#geekproblem — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #geekproblem, aggregated by home.social.
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The #encryptionists are the people who take that minority use of this tech and pushing it into everything. The bigger issue is the #geekproblem: seeing a technical problem and reaching for a technical solution when the actual problem is social.
If we want to rebuild society around trust, that is primarily a social challenge with social solutions.
Encryption can protect some things. It cannot create trust. But, trying to solve social distrust by encrypting everything is not just pointless - it can actively #BLOCK the harder work of building relationships, communities and shared responsibility.
The geek answer is often "We can code around that.” were the social answer has to be “Maybe we need to change how we relate to each other.” That's harder, but that's the work.
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The #encryptionists are the people who take that minority use of this tech and pushing it into everything. The bigger issue is the #geekproblem: seeing a technical problem and reaching for a technical solution when the actual problem is social.
If we want to rebuild society around trust, that is primarily a social challenge with social solutions.
Encryption can protect some things. It cannot create trust. But, trying to solve social distrust by encrypting everything is not just pointless - it can actively #BLOCK the harder work of building relationships, communities and shared responsibility.
The geek answer is often "We can code around that.” were the social answer has to be “Maybe we need to change how we relate to each other.” That's harder, but that's the work.
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The #encryptionists are the people who take that minority use of this tech and pushing it into everything. The bigger issue is the #geekproblem: seeing a technical problem and reaching for a technical solution when the actual problem is social.
If we want to rebuild society around trust, that is primarily a social challenge with social solutions.
Encryption can protect some things. It cannot create trust. But, trying to solve social distrust by encrypting everything is not just pointless - it can actively #BLOCK the harder work of building relationships, communities and shared responsibility.
The geek answer is often "We can code around that.” were the social answer has to be “Maybe we need to change how we relate to each other.” That's harder, but that's the work.
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The #encryptionists are the people who take that minority use of this tech and pushing it into everything. The bigger issue is the #geekproblem: seeing a technical problem and reaching for a technical solution when the actual problem is social.
If we want to rebuild society around trust, that is primarily a social challenge with social solutions.
Encryption can protect some things. It cannot create trust. But, trying to solve social distrust by encrypting everything is not just pointless - it can actively #BLOCK the harder work of building relationships, communities and shared responsibility.
The geek answer is often "We can code around that.” were the social answer has to be “Maybe we need to change how we relate to each other.” That's harder, but that's the work.
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The #encryptionists are the people who take that minority use of this tech and pushing it into everything. The bigger issue is the #geekproblem: seeing a technical problem and reaching for a technical solution when the actual problem is social.
If we want to rebuild society around trust, that is primarily a social challenge with social solutions.
Encryption can protect some things. It cannot create trust. But, trying to solve social distrust by encrypting everything is not just pointless - it can actively #BLOCK the harder work of building relationships, communities and shared responsibility.
The geek answer is often "We can code around that.” were the social answer has to be “Maybe we need to change how we relate to each other.” That's harder, but that's the work.
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The #encryptionists path offers the #geekproblem a feeling of total control: if everything is locked down, nothing can be touched.
But there is another path, progressive society is built through trust - and trust means accepting that you cannot control everything.
The #geekproblem isn't that geeks are socially awkward, that's fine. The problem comes when that socialization gets embedded in code that shapes how everyone else has to live. With power comes responsibility.
So maybe the path out of the #geekproblem is learning to build technology for trust, participation and shared responsibility, rather than ever tighter control.
Less control, more trust.
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The #encryptionists path offers the #geekproblem a feeling of total control: if everything is locked down, nothing can be touched.
But there is another path, progressive society is built through trust - and trust means accepting that you cannot control everything.
The #geekproblem isn't that geeks are socially awkward, that's fine. The problem comes when that socialization gets embedded in code that shapes how everyone else has to live. With power comes responsibility.
So maybe the path out of the #geekproblem is learning to build technology for trust, participation and shared responsibility, rather than ever tighter control.
Less control, more trust.
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The #encryptionists path offers the #geekproblem a feeling of total control: if everything is locked down, nothing can be touched.
But there is another path, progressive society is built through trust - and trust means accepting that you cannot control everything.
The #geekproblem isn't that geeks are socially awkward, that's fine. The problem comes when that socialization gets embedded in code that shapes how everyone else has to live. With power comes responsibility.
