There are conversations where the actuality matters, and there are conversations where the criteria matter, and there are also conversations where the dynamic matters. You mixed up this one.
I mean, everybody talking about someone else’s rosy worldview or otherwise playing a cynic is usually clueless.
And ones better than the current mainstream were pretty numerous.
Actually yes.
In my childhood it wasn’t very easy to find a licensed copy (TBF, even pirate copy sometimes), but demos would be distributed with magazines etc.
And after playing a demo which you like a licensed honestly bought copy becomes emotionally much better than piracy.
It was a working mechanism. For games which are not crap anyway.
and even years after AOL had its market share siphoned off by ISPs like Earthlink, those users continued to use AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). I didn’t retire my handle until the late 2000s.
In Russia ICQ played the same role for an IM (it’s the same OSCAR protocol), but it (I think owned by AOL too) killed itself by trying to lose alternative clients.
I used the official one for Windows only, but it was a more civilized age, and what they were breaking included clients for Java phones (it was not so rare to hear the ICQ notification sound in public transport), clients like QIP, Miranda, Trillian which were used by many people, clients for Linux and so on.
Then everybody moved on to Skype. It happened very fast, in a couple of months my buddy list went mostly red from mostly green.
You know, one can inflict trauma that won’t be forgotten in 10+ years without any rape. Which wouldn’t be a cause for even a fine, or a day behind bars, or lower social prestige of the person doing it.
While with rape - I’m all in support of killing attackers in self-defense, it’s justified.
But if the crime is already done, and if you have them behind bars, and the facts are established, then every hour and every day their personality changes, and becomes further and further from the one that committed that crime.
And the purpose of the system in theory is not to punish or destroy. It’s to redeem. You are nobody to attempt anything else.
Many murderers murder openly and don’t get any jail time at all. Cause they are elected politicians.
Other than that - the purpose of the penitentiary system is not to punish people, it’s to redeem them. At least in theory. You don’t have any right to punish other people (well, an eye for an eye may do, if there’s no other way, but that’s the worst that’s acceptable), especially with such intentional destruction as a life sentence.
So your very approach is criminal intent.
Actually I like this.
All those people who’ve been trying to keep corporate technologies “open” were, in fact, working for the corporations to make people come to them. Most unknowingly, maybe. It’s just, well, litany of Gendlin case. You rely on corporate power, even if you are trying to hide it and talk about “open Web”.
The most important thing is that we take ideologically corporate technology where it’s not needed (there’s been plenty of hypertext systems in history, some kinda successful, and all that JS and AJAX stuff and various frameworks on top are so complex not because of any usefulness, but because of the corporate goal of backward compatibility, lumping everything together and even intentional complexity to cut off competition, and a single space).
We’d be just fine with a bunch of incompatible between themselves Hypercard-like things working over network. That’s what I think.
I really dislike Apple for what they’ve been in my somehow conscious years (born 1996), but things like Hypercard and Hotline (or KDX) from their older time seem to be just the right way to use personal computers.
Any single space with propaganda of “fragmentation being bad” is either not immune to what has happened to the Web, or already compromised.
Eh, how so, you can just install Linux on them last I heard.
Why would you just throw out something you can put an up to date OS on?
You are not. It also worked, unlike … .
Normal for autistic people to get tired less
Somewhere in my childhood picking a girly nickname was a sure way to not get ignored while trying to get tech help on IRC.
I’m 27, though the latter two match.
Well, my sister shared her recommendations with me and those featured using dark themes among other things.
And I get too emotionally tired of just using a light theme (or even a lighter dark theme).
So I think yes.