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And poor people in general.

So capitalism is incompatible with dating apps. Who woulda thunk?

I can’t believe the builders morphed the brick and pavement around that one particular fish. Crazy amount of skill.

I mean, .reg files are pretty idiot-proof, but can also contain something malicious if you don’t read them.

And Apple, with people replacing traditional computers with Android and iOS devices.

It is theorized by anthropologists that for most of humanity’s existence (almost 200,000 years), humans operated on gift economies, without keeping any ledgers or IOUs, and also not bartering.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy

Humanity mostly beat out (kind of, not really, humans mated/bred with neanderthals) neanderthals as a species in evolution because humans cooperated with each other, whereas neanderthals were more individualistic (also not a universal truth).

Greed and profit seeking are a direct result of forming massive civilizations with defined leaders and the possibility to gain power over other people. There are ideas for new economic systems that will eliminate this hierarchal structure, namely anarchism and some other socialist idiologies like forcing all corporations to be worker-owned coops (not all of them).

Here’s a playlist that’s a good introduction to anarchism: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8V0LbSKRwxqBt2Odrl_Yp_SlEVrv-w9G

And here is an intro to a worker coop focused economic system and modern Marxism (the non-authoritarian type): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Whccunka4

North American Marlin Brando Look-Alikes

Yes, please pasteurize it first.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LW6RWSiR88s

IIRC Revanced uses its own microG fork.

The original YouTube app that it’s pafching is obviously still proprietary, but all patches and the patcher are open source.

I started using PipePipe, which is a fork of NewPipe that allows for signing into a Google account to authenticate.

I create dummy Google accounts using an old Android phone, as that doesn’t require a phone number.

The vast majority of people stick with defaults, no matter how shitty they are.

The “bigger systems” pre-corporate internet (and somewhat in the transition) were sometimes fairly large forums dedicated to one niche (sometimes multiple, but in the same general field). Once Reddit specifically came along after YouTube/Google laid the groundwork for the corporatization of the Internet, it centralized basically every forum to one website. Now even today, forums still exist, but it’s nowhere near what they once were.

That’s also not to mention sites like Geocities allowing basically everyone to have their own website (which of course, is another version of centralization, but with much more control given to its users).

And it’s not like corporations didn’t try to take control of the internet before 2005/2006. Just look at AOL in the 90s for a prime example, along with Flash, ActiveX/Internet Explorer, Quicktime/Realplayer browser plugins for video, etc.

Without capitalism, we would still see the internet grow, as even in the late 90s, it felt as if you were being left behind in society if you didn’t have an internet connection, but the way in which it grew would look much more akin to how it looked in the 90s and early 2000s.

The internet sure was far from perfect back then, but it was ours’.

Yes, but in order to properly learn our lesson to prevent this from happening again, we need to call out the root of the problem instead of/in addition to the tools or symptoms.

It wasn’t before already?

November, you say? I wonder what happened in November that caused Netanyahu to be emboldened to the point of planning Iranian assassinations…

https://csdb.dk/release/?id=139257

The arcade was the original version. There’s also a really good modern port on the Commodore 64 with a banging soundtrack called “Ghosts n Goblins Arcade”

EDIT: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=139257