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  • Nem de propósito…

    Ainda há pouco vi alguma coisa de alguém a insurgir-se contra qualquer “nacionalismo europeu” que possa haver neste contexto. Argumentava que o software de código aberto é internacional (e intercontinental) por natureza… agora não consigo encontrar.

    Mas pronto, não sou o único a “sentir este cheiro esquisito”. :-)



  • Eu concordo com isso tudo. E até também procuro, por mim, no mesmo sentido. Até além de software - música, filmes, línguas, arte em geral, modos de vida…

    Mas hoje em dia tenho medo que essa conversa caia numa outra bastante menos interessante - a de uma espécie de nacionalismo informático.

    Sou o único a sentir este cheiro esquisito?..

    (Não estou a duvidar das tuas motivações. É só uma ideia para debate)



  • That’s one possibility, yes. My gut feeling goes like this:

    If you’ve been training without for as long as you can remenber and having or not having such a device has zero effect, you’re the adult in the room and this is not about you.

    There’s allways the guy who liked the colour. That’s not about him either.

    If you bought one to help you keep going, I’m afraid it will help you as long it is a novelty, data is a novelty, your “network” is a novelty… Past that and the efect will vanish like hot water cooling. A trick that might help is to get someone you care about to share your progresses and achievements (the data) like a nice training partner or a family member, or someone with the same desiese as you if that’s the unfortunate case.

    If you’re really excited about your workouts and bought one to help you even more, I’m afraid you’ll realize the novelty efect will wain down as you get to know your mesurements by heart as well or predict them sometimes more acurately than the device. The exceptions are professionals - those don’t count here.

    If your trainer made you buy one but he’s not looking at the weights yout lift or counting the reps and couldn’t care less about the records, but he’s counting very closely and keeping track of how much time you’re spending in that particular hart rate zone or other seemingly weird mesurements, you’re golden. Don’t (or do, rather, in the positive way) question the need for such a thing, never leave that guy (or girl), never miss a session.











  • I’m afraid you might be right!

    What’s your theory?

    My nightmare goes like this:

    • Some form of spam and plain wrongdoing will emerge with the rise of awareness about this fediverse thing.
    • To cut a long story short: then some form of control will have to be put in place - like spam filters, blacklists, server whitelists and the like - and the hole thing goes the way of the email and the usenet, making it almost impossible to keep a server as an independent hobbyist.
    • Some cleaver provider will offer a free $ervice and enforces the control techniques mentioned above reinforcing its use and closing the circle.

    My hope:

    • This thing will “never fly” and consequently only really committed and interesting people will linger. Great!
    • A second best hypothesis is becoming the second best forever - the best place to be, like linux.
    • The fediverse community gets really large and popular and has so many servers and services that it becomes impossible to capture by a single giant player.
    • People will “see it coming” and vote intelligently with their feet refusing the big players and choosing freedom instead. Hahahaha!..