Reminds me of how Garry Kasparov fled Russia a decade ago.

Most of us are not programmers who need something to help “efficiency” up our speed of making code.

This presupposes that programmers need that shit either, which also isn’t true.

The state of computer literacy and media literacy is appalling.

Reminds me of March 24 to November 10, 2001, when Apple had embraced Unix and – to some extent – open source by releasing OS X, but had not yet pivoted towards glued-shut and DRM’d consumer electronics by releasing the iPod.

No, fuck that and quit bootlicking. Software makers did just fine without telemetry for decades; your supposed justification is nothing but a bullshit lazy excuse.

Oh no, it gets worse:

Prank or not, Tartaro was playing with fire by going with NULL in the first place. “He had it coming,” says Christopher Null, a journalist who has written previously for WIRED about the challenges his last name presents. “All you ever get is errors and crashes and headaches.”

Archive link: https://archive.ph/o/Foe1r/https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/

everytime I tried to login on Windows, it would crash underlying LDAP server, logging everyone in the classroom out and forcing ICT to restart the server.

Now that’s the way to do it! Make it everybody’s problem, not just yours.

Because the more commercial they get, the more they stray from their original purpose as a charity to provide low-cost machines for kids to learn about computer science.

First there was the Dynabook, then OLPC, then Raspberry Pi, and now we’ve basically got to start over yet again because enshittification is imminent.

BRB, sticking microcontrollers to the back of my monitors so I can use their accelerometers to report the orientations in real time…

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:476016