HugeNerd

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago

I always look back to the 1960s visionaries and their charmingly naive ideas about the future use of computers.

I suspect that if they could have seen the actual future they would have become plumbers.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's simply what allows a web browser to run so it can act as an OS.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Oh is this the terrible bad country we shipped our entire industrial base to?

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago

I'm so old I remember webrings.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Guess how they make pet food? Industrial blenders you can toss a horse into.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

awaye dégage sti

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's what the conspiracy theory about her was when she was just Climate Greta.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I think I live in a dreamworld like in the old show Computer Chronicles when computers were presented by scientists and used by engineers to do actual work. It was easy (for me) to grasp.

Now we have every sector of human activity, including those I consider at best useless, at worst harmful, like endless advertising, merchandising, propagandizing, misinforming, etc boosted exponentially because of essentially free computer power.

Not building a leisure society and using our tools for good, instead we just amplify the worst aspects of humanity.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Because that's what computers used to be for. Now we drive engagement.

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