tech for tech's sake; need for context

This fixed my issue with Loading Cache... slowness on obsidian startup on macOS Sonoma. Many thanks to OP!

Absolutely agreed. One limitation of the Iron Triangle concept is that it often seems to be used to make decisions based on a snapshot in time (i.e. which two are we choosing now), when some choices have longer half-lives than others.

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Résumé de la vidéo [00:00:00][^1^][1] - [00:48:00][^2^][2] :

Cette vidéo est une conférence sur les low-tech, c'est-à-dire les technologies utiles, durables et accessibles, comme alternative à notre système de production et de consommation actuel. Elle présente les principes, les exemples et les enjeux des low-tech, ainsi que les recherches et les expérimentations menées par le Low-tech Lab et le Centre de sociologie de l'innovation.

Points forts : + [00:00:00][^3^][3] Introduction du cycle "Agir en temps de crise" * Présentation des partenaires et du thème * Présentation des intervenants Quentin Mateus et Morgan Meyer + [00:02:31][^4^][4] Définition et exemples de low-tech * Trois piliers : utile, durable, accessible * Exemples : toilettes sèches, capteur air chaud, four solaire, etc. * Changement de rapport à la technologie et aux besoins + [00:10:46][^5^][5] Diffusion et capitalisation des savoirs low-tech * Encyclopédie participative en ligne avec des tutoriels open source * Réseau de communautés locales qui se forment et s'entraident * Enquêtes auprès d'acteurs professionnels qui utilisent ou proposent des low-tech + [00:18:04][^6^][6] Recherches et analyses sociologiques sur les low-tech * Intérêt croissant des chercheurs et des institutions pour le sujet * Exemples de travaux sur l'ergonomie, l'agriculture paysanne, la boulangerie au four solaire, etc. * Réflexion sur l'innovation, la technologie, la transition et la société + [00:36:46][^7^][7] Questions du public et conclusion * Réponses sur les jeunes générations, le niveau européen, le rôle de l'industrie, etc. * Perspectives d'avenir et de développement des low-tech * Remerciements et annonce de la prochaine séance

At best a technology enables something, it does not provide it.

Community and connection are deep, sacred values that technology can assist -- or inhibit -- but they come from other sources and must be cultivated by other means.

Another primacy of being point if you like.

Interesting that this is considered a source of ambiguity. In my experience tech debt feels more like an expression of the type of work organizations value, reducing ambiguity by making concrete how little this kind of work is valued.

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• for: desalination

• for: futures - food production, futures - water production, desalination, ocean solar farm, floating solar farm, floating city
• title: An interfacial solar evaporation enabled autonomous double-layered vertical floating solar sea farm
• author: Pan Wu, Xuan We, Huimin Yu, Jingyuan Zhao, Yida Wang, Kewu Pi, Gary Owens, Haolan Xu
• date: Oct. 1, 2023
• source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1385894723041839?via%3Dihub#f0005
• comment
  • Since this simple design integrates fresh water and food production, it can be integrated as a module for a floating city.

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Migration between tech stacks can be driven by various motivations, including the need for enhanced capabilities or a desire for a more streamlined development workflow.

• for: quote, quote - Alejandro Pisanty, quote -human conduct vs tech, Alejandro Pisanty
• quote
  • We are wasting valuable time for humankind when we focus on
    • technology and platforms,
    • or even in privacy and control over data,
  • and not on conduct
  • A whole chain of conduct
    • from the active subject of a possible manipulation
    • to the harms suffered by others and society
  • occur as a consequence of manipulation and other abuses.
  • It’s not that tech is not important; it is that we overlook what goes on around it.”
• author: Alejandro Pisanty
  • professor at the National University of Mexico

• for: big tech - bias, big tech - manipulation, big tech - mind control, big tech - influence
• paraphrase
  • Early in 2013, Ronald Robertson,
    • now a doctoral candidate at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University in Boston,
  • and I discovered that Google isn’t just spying on us;
    • it also has the power to exert an enormous impact on our opinions, purchases and votes.

