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“I think the shift to the cloud will happen at such a rapid rate, that in just a few years I predict there will be no more code on your local computer.”, GitHub CEO

yikes

Like 19 Jun 2022 at 20:31 | Open on merveilles.town

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Garrit 🏡🛠️

@neauoire Microsoft probably forced them to say that.

19 Jun 2022 at 20:34 | Open on fosstodon.org

alex

@neauoire Chromebooks are already there. I am shocked/concerned after learning from my teacher friends how chromebooks are the primary computer used in US schools at all levels

19 Jun 2022 at 20:36 | Open on merveilles.town

Devine Lu Linvega

@aw they are?! damn, that's depressing.

19 Jun 2022 at 20:37 | Open on merveilles.town

tech? no! man, see...

@neauoire @aw covid closing the schools really accelerated this push to get them in the hands of every kid in the local school districts, which from an equality perspective was much better than the previous status quo.

but the rollout here was done in such a way that the chromeos sandbox/firewall was trivially bypassed and you could get a full debian chroot just by asking the OS nicely, which was kind of awesome. granted most kids will continue to see the computer as an appliance, but the kids who are curious will find their exploration rewarded.

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19 Jun 2022 at 20:45 | Open on icosahedron.website

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@neauoire @aw Chromebooks actually rule. You can drop into real Linux and do whatever you want with just a few clicks. And if you totally screw it up, you can reset it easily.

19 Jun 2022 at 20:46 | Open on merveilles.town

spooky blip 👻

@neauoire @aw I know dozens, if not hundreds, of teachers via my volunteering work over the past decade with FIRST and VEX robotics, and yeah, they pretty much all have 100%-Chromebook schools. Many of them have for 3-5 years.

19 Jun 2022 at 21:05 | Open on merveilles.town

alex

@neauoire this article is 5 years old but describes a lot of the dynamic https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/technology/google-education-chromebooks-schools.html

19 Jun 2022 at 21:34 | Open on merveilles.town

rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

@neauoire

Without a decent Internet connection everywhere (even at low tide 😉) this would be a hard goal.

19 Jun 2022 at 20:36 | Open on mastodon.cisti.org

Chris [list of seasonal emoji]

@neauoire

"'Cloud sevices are going to be big!', says CEO of cloud services company."

19 Jun 2022 at 20:56 | Open on mastodon.technology

amorris

@neauoire Feels like it's not much longer until you can't even resolve the DNS of anything but the cloud

19 Jun 2022 at 21:08 | Open on merveilles.town

Kira, feral fox 🦊 🏳️‍⚧️

@neauoire makes sense from a capitalism perspective :'(

19 Jun 2022 at 21:13 | Open on sunbeam.city

radioactive isosoph

@neauoire they're right, all of my code is on github and i really have no other places it's backed up to... i really need to get to hosting my own git(/got perhaps) sever soon

19 Jun 2022 at 21:19 | Open on merveilles.town

Trevor Flowers

@neauoire Imagining a NRA but for compilers instead of guns.

19 Jun 2022 at 21:23 | Open on xoxo.zone

wakame

@neauoire Almost as if the CEO of GitHub doesn't understand git. Weird.

19 Jun 2022 at 21:57 | Open on tech.lgbt

🍂Evan Balster🍂

@neauoire Every investment boom is like this. Remember VR? Gamification?

19 Jun 2022 at 23:26 | Open on merveilles.town

Devine Lu Linvega

@evan Gosh, "remember VR", so true. I hadn't looked at it this way, "in a few years your code will be on the blockchain" haha

19 Jun 2022 at 23:31 | Open on merveilles.town

🍂Evan Balster🍂

@neauoire Different subsets of tech/investor insider culture get hyperfixated on something new every few years.

Always some dramatic vision of something that will simultaneously create social disruption and social utility — a bounty to the masses that also happens to divert markets into producing investor returns.

20 Jun 2022 at 21:26 | Open on merveilles.town