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       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/#technology #tech #sustainability
       
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       @koen_hufkens@mastodon.social "And that’s the real damage. It’s not just end users who don’t know this stuff. It’s developers. [...] Who’ve never had to debug something at the network layer."This is one of the few positive contributions of the Great Firewall of China to humanity. There are people who read BGP Looking Glass just to make their Netflix streams go faster.