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"Livestock not pets" reflects the values of the surveillance industry, which needs scale-everything architectures as a result of treating users as livestock to
by mindslight 3y ago
"Livestock not pets" reflects the values of the surveillance industry, which needs scale-everything architectures as a result of treating users as livestock to be farmed. My machines each serve specific purposes, and I have a lovely cat. I don't need my own copy of AWS nor a pack of dogs.
- seanhunter 3y agoAgree. Also why shouldn't we be nice to livestock? It's not a requirement to be nasty.
- pimlottc 3y agoI remember when the original "pets vs cattle" viral post took off in the tech world, it wasn't long before folks from the farming world started hearing about it and saying, "actually, that's not how you treat cattle..."
- mindslight 3y agoIgnoring the inconvenient real details, in favor of an imagined model without them. Classic surveillance industry! Yeah, my uncle had a small herd of cows and they all had names.
- gavmor 3y agoI used to say "writing software ain't like digging ditches; you don't get steady progress out for steady human-hours in" until I had a client who dug a lot of ditches. They informed me that ditch-digging also goes in fits and starts. Ever since, I've had to say "writing software is like digging ditches." Although, truth be told, ever since then I simply tell this whole story.