chit-chat is indeed a chit

Joanna Rutkowska, founder of QubesOS project, has a awesome blog, and the raised points at about page really inspired me:

Generally not interested chit-chat

Starts with best one, and asking to not perceive as arrogance is a good trick! I laugh when I see the other points below mentioning this point again.

"Can you eat that?"

I'm not vegan, but I have moralistic food restrictions too, and yeah, this annoyance is real.

And also her vision on feminism blew my mind:

I'm also a feminist. I wish there were more women in science and technology. I also wish more women had more self confidence. At the same time I'm concerned about superficial promotion of females just because they are females…

Maybe, I wouldn't call this professional and meritocratic view as feminism, mostly because (as far as I know) feminism has some extra motivations and ideologies.

Nevertheless, I completely agree, and it raised me the interest to meet her and more woman like her. It's awesome to see motivated and tough people fighting for privacy and freedom.

And thanks to her¹, I'm writing this in a qube:

uname -r
file /bin/qvm-copy

6.12.59-1.qubes.fc37.x86_64
/bin/qvm-copy: Bourne-Again shell script, Unicode text, UTF-8 text executable