• for: search engine bias, google privacy, orwellian, privacy protection, mind control, google bias
• title: Taming Big Tech: The Case for Monitoring
• date: May 14th 2018

• author: Robert Epstein

• quote

• paraphrase:
  • types of search engine bias
    • the Search Suggestion Effect (SSE),
    • the Answer Bot Effect (ABE),
    • the Targeted Messaging Effect (TME), and
    • the Opinion Matching Effect (OME), among others. -
  • Effects like these might now be impacting the
    • opinions,
    • beliefs,
    • attitudes,
    • decisions,
    • purchases and
    • voting preferences
  • of more than two billion people every day.

• for: low-tech water purification, wood-based water purification, wood-based water desalination, low-tech water desalination

• for: low tech water purification, wood-based water purification, water purification

There are two versions of the calculations. The first formula is logarithmic which means a resulting score tends to increase significantly with small changes in the values of the formula components. The second one is made more user-friendly and forms a linear curve that distributes the results harmoniously.

I assessed a couple of tickets I created (90%, 50%; 80%; 90%; 90%) by these formulas. One showed 71% of cruftiness, while the other indicated 20%. I guess you could easily understand what formula I favor more. But jokes aside, I indeed think that the second formula is just more handy in understanding how quickly you’d better improve your docs.

Despite the fact that I do not think that this score should be mandatory, there is still a sense of its existence. Once measuring BA’s impact on the product is a separate topic for discussion, evaluating the artifacts prepared by BA can be a useful activity bringing us some valuable insights about how BA distributes their efforts between different activities, including documentation.

Hi! :wave: Have you ever wondered if your documentation published in Wiki attracts as much attention from readers as you think it deserves or if it is as right as your team needs? I have, and so do 50 more BAs that took part in Steve Adolph’s BBC Workshop on May 8th, 2023.

If you are with us, then let’s observe how crufted our documentation is. Huh, now you are wondering what “crufted” means, aren’t you? (Or is it just me discovering this technique recently?) Cruft is a slang word for badly designed, unnecessarily complicated, or unwanted code or software. And already back in 2007, the approach to assess cruftiness of documentation appeared.

CRUFT criteria are kinda subjective but has it ever bothered anyone when estimating tickets in story points?

Let's see what the Rock Crusher approach is.

Imagine business ideas as rocks, backlog as a stone storage container, and code-writing as a stone processing container. Rocks are mixed in sizes, different in materials, and fall from outside into the storage container unpredictably. The stones are selected from the storage by PO, and BA reshapes them into smaller-sized stones and instructs Developers how to adjust their code-writing stone-processing containers to start dealing with the material of the rocks and their size. When the next rock is selected by PO, BA splits it into a new number of pieces, and Devs re-adjust their processing containers to the new materials and sizes. And all this continues to happen with the pressure on the team to be consistent in delivery speed with unpredictable pieces of rocks.

The essence of the Rock crusher approach is in displacing the team’s focus. It should no longer be on how well the stone processing container is adjusted and how quickly the rock pieces are processed. Instead, the most attention should be paid to the pre-processing stage - to what is sent to the stone processing. These rocks-ideas should be more carefully selected, better prepared, split, groomed, combined, and assessed separately and in combination with others. That work even sounds huge and should be a team challenge and objective, there the team’s efforts should be put in.

Analysis of an idea - not development - is a focus and priority for all the team!

Besides the fact that this article describes indeed an interesting practice of hiring process improvement, I also see it as a great example of how to formalize the feeling of needed changes for any process, functionality, or even Objective from the OKRs list.

That's how I see the steps:

1. formulate the problem. It should not be the final, well-stated problem, just write down your concern with some background info;

2. create a Request-for-comments doc to collect suggestions from various stakeholders about how to solve your concern;

3. hold some sessions to review the comments. At this moment, it's highly possible that your understanding of the problem will expand, and suggested ideas will transform into new ones. It's time to define your strategy for problem resolution;

4. for each group of ideas, define metrics to measure the progress. Select the north star metric and its value;

5. experiment!

(1) Select stakeholders that are the most interested in the change and do not afraid of being early adapters; (2) hold impact mapping sessions and bet on some improvements to try them in the first place. Define the fundamental part of your changes; (3) validate the progress by the metrics regularly; (4) create a pipeline to visualize your progress;

1. analyze the results of the experiment. Adjust the changes made before if needed.

