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.

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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

hackers-activists

The term "hacktivists" exists. I'm not into hacking so can't say much more.

[–] Snoopy@jlai.lu 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Both are good :)

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Idk imo "hacktivist" is much cooler and shorter too.

[–] Snoopy@jlai.lu 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ya true quite cool :) that's a shame that you get some bad voting for suggesting that :/

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The thing is recently I always get exactly 2 downvotes very quickly no matter what I say so it's either bots or people that don't like me lol.

[–] Snoopy@jlai.lu 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's some dedication. :/ I even got down vote for video in sign language, i don't understand their point as they don't talk.

As soon as i can check who vote, i will ban them.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I even got down vote for video in sign language, i don't understand their point as they don't talk.

I can assure you that approximately 2/3 or 3/4 (depending on the instance and the community) of people on Lemmy can't be considered very nice of people. Always expect something like that. However, a downvote is not a reason for ban since it may always have respectable reasons. Please refrain from any form of disagreement-based banning.

As soon as i can check who vote, i will ban them.

Wait, mister/miss, you're an admin? Also make sure you check that the downvotes come from the same accounts. Coincidences happen.

[–] Snoopy@jlai.lu 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nope, I'm just a moderator. Maybe i will setup my own instance : sublinks or piefed. Lemmy will soon allow moderators to check vote and it's up to the admin to activate it. if i recall correctly.

So i will simply ban on my own community**, that mean only the smallish community on the fediverse about sign language. Why ? because it's about deaf culture, deaf history...so i don't see the point of downvoting.

Wonse, when you downvote, my post diseaspear from the timeline.

Honnestly, I don't accept people with this kind of mentality. I prefer people that explain why they disagree.

if i could disable downvote on my community it would be better, but currently it's not possible. Or maybe a popup to blacklist the community when you click on downvote ?

Well, month ago,i wrote a post for rewanping the voting system. For example instead of dowvoting because the post is in german instead of english, we can have a tag/hashtag system with threesold.

As #spam and 10 people vote. Or good article, bad article, complex, sad, scary, not fun...and everyone add them and vote for the most revalent tag/hashtag.

And with this we can improve by leap and bound lemmy search.

Sorry for the long off topic, i let my toughts loose again. :)

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

so i don't see the point of downvoting.

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

Wonse, when you downvote, my post diseaspear from the timeline.

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.

As #spam and 10 people vote. Or good article, bad article, complex, sad, scary, not fun...and everyone add them and vote for the most revalent tag/hashtag.

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

[–] Snoopy@jlai.lu 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.lu 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.lu 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 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).

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We got a hactivist comm?

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

No idea, mister/miss

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

This seems to be different and is geared towards directly looking after other humans. Hactivism as I'm used to the term, can often be technocratic.