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title: "Consistency"
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tags: ["FOSS"]
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date: 2021-04-04T00:00:00-05:00
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draft: false
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I've seen a lot of talk about this stuff:
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- "Check out my FOSS project (hosted on Github)"
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- "Wayland is a great innovation and boon to the community! Also, there are very few tools/alternatives available yet for your favorite X11 tool!"
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- "We love open source! Also, we develop the most popular proprietary operating system!"
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- "Do as I say, not as I do."
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We love to poke fun at and expose this kind of stuff, which is all fine and
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dandy. I think it's an interesting (and important) part of our humanity that
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this kind of thing bugs us so much. Think about that last point, which at least
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in my experience, is something I *loved* to fault authorities for.
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Hypocrisy is fun and also infuriating to uncover in others, but how often do
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we do a "consistency check" on ourselves? Is what we are saying evidenced by
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the rest of our actions?
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That's a hard look sometimes. I know it is for me, since I'm **very** quick
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to judge others, but don't often think about how I fail at my own principles.
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Example: As a FOSS advocate, it's nearly natural to assume that everything will
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be better and easier with more people using FOSS. When evidence seems to point
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to the contrary (e.g. fighting with Matrix/Element to get it working for my
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family and friends), I don't own up to the fact that it isn't easier, and that
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is an actual problem.
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If we truly want to build a welcoming and wholesome community, let's be careful
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to do a consistency check to make sure nothing smells foul.
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