Arguments of a nitpicker.

Something changes. Our technology has obiously become agentive and expensive. Well, it has always been both – but we thought we would master it and could ignore these characteristics. The so-called artificial intelligence has just brought it to the fore.

So, it's more an adjustment to reality than a revolution. Nevertheless the question of human sovereignty remains as crucial as the possibility of participation. Here, freesoftware remains the key: it enables learning and sharing.

As a statician in the public administration, I suffer from 3xcl and embrace R as a chance to escape. Currently, I'm examining the possibilities of PostgreSQL and QGIS. I would love to see Scribus further developed.

I first entered this matrix on a PowerPC 604 by AIM, running AIX as an operating system, and studied pine and telnet. Therefore I enjoy the free NetBSD system, playing around with mutt and ssh on sdf.org.