Technology

Never thought I'd see an MMM article on here, but it's definitely relevant.

I'm not a big social media user myself. Lemmy is pretty much it, unless I count watching videos on YouTube social media. I still feel a lot of the points he makes in the video.

Richard Stallman is a household name to tech enthusiasts, but there's a whole young generation that's being brought up in a world where this stuff was already there. I'm lucky I remember not having the internet as a child and I worry about how this is effecting the people who are oblivious to it.

I mean, he worked (before going feral) in the place where much of what made our world different from the 80s was pioneered. Even if we hear about Berkeley or Stanford more.

It's a situation where you want to follow those having potentially the best inside information. About the culture of the people involved, about their ideas.

It's still unsettling how in Tolkien's world Melkor is the weird one out, while the rest of Valar are good. Really seems to be inverted in tech.

And also delay-tolerant not perpetually directly networked systems don't have to be inconvenient. They are made that by directed effort.

This is true of the overwhelming majority of YouTube videos I see submitted here. The information density is just abysmal compared to a page of text.

Not just you, that's a pretty common principle.

It's really convenient for finding events in my city. I wish the places I frequent would use RSS, that would be even more convenient for me, but alas.

Once you're signed in "everything" is there