This is not the future
by mathieui on Sat 08 November 2025 I thought about this when reading a mastodon post which commented on a news where a project adopted a “use Generative AI but disclose it” policy, because it is “the future” and “people are going to use it anyway”. I find the “this is the future, like it or not” framing particularly disgusting, and it is somewhat common in tech circles to accept it for most “new” technologies as if it was backed by evidence. This post is to underline that Nothing is inevitable. Modern technology is abusive. A small contingent of power users using niche OSes (like myself) survive by avoiding as much of the tech oligarchs’ world as I can, sure, but overall everything is disgusting, and using FOSS is certainly no silver bullet. Tech enthusiasts who do not…
