Comment by poly2it
Is it just me, or does something feel wrong about the comments on this post? Where is the intellectual commentary? Clippy, the movement, is obviously not the same as the assistant.
Is it just me, or does something feel wrong about the comments on this post? Where is the intellectual commentary? Clippy, the movement, is obviously not the same as the assistant.
HN users are predominantly loyal Apple users and most of them are pro-gatekeeping and for walled garden approach.
So, I am not so sure that they're fully aligned with Clippy movement at whole, which is much more than just "right to repair".
The HN audience is overwhelmingly aware of the issues around right to repair and data collection, so there isn't much reacting to do there - I assume there's already near-unanimous agreement that it's a good thing to educate people on, but we will have opinions on how to do it (or not do it) effectively.
It's like picking Reaganism as a mascot for a democratic socialism movement. Doesn't make any sense and is a major factor why we moved in the direction we did. It's shooting yourself in the foot right out of the gate. Bad decision and isn't going to do their movement any favors. I'm not going to take them seriously if that's the kind of decisions they make.
The two are utterly confounded for many who'd otherwise be a receptive audience to the message. It's a case of utterly unnecessary self-sabotage.
HN itself frequently has to address distractions within a story or discussion of it to surface significant or substantive themes. That the campaign here is blundering so hard out of the gate bodes poorly.
It is not just you. This is sad. Not one mention of right to repair, right to own, privacy etc.