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Written by John Turner on 2024-10-16 at 04:46

I think a lot of the conversations around ethics in tech that happen on places like Mastodon are necessary, and important. But their necessity also diminishes the appeal of the field to me. It’s nice to have an outlet that’s tech related without all the baggage. 3/3

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Written by John Turner on 2024-10-16 at 04:41

I think that the main draw for me is the lack of moral ambiguity and unabashed enthusiasm in the community. No one is arguing about whether the scripting engine is a net negative for humanity or accusing anyone using it of being wrong; no one nitpicks their way into reinventing the wheel; and when someone releases a new thing, it’s either met with applause or, at worse, not a ton of engagement, but there’s never abject disdain. 2/3

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Written by John Turner on 2024-10-16 at 04:29

While I love working in the tech industry broadly, the most exciting to me in technology recently has been the community around the monome norns. Norns is a small computer made for music; I think it’s an RPi? But unlike a lot of synths, many of which these days are also RPis with fancy hardware controls, the norns embraces being a computer: it has a scripting engine and a very active and engaged community of folks hacking together programs to make fun sounds. 1/3

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Written by John Turner on 2024-09-18 at 01:44

Ah, so that’s what happens when @lisamelton boosts your post.

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Written by John Turner on 2024-09-17 at 23:13

Really looking forward to explaining to my kid that his PII has been compromised for basically his entire life because he had the audacity to be born at a time when the positive incentives for computer security were nearly nonexistent and the regulatory penalties favored doing the bare minimum you can get away with.

[#]privacy #cybersecurity

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Written by John Turner on 2024-09-17 at 23:06

My son just got his first data breach letter. He’s 2.5 years old.

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Written by John Turner on 2024-09-10 at 19:18

“Why am I not hearing audio out of the other channel?” he asks, fiddling with the stereo cable that he plugged into a mono synth. 🤦

[#]synth

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Written by John Turner on 2024-08-30 at 22:07

Just finished @naominovik’s Scholomance series, and wow, what a fun and satisfying narrative world; here’s hoping for more stories in it. I’m looking forward to digging into her other work.

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Written by John Turner on 2024-08-13 at 17:08

We as a species really need to put a moratorium on trap beats until we can learn how to use them responsibly.

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