Can someone check in with the inventor of the web and ask him what the web’s business model is?

growing up in my grandmothers house, she never ever ever used the front door except if there was some kind of event like a funeral. It was like, the fancy door.

they also almost never used the living room except when people were visiting.

Your life is the way it is because you’ve decided that it’s more comfortable to leave it that way than to change it.

Srsly years and years of therapy this was the only thing that did anything for me

Is it worth noting that I only know this because of the spoof horror movie Repossessed?

“I tell the future”

“Okay, tell me mine”

“Soon… You will go to Rome.”

“But I’m in Rome.”

“Do I lie?”

i’d just like to say this aged badly. not quite like milk, but still rancidly

Yes

annuities my dude

1M is 2-3 yr salary??? Hook a brother up with these $300-500k/yr job leads d00d

Sure there are plenty of situations where services remain open and free (for now), like wikipedia, linux distros, etc. but we aren’t always that lucky.

It’s got absolutely fuck all to do with “luck.” It has everything to do with adoption.

Most people won’t adopt things that aren’t sufficiently pretty. They’re more than happy being data whores for social media pimps because it’s so fun.

Nah.

I mean, if they became rich, maybe. Certainly contrast Stanford-era Brin with modern Google, sure.

But um… Nah.

The #corpolitical

I have a very very real problem with this oversimplification of very distinct tech viewpoints.

Like, what, you dont think information should be freely available? You LIKE the model where information is locked down with hefty fees? Because that’s what the actual “tech bros” want.

This is at best ignorant and at worst just hateful.

in the future the trope is going to be “I’m going back in time to k— Tr–p” and everyone has to stop them because it would mean the great global awakening would never happen

Has it occurred to you that some of us just *don’t like dealing with people?"

A near-lifetime of BBSing and IRCing and what not I’m far more comfortable behind a keyboard than in a realtime conversation.

Introversion isn’t just for millennials anymore

If you like being on hold for 2 hours

Although lately I’ve been burned multiple times by inaccurate online information saying a place was open when it wasn’t, so I’ve started to call ahead instead.

cries in left_pad

It’s kind of astonishing how many people leaned on that library just to add fucking spaces to strings

Me: I need spec – not just trust code Manager: You always make unnecessary demands, I’m replacing you AI: I would be happy to help you, if you could provide spec? Manager: god fuckin dammit

I honestly sometimes think to go into business myself just so I can write contracts that say “you will give us a fucking spec” and just keep billing while they fuck around not providing a spec

Yeah because they started to get fucked over

Sometimes you can’t help but acknowledge the cleverness of evil.

Funny, this sounds an awful lot like people who complain about the fediverse