#tyrannyofconvenience — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #tyrannyofconvenience, aggregated by home.social.
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Plz @superwuster, write an essay about how centralized technology in fiefdoms is dumbing down the population of convenience zombies. Make it an extension of your #TyrannyOfConvenience essay. Knowledge empowers. When people flock to a flagship (#FB, #LinkedIn, #Signal, #LemmyWorld, mastodon.social, etc) they choose the disempowerment that results from avoiding knowledge.
People /should/ grapple with things like #PGP key exchanges.
People who know enough to avoid the major tech giants still fuck this up by choosing the easy path (Signal, Lemmy.world, etc). Then they hypocritically tout the importance of #decentralization from their centralised Cloudflare platforms, effectively setting a poor example for the basic ideas ppl should hold in high esteem.
Even *in universities* students are clinging on to /easy/ tech. Google docs, facebook, MS Word (not LaTeX). The new culture of knowledge avoidance is a big component of the Tyranny of Convenience. We need a #TimWu essay to cover this -- to reach your massive influence of 28 followers (wtf?).
Should such an essay be written?
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Plz @superwuster, write an essay about how centralized technology in fiefdoms is dumbing down the population of convenience zombies. Make it an extension of your #TyrannyOfConvenience essay. Knowledge empowers. When people flock to a flagship (#FB, #LinkedIn, #Signal, #LemmyWorld, mastodon.social, etc) they choose the disempowerment that results from avoiding knowledge.
People /should/ grapple with things like #PGP key exchanges.
People who know enough to avoid the major tech giants still fuck this up by choosing the easy path (Signal, Lemmy.world, etc). Then they hypocritically tout the importance of #decentralization from their centralised Cloudflare platforms, effectively setting a poor example for the basic ideas ppl should hold in high esteem.
Even *in universities* students are clinging on to /easy/ tech. Google docs, facebook, MS Word (not LaTeX). The new culture of knowledge avoidance is a big component of the Tyranny of Convenience. We need a #TimWu essay to cover this -- to reach your massive influence of 28 followers (wtf?).
Should such an essay be written?
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Plz @superwuster, write an essay about how centralized technology in fiefdoms is dumbing down the population of convenience zombies. Make it an extension of your #TyrannyOfConvenience essay. Knowledge empowers. When people flock to a flagship (#FB, #LinkedIn, #Signal, #LemmyWorld, mastodon.social, etc) they choose the disempowerment that results from avoiding knowledge.
People /should/ grapple with things like #PGP key exchanges.
People who know enough to avoid the major tech giants still fuck this up by choosing the easy path (Signal, Lemmy.world, etc). Then they hypocritically tout the importance of #decentralization from their centralised Cloudflare platforms, effectively setting a poor example for the basic ideas ppl should hold in high esteem.
Even *in universities* students are clinging on to /easy/ tech. Google docs, facebook, MS Word (not LaTeX). The new culture of knowledge avoidance is a big component of the Tyranny of Convenience. We need a #TimWu essay to cover this -- to reach your massive influence of 28 followers (wtf?).
Should such an essay be written?
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I often hold back on disclosing privacy tips because privacy advocates are so far outnumbered that it seems more likely that privacy adversaries will take action to thwart or shut down the angle / hack or facility.
Among the tiny demographic of privacy proponents almost none of them are committed to privacy. Trapped in the #TyrannyOfConvenience as articulated by Tim Wu. A majority of the so called pro-privacy crowd are ppl that complain as they login to Facebook (and make excuses for using it) ... or they blindly accept deceiving & compromised privacy theatre tools so long as they don’t require a change of habit. E.g. brainwashed to think #DuckDuckGo is aligned with the privacy movement. No, #DDG is just exploiting fools.
The sad state of it is evident simply by stepping into a #threadiverse c/privacy community, where a majority of posts come from accounts hosted on nodes like #lemmyWorld & #shItjustWorks even if the community itself is on a defederated node.
It’s hard to imagine privacy movements making much progress when the orgs that claim to have a privacy mission will litter their site with FB and Twitter then reverse proxy it through CF.
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#Wikimania2024 will violate remote participants' privacy [1] and security [2], according to a #WMF member who *finally* answered a question on the issue after 6 days of repeated attempts to get a straightforward answer [3].
The WMF member argues that this is a necessary compromise and that things were worse before [3].
#TyrannyOfConvenience #Wikimania #WikimaniaKrakow #WikimaniaCracow
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_%28software%29#Privacy
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_%28software%29#Security
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@bonifartius That’s indeed the most sustainable option but quickly ignored in the land of #tyrannyOfConvenience (#TimWu). As you might have noticed from the two polls the drying rack is the winner in ~70% of the world outside the US but it’s a hard sell in the US. Hence the dehumidified closet approach. Heat pumps are an unexplained failure in the US but perhaps dehumidifiers are the answer.
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This has a #tyrannyOfConvenience element to it. This is a good essay on the topic by #TimWu (the guy who coined the term #netNeutrality): https://www.nytimesn7cgmftshazwhfgzm37qxb44r64ytbb2dj3x62d2lljsciiyd.onion/2018/02/16/opinion/sunday/tyranny-convenience.html
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Here's a Nature Astronomy News & Views description of why our #Reproducibility criteria for longevity are "rigorous" and "onerous", by #MichelleKuttel. There's a nice description of #Maneage, with a warning that Maneage does not seem to cater to Windows users (oh dear!), and that "bells and whistles" for the #TyrannyOfConvenience generation are lacking.
Privacy disclaimer: https://rdcu.be/cmYVx gives the subscription-only pdf but requires something like chromium with absolutely no protection!