Tbh the UK political establishment crossed that Rubicon with David Cameron’s stupid gamble of a Brexit vote

The ideal internet was open and free if you could pay hosting and bandwidth costs - generally those who were associated with universities could

Dark mode issues hahahahaha

Oh that’s sad. The nature of commerce and competition means that proprietary stuff will never go away because making closed stuff is the way MBAs are taught to create “competitive advantage”

What’s holding GNU/Hurd back? Can’t be hardware anymore since it became blazing fast

That was not the UNIX way… True UNIX way would end silently and have zero as $?

Kotlin won’t save your skin if the code you wrote should be performant but you layered it into a heap of abstract classes, interfaces, factories, etc and, realistically, no one else would use or expand on that

Good contrasting points but the bar is set really low. Maybe Europe is a better comparison?