Digital rights and Internet governance, Security. ICANN activist, fan, geek. I'm on Team Freedom. @strangedave@mastodon.social
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“Coding” was never the source of value, and people shouldn’t get overly attached to it. Problem solving is the core skill. The discipline and precision demanded by traditional programming will remain valuable transferable attributes, but they won’t be a barrier to entry.
Many times over the years I have thought about a great programmer I knew that loved assembly language to the point of not wanting to move to C. I have to fight some similar feelings of my own around using existing massive codebases and inefficient languages, but I push through.
I had somewhat resigned myself to the fact that I might be missing out on the “final abstraction”, where you realize that managing people is more powerful than any personal tool. I just don’t like it, and I can live with the limitations that puts on me.
I suspect that I will enjoy managing AIs more, even if they wind up being better programmers than I am.
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Dave Cake retweeted
An extreme example of a manufacturers’ arbitrary DRM being used to prevent independent repair of the device they made: Passenger trains 404media.co/polish-hackers-e… #37c3
This is great news.
🚨Australia announces it has abandoned a plan to mandate age-verification of adult sites, citing concerns about privacy, security and implementation, after nearly two years of study. It will instead focus on parental education around device level filters. theguardian.com/australia-ne…
Dave Cake retweeted
Hypothetically, suppose that someone’s futurist philosophy as a tech billionaire is nothing more than thinly veiled fascism, and their ultimate goal is to architect an autocratic Martian society in which they rule as a despotic god-emperor. What do you do? bit.ly/447SJ6u
If you believe the 432 vs 440 Hz stuff matters, you don’t understand how frequency, music, and especially history of music, work. If you link it to anything pre-16th century, especially numerology, delusional deep crazy territory
🤦♂️ It seems the 440Hz tuning frequency conspiracy theory is still flourishing. There are no scientific studies that support the tuning frequency hypothesis. Further reading: openculture.com/2021/02/when…
I've studied both computer science neural networks and neuroscience research. Computer science tends to believe building something vaguely similar in operation is more important than actual observation. Especially about neuroscience.
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Whenever I see new posts about the British government
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Probably the best thing you'll see today.
In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world.
The results 🧵
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well this is interesting! Even if the opt-in search bot doesn't work, Anil has done a great job laying out the pros and cons of our current search tools. anildash.com/2023/01/16/a-fe…
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Yes, I still see people who equate "defense in depth" with "using two firewalls of two different brands in series." YES, THEY STILL EXIST, these people. #random