aerique
@aerique.eth
Man, I liked it when the default for software was not to spy on you.
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Vanessa Williams
@fridgebuzz.eth
When was that ever a thing? Seriously, software has been spying on you since the day the Internet became ubiquitous sometime in the 1990’s.
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
Zooming out a bit, it’s fascinating to see how personal computing has shifted from being this hacker playground (computers you’d have to configure and instruct to do stuff for you) to being this consumer experience (of being served somebody’s product) with planned obsolescence built in. The leading OS (Windows) comes bloated with tons of software that people don’t need, to the point that there are GitHub scripts for decluttering it. The hardware on many desktops and laptops, and on most mobiles and tablets, comes as a monolith you cannot open and tweak. Much of software is subscription-based and you just buy a license to rent time using it. And as you pointed out, much of it is adversarial in the sense of actively spying on you. And most of our data is hosted on somebody else’s “cloud”, which we somehow celebrate as liberating. It’s crazy how much we’ve lost control over our digital sovereignty and yet still call it personal computing
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