pages tagged videohroy.euhttps://hroy.eu/tags/video/hroy.euikiwiki2023-10-30T21:09:31ZA Turing complete userhttps://hroy.eu/posts/im-a-turing-complete-user/2023-10-30T21:09:31Z2014-02-28T23:00:00Z
<p>I like to consider myself a <a
href="http://contemporary-home-computing.org/turing-complete-user/">Turing
complete user</a>. This is a concept I discovered in a <a
href="http://contemporary-home-computing.org/turing-complete-user/">fascinating
essay</a> written by <a
href="http://art.teleportacia.org/olia.html">Olia Lialina</a> on the
<em>concept of users</em> in computing, and the trend best embodied by
Apple to destroy users and all they stand for.</p>
<p>I guess on of the reasons I liked the article is that I totally
recognise myself in this concept of Turing complete user. But I also
find a little bit sad that this is not a widespread species.</p>
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<em>“A scientist of the Future”</em> Title picture of Vanevar Bush’s “As
we make think” from Life magazine, 1945
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<p>But I can’t believe it’s going to stay that way indefinitely.
Eventually maybe people are going to stop putting up with how bad their
computers respond to them and start doing something about it. Maybe
<a class="toggle" href="https://hroy.eu/tags/video/#posts-im-a-turing-complete-user.lifecam">Jan-Christoph</a>
should start a series: “I hate technology.”</p>
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I just noticed how it’s funny that [Jan’s homepage][jcborh] currently
features a <a
href="http://jancborchardt.net/img/2010-06-14-web.jpg">collage</a> of
pictures taken for 24 hours while he was wearing a camera on his chest.
Do you see the resemblance with the picture chosen by Olia to represent
the user?
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<p>One step towards this is this excellent project, <a
href="http://revealingerrors.com/">Revealing errors</a>.</p>
<p>Anyway, I encourage you to read the <a
href="http://contemporary-home-computing.org/turing-complete-user/">essay</a>
or if that’s more your style there’s a video from the last CCC in
Hamburg:</p>
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<a
href="http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5547_-_en_-_saal_6_-_201312281730_-_turing_complete_user_-_olia_lialina.html">Turing
Complete User</a> <small>What can be done to protect the term, the
notion and the existence of the Users?</small> <br /><br /> <a
href="https://hroy.eu//cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2013/webm/30c3-5547-en-Turing_Complete_User_webm.webm">Direct
link to the video</a>
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src="//cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2013/webm/30c3-5547-en-Turing_Complete_User_webm.webm"
type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"">
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<p>Related: <a
href="https://github.com/hugoroy/user-data-manifesto/blob/master/Manifesto.md">the
user data manifesto</a> (my draft for version 2, feedback welcome)</p>