[HN Gopher] The Bug Count Also Rises (1996)
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       The Bug Count Also Rises (1996)
        
       Author : sigil
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2021-10-12 22:46 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | xbar wrote:
       | I weep whenever this resurfaces. Thanks for the reminder.
        
       | schlauerfox wrote:
       | All this 90's culture that I was too small to be a part of gives
       | me that para-nostalgia for a time I never experienced. The
       | stories of the hackers and newsgroups and BBSes. I was but a
       | child looking on, passively absorbing it. Were these companies
       | ever not monsters, their products ever moral? We joked about them
       | being evil but they truly seem worse now? The 'dark patterns' of
       | addiction and abuse and flagrant use of your 'data' against you
       | to their profit and surveilance and empowering the powerful. What
       | they are optimized for seems different, but maybe I was just
       | naive then.
        
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