cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
Of the survivors of climate collapse, some remember this history and sometimes think, "Geez, that was all incredibly stupid," when they aren't otherwise struggling to eke out an existence.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
The browser vendors implement their most restrictive app stores and development tools, which forbids VMs and most competing services and any software that doesn't utilize the vendor's own web APIs. There appear to be exceptions but closer inspection reveals tightly controlled relationships that benefit the browser vendors. The entire industry is under the thumbs of two giant corporations. Lots of profits but general decay.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
No more "side loading" and now only Safari and MS Chrome survive. All programs are shipped via the browser. Many are entire VMs running under WebAssembly, recreating (as much as practical) the platforms that were replaced by the browsers. Browser vendors continue the drive to control developer tooling with almost everything running on vendor controller servers.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
The platform wars are over, and the browser has won. Computers boot into one of two browser types: Safari or Chromium based. There continues to be limited support for "side loading" other programs, but this is an increasingly foreign concept to users.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
Actually, this toot isn't that bad, but the following toots are computer nerd snarky. So if you don't want snarky, please skip.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
There's a reason I've never plunged into the world of Wikipedia -- I have opinions, and no wiki editor ever has opinions. Larry Moran has strong opinions, too. He's doomed.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
Starting my day off with this tune. "Fisherman's Blues" from The Waterboys:
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valhalla@social.gl-como.it ("Elena ``of Valhalla''") wrote:
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Runner@mastodon.art ("Junner 2022 🏳️⚧️") wrote:
