Submitted 17 hours ago by Jehovah@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
If you value your anonymity, you will not be able to use most popular communication platforms in the coming months. It’s a perfect storm for invasion of privacy in the USA right now.
Learning to code allows you to build and use your own tools. Does this make sense?
We are already flooded with bad coders who went to bootcamps because money. We need way less coders. Do something useful that you enjoy instead.
I disagree.
No matter how many coders exist, you always need to pay attention to quality. If there are lots of coders out there, finding a few good ones shouldn’t be hard.
Inexperienced coders can still contribute even if they don’t write anything big. FOSS needs all kinds of contributions.
finding a few good ones shouldn’t be hard
Ha, good one.
I think if someone is interested in the topic, then they will be better equipped to navigate tech products if they’ve learned about what’s going on under the hood. Same as health/science education for navigating pop science, or mechanical knowledge for navigating scammy car mechanics.
I agree on some of the other points though. I would not use any of the random chat apps that these new accounts have been posting
If you really want your life back just turn the internet off. Leave your phone at home.
You think the laws and events in here won’t affect out there?
but my favourite ai company ceo said coding by hand is dead and if I don’t learn how to make apps using their cool and awesome ai agent then I’ll be left behind!!!
As someone who has very little experience with coding, where would you recommend I start?
As someone who has a fair bit of experience with coding and with charlatans, don’t trust the one in the OP. They just joined Lemmy today, and they’ve been spreading unfounded conspiracist FUD. Learn IT stuff if you value your privacy most; the OP has no fucking idea what they’re talking about and gives zero practical examples to illustrate their point. Programming knowledge has rarely if ever been anything more than a tangential aid in maintaining my privacy.
I mean, there are software libraries that handle encryption for you. I’m imagining that OP is thinking of some kind of scenario where it becomes illegal to distribute communication software without ID verification, and people must write their own client programs, which is not an impossible task.
Excuse the reddit link but this is a fantastic comment I had bookmarked that answers your question, at least in regards to learning C.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Shouldn’t you just, you know, meet your friend as much as possible physically instead of creating app that no one will bother to use thus making communication hard?