If I ever want to change my app settings, I can always text my friend and ask for the pin—but for me, I find this social layer makes a big difference. Having a friend in charge of the pin is somewhere between BDSM and making your intention concrete through spectacle, like with marriage.
Schlagwort: Technologie
Passbdsmword.
Nichtselbsterkenntnis.
I tend to like people who do not use a smartphone.
Contempt Contest.
Microsoft and Apple have been changing places. For a long time, Microsoft was the main enemy of users’ freedom, and then, for the past ten years or so, it’s been Apple. When the first iThings came out, around 2007, it was a tremendous advance in contempt for users’ freedom because it imposed censorship of applications—you could only install programs approved by Apple.
Richard Stallman, interviewed in New Left Review 113, September-October 2018
Unterdrückt.
I find it telling if a spell checking program does not know the word "oppressed".
Aufmoduliert.
Es ist 2018 und Leute lesen noch Teletext.