It is just a couple of weeks until Election Day. I remain (professionally) focused on the San Francisco ballot—no choice in the matter, it’s my bread and butter1. That said, I did take a moment this evening to glance at the forecasts for the presidential election.
An edited generated pixel image of an old-school computer with the words CTRVX of the green screen
After much procrastination, I finally deployed a snac fediverse instance today. Snac (an acronym for social networks are crap) is a lightweight fediverse server written in C, the only programming language I still use. It is fast, has few dependencies, was simple to install and works well with some solid clients like Tusky and the Phanpy web client.
So some dude is having feverish dreams of turning San Francisco into some sort of nightmarish, tech-controlled dystopia.
Now, San Francisco has always been packed with people trying to mold the city into their very own personal fiefdom. This dude just happens to have money and influence, so he’s getting more attention than most. He will, of course, fail, and he probably knows it, but sharing these types of fantasies will still bring him some clout in certain circles.