The slow death of the power user.
"This isn’t an accident. This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos. They succeeded beyond their wildest expectations"
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
@koen_hufkens I saw a neat hiring trick once: an ISP had hidden the instructions on finding the job application in DNS TXT records. Without modest DNS and a few other networking skills you didn't get to even apply.
I might have to resort to that if the "power user" situation is as bad as the article suggests. I guess I just don't hang out with the wrong people... 🤔
@TallSimon @koen_hufkens The old alt.hackers newsgroup was a little like this. You needed a moderator's assent to join and post, but there were no moderators: Everyone in there had figured out how to bypass moderation.
Koen Hufkens, PhD
Tall Simon
Reginald