Posts by qole@techhub.social
(DIR) Post #AdhGAFFSjYJhowPygC by qole@techhub.social
2024-01-10T08:08:20Z
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@fsf It's important to note that the majority of the stories in this article are related to the integration of two proprietary systems. It's not a great idea to make the proprietary iOS operating system a dependency for your life saving medical device.
(DIR) Post #AnMrp6qxwiczbsrJ9k by qole@techhub.social
2024-10-25T14:41:59Z
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@foone this is great for answering security questions, because attackers can't research the answers, which this poor person (no stuffies! no childhood phone number to memorize!) can just make up the answers to...
(DIR) Post #Aq81WMrvl43nSQ19jU by qole@techhub.social
2025-01-16T04:26:13Z
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@foone @dosnostalgic
(DIR) Post #Aq81eKPem0yC9maYFM by qole@techhub.social
2025-01-16T04:27:46Z
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@foone @dosnostalgicThe sad truth. I need some good news.
(DIR) Post #Ar0vtnzK9iLUaPWNEm by qole@techhub.social
2025-02-11T16:12:46Z
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@futurebird As a lefty myself, the first generation to not be harassed for my deviant handedness, I have often used this as a metaphor to help those around me see how our current phobias around gender and orientation are equally ridiculous. So many human traits are naturally distributed on a bell curve. We need to accept everyone, not just the "normal" ones in the middle.
(DIR) Post #Au6zC18n3IOugzGlwe by qole@techhub.social
2025-05-15T02:06:20Z
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@aral The crazy thing is that we have also invented technologies and systems so that none of those things need to happen, to anyone, in the whole world. We could support a poverty-free population of billions of people, against all expectations. And then we overlaid that abundance with this stupid trinket-scarcity system.
(DIR) Post #AyuBeqNyZ3DmPFwBge by qole@techhub.social
2025-10-05T06:13:40Z
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@mcc "Malice" is such a personal word. The Company isn't personal. It is a machine that grinds everything into currency. It doesn't care, we're just feedstock for the money printer. No love, no hate, just hunger.
(DIR) Post #AzTNNpXKT2jmpfZ09w by qole@techhub.social
2025-10-22T06:23:06Z
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This is like some creepy cross between William Gibson @GreatDismal and Cory Doctorow @pluralistic ... A Japanese company is hiring low wage Philipino workers to remotely operate robots in Japanese convenience stores. They get migrant labour without the migrants. https://restofworld.org/2025/philippines-offshoring-automation-tech-jobs/
(DIR) Post #AzTNNw8Pw3yBIQxhnk by qole@techhub.social
2025-10-22T06:30:35Z
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"We haven't found any writings describing what we're looking for, but this one author wrote about the Pleasure Nexus, and this other author wrote about the Pleasure - Torment Converter, and that gave us a great idea..."
(DIR) Post #AzTNO2PeatK2ld4YV6 by qole@techhub.social
2025-10-22T14:49:26Z
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Thanks to @angusm and @kiwi for pointing out that this particular Torment Nexus was written about in 2008:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Dealer
(DIR) Post #B0BPLzQBwoJQeeRXmq by qole@techhub.social
2025-11-12T22:14:40Z
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@foone WHAT?! No SCSI? I thought you said everything?!
(DIR) Post #B0OhZ1chYRSbie7Dqi by qole@techhub.social
2025-11-19T08:13:30Z
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@aral It's a tough choice
(DIR) Post #B2gcPWK9aTEA3NcmK8 by qole@techhub.social
2026-01-26T16:03:46Z
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Ohhhh. It all makes sense now.Cory Doctorow @pluralistic points out that Trump's trade shenanigans are all part of a long history of US enshittificaton of the international trade system, for all the same reasons as Facebook's and YouTube's decline.Who would have thought that an international trade system could be vulnerable to enshittificaton? It turns out that it breeds in the shadows of all kinds of monopoly.https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/26/i-dont-want/#your-greenback-dollar