(04-06-2023, 12:27 AM)Raion Wrote: For me it's Apple, Google, MS,, Meta and Conde Nast.
I would put google at the top of the list. They are in fact not just nasty but evil and they are manipulating people's lives as well as totally destroying the web. They belong in the lowest circles of hell, with red-hot pitchforks up their asses and a disgusting stench of burning flesh permeating the air.
And you can't get away from them, which is what makes them the true evil they are.
Apple is really annoying but no one has to buy their stuff. I got stuck with this thing for character flaws in a past life but since I'm stubborn as a rock no little twinkie from albuquerque who moved to cupertino with his boyfriend so he could prance around on castro street in barebutt chaps is gonna tell me what I can do with my own computer. It's mostly the way I want now. Only took a week, boy was that a good investment of time :-)
Have to admit that other than the crap software which does actually look nice, this 2010 laptop is pretty good. DVD writer, firewire socket, two usb's, sd card slot, fast enough, light enough, capable enough, attractive enough and nowadays cheap because you know, everyone's gotta have the latest technology ! as if there's a single worthwhile thing that's happened in personal computing over the past ten years ?
Anyway, most companies, if you don't like their stuff, buy someone else's. If it's a monopoly of bad juju, that's Congress' job to fix .... hahahahahahahaha.
Crack myself up sometimes :-)
edit: almost forgot : first thing I had to do was a search and destroy on every single goddamned worthless pseudo-"security" feature. I hope I got them all. Plus Little Snitch is the best thing on Apple, it's well-done.
That "security" that isn't garbage is essential in the push to turn the web into the Telescreen Home Shopping Channel. While we're here in /dev, I have a project : an ssl library that would return "ok" to
everything. Every single lowlife phishing site on the planet
I don't care !!! Google can take their "security" shit and jam it back up where shit comes from, the
fact is, none of this makes a damn bit of difference, it was never anything to worry about in the first place, and the
entire reason for the push to http
s (and you know what that stands for) was google being upset that people could intercept advertisements and replace them with their own.
Any takers ?
