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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:16:49 JST Alexandre Oliva

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   • smxi
   you seem to be talking about learned helplessness
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     your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:16:50 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     • smxi

     “Smart phones make us dumb”

     this is the real problem.

     3 generations of kids walking with computers in their pockets yet they can root them and use them as such because techbros wouldn't be able to make money from spying.

     they are microcomputers with telephony. you want to raise hackers? force smartphones to be rootable. treat them as computers.

     @smxi @Di4na @neil

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     smxi (smxi@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:16:50 JST smxi

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     • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

     @blogdiva @Di4na @neil I view those slabs as simply: a corporation owns the os and updates it. They own the app stores. This is the primary way kids interact with computing today. Totally passive and powerless. The opposite of PCs. Apple product users even more so because walled garden. If passively consuming remote content is how you learn tech this makes hacker mindset less likely. Also less likely kids grow up doing real things, tools, etc. Mindset becomes: someone (else) should do it.

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     smxi (smxi@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:16:51 JST smxi

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     @Di4na @neil the thrust of the article seems to be about conferences. I've never been to a tech conference nor have I ever wanted to go to one. And that's living in an area where they happen routinely. I have spent up on 2 decades doing Free Software and never felt I would benefit in any way from conferences. It makes sense they are graying because that's similar to going on a cruise to me. Except for geeks. I can see no reason to write "Open Source" code for young people. Get paid. "Free", yes.

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     smxi (smxi@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:16:51 JST smxi

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     • Thomas Depierre

     @Di4na @neil I suspect the issue is people don't want to waste their free time writing code for corporate consumption aka Open Source but judging from the almost endless creation of new wayland compositors there's no shortage of coders eager to scratch their personal itches. I have a hard time keeping up with those for #inxi. USA getting harder to live in, but mostly the tech areas. Definite decline in young in some areas though, the culture of real hackers is waning. Smart phones make us dumb.

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     Thomas Depierre (di4na@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:16:52 JST Thomas Depierre

     • Neil Brown

     @neil I have an answer they all are going to hate.

     Doing open-source require a lot of privilege and money.

     Most young people are not in a situation to do so, far more than it used to be.

     There are no easy solution here. This is the same as every experts group