So maybe the path out of the #geekproblem is learning to build technology for trust, participation and shared responsibility, rather than ever tighter control.
Less control, more trust.
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The #encryptionists path offers the #geekproblem a feeling of total control: if everything is locked down, nothing can be touched.
But there is another path, progressive society is built through trust - and trust means accepting that you cannot control everything.
The #geekproblem isn't that geeks are socially awkward, that's fine. The problem comes when that socialization gets embedded in code that shapes how everyone else has to live. With power comes responsibility.
So maybe the path out of the #geekproblem is learning to build technology for trust, participation and shared responsibility, rather than ever tighter control.
Less control, more trust.
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The #encryptionists path offers the #geekproblem a feeling of total control: if everything is locked down, nothing can be touched.
But there is another path, progressive society is built through trust - and trust means accepting that you cannot control everything.
The #geekproblem isn't that geeks are socially awkward, that's fine. The problem comes when that socialization gets embedded in code that shapes how everyone else has to live. With power comes responsibility.
So maybe the path out of the #geekproblem is learning to build technology for trust, participation and shared responsibility, rather than ever tighter control.
Less control, more trust.
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Inside the #geekproblem, many things look realistic because they make sense within the bubble. Outside it, they can be very irrelevant.
My thought: #opensource / free software has real value, but as a path for social change and challenge, it has been devoured by capitalism.
That means social value keeps being reduced unless some good dose of #classwar is pushed back into the limp liberal thing it has become.
The #4opens is a VERY gentle way of doing that - if people take an interest and actually use it.
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Inside the #geekproblem, many things look realistic because they make sense within the bubble. Outside it, they can be very irrelevant.
My thought: #opensource / free software has real value, but as a path for social change and challenge, it has been devoured by capitalism.
That means social value keeps being reduced unless some good dose of #classwar is pushed back into the limp liberal thing it has become.
The #4opens is a VERY gentle way of doing that - if people take an interest and actually use it.
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Inside the #geekproblem, many things look realistic because they make sense within the bubble. Outside it, they can be very irrelevant.
My thought: #opensource / free software has real value, but as a path for social change and challenge, it has been devoured by capitalism.
That means social value keeps being reduced unless some good dose of #classwar is pushed back into the limp liberal thing it has become.
The #4opens is a VERY gentle way of doing that - if people take an interest and actually use it.
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Inside the #geekproblem, many things look realistic because they make sense within the bubble. Outside it, they can be very irrelevant.
My thought: #opensource / free software has real value, but as a path for social change and challenge, it has been devoured by capitalism.
That means social value keeps being reduced unless some good dose of #classwar is pushed back into the limp liberal thing it has become.
The #4opens is a VERY gentle way of doing that - if people take an interest and actually use it.
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Inside the #geekproblem, many things look realistic because they make sense within the bubble. Outside it, they can be very irrelevant.
My thought: #opensource / free software has real value, but as a path for social change and challenge, it has been devoured by capitalism.
That means social value keeps being reduced unless some good dose of #classwar is pushed back into the limp liberal thing it has become.
The #4opens is a VERY gentle way of doing that - if people take an interest and actually use it.
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The answer to the #dotcons isn’t everyone becoming a sysadmin
“Just self-host it” is blinded techie advice that ignores reality, most people don't want to spend their lives patching servers, managing certificates and worrying about whether they accidentally opened a security hole. But the alternative doesn't have to be handing everything to a commercial platform. There is a third path: community self-hosting. And this is actually how much of the #Fediverse has worked for the last decade. A local group, cooperative, union, neighbourhood or affinity […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-answer-to-the-dotcons-isnt-everyone-becoming-a-sysadmin/
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The answer to the #dotcons isn’t everyone becoming a sysadmin
“Just self-host it” is blinded techie advice that ignores reality, most people don't want to spend their lives patching servers, managing certificates and worrying about whether they accidentally opened a security hole. But the alternative doesn't have to be handing everything to a commercial platform. There is a third path: community self-hosting. And this is actually how much of the #Fediverse has worked for the last decade. A local group, cooperative, union, neighbourhood or affinity […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-answer-to-the-dotcons-isnt-everyone-becoming-a-sysadmin/