2. In case of positive results, spare the time for less significant changes and continue to track the progress.

This information definitely changed my opinions and views of Wikipedia. I feel like all throughout high school I was taught that Wikipedia was not a scholarly source so I always avoided looking on there because I didn't think it was accurate but reading the results of this study and the article attached about this study has changed my views of Wikipedia.

Now we can connect gemini with hypothesis. Unlimited possibilities!

Why do people grasp the impact technology has on society through the art of storytelling, through media? Even then, people seem to only think of it for a brief moment, unable to adapt their thinking and behavioral patterns amidst life transforming technological breakthroughs that resemble or hint to what the media showed them. People aren't quick to incorporate god-like technologies into their lives in order to improve them, let alone do proper research to be informed and have open dialogues about whether we are responsibly advancing and integrating technologies to our daily lives (TO THE CHILDREN) which are increasingly becoming more digitally dominant.

Is the private sector, aka Big Tech, more powerful and capable the government itself?

看到人工智能在破解密码方面有多么强大，这很好地提醒了我们，不仅要确保你在使用强密码，还要检查：

• 你正在使用 2FA/MFA（尽可能不使用基于短信的）。

• 你没有在不同的账户间重复使用密码

• 尽可能使用自动生成的密码

• 定期更新密码，特别是敏感账户的密码

• 避免使用公共WiFi，尤其是银行和类似账户

Steam Deck 配件的有用建议。

3 月 8 日在 PCGamesN 的 文章 里了解过 JSAUX。

Via Stephen Downes https://www.downes.ca/post/75035

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This is certainly "a way", but history has shown, particularly in the United States, that government regulation is unlikely to get involved at all until it's far too late, if at all. Typically they're only regulating not only after maturity, but only when massive failure may cause issues for the wealthy and then the "regulation" is to bail them out.

Suggesting this here is so pie-in-the sky that it only creates a false hope (hope washing?) for the powerless. Is this sort of hope washing a recurring part of

Say sometihng.

D'autres outıls ?

Is the inability to parse satire related to the inability to understand something is a dystopia? I suppose dystopian fictions are simply satire at the core 🤷‍♀️

You are not. I will hoard this blog post on my hypothes.is :)

Love this response

What about Matrix?

I went through some of the pieces in the collection. It is important to give a platform to the voices that are missing from the conversation usually.

Just a few similar initiatives that you might want to check out:

Storycorps - people can record their stories via an app

Project Voice - spoken word poetry

Living Library - sharing one's story

Freedom Writers - book and curriculum based on real-life stories

Case in point, October 21, 2022 headline from Bloomberg News: "Musk Gutting Twitter Would Be a Threat to Us All." This hysterical headline highlights Mr. MacIntyre's point, which I quoted here, about Twitter and elites. Moreover, the wording leads one to wonder whether Bloomberg News has contacts inside Twitter.

I completed high school about 15 years ago. Back then, most communication between parents and teachers was done by phone and mail. The default assumption by the NYCDOE that every problem needs an app or program is unexplained. Using phones and keeping contact directories up to date is something that had to be done not long ago.

Throughout my time in middle school, high school, and college, grades for tests were handed out in class and teachers had office hours for students to discuss their grades or any other issues. It is unclear to me from this article what time is being lost. Teachers can hand out grades to students just as well as they did before, and I presume that students who have questions or need additional guidance should be able to contact their teachers.

The NYCDOE was correct to sever its tie with third-party services, but why was the default response to build its own service? It was not long ago that there were no mobile applications for grades, attendance, and messaging.

This is the wrong way around, positioning the tech corp's perspective as more imporant than society's. It's insulting to position community as a means, similar to talking about users which limits the view one has of people and what they try to achieve to only their interaction with a tool.

The aim of scaling tech is again a tech company's limited view of the world, that should not be adopted by people using a tech tool. Individual acts scale to community to society/culture, but that's a different type of scaling. One through sideways copying and adoption. Not to scale a tool but to amplify/scale an effect or impact. Tech is a scaffold for enriching society, society is not there to scale tech corps.

