Notices by Ian Z (soviut@hachyderm.io), page 2

@thomasfuchs Yeah, the luggables have a real cyberdeck feeling to them.

Remember Dade's computer in Hackers?

@thomasfuchs Too hot. I'll take the snow any day.

@thomasfuchs I've used Hetzner but only their "storage box" service. Being from Canada, I basically use it as really distance off-site backup for my homelab.

They have very cheap web hosting. It seems geared towards PHP but they talk about a CGI interface for Ruby/Python.

https://www.hetzner.com/webhosting/

They also do straight up dedicated server rentals have have auctions for ones that wind up being cheaper than their min spec ones.

@thomasfuchs @galaxis That should honestly be a website, not a community on a closed platform.

Being tied to a platform is bad in both directions; people who need the resource may never find it because they don't happen to be on the platform and people can't leave the platform because that's where the resource is.

Alternatives exist; we had them long before social networks existed.

@thomasfuchs They need to Learn to Kern.

@thomasfuchs I love how the print button is second. Forget the back button, I need to be able to print this website ASAP!

@thomasfuchs When it comes to floppies, size matters.

@inthehands That's because he's only ever had the venire of wealth.

@thomasfuchs As a former teacher, in some ways I'm happy to see academia get a real shake up. All those movies about whimsical professors who ignore the curriculum and teach their students critical thinking are now something that should actually happen.

While I don't want say that facts aren't important for learning, memorization and regurgitation doesn't produce critical thinkers. Better to teach them analysis and research skills so they understand how to verify a fact instead of just reciting whatever ChatGPT told them.

@thomasfuchs yeh can 'ear the audio from whaeva' yeh watchin on yeh tele.

@thomasfuchs why do the ones on the left have dithered grey bands through/behind them?

@thomasfuchs Some will claim that this will end innovation, but it'll do the opposite. People who manage to make $5 million will get creative on ways to redistribute that wealth so that they're allowed to either continue to own a business or enter politics.

@thomasfuchs Because they don't understand the difference between socialism and communism and they're scared of the latter.

@thomasfuchs @foone it's just a standard keyboard; it'll work with anything.

@thomasfuchs Did they think the community was pro-fascism and white nationalism?

@inthehands Hosta la vista, baby!

@thomasfuchs I'm betting at the time it was $5,500 USD before accessories. So roughly $13,000 today.

@thomasfuchs I've noticed that it ebbs and flows.

We started with desktop apps.
Then web came along and gave us server apps.
Then mobile came along and suddenly we wanted native apps again.
Then client side web apps got good.
And now we stick those web apps inside desktop wrappers so that neckbeards with 64GB of RAM have something to whine about when they look at their otherwise unused system resources.

@thomasfuchs yeah, this is unsurprising given how rare they are.

They're really poorly built and had all sorts of issues so the number of working units left is scares. On top of that they're a collectors item.

@thomasfuchs it's because software development is driven by fintech greaseballs and hype bros now. Think how much time, energy and effort were wasted on recent dead end ventures like NFTs, metaverses, etc.

Instead of people in the space thinking of ways to improve our lives, they're looking for ways to monopolize our attention and find new ways to make us pay for crap.