Notices by a libi rose (rose_alibi@post.lurk.org), page 3

someone at npr is barely restraining themselves

AWS is the worst, discuss.

and don't tell me to use something other than AWS, we're stuck with it for the lab website til someone builds us a different one.

ever thought about how someone who, through various life circumstances, changes phone numbers every 6 months deals with 2FA? someone whose belongings regularly get stolen by the "authorities" and thrown in the trash?

random reminder that if you are insisting on 2FA for survival services you better also be insisting on making stable phone numbers and data plans available to people who access those services

edit to include: email is a survival service. many social services require an email address. technology is not a luxury.

the most eco-friendly computer is the one you already own. i know they're not pretending they're green this year but. stop buying new shit and start demanding better support for keeping old shit running

@48kRAM i was struggling not to say much meaner things while also laughing at the overall nonsense of the idea... i have seen people get emotional over pocket calculators, i don't think emotions are the problem

@48kRAM yuuup. related, i got interviewed a couple weeks ago for a piece about a group researching how to make devices that people will get more emotionally attached to so they don't get discarded and my response was basically "people will get emotionally attached to literal rocks, the solution we need is extended software support for things not more emotional attachment"

i know #permacomputing is meant to evoke permaculture but every time i see the word i envision being permanently chained to a computer and feel sick

deeply love* delusionally utopian projections of how xyz tech ~could~ do this or that that are almost exactly the opposite of what is currently happening with said tech

*hate

them: "blockchain could solve all of these things"

me: "blockchain is currently actively making most of those things worse, and has been for 10+ years"

them, now with fingers-in-ears: "blockchain could solve all of these things"