, and that
is an actual problem.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If we truly want to build a welcoming and wholesome community, let&amp;rsquo;s be careful
to do a consistency check to make sure nothing smells foul.&lt;/p&gt;
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