Hah, you should see the comment threads in some of the European nation subreddits on Reddit, whenever an article mentioning FAANG / Big Tech comes up.
They really want to burn them.
Are Hackers the New Luddites? [audio]
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Re: Are Hackers the New Luddites? [audio]
#42A better term than Luddite may be obstructionist. Hackers object to new technology due to their disagreeing with everything Cloud, Tracking, limited user rights, DRM, etc.
The Luddites also objected to new technology for their reasons. They weren't reacting on religious grounds that it was inherently evil.
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#43Beside the point, but IMO, all podcasts should have a transcription option as well. I unfortunately just don't have the attention span to listen to hours of people talking, but put it in text format and I have zero issues.
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#44Beside the point, but IMO, all podcasts should have a transcription option as well. I unfortunately just don't have the attention span to listen to hours of people talking, but put it in text format and I have zero issues.
Would you have the same demand for video?
Would you have the same demand for video?
Why not? Not everyone is in a room by themselves and can turn up the volume. Not everyone can wear big gamer headphones at work.
Posting a video on the internet and not including a transcript is like posting something on Instagram and no other platform and thinking, "That's good enough."
If your goal is to communicate your thoughts, you make them available to as many people as is practical.
You don't publish a book and slip it onto one shelf at one local library and then wonder why nobody reads your work.
Re: Are Hackers the New Luddites? [audio]
#45Beside the point, but IMO, all podcasts should have a transcription option as well. I unfortunately just don't have the attention span to listen to hours of people talking, but put it in text format and I have zero issues.
Startup / App opportunity? Automated transcripts are pretty good.
Google's automated transcripts of YouTube videos are pretty terrible for the type of content I watch.
If Google's billions can't solve the problem, Rando Startup is going to have to be awful clever.
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#46Beside the point, but IMO, all podcasts should have a transcription option as well. I unfortunately just don't have the attention span to listen to hours of people talking, but put it in text format and I have zero issues.
In addition, all articles should have an audio option as well. I unfortunately just don't have the attention span to read walls of text, but put in audio format and I have no problem.
Re: Are Hackers the New Luddites? [audio]
#47I sense a trend https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-happens-to-tech-work...
Let's be realistic.. let's say you are a c++ programmer and want to learn some modern JS framework. I bet you it will literally take less than a week of concentrated study work for you to become better than 80-90% of people working with it. You can get a book on the subject, there's great tutorials, heck, just reading the reference will get you far. This is true for a lot of stuff on youtube, coursera etc. I believe.…
The barrier to entry is not the availability of materials, it's the jargon and working knowledge of the ecosystem required to find those materials and decide which are worth your time.
I've been the C++ programmer with a week to learn a modern JS framework. I'll never do that again, and will always hire an expert to bring myself and a project up to speed. It's a massive waste of time and money.
You also won't be "better" than anyone else at it, since expert-level C++ knowledge is not very translatable to other domains (but that's a C++ problem more than anything, working in it is like playing a piano and not riding a bike).
Re: Are Hackers the New Luddites? [audio]
#48Beside the point, but IMO, all podcasts should have a transcription option as well. I unfortunately just don't have the attention span to listen to hours of people talking, but put it in text format and I have zero issues.
I think my issue with audio/video is i often finding myself skimming articles for content i'm interested, before i deep-dive in the content and consume it fully. I don't mind video or audio if i _know_ i want it. But it's obscenely slow to verify if video/audio content is worth my time. So much content on the internet is shallow or misleading. Text is easier to filter for me.
I often skim video content on youtube and while not as easy as text, it’s still possible. When people talk an idea they usually go on for a bit and that could be enough to sample video. If interested I add it to a playlist and listen when Im in deep mode, usually when painting or doing a creative activity. When my interest peaks I go 100% on the content.
Re: Are Hackers the New Luddites? [audio]
#49I was going to say no but then I realized I would be unfairly judging the actual Luddites. (I would like to say that I am going by the podcast blurp rather than its content so they may very well cover the point I am making).
Hackers seem to oppose 'new' things in the technology space because most of them limit us and bind us to monolithic entity. Similarly, Luddites did not technically oppose technology but rather were outraged at their own loss of autonomy as crafts were replaced by mechanized, industrial production. Really the opposition of large, opaque, and closed software and services has very similar underlying drives as that of the Luddites. It's then not really a surprise when Marxist themes (some would say more libertarian but in practice not really) are somewhat common in open source & hacker spaces.
Re: Are Hackers the New Luddites? [audio]
#50Beside the point, but IMO, all podcasts should have a transcription option as well. I unfortunately just don't have the attention span to listen to hours of people talking, but put it in text format and I have zero issues.
In addition, all articles should have an audio option as well. I unfortunately just don't have the attention span to read walls of text, but put in audio format and I have no problem.
> all articles should have an audio option as well
Isn't there a variety of text-to-speech apps available?