The UK Post Office should at least have considered open source software for Horizon to enhance transparency, empower users, and avoid vendor lock-in, which could have prevented or mitigated the scandal’s impact. People like Richard Moorhead, Christopher Hodges, Alan Bates, and the long running Computer Weekly coverage all underscore the need for transparency and accountability, indirectly supporting open source principles, although direct advocacy is rare. For future systems, the Post Office and similar organizations should prioritize open source to prevent such injustices.
The establishment narrative often focuses on individual accountability rather than systemic issues like software design. But this overlooks how proprietary systems enabled the Post Office to deflect responsibility.
Open source software aligns with ethical principles of justice, autonomy, and resource stewardship, making it a compelling alternative for future public sector IT projects.
Thoughts?!
You admit that you do bullshit, as you are doing on Lemmy to me. it isn’t unrelated, that’s your failure to use associative thinking.
I’m not harassing you, you are a bully who found an autistic person you found to be “weak” and “alone” and I’m commenting that the bully on Lemmy is proud that “we” are “bullshit” in UK. You analyze my behavior, found me to be isolated and weak, and reported to have me shut down, because you sensed my autism spectrum disorder and extreme brain damage caused by Cambridge Analytica psyops.
It isn’t irrelevant, you don’t grasp or failed to recognize associative thinking. You want a very narrow and controlled use of free Internet social media systems, so you try to shut down what you can’t relate to or find challenges to mass mind manipulation by people like Edward Bernays, Vlad Surkov, or entire firms like Cambridge Analytica.
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“When making choices, neurotypical people can be very sensitive about how a question or choice is presented or framed. Most people prefer an outcome that is presented in a positive light as opposed to a negative light, even if the two choices are identical.”… “Associative thinkers see relations and connections everywhere and tend not to categorize things. When I hear or read a certain word, I suddenly see a lot of “pictures” in my mind that have something to do with that word. This happens in quite an unstructured and even chaotic way. It’s a complicated spiderweb of memories, pictures, and thoughts.” - page 19, Casey “Remrov” Vormer, Connecting With The Autism Spectrum: How To Talk, How To Listen, And Why You Shouldn’t Call It High-Functioning
Disengage, we already have a thread for this.