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Why is my OS an ad platform?

• PaulHoule 3y ago
  You should be glad you don’t open(2) and then read(2) a file and get an ad instead of the content and have to seek(2) back to the beginning, get another ad, and then finally seek(2) again and get the content.
  • 31337Logic 3y ago
    Heh. What's this, ChromeOS?
    • PaulHoule 3y ago
      Nah, I am just thinking of the old fogey professors who teach OS classes who think is an OS is all the invisible stuff and not the stuff that gets talked about when ArsTechnia reviews a new release of MacOS like iTunes and email client and the close buttons and the scrollbars and all that. I am always facepalming when I see these articles like “you can’t read Postscript files on MacOS anymore” because it seems to me that reading files is a user space thing and you are infantilized or the computer is using you instead of the other way around when that is happening.
  • mdekkers 3y ago
    Stop it with the fresh ideas for these folks please
  • numpad0 3y ago
    Why aren't we charging $0.2 per 1k API calls plus $0.5 per privileged calls? Where are my revenue share programs? You guys are leaving so much on the table!