Dear #FreeSoftware developers...
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Dear #FreeSoftware developers...
These governmental attestation requirements popping up all over the world are nothing but a visible escalation step in the war on generic computing.
@pluralistic spoke about it in 2011 and here's a nice transcript for you https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation
I'm not modest enough to not say I was also looking at those writings in the wall, but he's a much better speaker.
Go read that, and please, please, please...
Stop collaborating with the authoritarians.
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Dear #FreeSoftware developers...
These governmental attestation requirements popping up all over the world are nothing but a visible escalation step in the war on generic computing.
@pluralistic spoke about it in 2011 and here's a nice transcript for you https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation
I'm not modest enough to not say I was also looking at those writings in the wall, but he's a much better speaker.
Go read that, and please, please, please...
Stop collaborating with the authoritarians.
@RuiSeabra @pluralistic
Computers are enshittifying at every level. This might be my next purchase.
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@RuiSeabra @pluralistic
Computers are enshittifying at every level. This might be my next purchase.@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic I remember those from my 1960s survey crew days. *Never divide by zero!*
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@RuiSeabra @pluralistic
Computers are enshittifying at every level. This might be my next purchase.@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic We had an antique one at home in 1970. (My mom rescued it from her office at work when they were cleaning out the attic.) The thing weighed about 40 pounds.
Not exactly a pocket calculator. Which (in hindsight) was probably one of its better attributes.
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@RuiSeabra @pluralistic
Computers are enshittifying at every level. This might be my next purchase.@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic
Not to date myself, but I used the cash register version of this adding machine at my first job! Thanks for posting!
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@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic
Not to date myself, but I used the cash register version of this adding machine at my first job! Thanks for posting!
@Perspective I certainly remember the big, motor driven cash registers with rows of buttons on the front.
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@RuiSeabra @pluralistic
Computers are enshittifying at every level. This might be my next purchase.@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic This is smaller, but it won't boot Linux, so what's the point?
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@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic This is smaller, but it won't boot Linux, so what's the point?
@RupertReynolds The pinnacle of mechanical computer design IMHO. But does it run Crysis?
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@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic This is smaller, but it won't boot Linux, so what's the point?
@RupertReynolds @rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic I bet it runs DOOM though
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@RupertReynolds @rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic I bet it runs DOOM though
@quadrivial
It would need the help of a human operator.
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@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic This is smaller, but it won't boot Linux, so what's the point?
@RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io @rsabourin@pdx.social @RuiSeabra@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr Can you run Doom on it ?
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@RuiSeabra @pluralistic
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@RuiSeabra @pluralistic
Computers are enshittifying at every level. This might be my next purchase.@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic
At this rate, I'm ready to go find a Chinese abacus.
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@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic This is smaller, but it won't boot Linux, so what's the point?
@RupertReynolds @rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic
Pretty sure I saw a video of it running Doom.
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@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic This is smaller, but it won't boot Linux, so what's the point?
@RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io But will play Doom, yeah?
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@RuiSeabra @pluralistic
Computers are enshittifying at every level. This might be my next purchase.@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic yay! My typewriter collection is worthwhile after all!
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@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic This is smaller, but it won't boot Linux, so what's the point?
@RupertReynolds @rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic I own one of these Curta Calculators. The same model. I drag it out from time to time, when I need to do simple calculations.
The square root algorithm is enough of a PITA that I only used it once after learning it.
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@RupertReynolds @rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic I own one of these Curta Calculators. The same model. I drag it out from time to time, when I need to do simple calculations.
The square root algorithm is enough of a PITA that I only used it once after learning it.
@mcrocker @rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic I never tried square root. That was bad enough on my first electronic calculator, which only had +-*/ and a memory register.
I like the way that if I subtracted one time too many, I could go into reverse and 'undo' the mistake
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@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic This is smaller, but it won't boot Linux, so what's the point?
@RupertReynolds @rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic
Yeah I've seen a lot of exploits for this one, with physical access any user can access and execute calc.exe -
@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic This is smaller, but it won't boot Linux, so what's the point?
@RupertReynolds @rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic
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