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From experience, it seems that "don't make this political" can typically be translated to "I don't want opposition". It's much more likely someone hasn't reflected deeply on the political nature of their opinions than it is that a topic is "apolitical".

Certainly you must be aware that there are not just binary values of morality in life. The obvious answer is yes they are stained, as we all are through our participation in various systems, but with vastly varying amounts.

Is the manufacturer of the bomb responsible for when Israel drops it on a family home in Gaza? Yes. Is it the same responsibility as the general who gave the order? No. Is it the same as the pilot who followed the order? No.

Does that make it useless to hold people accountable? Of course not.

Have you ever wanted to pay a monthly subscription to give your location data and dashcam feed to a company for them to sell to other companies? Get Bee Mapping!

Shoutout to Mixxx, it's one of the examples of open source being able to match and in many ways surpass the enjoyability of their closed-source for-profit alternatives. I regularly give it as an example alongside things like Blender to show that a better, more free software world is possible outside of just developer tools.

I wish more people posted questions like this. Questioning yourself and your path (and importantly, the ethics of it all) is a vital survival skill to avoid losing yourself entirely to the capitalism game, where you start to listen more to your analytics software than your sensibilities and moral compass.

I don't know if your AI products are scummy or not, but the fact that you're asking this question makes me less worried about you than a lot of other folks out there furiously rushing to get their AI pre-crime hot dog detectors rushed out the door so they can get on the NASDAQ.

Amazon doesn't pretend to care about its employees, Google does (pretend, that is). Working for Amazon right out of college, I honestly kind of appreciated the fact that they never tried to make it feel like your work was your "family", which always came off as incredibly creepy. Interviewing for Facebook and Google and seeing their offices and culture always gave me the heebie jeebies for that reason, and I'm glad I didn't choose them. I'm also glad I left Amazon quickly.

In the end, it's just two different types of cults. You're a fool to show loyalty to Amazon when it shows none back, and Google is in some ways creepier for pretending to care about you and suck in all facets of yourself into a corporation.

The straightforward solution is to work for neither, and show that we won't tolerate creepy corporate culture taking over the technology world that we love.

I feel like a lot of fantastic software is made by a small number of people whose explicit culture is a mix of abnormally strong opinionatedness plus the dedication to execute on that by developing the tools and flow that feel just right.

Much like a lot of other "eccentric" artists in other realms, that eccentricity is, at least in part, a bravery of knowing what one wants and making that a reality, usually with compromises that others might not be comfortable making (efficiency, time, social interaction from a larger group, etc).

Not currently, but I'm interested in supporting that.

We'd love your help if you're interested in it! Supporting more platforms and making graphical frontends are high on the priority list.

Ah, gotcha - sorry I misunderstood your question.

I feel that adding TCP support would push innernet beyond a WireGuard configuration manager and into something a bit more behemoth. I'm quite fond of the fact that innernet doesn't "touch the packets" in its current state.

That said, if a strong need arises over time it's not out of the question, and in the mean time anybody is welcome to add their own wrapper around innernet or fork it to support that.

Latency and bandwidth was a big issue for us - innernet uses the WireGuard kernel module on Linux when available, which is about as good as you can get (easily achieving saturated gigabit line speeds).

macOS is a different story, since there are only userspace implementations at the moment. Innernet currently looks for the official "wireguard-go" implementation, but you can swap out userspace implementations as you like. I'll add an environment variable check to make that easier without needing to recompile.