Rachael LDec 19, 2024
This article is very uncomfortable to read. https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
Show threadForbearanceDec 19, 2024
@r343l I went there and it ironically interrupted me to demand I join its free newsletter
Show threadKevin Neely Dec 19, 2024

@Forbearance @r343l while reading:

  • 3 popup messages to join the newsletter.
  • 2 inline ads asking me to join the conversation.

Still, it was a good article. I liked:

Aside: I swear to god, if your answer here is “get a MacBook Air, they’re only $600,”

But I was thinking "how do we grt #Linux on those $300 cheapo laptops?"

Show threadForbearance
@ktneely @r343l It would improve them. But mere open-source-ness is not a perfect defense against the equipment having a hidden agenda (see: Ubuntu Pro). And to the extent it works it's another way that, as the article notes, technology experts can partially insulate themselves from the negative effects of technology that, statistically, they probably peddle as a day job.
Dec 19, 2024 at 4:48amWeb
Show threadForbearanceDec 19, 2024
@ktneely @r343l Perhaps we should declare advertisement, interruption, or other actions against the user's interest to be forbidden, in the mode of medical malpractice, or misconduct by a financial advisor.
Show threadForbearanceDec 19, 2024
@ktneely @r343l Perhaps this is one of the numerous problems that, like most things in NP, reduces to the destruction of capitalism.