• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Well, yes.

    The idea was fine, until it spread to normies which don’t understand that “proprietary software” means a whole city or factory which they won’t be able to study and understand in 10 years, while “free and open source software” means the same, but with a map. And that in the latter case there is at least a category of interested people who’ll look for traps there, and it’s built by such people, while in the former it’s all commercial company’s property.

    And that TG desktop’s sources being open doesn’t mean that there’s a confirmed lack of traps.

    People severely underestimate the complexity of what they use. Maybe they just shouldn’t, if valuing privacy.

    I really think there’s a niche for some “luddite machines” running Forth with an operating system a normie can grasp.

    Or we are going to have something worse than most examples of anti-utopia I’ve read\seen.