Thanks to BSD, open source and widely available source and manuals on its Unix many got a solid grounding in file-based OS’n.

Today that fundamental step through is obscured and fragmented by subsequent iterative compartmentalizations and abstractions. Gone are the simple manuals, flags and instead API’s, toolsets and numerous language interfaces.

Columbia taught that market forces, wage pressures and guarantee of getting a job on WallSt were fundamental.

NeXTSTEP taught that less than 3% could manage open BSD. Fewer than1% without tech support. MacOS snuffed out the support heavy promiscuity that would be unsupportable and simply deprecated the dark alleyways.

Apple have furthered trending toward minimalism as its ethos and software tilt ever closer toward PC UI menus, bark dialogs and simple universal interfaces

this does not end

Ten years from now, Apple will be selling its brand on “others” products

Prescient read on the state of social media — apps in particular

Ripe is the moment innovation, architecture and engineering could bring gravitas to late-stage chaos(Twitter, FB, IG, X, et al). Close is the moment social eclipses MSM, such as WSJ admission that they’ve lost control of the narrative online. Social momentum is overwhelming mainstream

Shudder the outcome if it follows what's become of machine voting where Americans are begging for return to paper ballot

Social is approaching inflexion point of scalability unless AI and ChatGPT saddle the LLM that is these bots, PR, corps and funded influencers.

WATER movies

Highest grossing Hollywood movie of all time - Water movie: AVATAR

After degreeing in ComSci, the self-taught learning knothole APL required taught a lifetime of skills. Didn’t know how then, but it was glaringly obvious this augmented computer enhanced learning feedback loop was education’s answer to classroom drudgery.

APL->R–>matrices programming which stole its scalability to symbolic learning away. Now parallels with AI and ChatGPT point to its future following that of APL. AI will specialize into obscurity with only the WallSt wealthy able to profit with the resources to which it commands.

The general application to learning, AI’s sacrificial lamb as its arguably no more useful at teaching than a electronic calculator.

Only python and C# are programming. Watering down tech while pumping up the skills is driving ComSci out of university into trade schools - which slashdot is reinforcing.

May AI and ChatGPT generative LLM’s to separate formatting drudgery so computer science can advance instead of skills.

piggybacking on your hot take, VPN is the next platform integrator.

Living in Panama, expat USA, the next future belongs to the innovator that erases all boundaries, zones and barriers. VPN points the way, but remains promiscuous. VPN feigns local location logins to remote servers in a way that has known solutions for grabbing an ID or location.

In a world where programming is free as in free speech via VPN-style connectivity, you have selection, choice an captions to enjoy alternate content.

Notice that AI is moving culture away from “siege mentality”of technological firewalls and hardware moats.

Emergent AGI’s internecine embattlement brings superior force of intelligence to limited human means, resources and weaker defence systems.

Got it?

you can trust Zuck .et .al to be aribiter of your Reality.

LMAO

+1

Not anymore after giving authorities access to Signal data. Crumbs and gingerbread bolt-ons added to Signal still put you and your data at risk. //// backstory \\\\
  recommended Signal after meeting victim0 in Türkiye’s Erdogon crackdown in 2016. Recovering from the trauma of losing democracy, job and free speech, Signal was the safest space avail. To this day, regret knowing that the platform sold its raison d’etre to authorities.
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Whether planned deliberately or administratively industry just walked away from its burden. Citizens hold the bag.

This is the time citizens don’t follow industry, rebuild the same model that they inherited or fall for centralized architecture. Explore Canadian hydro if avail, cross-state import, wind and add technology schemes like thermal heat pumps that unladen electricity draw.

NeXT Computer Inc., used BSD and OSS to build its NeXTOS. Apple would later welcome SteveJobs and his 10yr venture building next generation operating system with unix and FOSS. AAPL renamed NeXTOS to its beloved MacOS appending the disreputable X we have all grown to recognize.

SteveJobs ever the penultimate capitalist closed-source its sole-sourced in-house API’s leaving a hybrid conglomeration of protected OSS no longer open but offered free with every computer purchased. That last part, probably saving AAPL legal problems with the FOSS community.

see, there isn’t a company damned, that can be executed. people kill people. companies are a fiction, live into perpetuity and people work for them. companies have single-minded purpose to make money, fiat - another paper fiction.

But no way for internet to use distributed stores.

Illegal, banned or clunkified