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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Becca Mar 16

@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic

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Christopher

@bweller @rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic Collecting slide rules is a thing - I know someone who has written books on the subject and a regular newsletter. (The only slightly unusual side rule I ever had - found in my late father's effects - I donated to him. I'm not a slide rule collector.)