A must-read for tech people:
https://jsteuernagel.de/posts/a-prison-of-my-own-making/In other words:
#bigtech corporate tools will turn your freedom spaces into jails. Literally by design.
I reached the same conclusion as
@jana@social.jsteuernagel.de but through a different (
maybe more political path, but the conclusion is the same: never trust the hyped overcomplicated tech designed, built and controlled by large US corporation, be them
#opensource or not.
I use
#convivial technology.
Simple tools and protocols (like older ones) that let you build what
you (and your friends) need without enslaving you one way or another.
To me this goes down to programming languages and operating systems. For example I prefer tools coded ib
#C then in
#Rust or
#Go (or any
#LLVM crap).
I prefer
Netsurf and
Claws-Mail to
#Google and
#Mozilla spywares (despite still using
#Librewolf a lot).
I prefer
Fossil to
#Git,
#Sqlite to basically any other RDBMS.
I prefer
#CGI to
#PHP, and
#PHP to any other more "modern" technology.
At work I have to use all sort of crapware (
#Teams,
#Kubernetes,
#SQLServer...) designed to reduce workers' degree of freedom.
But at home, to serve the needs of my family and friends, I stick to simpler tools, that work better and are still fun.
