01.23.22
Gemini version available ♊︎On the ‘Peak Hacker’ Series
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Peak Hacker and Shunning Fake Progress
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Summary: Hacker culture, unlike Ludditism, is ultimately a movement for justice, for equality, and for human rights through personal and collective emancipation; Dr. Farnell has done a good job explaining where we stand and his splendid series has come to a close
TODAY we finished publishing the series from 'Digital Vegan' Dr. Farnell, who expects to have “his comprehensive [next book] Ethics for Hackers (scheduled early 2022).”
I’ve had the pleasure of exchanging ideas and thoughts with him, “a British computer scientist, writer and international visiting professor specialising in signals and systems,” according to his bio. He’s also a proponent of BSD and GNU/Linux, but there’s lots of us who do that. GNU/Linux is nowadays everywhere and “Wine is a better Windows than Vista,” as David Gerard put it over a decade ago. Even the gaming industry is moving towards GNU/Linux (like Steam Deck with Arch Linux and KDE), so we need to look ahead and promote more than just the brand “Linux”. Steam is DRM, so not exactly where we want to go (even though removing Windows is a positive step). The goal isn’t having better Windows than Windows®.
The video above sums up some personal thoughts and offbeat comments. I use only Gemini in this video and I hope this will become the standard, seeing what the Web rapidly devolves into. As of this moment, Geminispace approaches 2,000 known capsules (including inactive ones) and there seems to be growing resistance to the technological status quo. That should not be conflated with Ludditism because this isn’t about economics (passing workers’ jobs to machines) but about human rights or basic dignity such as personal privacy. █
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