regularjack

Reading theae comments is just fucking depressing. How can you ask more of Tim Berners fucking Lee. FFS.

It's not his fault that most people use the web through the lens of a few tech oligopolies. The state of the web is not his fault.

This site used to recognize its heroes, not any more apparently.

regularjack

10 months agodiscuss

He created the thing and made it free. I don't think we can ask more of him.

regularjack

10 months agodiscuss

Many artists don't use samples.

regularjack

10 months agodiscuss

Completely agree with this. "The audience comes last" is a phrase that perfectly encapsulates this sentiment (can't recall who said it).

Somehow it's assumed that artists make music for the audience, but many make it for themselves, because they enjoy the process.

Contrary to other comments in this thread, typing prompts on a keyboard is not the same as picking up a guitar and playing it.

regularjack

10 months agodiscuss

Wouldn't the traffic pattern be similar to watching Netflix?

regularjack

10 months agodiscuss

Is there any data that supports these statements? Specifically that the program is abused and that it "hurts" the middle class.

regularjack

last yeardiscuss

Containers are firefox's killer feature, highly encourage you to try them. I wish Mozilla would invest more in developing that feature.

regularjack

3 years agodiscuss

> Flatpak calls itself “the future of application distribution”.

The post is making the author's case against this claim, so I think the title makes sense.

regularjack

4 years agodiscuss

It is on the list.

regularjack

5 years agodiscuss

It wasn't enough for them to ruin the world, they had to ruin the word meta too.