I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology.
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I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia.
But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.
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I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia.
But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.
@tante this! That's me, and sooo few of my friends get it
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I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia.
But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.
@tante My fondest experience in software was building (over ~9 years) an ERP system with the founding principle: "We want it to work for at least 30 years" which had a lot of knock-off effects. We were allowed to improve things that mattered more for maintenance than functionality.
The joy of being able to shift technology on the frontend with little effect to the backend, having response times in single digit ms and so on.
There was plenty to improve, still, but I had pride in my work.
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@tante My fondest experience in software was building (over ~9 years) an ERP system with the founding principle: "We want it to work for at least 30 years" which had a lot of knock-off effects. We were allowed to improve things that mattered more for maintenance than functionality.
The joy of being able to shift technology on the frontend with little effect to the backend, having response times in single digit ms and so on.
There was plenty to improve, still, but I had pride in my work.
@tofticles that sounds really cool
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I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia.
But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.
@tante 100%
I don’t think anyone really hates technology.
What almost everyone hates, but may struggle to identify or articulate, is the rapacious, capitalist, consumerist, colonialist, patriarchal hierarchy by which our technology is informed.
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I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia.
But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.
> ... we deploy ... solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia
Who's "we" here? You don't have the skills for that. -
I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia.
But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.
This is such a good distinction. Technology built to solve real problems vs technology built to extract value from people. The joy comes from the former and we used to have way more of it
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I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia.
But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.
I like this concept. Now I have to go look up what a Luddite is
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Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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There's more, especially on the state level. Eg the Idaho house just passed a bathroom ban that bans trans use of bathrooms *in private businesses*, with mandatory enforcement by businesses, punishable by a $10k fine if a customer identifies a trans person in the bathroom. https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/politics-government/2026-02-17/idaho-house-passes-transgender-bathroom-ban
Kansas rolled out a bathroom bill that provides *bounty hunting*, where people are paid for turning in trans people who use the "wrong" (ie, right) bathroom https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/19/anti-trans-bathroom-bill-kansas/
I'm just saying. It's getting bad. It's worth knowing how bad.
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@stefano
Maybe it would be needed some additions."Excluding languages stating memory-safety. They shall not allow writing mutually memory unsafe operations like volatiles, memory mapped I/Os. Let those to be written in other languages and sanely link with it with warnings."
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These are just headlines from the past several days.
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Hello, remember how I've said before that they're planning trans genocide in the US? Well, a lot has been happening to move forward on that front. A *lot*.
- The head of the Heritage Foundation, who are behind Project 2025, which I may remind you was *nearly fully enacted* in 2025 despite being huge, is saying the correct thing to do about trans people to outlaw being trans. And that includes outlawing all trans health care (adults too), and considering trans people mentally unfit https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/you-outlaw-it-heritage-foundation
- Elon Musk, who continues to hold *enormous* influence over US policy, is boosting eliminationist rhetoric about trans people https://bsky.app/profile/zackbeauchamp.bsky.social/post/3mf2r237sws2j
- Annnnnnd the Justice Department issues a memo saying it's time to end all transgender care, including HRT, surgeries, but also even access to gener-appropriate clothing and affects https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admin-new-bop-anti-trans-prison-policyThere's more. But that's where things are going right now... and I expect more to be coming.
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Reinventare la difesa del Fediverse. Affrontare il problema più grande degli effetti di rete: portare le persone qui.
Ecco il problema: non siamo ancora molto bravi a sostenere le persone perché dovrebbero unirsi a noi, o ad aiutare gruppi di persone a migrare qui. Il Fediverse, purtroppo, ha una sorta di problema con Linux. L'advocacy del Fediverse assomiglia spesso all'advocacy degli utenti Linux e, oltre ad attrarre qualche entusiasmo, spesso non funziona bene.
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Social Debug: di comizi virtuali, fuffaguru (e social guru) e fake digitali
Il fuffaguru-convinto è una figura che crede in quello che dice, che “non parla, slogheggia”, usa dei termini che capiscono solo loro - come il gergo che si usa in *ogni* ambiente tbh ;) - e hanno ragionamenti che fanno solo loro.
https://signorina37.substack.com/p/social-debug-di-comizi-virtuali-fuffaguru
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The natural end result of forcing age verification on the Internet:
Only teenagers can access all information, while most grown-ups fail to consistently pass verification screens.
