thekernel

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seems like a lot of revisionist bullshit in this rant, eg:

WhatsApp rose by trapping previously-free beings in their corral and changing their habits to create dependence on masters

WhatsApp rose because:

a) If was free

b) it used data vs sms/mms which was becoming cheaper

c) it was cross platform at the time (blackberry, android, nokia, etc)

d) It used your existing phone number as your identifier, so onboarding and finding existing contacts was swift

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Cos its considered cool and people follow the herd.

For techbros a while ago an .io domain was a thing because its sounds like i/o and projects an image you are tech literate.

I like the concept, but hate the configuration schema and tooling which is all needlessly obtuse (eg. helm)

nor bodies.

No need to worry, Im sure the investment banks are slowing moving their holdings into pension funds and similar.

Until there is a shortage of sweaters due to no wool being produced any more (akin to content creators and moderators who use reddit API)

i used to call them passive smokos

haha, nothing funnier than a joke about putting your penis in their daughters mouth!

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Uh, what? How do people do stuff without debuggers? :D

printf.

The Thailand cave rescue was all over the news and they were poor.

Its about novelty, nothing more nothing less.

A bunch of rich ppl have died on Mt Everest this year, nobody gives a shit as its a common occurrence.

they boil the frog slowly

Oddly enough, my reddit is fun app is working today after i was force logged out

then the scrapers start using residential proxy botnets

systemd was 2010