It's a travesty that we've fucked up computing so hard for everyone. It's a damn shame about the state of user interaction with computers. Gonna make this my 99 theses and pin it to Twitter I guess

— Rage Against the State Machine (@mgattozzi) December 6, 2021

Great thread. We who are old enough to remember what computing might have been, could have been, really mourn what it has become. Those younger than 35 or so don’t know any different and in some ways that’s better: they don’t have to mourn what they don’t know we lost.

So much potential squandered so that so few people could get obscenely rich; meanwhile, people buy propaganda that computers and browsers have to be locked down “for your own good.” Deep down I think most people know that this is a lie, but are also aware that they cannot change it — so it’s easier to just believe the untruth and move on.