I've been fanboy of technology for decades. All those years of following and writing about it never changed that.
But while I could always appreciate, and often celebrate, the achievements of some of the people who created things, I was never a fan of their industry. Its growth and power came with a massive increase in arrogance and abuse.
If we don't get a handle on this, everything good about tech will be subsumed by the bad.
@dangillmor That has been my experience the last years.
People can't understand why me, an IT guy who loves technology and has spent countless hours learning, don't have apps on my phone and is completely against LLMs.
My answer is usually "that should tell you a lot about these technologies but you use it to attack me instead"
@dangillmor mastodon shows there are other ways. removing google, meta and amazon from the picture would make for a better world. we dont need them, they need us.
