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		majormajor on Aug 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage... I don't think it has anything to do with Unix or DRM or any of that. It's because we have a trendy now-decades-long wave of product managers and designers who assume their job is to know better than the user. Open source software is not immune.

formerly_proven on Aug 4, 2020 | [–]

TV and broadcasting in general has always been mostly controlled in a top-down manner by companies and governments, since before computers existed.

jfrunyon on Aug 4, 2020 | [–]

cough Ubuntu cough

cough systemd cough

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