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Bruce Schneier Recommends New Type of Technologist

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday October 13 2019, @03:11PM   
from the last-throes-of-public-culture dept.

jmichaelhudsondotnet writes:

https://public-interest-tech.com/

Mr. Schneier and friends have created a new website to promote a change to the socio-economic technical milieu we are currently facing.

He suggests we need to have "public interest technologists" to help the situation.

He writes:

"We need technologists who work in the public interest. We need public-interest technologists.

Defining this term is difficult. One Ford Foundation blog post described public-interest technologists as "technology practitioners who focus on social justice, the common good, and/or the public interest.""

Is he right? How can this be implemented without becoming as riddled with government agents, spies and mafias as the key positions of our corporations and institutions are right now?

Full disclosure: this writer has been a public interest technologist for a while now and I have actually alluded to the need for something like what is being suggested on multiple occasions, 'a different kind of organization' is the way I put it, way back a few months ago.

Discuss.

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• Re:I thought we already tried that Re:I thought we already tried that (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Monday October 14 2019, @01:45AM (2 children)

  by c0lo (156) on Monday October 14 2019, @01:45AM (#906807) Journal

  Maybe he will shut up when systemd actually boots faster than sysvinit.

  As someone who doesn't reboot their Linux all day long, I so don't care about systemd booting faster.

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• Re:I thought we already tried that Re:I thought we already tried that (Score: 2) by deimtee on Monday October 14 2019, @04:22AM (1 child)

  by deimtee (3272) on Monday October 14 2019, @04:22AM (#906837) Journal

  I don't boot my system very often either, but faster booting was supposed to be one of the main arguments in favour of systemD.

  bash-4.3$ uptime -p
  up 2 weeks, 3 days, 3 hours, 50 minutes

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  200 million years is actually quite a long time.

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  • Re:I thought we already tried that (Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Monday October 14 2019, @05:23AM

    by c0lo (156) on Monday October 14 2019, @05:23AM (#906844) Journal

    Ahem.... I don't always boot my Linux but when I do I use SysV-init

    ^{(for the oldies with no teeth cut on meme generators [knowyourmeme.com]. Or with no teeth period, for the matter - grin)}

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