Vgl [[Networked Agency 20160818213155]] wrt having a specific issue to address that is shared by the user group wielding a tech / tool, in their own context.

Vgl [[Open data begint buiten 20200808162905]] wrt the only yardstick for open data stems from its role as policy instrument: impact achieved outside in the aimed for policy domains through the increased agency of the open data users.

Tech impact is not to be measured in eyeballs, usage, revenue etc. That's (understandably) the corporation's singular and limited view, the rest of us should not adopt it as the only possible one.

Nerd, G. M.-K. H. (2022, February 25). The Jury is Still Out on Ivermectin. Medium. https://gidmk.medium.com/the-jury-is-still-out-on-ivermectin-7d0a1895549

电子产品是这个时代的机甲。

Where exactly is this group? They don't seem to have an online presence.

https://alex-hanna.medium.com/on-racialized-tech-organizations-and-complaint-a-goodbye-to-google-43fd8045991d

As ever, we need to do more listening. And reading, there's lots of interesting references in here to read.

the technology can be the source of either frustration or motivation

Prof. Christina Pagel. (2021, May 23). LONG THREAD on B.1.617.2 & latest PHE data covering: 1) latest tech report on B.1.617.2 (aka ‘India’ variant) 2) vaccine efficacy against B.1.617.2 3) consequences for roadmap 4) avoidability... Or not. [Tweet]. @chrischirp. https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1396574267349872644

This is an interesting argument as to what individual users can do to keep Firefox alive. But the biggest dent on anti-competitive behavior should come from well enforced proper anti-trust regulations the way Europe is doing it. How can browser users contribute to this?

Ohhh yeah that definitely makes things far more concerning. Not only do I like having apps that are independent and focused on improving their products, and I definitely wouldn't want Todoist to be bought out by a bigger company, the history of these acquisitions would not inspire any confidence in their long-term stability. I never even heard of these apps before.

I believe RTM is "Remember the Milk." I have heard this brought up a few times and the name is kind of odd, which makes me even more curious about what's special about it.

Before moving to Todoist, I used Microsoft To Do, but I wanted something more. I used TickTick for a bit but I barely remember anything from it. Todoist was the one that clicked with me.

On a side note, MinimaList is such a cute pun.

¿Deberíamos crear algo así para HackBo?

Una de las cosas importantes es pensar en cuando le damos curso a estos pensamientos. Al comienzo, quizás lo más conveniente es pensar en vida, más que en ayudar a morir. Otras metáforas como compostaje podría ser más convenientes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTSEr0cRJY8

Starts out with four and a half minutes of anti-crypto and Web3 material. Presumably most of her audience is in the web3 space.

http://youvegotkat.neocities.org

Neocities: http://neocities.org

The Yesterweb: http://yesterweb.org

Marginalia Search: https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random

It [the IndieWeb] is so so queer. Like it's super gay, super trans, super good.

The indie web also questions tech solutionism which often attempts to solve human problems by removing the human element. But easily the most remarkable and powerful thing about the internet is the ability it has to connect us with one another.

Kourtesis, Panagiotis, Graham Wilson, and Mario Parra Rodrigues. ‘Factors Influencing Acceptance of Technology across Age: Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic’. PsyArXiv, 4 February 2022. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tsrk4.

See technology more critical -- it shapes culture more so than anything else these days. And every tech product is deliberately designed to be the way it is.

Please name one larger tech company where questioning leadership is encouraged.

Note that for huge tech companies like Amazon that's not necessarily unexpected. About 15% of people change their job every year.

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Is that a bad thing, to have something to look forward to? It implies that new technological inventions are the only way to make progress, but it is undeniably progress. Not everyone will hold this view, and no one should force it upon you. So why are people constantly criticing "techno-utopia" views instead of creating and moving towards their own visions of the future?

He did see a bright potential before him, and that's precisely why he had a change at succeeding. I don't like the latent criticism about innovation in this article, it feels mostly like envy to me.

That's some ed-tech imaginary rhetoric there.

This goes quadruple for tech optimism over the past 15+ years.

This is some really troubling developments for all first world people, especially educators

Tech solutionism can often seem useful because it appears to be cheaper, simpler, and easier to implement than making more difficult choices and larger, necessary social changes.

