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To make it worse unbelievable software bloat makes most advances in hardware invisible to the end user. And then we got an ugly business model surveillance cap
by usr1106 6y ago
To make it worse unbelievable software bloat makes most advances in hardware invisible to the end user.
And then we got an ugly business model surveillance capitalism. Users expect everything to be free and happily (or unknowingly) with their privacy and ways to be manipulated.
Monopolies instead of interoperability and federation.
Computer science can't be proud of the current state of affairs.
- throwaway3699 6y agoAt the end of the day though, consumers prefer free. Even if they say they want privacy preserving products, they really don't (otherwise we'd all be using Linux and Fairphones). I'd also be careful about the last statement: Computer science is much broader than internet advertising companies.
- usr1106 6y ago> Computer science is much broader than internet advertising companies. Nobody would doubt that. But as a computer scientist I would have hoped that our discipline could have paved the way for something better to mankind than the current reality.
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