@arstechnica I remember not too long ago when developing tech skills was a big thing for getting on the job market.
Seems we don't do that any more.
Instead, we now spend more and more resources catering for #techilliteracy the more we depend on technology.
@rysiek @agturcz that's not how you fix #TechIlliteracy, espechally since things changed for the better.
@monocles / #monoclesChat & @gajim / #gajim are quite easy, whereas @signalapp / #Signal demands #PII in the form of a #Phone number which is more often than not not legally obtainable without "#KYC" aka. "forced #SelfDoxxing" all whilst being an extremely #centralized, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider solution that falls under #CloudAct ant thus cannot adhere to #GDPR & #BDSG!
"JuSt UsE sIgNaL !" won't fix #TechIlliteracy but rather provide false sense of security to #TechIlliterates when the correct solution is to teach proper #TechLiteracy like @cryptoparty@chaos.social / @cryptoparty@mastodon.earth / #CryptoParty does...Otherwise we'd only perpetuate the #Enshittification-#Lifecycle as has happened with #AIM, #ICQ, #BBM and so many more...
If #Signal and @Mer__edith actually cared, they would've setup their system truly decentralized as an #OnionService over @torproject / #Tor!
@kkarhan
The biggest recent loss is #techilliteracy at universities. Self-hosting may be out of reach to a large portion of households but if you go to univerisity today it’s a quite depressing sight.
E.g. Do an MX lookup on mit.edu. The answer:
mit-edu.mail.protection.outlook.com
Indeed, #MIT where you expect to find the biggest brains and they’ve dumbed tech down to where they cannot even handle hosting their own email service.
A university campus should be a highly capable self-serving village with minimal dependency on the outside world. Universities should be leaders, not followers. Students should have campus jobs to run in-house services and inherently learn from experience.
If the university outsources everything and demonstrates dependency, of course it’s going to produce graduates who are dependent and incapable.
IMO there needs to be a university comparison project that tests competency by measuring what they outsource both in terms of commercial closed-source software and services.
@SwiftOnSecurity EXACTLY!
I'm shocked at the #TechIlliteracy of post-millenial #Kids despite them having easier access to #Documentation and #HowTos than I could've ever dreamed of, despite having #ISDN in 1999...
@afelia relativ...
Das Problem ist eher: "Wieviel #TechIlliteracy muss ein Produkt / Dienst aushalten?"
Diesselbe Frage wie bei Geräten:
@digitalcourage @sluecking @SheDrivesMobility +9001%
Ich habe Leute kennengelernt, die haben bis nach dem Abi nichtmals nen PC auch nur benutzt geschweige denn ne Tastatur und Maus.
Und das war in 2019...
#TechIlliteracy ist ein massives Problem und es wird größer, nicht nur bei Älteren...
