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Everything on the web is converging to the same bland, middle of the distribution curve, unoffensive mean. Everyone has A/B tested to the exact same product, and it's a bad experience.

The technology industry has become more about marginalization, to the point of nonexistence, those who don't fit in the middle of the curve. Might as well not exist if you're outside the 90% intervals nowadays.

On the web I can install ublock origin, privacybadger, and a vpn. Even if you ignore the phone's personal data aspect that's a 99% improvement over mobile.

I don't even bother installing apps anymore, I don't have time to research whether or not they are going to abuse my privacy or have some horrendous TOS. I got my core 10 apps and haven't bought a new one in a year.

If you're a hipster in a major city near fiber, sure, it all works great. For the rest of us, no, daily failures are the reality.

The points are nice, it would be amazing if the 90% of the web wasn't dumpster fire of inconsistent slow and hard to use sites.

Much networking equipment is not designed to handle malicious or bizarre traffic. TCP/IP is amazingly brittle, and often fails on me in surprising ways that the standards say should never ever happen.

This article is one of the most stupid things I've ever read, pretending there is some crisis of students seducing their poor, persecuted male teachers because of a reddit thread is not merely intellectually dishonest, it's just bizarre.

You're pretending people are rational automata who make decisions in their own self interest, which is rarely true in life. Very rarely true among political actors.

I hope we can stop treating politics as a silly statistics game theory simulation for every actor and decision, because two decades of thinking like that has clearly not worked out for us. New ways of thinking, including consequences for bad actors, are a way to move the needle forward a bit even if it's not Spock's ideal solution.

manpages are such an inconsistent and often wildly disappointing experience that I advise everyone to give up on them and go with <any top internet tutorial> instead.

There are like a half dozen really good manpages I can think of, some others might as well be written in Mandarin

I mean if you want to get into the history of any technology you can point out how archaic and horrible it was initially. We're still in that phase with the internet, in 50 years people are going to read about things TCP/IP and Facebook and Comcast and won't be able to stop laughing hysterically at how bad and flimsy it all was.

I thought pubg was a remarkable technical achievement, especially after years of tolerating bugs and jank in Arma.