"I find the discussions about technical matters to be liberating and self-empowering, and I identify as “non-technical”. To be sincere, it was in the slow accumulation of technical knowledge and skills that I became excited about the future again. […] This feels antithetical to how people approach the internet today, but I don’t think that’s the case for the future."
https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/background().html
Damn, those parentheses really do throw off Mastodon. Let's try this: https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/background%28%29.html
"The present moment is one where companies are obscuring the depth of their technical processes to quietly profit off surveillance, oppression, and depression. The future is one where technology is reclaimed by everyone; it is open and welcoming and asking to be built by hand. I want us to grow towards that future with everything we share." https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/background%28%29.html
I'm liking this manifesto already.
@kensanata
Wow, this has always seemed impossible to me...
I always found it hard to explain technical stuff to non-technical people, especially when I can't expect them to know any of the terminology that I'd use.
And it seems like they either get bored quickly, or weren't willing to understand from the very beginning.
I'd love to see how you can get non-technical people to get interested in the technical stuff.
@Wolf480pl Yeah, me too! 😅
@kensanata
I was hoping the author would have an example of how they got a non-technical person interested in the technical stuff.
Like default_conversation(), but a successful one.
Without it, the whole idea of getting non-technical people interested in technical details may as well be a dream.
@Wolf480pl I guess the author considers themselves the best example and extrapolates from there?
@kensanata I know they consider themselves an example. It's okay to extrapolate a hypothesis, but one should look to confirm it before announcing it to others as the best strategy.
@kensanata
this looks like it may be a kind of confirmation of the hypothesis:
https://coolguy.website/rituals/enchantment-ritual.html
@Wolf480pl I could only skip the beginning. That is not how I communicate with people. Then again, perhaps it works. Shamanism probably “worked” for thousands of years but it seems fundamentally opposed to the ideals of enlightenment.
@kensanata
But I think both share the belief that "there's a vast amount of knowledge that I don't have yet, but here's the path to learning it", as opposed to "Push a button, two pancakes come out. Simple. What's there to learn?"
@Wolf480pl good point!