Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
Public

«This is not about purity. Nobody is asking you to reject every managed service on principle or run Gentoo on everything. It’s about maintaining enough technical competence that you are a participant in the systems you depend on rather than a permanent subject of them. It’s about being able to make informed choices instead of having choices made for you by systems optimized for someone else’s revenue»

The Slow Death of the Power User — fireborn
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the

The Slow Death of the Power User — fireborn

fireborn.mataroa.blog

0
0
1

If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://scholar.social/users/gedankenstuecke/statuses/116140098318631474 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)

Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo: @evgandr@bsd.cafe
Public

RE: scholar.social/@gedankenstueck

«Technology culture used to celebrate technical competence. Not as gatekeeping, not as elitism — as genuine, infectious enthusiasm for understanding how systems worked. The BBS scene in the eighties ran on self-taught systems operators who understood their hardware and their network protocols well enough to build infrastructure that had never existed before. The early web had a “view source” ethos: you saw something interesting, you looked at how it was built, you learned from it, you made something of your own. This was the entire pedagogical model of the early web and it worked extraordinarily well.»

0
1
0