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It's such a shame for profit companies abuse computers and computer users this way. Some of these ideas are really cool and could make people's lives better but
by swiley 6y ago
It's such a shame for profit companies abuse computers and computer users this way. Some of these ideas are really cool and could make people's lives better but they get given a terrible name. We're quickly reaching the point where the general public is becoming very afraid of technology.
- grishka 6y agoI understand how technology works, but this understanding, and understanding of the incentives and inner workings of most IT companies, just makes me trust it less. Nothing is reliable, almost nothing caters to the needs of the users, everything actively discourages any kind of education unless it's for monetary benefit. I miss the times when it was expected that people actually learn how stuff works to make most of it. Now we have someone else's trusted public keys burned into OTP ROMs in our personal devices, and not many people are even aware of that.
- swiley 6y agoNot all software is written and controlled by a corporation.
- grishka 6y agoIs there any mainstream operating system that runs on end users' devices that's not written by an American corporation?
- swiley 6y agoGNU/Linux runs on most things. The contributions come from many people, some are American or German corporations. The FSF is technically an American company, they don't behave like one though.