Post AkCcT7xub3fu0WkooC by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
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 (DIR) Post #AkCcT7xub3fu0WkooC by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
       2024-07-22T21:25:02Z
       
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       Conversation at lunch about progress in computing, and "Southwest runs Windows 3.1" came up, and I got to thinking: What have we really got since '94? Most new web browser capabilities and increased memory and graphics are used to deliver ads.Word processing and spreadsheets are pretty similar (Emacs is still my editor of choice). We have nicer photo and video editing, and MP3s have replaced WAVs, but... it's amazing how much of modern computing doesn't feel like actual progress.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkCcTA4Mm21gX7n09A by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
       2024-07-22T22:02:10Z
       
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       Looking at my current filtering on Mastodon, and thinking about what my old Usenet killfile used to look like, and realizing that so much of modern computing is about both enabling and then filtering advertising.We've got glorious 4k 24 bit displays that we can update in real time, capabilities I would have *loved* in the early '90s, and we're using it to autoplay ads for shit I already bought.