Re:6 months ago, I left the bullshit industrial complex
by bzzzt on Thursday June 27, 2024 @04:05AM
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And yet here we are with energy wasting crypto scams, AI 'innovation' which is just an app sending a line of text to ChatGPT, a simple video call needing 2Gb of memory (Teams), lots of developers bundling functionality they want instead of what their users want and don't get me started about all the JavaScript ecosystems. It seems to take more time than ever just to get a nice app off the ground since we keep reinventing frameworks instead of expanding on a few good ones.
Re:6 months ago, I left the bullshit industrial complex
by benzible on Thursday June 27, 2024 @12:40PM
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The author of the post is "@daojoan.eth"... personally, not who I would choose to lead the charge against "tech BS".
Re:6 months ago, I left the bullshit industrial complex
by genewitch on Thursday June 27, 2024 @03:18AM
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IRC. NNTP. Email. dare i mention AOL (some of us are younger and didn't know OOP from OOM), the first 3d games that were immersive, Hotline, massively multiplayer voice chat like mpath (Mplayer.com, then gamespy), and for that matter, multiplayer gaming with people anywhere.
&c
Re:6 months ago, I left the bullshit industrial complex
by dudul on Thursday June 27, 2024 @05:10AM
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You're talking about how it was to be in tech as opposed to using the tech - what the parent meant I think.
From the consumer's point of view, the parent is completely right. In the 90s/early 00s there was a real feeling that tech was trying to improve your life and make it easier without necessarily controlling every aspects of it.
Was there? I remember the 90s as an intermittent software dark age we had to crawl out for the next decade until things started to improve around 2010. The unbearable OOP hype, turds like CORBA and Itanium, UML, "Enterprise scale" software development with Java, the first big VR hype cycle, the worst of the desktop operating systems won (Windows), and I could go on and on... there was also the same amount of human bullshitters in important positions.
We are much better off today than in the 90's in that good stuff can actually win traction (at least as long as no money is involved - once there's money involved, the bullshitter will home in like flies on a pile of shit).