🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

#Quote from a measurably good person 🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo showing well what I mean:

"I agree that to really improve #society it requires one on one #care, #help, and #attention between people.

The only thing to keep in mind is QOTO, and the greater #nonprofit around it, has a mission that has always been very STEM oriented.

What you propose (@freeschool) is great, and if you ever do it ill be happy to support you in what little ways my bandwidth might allow.

But ultimately as a place with a #FOSS #STEM mission that is ultimately where our focus has and always will #lie.

I'm always happy for a chat when I can find the time, I appreciate your views."

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(#Quote is with permission and used to show the many similar DM's I've made to many similar higher levels of intellect or those responsible for instances / tech or even a conscious soul *anywhere* on the #Fediverse.

Many can't even reply to these "bettering-people" parts of messages (Freemo is always good at replying) and even people answering are ironically not about the "not-just-machines?" parts - and only the parts they want.

I constant see measurably that have some decency and morals, and want for it - but not putting in the time. Even they are going for some very aims of bettering people according to their own sites or profile descriptions! But question why you even message them (not a good start / shows bad faith from beginning).

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Below explains more why this quote is here and perhaps why life is not working in a longer sense of nobody solving it (Tech can be as the assistant while people do the people work but not expecting Tech to do the people work)....

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS POST - WILL CLEAN UP AS I RE-DO / IMPROVE BUT MOSTLY ALL IS HERE...

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...And a minor play on words for the word "lie" helps me start to explain things hopefully more memorably for any reader...

To help me explain the seemingly 'strange' phenomenon of making better people daily as a daily habit, I decided to added a hashtag on the the word #lie above (in the quote)...

⬆️ Did you notice that? ⬆️

...This #lie helps me start to explain that I think all the code / machines / external #tech in the world is really becoming an increasing #lie to people and measurably so as results - directly and indirectly...

And even if people can also "lie" or choose to be bad, people can't do it so often if they themselves don't believe in it . AND THAT IS CRUCIAL.

With tech you can do a lot more or a lot quicker or lie about it differently as a cover for many more reasons.

I can plug your code into other things and even run it all day and the tech doesn't know the difference - becoming a horror of code eventually (even if it's great now) like a horror of the #Transformers cartoon series as too many transformers have been added together and didn't know when to do more quality code and are lop-sided code production became #human #dysfunction (forgive a bit of poetic license).
It was always going to be human #destiny from over-doing machine code even without those putting it together deliberately in their own order as another weapon. We see from #history enough that we had lots of chances in life for not using things for bad or solving other things, but we have to assume all tech is going to be used for same bad eventually and in many more ways. The wars definitely didn't stop and computers are largely part of that and human ignorance.

So while I'm not saying "don't create anything" and not saying that "bad people will never exist after this". still it's better people, practice and do more regularly the examples we wish to see which means less of this abuse, or more checks, and limits it to individuals who even if they are bad have much harder work for them to maintain that bad which things like Tech helps them to do easier and even hide behind.

⬆️ Can I rest my case or do you disagree totally what need more time? (people or tech)

That's why Tech can be MUCH more of a lie than people lying to each other.
Because #Technology has nearer-0 ability to #care and no matter how much you tell #hammers (or hammers of code) not to be used badly on others someone else can insert it to do bad.

'Bad' also in another sense that depends on two people or people in the room respecting those personalities and souls of the people not just a rigid "standard" set of rules even of a moral kind because there are 100 ways people can do things and achieve same result still good for everyone. Binary fascism or just inaccuracy from listing all of attributes / we're not just a number or 1 category of people as "White" etc etc...

Tech is not good at customising in these ways or that between people (tech becomes the incorrect focus instead)..

Humans learn from Humans... and adapt too...

People have some ability to feel / see what's happening and learn to care... so once people play that game a bit more (even in business) then I'm sure more will care and share more often too and start to accept change of priority (people over profit sometimes) because it makes sense for them (and not needing to screw everyone all the time)..

In the non-physical or non-hardware sense the modern day #warfare continues as #war on people today (it didn't stop since WW2) as the virtualised #economics and #politics (stuff from distance used to cheat people for #money / #profit) so it only makes sense for us to slowly align back to ourselves / teach ourselves better politics between us... so we don't end up with the same leaders or snakes and equivalent #economic #hammers such as:

❌ Linux adfarms 🔨 or
❌ Mastodon google links 🔨

You see adfarms or google youtube links also serve them from us.
I asking @Gargron years back to make some posts even unofficially / personally to say 'you can also use... (anti links below)

https://yewtu.be/ or
https://redirect.invidious.io/
https://nyc1.iv.ggtyler.dev/feed/popular

...so instead of direct links on Fediverse we use @invidious links as just a suggestion to millions of users (Invidious was working for years but recently down) Following what seems we all came to Fediverse for avoiding (feeding the bad guy / bad tech).

Not showing google adverts indirectly or by proxy is just 1 half.

The other half is helping people use open source Invidious which didn't seem a priority for #Gargron even as a mention (not just future betterment of Mastodon as a potential feature or plugin) for his or #Fediverse users (which OK it's not all on him but he seems more against it a bit which was strange).