One needs to always ask what is the real underlying problem? What other methods are there for potential solutions? What are the knock-on effects of these potential solutions. Is the particular solution really just a quick fix or bandaid? Once implemented how will one measure the effects and adjust after-the-fact?

Tech solutionism is the presumption that technology (usually by itself) can fix a variety of social, cultural, and structural problems.

It fits into a category of problem that when one's tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.

Many tech solutionism problems are likely ill-defined to begin with. Many are also incredibly complex and difficult which also tends to encourage bikeshedding, which is unlikely to lead us to appropriate solutions.

I suggest proposing only the names " Nvidia" and "AMD" as companies that make graphic cards. Possibly add "Intel".

I would suggest to remove "Radion" (I believe you are referencing the "Radeon" line of cards by AMD.

Also BlackMagic Design does not produce, I believe, graphic cards.

Lenovo seems to but I would also remove as I have never heard of these used in video editing.

Why is it so common for engineering teams to be mistrusted by other parts of the business?

Part of that is definitely on engineers: chasing the new shiny, over-engineering, etc.

That seems unlikely to account for all of it, though.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/06/google-silicon-valley-ai-timnit-gebru

She's talking about monopolies here. How can we break the monopolies of big tech?

Here again is an example of the extreme power of granting corporations the ability to be protected as "people".

Espinoza, J. (2021, November 28). Vestager urges European legislators to push through rules to regulate Big Tech. Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/1880d0fb-0651-47ed-a8f4-6cde0f729859

The best company for software development in Brazil.

great questions

THIS IS LITERALLY THE ANSWER TO SEARCH.

Just… FYI.

All you need to do is give users more control.

powerful Emscripten

El mundo de la informática no es sólo tecnicismo y deslumbramiento. Es una guerra continua por la política y los paradigmas del software. Con ideas todavía radicales, seguimos luchando. Esperamos la reivindicación, la última carcajada, y el reconocimiento como un estándar más: documentos electrónicos con conexiones visibles. /// Comentar con la traducción como un modo de estar completamente de acuerdo con este definición. Muchas veces hemos dicho, no es la tecnologia perse lo que nos mueve, es la apropiación social de esta y las implicaciones que tiene en nuestro habitar politico, social, cultural etc del mundo.

Including the "consumer" here is a red herring. We're meant to identify as the consumer and so take from this statement that our rights and best interests have been written into these BigTech-crafted laws.

But a "consumer" is different from a "citizen," a "person," we the people.

From the article:

Marsden and Virginia delegate Cliff Hayes held meetings with other large tech companies, including Microsoft; financial institutions, including Capital One; and non-profit groups and small businesses...

Which all have something at stake here: the ability to monitor people and mine their data in order to sell it.

Weak privacy laws give the illusion of privacy while maintaining the corporate panopticon.

compatibility: need for compatibility is limiting:

• innovation
• use of newer features

To design such a map, one needs to use these 2 Android components:

• LocationManager - provides a GPS location (lat,long) every second
• TelephonyManager - provides a cellID=(mmc,mcc,lac,cid) the radio is currently camping on

and cellID database to know the (lat,long) of each cell ID.

A set related to the tech bro toxic culture.

Interesting that libertarianism only seems to liberate a select few and not all.

I want this career!

"Spaces" is not an official entry here, but svdictionary is a good resource for all sorts of technical jargon common in the valley, and the site itself gives plenty of insight into the internal culture at these companies. Interested readers will also appreciate this guardian article from 2019 which covers a bunch of commonly used silicon valley terms.

This is also the case for many other toxic online social media platforms. A fantastic framing.

Ce site fournit une liste non-exhaustive des outils Open Source utilisables pour des projets de démocratie participative.

‘How Slovakia Tested 3.6 Million People for COVID-19 in a Single Weekend’. Accessed 26 February 2021. https://www.bi.team/blogs/how-slovakia-tested-3-6-million-people-for-covid-19-in-a-single-weekend/.

Ramamurti, R. (2020, October 27). Global Crowdsourcing Can Help the U.S. Beat the Pandemic. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2020/10/global-crowdsourcing-can-help-the-u-s-beat-the-pandemic