Why the Luddites Matter

Post by Spooky23 » Sun, May 13, 2018, 1:07 PM UTC

FrozenVoid wrote: post #67

Luddites are just people disempowered by automation and capitalism: if its cheaper to use machines than people, automation makes people effectively jobless - and if automation touches multiple sectors of economy it multiplies the effect by squeezing out people from multiple sides, reducing the labor demand significantly. If there are no alternative sources of income(welfare, UBI) that correct this, expect many more "…

Post by pdimitar » Sun, May 13, 2018, 2:20 PM UTC

Consultant32452 wrote: post #69

pdimitar wrote: post #51

> you do not have to let a tech company screaming “technological progress” in your face turn you into a paragon of passivity This was the article's highlight for me. As a senior programmer I found myself saying "no" to more and more tech nowadays -- smart speakers are and will always be not welcome in my house, I carefully study mobile app permissions and deny everything but the absolutely necessary minimum (on my mo…

Depending on who you are concerned about with regards to protecting your wifi, hiding your SSID will mostly only annoy legitimate users. The most basic script kiddie tools for breaking your wifi encryption will easily detect hidden SSIDs. Even Windows informs you that a hidden wifi network is available, it calls it "Other Network."

Post by pdimitar » Sun, May 13, 2018, 2:26 PM UTC

lmns wrote: post #86

pdimitar wrote: post #51

> you do not have to let a tech company screaming “technological progress” in your face turn you into a paragon of passivity This was the article's highlight for me. As a senior programmer I found myself saying "no" to more and more tech nowadays -- smart speakers are and will always be not welcome in my house, I carefully study mobile app permissions and deny everything but the absolutely necessary minimum (on my mo…

If your access point doesn't advertise your SSID, your clients will. It's a bit counterintuitive, but in practice hiding your SSID does the opposite of what it says.

Post by BeetleB » Sun, May 13, 2018, 2:44 PM UTC

a1369209993 wrote: post #37

TeMPOraL wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Over time, and over lots of fighting. It didn't look like it when it's your boss that started to suppress your wages thanks to a new machine. Yes, the industrial revolution enabled increased wages and living standards. But for them to actually happen, and trickle down to workers, people had to fight hard. The modern working standards are literally written in tears and blood of our forefathers.

Technically, (somewhat) increased living standards are a inevitable consequence of significant production improvements in a not-completely-disfunctional economy. That doesn't really help in the short term though. Also: > literally written in tears and blood figuratively ; tears and blood make shit writing materials.

Post by pdimitar » Sun, May 13, 2018, 3:14 PM UTC

lmns wrote: post #98

pdimitar wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you please expand on that with an example? I am yet to read anything on hidden SSIDs, I'll appreciate the human explanation.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/networking/2008/02/08/no... tl;dr from the article: > If the network name of a wireless network (SSID) is not broadcast, the clients must search for it with probe requests. So if you have one AP and 100 wireless devices, you partially limit exposure of the network name with one device while causing 100 devices to expose it instead.