A lot of it good things overlaps (or naturally do) which is why we're here, but more on that in another post and just an example - not hating).

People can learn and see better IF WE WORK ON IT.. and see who doesn't want too. Tech is all so covered. You'd trust TechIncX but not trust me.

⬇️ EXAMPLE ⬇️
HOW YOUR PRODUCTIVITY / WORK IS MADE BETTER WITH PEOPLE / USERS INVOLVED

People told me to install Ubuntu / #Debian etc but TO START it took a nice person to do a walk-through to help me start.
People are not always "lame" or dumb... it's motivation + human brain(s) needing to do computer work and co-operate to get things done 🔁 (either for themselves 🔁 or the other and both 🔁 in the end).

THIS is all part of it (and not just leaving about leaving ISO somewhere on the web for people to download and stop at hurdle 1 or 2, or poor documentation).

⬆️ THIS help (above) the best 'forever' work in my eyes which turns any I.T. or operating system into more human-used and co-created work (measurably).

People "hands-down" need people much more than more tech. So in this case you get more installs and win against your opposition purely because you took the time with people. You find a lot more other things at the same time (bugs, places of improvement, beginner's opinions, expert advice in other fields etc)

The best "slowly-but-surely" work is work with people more often rather than 100 more tech #Rugpulls and mini-Google's destined to be eaten / bought up by Google or similar.

No matter how non-profit you or QOTO intends to be (all is still profit in some way) the state is not stupid to make fair containers or keep things fair / not pulling the plug somewhere / unruggable.

The million stories daily from all companies or state itself (that we are still learning) we need to step out of completely sometimes and see further that as entities people themselves (*the individual* container) holds better their own values in themselves than tech as main reason and with others too this formidable in a different way.

Risk of deception is always there but more often clearer in people over time rather than a general tech extension replaced by another head of snakes always leaving people quite empty in their wake and us having no choice over it. Sorry for the #USPol vibes but all crosses everything.

❓ Even on individual level, doesn't life seem too empty or over-reliant on Tech? ❓

❓ Isn't it like we have to have something switched on draining energy? ❓

People who played Super Nintendo or PlayStation in younger years (or still now) know that Linux PlayStation can be the same when you power down, empty and alone (again). Just passing time into yes a seeminglt 'perfect' 'logical' machine.

But people are possibly in worse position if not improving others in any deeper sense and create themselves or others as "just another user" or another "crazy genius tired broken down admin"
(like #GrapheneOS developer maybe who is making the best thing since mobile operating system but so terrible as person or in people skills).

People are measurable and repairable and we can be accountable without needing to punish, but hardly without more deliberate time given or as we do things with that integrated.

What / who is behind the bigger pipe of tech is an increasing #lie very false provider / less true to people things as that root trust is changeable to some extent as things can be bought and sold.

Something that might work today later doesn't or is over-done too often. all while people are left almost helpless or not helped in the personal sense of enjoying and learning directly with people or frankly having a normal kind of regular "therapy of life" during our struggling time "repairing" ourselves as a therapy instead of thinking focusing on more code is the way or doing things many don't understand on a simpler level.
Co-creating life and being more exposed to more types of "strangers" helps us be friends with the work even with a bit more of a measured approach and making time for it.

Various scales of lying means it's either people not being genuine or people not understanding what's behind the tech (US storage space and traffic as basis for everything able to be switched off / snooped on / #Amazon #AWS #Google)
not to mention what your servers run on #datacentres (unless you're not outsourcing it and #DIY)...

...and then seeing that anyway... (away from the usual hate for companies):

... Simply heading for each other's fellowship and company, using tech as only a basic medium for maximising growing of each other, is much better way for incrementing trust and helping others do the same (while even some tech projects continue but hopefully more people orientated).

Because we have enough tech do we not? We can di whatever we want mostly (talk, text, call, video, audio etc)

Tech can't do much more for us now to make better people... Or can it?

Or do you think we need more to make good people suddenly?

Past more videos and more media. I personally need people who are failing me all over the place. Not really code other than very basic maintenance of the existing.

Only people can actually do the people work WITH other people... !... else they are left for dead / alone almost and with uncaring #state / #bank partnership penning them increasingly all the while (#fascism is instantly nearer than you think it is once things switch off).

Isn't it about people developing people, not just machines... ?

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Fuck this was a good post. Right?

Keep it. Bookmark it. Happy to amend.

Better yet get in touch and let's work on #IT (better people...) more often or as higher primary focus than only FOSS or STEM.

( yes even at the same time as whatever you're doing as long as you're not all-in machines ).

People for the priority (and then everything else) to help people finding their place and even free work !

Attentions are largely on machines - and that's largely perfectly playing into those pumping it and scraping all the new 'useful' discoveries. We're losing that way.

What Europe should do RIGHT NOW: Make it extremely easy for US scientists to get long-term visa, create as many additional research jobs in key areas as possible, create new, generous science and research funds. People are losing their jobs over there NOW. Let‘s welcome them.