cross-posted from: https://peculiar.florist/notes/9w4xuk0su2wr6qkg

Hacking with care

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Hacking With Care is collective composed of hackers-activists, caregivers, artists, sociologist, growing quite literally by contact and affinity.

Together we imagine, circulate, put in common resources and tools for care in accordance with hackers ethics and peer-to-peer philosophy.

We create occasions for body & soul rejuvenation and collective (re)appropriation of care. We work with an understanding of the needs and requirements of specific contexts, as can be found in hacking and activism. Similarly, we like to transmit to caregivers some hackers-activists tools and best practices, for example in relation to privacy/data protection, technological independence, operational security. Other aspects we like are creativity in care, access to knowledge, interdisciplinarity, questioning of norms…

Our actions evolve around two principal axis that could be (but not limited to): Care for hackers-activists and Hackers ethics and tools for caregivers.

They include care corners at hackers-activists events, pop-up massage sessions at the quarters of activists organizations, massage and well-being workshops and tutorials, compilation of resources and creation of original resources, research, news watch…

Indeed, we are aware big-hearted hackers and activists are exposed to life-threatening levels of stress and emotional challenges. Some burnout, some are imprisoned or experience limitations or abuse of their rights, in retaliation for their deeds. Some die. Meanwhile, the health-care sectors (where the most vulnerable people become yet more exposed) serve corporate and shady political agendas by default. We, as individuals, as communities, are being “holistically” attacked by the systems in governance : attacks and restrictions on life and freedoms keep intensifying everywhere, motivated by unchecked power and greed. They affect all, in all areas of life, including access to healthcare.

These converging realizations and the great joys we have in doing what we do all, inspired us to put together this initiative. We want to help become aware of vulnerabilities in our movements and organize so that each and everyone’s capacities to care and be cared for will not be compromised.

  • Snoopy@jlai.luOP
    21·
    4 months ago

    There still can be points such as low post quality, misinformation, outdated data, discrimination of certain people etc.

    True, but not in this community !pi_sourd@jlai.lu if them don’t like those post, they can leave it as it is.

    Awww that’s called egoism. And also idk what client you use but on mine (Jerboa) downvoted posts stay in the timeline. Probably you just confused Lemmy with Reddit.

    Nope, we noticed that some of our post diseaspered on our timeline. It was part on a heated debate about desactiving downvote 4 month ago.

    Maybe it has been patched since on Lemmy.

    Too complex. You’ll have 2-3 votes on every hashtag at most. Implement subcommunity categories instead. It’d be more useful

    I believe the opposite, it is way more informative compared to the voting system. I can upvote because of a cute cat, in the picture, it doesn’t tell you why i upvoted. Maybe people downvoted because the post wasn’t filtered with langage option ? Or maybe because it was boring ?

    I believe collaborative hashtag would greatly help semantic research.

    • GolfNovemberUniform
      22·
      4 months ago

      if them don’t like those post, they can leave it as it is.

      I believe this is against the spirit of FOSS. I hope people see this discussion and come to the right conclusions.

      • Snoopy@jlai.luOP
        2·
        4 months ago

        I don’t see why, my idea is in fact closer to gitlab/github where issue have their own tag.

        That’s what i dream for lemmy and it would improve its organisation :)

        • GolfNovemberUniform
          21·
          4 months ago

          Github indeed doesn’t have dislikes/downvotes but Lemmy probably should. I think you just feel really offended by downvotes for some reason or trying to make a highly exclusive community. You may have to try to change it because such issues might grow into something much worse.

          • Snoopy@jlai.luOP
            11·
            4 months ago

            It hugely depends on what post, and what community. Political, scientific one, i post plenty of them and often i don’t care. Video game, interesting topic, environmental, art design…i don’t care.

            And the one about sign langage i just want to deactivate downvote on this community, Why ? So you just have to chose between ignore or upvote. Because 99,99% of you, in the fediverse aren’t deaf.

            Masto, iceshrimp doesn’t have downvote system. I often post from them to lemmy and it works well.

            • GolfNovemberUniform
              21·
              4 months ago

              Ok I get it that you care about deaf people (which I highly appreciate) and that you are most likely deaf too (which may explain your rudeness and egoistic behavior since deaf people’s problems don’t get enough attention in the world) but imo it’s better not to become careless about others. That’s the main problem of the modern world. Minorities become aggressive and start discriminating majorities and those who disagree (the latter is inapplicable for this particular case though).