βTo use the Net, you had to understand Unix, and the current users had no interest in making it easier. In fact, there was a definite element of not wanting to make it easier, of actually wanting to keep the riffraff out.β
Imagine if the gatekeepers got their way. Now look at the current comments about how we don't want normies on Mastodon or how Windows users deserve to be hacked.
Fuck gatekeepers.
Every passing day I become increasingly baffled what value Facebook could possibly be bringing to anyone's life at this point that outweighs all the garbage that comes with it.
I keep hearing decent reviews of the last couple seasons of #BlackMirror, but are they like "emotionally scar you for a week" good, or just like "entertaining and well-made" good? Cause honestly the "I called my mom crying" early episodes of Black Mirror are what I fell in love with, and if it ain't that, I'm not interested.
If capitalism works because "whoever makes the best product wins," why do companies repeatedly have to resort to - at best - dishonest tactics to rig the game in their favor? Shouldn't everyone be seeking out these apps on their own because they're so great? Why would Google waste the money to force them on people who just can't wait to use them?
