[RndTbl] Cory Doctorow on how you got here

[Mark Jenkins]

> Cory Doctorow
> <http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zg6arcdm2cqgdpq3jd9k74dl9keblmfuk9pitpro>

Here's another recent talk by Doctorow that's 30 minutes in length:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duG55M8t0sc


Always worth revisiting are these two classics:
/The coming war on general-purpose computing/
http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

and
/The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing/
http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html


Coming up, he'll probably talk for an entire hour when he gives a 
keynote at LibrePlanet 2017 on March 26.
http://www.fsf.org/news/libreplanet-2017-keynote-announcement-author-and-tech-activist-cory-doctorow

I'm going to be live-streaming this at local hackerspace Skullspace that 
morning, guests will be welcome.
http://skullspace.ca


Mark Jenkins

p.s.
The end of owner-controlled computing may be fast-arriving in the 
hardware market for new equipment. The folks behind the TALOS 
crowdfunding campaign have been pointing this out in their updates:

https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/
https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-secure-workstation/updates
https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/op_twbx86.php

Retrocomputing and motherboard repair knowledge may become very critical 
skills for survival of owner-controlled computing in the coming decades 
under worse case scenarios.