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• @fluidlogic@oldbytes.space 2026-01-06 10:05

  @holdenweb@freeradical.zone @psf@oldbytes.space well, sort of. It doesn't do that by itself. You probably know all this. An individual building software which solves problems for its users attempts to satisfy requests from those users by adding features, each of which is used by a tiny proportion of users. If the maintainer doesn't have good taste, their project turns into a sprawl. In the corporate world, product managers justify their budgets by adding features that users are prompted to request, also leading to sprawl. Their incentive is not to build powerful, compact software, but to consolidate and grow their power and influence within the organisation. I love the idea of permacomputing because it attempts to present ways of thinking which elucidate and critique these patterns.

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