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These governmental attestation requirements popping up all over the world are nothing but a visible escalation step in the war on generic computing.

@pluralistic spoke about it in 2011 and here's a nice transcript for you https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation

I'm not modest enough to not say I was also looking at those writings in the wall, but he's a much better speaker.

Go read that, and please, please, please...

Stop collaborating with the authoritarians.

The Coming War on General Computation - Wikisource, the free online library

R. Sabourin

@rsabourin@pdx.social replied · 3 days ago

@RuiSeabra @pluralistic
Computers are enshittifying at every level. This might be my next purchase.

Becca

@bweller@mstdn.social replied · 2 days ago

@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic

Photo of a Pickett N600-ES slide rule, yellow with black and red scales, shown above its brown suede leather case

https://www.sliderule.ca/pi600f.jpg — Photo of a Pickett N600-ES slide rule, yellow with black and red scales, shown above its brown suede leather case https://www.sliderule.ca/pi600f.jpg

Rupert Reynolds

@RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io replied · 2 days ago

@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic This is smaller, but it won't boot Linux, so what's the point? ;-)

A Curta mechanical calculator, which looks like a high tech pepper grinder, with its winder handle at the top

Mark Crocker

@mcrocker@indieweb.social replied · 2 days ago

@RupertReynolds @rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic I own one of these Curta Calculators. The same model. I drag it out from time to time, when I need to do simple calculations.

The square root algorithm is enough of a PITA that I only used it once after learning it.

Rupert Reynolds

@RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io replied · 2 days ago

@mcrocker @rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic I never tried square root. That was bad enough on my first electronic calculator, which only had +-*/ and a memory register.

I like the way that if I subtracted one time too many, I could go into reverse and 'undo' the mistake :-)

cpm

@cpm@spore.social replied · 2 days ago

@RupertReynolds
i used to own a basic curta,
early sn#

did all the problems in the book.

square/cubes, and respective roots become intuitive with practice.

@mcrocker @rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic

Perspective

@Perspective@c.im replied · 2 days ago

@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic

Not to date myself, but I used the cash register version of this adding machine at my first job! Thanks for posting!
😀👍

The Great Llama :fuck_verify:

@TheGreatLlama@kolektiva.social replied · 2 days ago

@rsabourin @RuiSeabra @pluralistic
Where do you input your age verification? 🤔

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