Mastodawn

These governmental attestation requirements popping up all over the world are nothing but a visible escalation step in the war on generic computing.

@pluralistic spoke about it in 2011 and here's a nice transcript for you https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation

I'm not modest enough to not say I was also looking at those writings in the wall, but he's a much better speaker.

Go read that, and please, please, please...

Stop collaborating with the authoritarians.

The Coming War on General Computation - Wikisource, the free online library

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R. Sabourin Mar 15

@RuiSeabra @pluralistic
Computers are enshittifying at every level. This might be my next purchase.

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Rupert Reynolds Mar 16

@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic This is smaller, but it won't boot Linux, so what's the point? ;-)

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redundantbloke

@RupertReynolds @rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic @GreatDismal
Oh my. One of my favourite novels, Pattern Recognition had these as a side plot point and I always thought these were an invention… is this a derivation from the book or do these really exist and have done so prior to the 21st century?
And can I buy a Buzz Ricksens flight jacket as well?

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Thomas Depierre Mar 16

@redundantbloke @RupertReynolds @rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic @GreatDismal they exist. There are even 2 version. Be aware, they are pretty expensive second hand and are pretty hard to reproduce at this scale