Rosenzweig: The federation fallacy

Posted Mar 6, 2019 18:53 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Rosenzweig: The federation fallacy by zaitcev
Parent article: Rosenzweig: The federation fallacy

> Suddenly, the problem came into focus: Alyssa Rozenzweig is worthless at basic computing.
As are more than 99% of the general population.

Rosenzweig: The federation fallacy

Posted Mar 6, 2019 21:42 UTC (Wed) by bfields (subscriber, #19510) [Link]

Count me in the 99%.... I mean, I do run my own mail service, but I probably have put hours into it over the years, and it still does break every now and then, and I kind of hate it at this point.

It's not that it's rocket science, or even that it takes *that* much time in absolute terms. It's just that I depend on it, so if something goes wrong I have to drop everything and fix it now, which generally means relearning a bunch of fairly boring stuff that I haven't had to think about in a long time.