Notices by Radical Edward :hackers_town: (radicaledward@hackers.town)

"re-federate me with the Meta. I don't wanna moderate nothing. Nothing, you understand?"

"Whatever you want, Mr. Rochko."

Love how "right clicker mentality" was meant as derisive, when really it's saying "Why won't you respect the artificial scarcity of this infinitely reproducible digital speculative asset so that it's value goes up?"

"Effective Altruists Want to Engineer People to Sleep Less So They Can Work More"

Starting to think these effective altruists aren't actually trying to help other people.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bd33/effective-altruists-want-to-engineer-people-to-sleep-less-so-they-can-work-more

I'm gonna engage with Facebook federation.

Not from any account I actually care about. From basically a throw away. Gonna have good content, really engage people.

But every post will tell people where it's from and ask why are they on Facebook if they can connect to facebook without being on it and they should leave.

Gonna turn Facebook federating against them.

non-tech person: I don't trust that tech.

tech user: it's fine, I don't even think about it

tech professional: I absolutely don't trust that tech.

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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In software development, there's a saying:

Good, fast, or cheap.

It won't be those things. You don't get any of them.

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