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software – dropsafe

2021-11

Aside from anything else, we used to have diverse federated social networks based around open standards, and they inevitably either raced towards the median of functionality (Email) or centralised due to “tragedy of the commons”-type abuse, which was pumping up costs by them being used for “free storage without burden upon the storer” (Usenet).

The ecosystem of social networks can, must, and should churn; but effective communications solutions must honour some form of Metcalfe’s Law, even if the math should be NlogN rather than Nsquared, or whatever.

Imagine what we could do if more devs put their minds and energies to creating alternatives to surveillance capitalism…



But why do that when you have so much privilege within the system that you can follow your every superficial hedonistic intellectual whimsy instead? https://t.co/wa1Z5Y5Wwc — Aral Balkan ? (@[email protected]) (@aral) April 25, 2021 https://twitter.com/aral/status/1386239000797663237

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Imagine what we could do if more devs put their minds and energies to creating alternatives to surveillance capitalism…

But why do that when you have so much privilege within the system that you can follow your every superficial hedonistic intellectual whimsy instead?

There is a joke programming language called "chef" where the programs look like recipes



This guy figured out how to write a program in Chef that both prints "Hello World" and comes out vaguely like a chocolate cake if you cook it https://t.co/q7nayoG1r5 pic.twitter.com/UHaCMR6OVb — Daniel Feldman (@d_feldman) April 24, 2021

Folks could be helping tilt the scales towards social justice but they’re too busy coding in Brainfuck over the weekends.

Originally tweeted by Aral Balkan ? (@[email protected]) (@aral) on 2021/04/25.

Footnote

Also, I am wondering where my lavish estate is?
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