Because we are losing the class war

It’s always this exact article “on the topic” that gets posted in response. I remember his posts on social networks though.

Just compile everything to webassembly and ship that,using your preferred language and libraries.

Which means that we will get blobs to interact with, instead of JavaScript code that can be “reviewed” or monkey patched away.

Fun times. Thanks, monopolistic assholes like Goggle, Microsoft and Apple.

They sell emergency car lights that you pop up on top of the car ala secret police (but yellow). They have a modem that when activated automatically notifies the road services of you being there stopped.

Tech is a tool. It can be benefitting the oligarchs and restrictive, or benefitting society and open source.

They have been moving things to apps so they can substitute piecemeal the open source OS with their close sources: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/

That article is 12 years old. It has only gotten worse.

We try. We also pivot to open source to try and regain control because it’s the only way. We even share our passions with those who ask.

You folks just roll your eyes and put more money on their hands.