It's just that now the official numbers say so.

But anyone on twitter or reddit can tell you the dead internet theory has been progressing at a swift pace for a decade.

AI just made it more apparent.

We are not talking about exceptions either. This is pretty standard stuff when you work outside of the IT-literate companies.

At one client, they provided me with a part time tester, they neglected to give him the permissions to install git. Took 3 weeks to fix.

The same client makes us dev on Windows machine but deploy on Linux pods. We can't directly test on the linux, nor connect to them, only deploy on it. In fact, we don't even have the specs of the pods, I had to create a whole API endpoint in the project just to be able to fetch them.

Other things I got to enjoy:

- CTO storing the passwords of all the servers in an libre office file

- lead testing in prod, as root, by copying files through ftp. No version control.

- sysadmin that had an interesting way of managing his servers: he remote controlled one particular windows machine using team viewer which ones the only one that could connect through ssh to them.

The list is quite long.

This makes you see the entire world with a whole new perspective.

I always thought that all devs should spend a year doing tech support for a variety of companies so that they get a reality check on what most humans actually have to deal with when working on a computer.

If you are on HN, you are the 1%.

Most corporate machines are Windows boxes with ps and cmd.exe heavily restricted, no admin, and anti malware software surveilling I/O like a hawk.

You might get a git bash if you are lucky, but it's usually so slow it's completely unusable.

In one client I once tried to sneak in Clink. Flagged instantly by security and reported to HR.

It's easy to forget that life outside the HN bubble is still stuck there.

You may be able to download ripgrep, and execute it (!), but god forbid you can create an alias in your shell in a persistant manner.

But again, it's a CLI tool. There is a limit to how they can mess it up.

And it's not in their best interest to do so. They are neither fools nor incompetent.

They'll make much more money by making it even better, and then offering to pay for integration with their ecosystem for stuff like creating installers, deploying in production, etc.

They don't want to add prompting in uv and make a few bucks per token. They want apps on demand. They want to own a platform. They want to be the next layer.

uv is just an implementation details to make that good, and so that's why I think it will stay so.

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My "but your situation my change" and "gov can turn bad" arguments never hit. People are terrible at projecting themselves. That's why climate change is so hard to fight. It's too far and abstract.

Humans need to feel concrete and awful pain to realize their mistake and learn.

But I'm hoping the Trump situation is going to cause that. Now that the US is at the brink of dictatorship (some might argue it's already there), maybe American citizens will realize that putting their entire life on a centralized platform, having non encrypted communications and spying devices everywhere is a terrible idea.

I'm not very optimistic though.

And even if they do, in 3 generations, they will have forgotten. I have no idea how to fix this.

This is a terrible idea, and that's why I have mixed feelings about the robo taxi. On one hand, it's a great resource-sharing tech. On the other hand, all of the above.

We need to catch up on this because the people who know how to use language for propagandizing don't have the best intentions in mind.

But using the original term is not enough. We need to combat their word-twisting by upping them. We need a way to convey "their way of installing stuff by default is inferior and an attack on liberty".

Something like:

- direct install: installing as we always did

- caged install: installing through a locked store.

Maybe somebody better at marketing can find a good way to do this. In fact, we should have a whole site and community to organize together and shift the narrative on all nerdy things: formats, open web, DRM, patents, etc.

We have been weak on these points for so long because we care much more about solving tech problems than selling them. But openness is being eaten away under our noses. Has been for years.

Marketting is a major goal of HN after all.

I never pay for the news, because it's mostly disappointing.

But I would pay 20 euros a month if I could have access to all the news, and just let me filter little by little what I think suits me.

Netscape got killed by ie 5.5 and firefox competed mostly with ie 6 on Market and opera on innovation.

And yep, i think 2008 was first chrome ad on google search. It hurts but we are a quarter century in now.

The only reason we are not all using edge is because google spend billions marketing Chrome in early 2000. They got the normies with brute forcing, because they could make money with it, not for making the world better.

Heck, they promoted google on the HOME PAGE of google search, an ad spot you can't even buy from google, with a pseudo notification, a format google uses for nothing else in ads.

They went full throttle.

But nobody is going to spend millions to promote decentralization. Because it's about concentrating less power.

HN has always been terrible at undertanding that, because while they argue about what browser to use, the average user can barely make the difference between an app and a website anyway.