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@mhoye@mastodon.social

In fact, like it or not, #technology is the single most powerful political force at work in human history.

Without sail, for example, we would still live in small conflicting villages. Without alphabets, we would still be ignorant peasants under a king pretending to be a God.

Every technology that can raise the organizational complexity of a society is deeply political, so it's only matter of who deploy and control the technology.

@alcinnz@floss.social

Anyway now I've got two types of #UNIX and both are okay for routine use, as I've found. Seems like a pretty good place to start. I've been in the "UNIX Haters Club" and all that, I've said some incendiary things about UNIX, but none of it matters any more. #Windows is just...beyond the pale now. The #SoftwareEngineer sector had better wake up to the fact that outside their narrow stratum of high #tech buddies, the ordinary person LOATHES the current state of consumer #technology and there is absolutely nothing for @arcalinea@mastodon.social or any other executive type to be proud about. All that screaming about the #future at a zillion trade shows is fake, forced--publicity stunts. Bottom line is that the technology sector all decided to start imitating the methods of #Scientology and other high-power personality cults, and...all of us in #science and #engineering are enduring the results.

But there's ever so much good
#software out there, just like there's good movies hiding underneath the surface-level hype about superheroes.

~Alyx Woodward of Pnictogen

For the first time in a while I feel like my desktop computer is congenial to me AND will allow the human kidz to play their silly #videogames if they want because I don't want to be wasting processor cycles on THAT not when there's science to do! but my greatest limitation up to now has been my lack of facility with the contemporary personal #computer. for a variety of odd reasons idiosyncratic to me I've had an eccentric sort of education in computing, starting with MUCH older-fashioned stuff. I was little at a time when people were still using reels of tape and even punch-cards. #Computing used to be much more physical, and therefore more friendly (although still oppressive.)

Now it seems the trend is to make devices as hostile as possible. The
#technology bosses want their toys to be exclusive and attuned only to their very particular needs. They're flighty people, always jetting around and appearing at this city or that for some publicity thing or #trade show or whatever. @mike@mike@flipboard.social and all the other #tech CEOs want lightweight equipment, good for travel, because they're never at home. It's difficult to say whether these persons even really HAVE a home, one single place they think of as their center and their electrical ground.

~Alyx