When I was a teen and starting at university, I remember the browser wars seemed lost in the 1990s.
Microsoft and Internet Explorer seemed to dominate. Nowadays I'm on Linux and there are other options.
That's thanks to folks not accepting the status quo and being unreasonable. It's thanks to the folks who built the software we use and who supported them.
Things can change, but it takes people and community.
It takes will and intention.
You need to be honest about where you stand.
Where we are at, isn't just down to the politics of who built our tech.
Organisations have a memory. Our institutions have a memory which was encoded into us by society.
We do live in a society. Where we are came out of colonialism and before that feudalism.
So no wonder so many of us jumped on to using LLMs, no wonder so many of us don't look closely at the cost to the environment or the exploitation of folks in the Global South.
We never wanted to question how we got here.
@zenid it's a scary thing when you realise you can't just accept that status quo.
But I come from folks who never could, who chose defiance. So it's not a choice really.
But we all need folks to show us the way. Be the light in that darkness. In time you realise you can help illuminate the path.
@onepict Fun times. Everything says it requires IE 4/5/6 (and 1024x768 resolution) and I'm hopping between Mozilla, Dillo, Konqueror and Epiphany (and in a pinch even Amaya) trying to find something where the page doesn't _completely break down_ on my 1280x1024 monitor so I could get whatever I was doing done.
Imagine if ended up in that same situation in 2026... Oh. Crap. 
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