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   Radical Edward :hackers_town: (radicaledward@hackers.town)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 22:18:03 JST Radical Edward :hackers_town:

   Dystopian sci-fi story about a collapse of civilization, and the survivors trying to use and repurpose the tech around them but are unable to fix the tractor they found to pull rubble because only authorized people from the company with digital keys could repair it, or make a mesh network to communicate but the abundant IoT hubs are bricks without connection to their servers.

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 22:18:52 JST pettter

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @RadicalEdward It sounds like a @pluralistic story, but he usually keeps them more hopeful than that.

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     Soh Kam Yung (sohkamyung@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 22:33:32 JST Soh Kam Yung

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     @RadicalEdward This dystopian scenario has come true. A school unable to turn off the lights because the proprietary software system that controls them is broken, and the original vendor no longer has access to the software.

     https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/us-school-runs-lights-24-7-365-the-smart-lights-have-been-broken-since-2021/