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God Rattus of Vengeance

I fundamentally believe that computers should help as many people as possible do as much as possible, and the way to achieve that isn't by hiding what computers are doing; it's by making what computers are doing understandable and manipulable by users.

Computers should do what their users tell them to. No more, and no less.

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God Rattus of Vengeance

all of that said the phrase "zoomers don't know what a file is" is very funny, 2 me

Greyor ἀγλαόπεπλος

@juliana I dunno, like if you grew up on Chromebooks and Google Drive I can see you having no idea what a "file" is. And the fact that many don't know why the save icon is a floppy.

I like the *nix ethos of "everything is a file" personally.

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@juliana I have never met a zoomer who doesn't know about files, like, at all. Some people are close, though - Big Tech is pushing /very/ hard to make the kids stop trying to understand and tinker with their computers. It's scary, honestly.

〜キース:同性愛のアナキストの犬のアクション!

@juliana I can certainly speak for the validity of "zoomers don't know how to pirate stuff", though. Again - tech corporations want to be worshipped as gods and blindly obeyed. Not gonna happen on my watch.

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@keith @juliana

Who would win?

A huge tech monopoly with hundreds of billions in funding and tens of thousands of highly motivated and educated goons.

Or

One twinky femboy with a soldering iron.

Byte [Moved]

@juliana I mean, I know what a file is. But a lot of details are for sure hidden for nefarious reasons these days, even on file based cloud storage like Google Drive.

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