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dublinben  ·  3636 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Kind of Magic: A conversation about losing control over our own technology

The primary step to taking back control over 'magical' technology is to use free software. With free software, you are the one in control of your software. You are not controlled by the software, as with proprietary software.

With free software, you are also legally empowered to dig into the inner workings of your devices, and understand how they work. Your life is no longer being controlled by opaque algorithms and foreign companies, but clearly-written configuration files that you can read/write yourself.





mk  ·  3636 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I agree with that. Unfortunately, the motivation to make things extremely user-friendly seems to be lesser in open source software development.

An open source UX dev community could break some chains.

dublinben  ·  3636 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I agree. UX is unfortunately lacking in many free software projects. I'm no expert in the field, but I do my best to champion this issue in every project I'm involved in.