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feral philosopher bug

I don't seem to be able to stop making things and putting them on the internet

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fiction

The Dragon Racer (webnovel)

Heaven Can Wait (novel)

Smashwords

Itch

Fanfic (Ao3)

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music
Bandcamp

Soundcloud

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podcast

(about Japanese RPGs)

Youtube

Libsyn & RSS

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streams

Twitch

Youtube (archives)

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#all my made-up mech pilots

(h/t: @Making-up-Mech-Pilots / @Scampir)

#Denis Urban, fictional sports pundit


caffeinatedOtter
@caffeinatedOtter

"apps have completely eroded tech literacy!"

can you actually demonstrate as a fact, not an assumption on your part, that tech literacy has ever been a general-purpose phenomenon

because I was working in retail selling games consoles at the last point they could arguably still be thought of as standalone plug-and-play machines, and lemme tell you, substantial numbers of people struggle to cope with the technological demands of "plug in both the power and video cables. The other end of the video cable needs to be plugged into your TV"


caffeinatedOtter
@caffeinatedOtter

there are many many reasons to hate the arc of tech toward grasping control, functionality fragmented and siloed into units of marketing, and swingeing monetisation; but harkening back to a time People Understood Computers ain't it


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I've heard a couple of time story of young people joining the workforce and not knowing what files and folder are. You take a photo in one app, you use share button when viewing one picture to send the photo to a friend in an app.

I can believe big tech is working hard to hide files because that give them much more power. Like youtube downloader can't be a thing if there are no files, only apps

Oh, computer people have been like this since the beginning, and it's always "society is doomed, because students no longer learn the specific thing that I needed to learn and worked my entire career to make sure that people wouldn't need to care about every again."

I suspect that the term "literacy" spurs the conversation, because actual literacy and media literacy stand mostly as universal concepts, whereas "computer literacy" swerves around being able to design and fix circuits, keying in machine code, building compilers, assembling machines from commodity parts, infinitely nested file systems, and every other thing that "kids these days" may or may not learn...

our understanding of the current "tech literacy erosion" thing is that there's been a major reduction in the ability to problem-solve anything not neatly wrapped up in an app compared to previous averages, not a reduction in the base level of knowledge involved

that apps are a deliberately sandboxed and obfuscated way of presenting information and activities doesn't help with this, but it's not solely responsible