The answer to problems in sociotechnical systems is not always "more software", "better software" or "open source software".

[wesgeorge@mstdn.social]

@tante There is a Laurie Anderson installation at the Hirschorn modern art museum in DC with this astute observation.

[sesav@mastodon.social]

@tante Since December 2025, Spotify's premier engineers have not written code by hand, as reported by TechCrunch. We have gotten what we have always dreamed of.

[dnkboston@apobangpo.space]

@tante This is what I've been saying.

[gokushrm@mastodon.social]

@tante human nature... He want more & more

[moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org]

@tante
Me using plaintext editors and considering a dedicated FreeDOS laptop.

[patches@plush.city]

@wesgeorge @tante medtech can save lives, though. like, maybe not the creepy AI notetakers that every doc seems to be using out here now, but i would be dead or a completely different person if not for modern neuroscience and imaging technology

[curiousicae@tech.lgbt]

@tante
Like voting computers:
Local municipality went for these some years ago because they’re, like, shiny and “digital” and supposidly save time.

CCC (hacker’s association, ie: who everyone expected to be maximally excited about this) sued against these and had them found unconsitutional!

Why? Well, the consitution requires the ballot process to be understande and comprehensible by lay persons so that there never can be a situation where a claims of the vote having been rigged are impossible to verify. (We’re talking about hard power interests here after all.)

A vote conducted using a computer is not comprehensible by lay persons. Period.

Nerds would often be like: “But, but we could use blinded tokens, we could use zero-knoweldge proofs. It be completely verifiable!”
Yes, to like 2 people on Earth maybe!

To proof it to everyone else we’d need a papertrail and verify that. An activity generally refered to as “counting the votes”...
Might as well stick to that then.

#tech #techethics

[nickynah@rebel.ar]

@tante oh you mean we don’t need 400 calendar applications that work exactly the same and use the same standard but are front different companies and don’t interact well with each other? I’m appalled by your comment

[dasgrueneblatt@wien.rocks]

@tante yes

[shnepo@theforkiverse.com]

@tante yeah feature creep is a big problem. Mostly caused because of capitalism IMO.

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@tante @SnoopJ “this SaaS could have been an email”

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@c0dec0dec0de @tante look, we each know what we did, and maybe we should just admit it

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@glyph @tante "this DHCP server could have been RFC 2322"

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@SnoopJ @tante (me opening the bag labeled "RFC 2322")

I don't know what I expected

[robertootarola@mastodon.social]

@tante you can't go wrong with coffee, pen and paper.

[aburka@hachyderm.io]

@SnoopJ @glyph @tante this ethernet cable could have been an avian carrier

[isaacfreeman@cloudisland.nz]

@tante Never automate anything before you have experience doing it manually.

[cucufaiter@mastodon.social]

@SnoopJ @glyph @tante New and classic at the set time xD

[endlessmason@hachyderm.io]

@tante
If that's not a nail, why did you hire a guy with a hammer?

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@SnoopJ @glyph @tante photo by @th. I was one of those who made that DHCP server