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@inthehands I needed to see this today. I've been feeling pretty disillusioned and burned out.

I've been a computer toucher since I was a child. I love programming and open source software in general, and I've certainly met a lot of lovely people through my local tech communities. There have always been shitheads in the broader tech world, and it's been pretty depressing to watch the worst of them become so loud and prominent. But the lovely people are still there, doing the actual useful work.

It's going to be much harder to run local conferences ethically, though -- they live and die by sponsorship, and most sponsors of small tech conferences are large tech companies.