@mathew There is going to be UNENDING shenanigans with consensus voting and so-called smart contracts.

Its like a whole generation of people have to learn the hard way why financial regulations exist and are so complicated.

These motherfuckers should learn to play D&D. Then they will figure out what rules lawyering, unintended consequences, min-maxing, and system loopholes are.

I always suspected that the NY Times was staffed by fucking morons, but today's editorial opinion cements that.

There is, and never was, a fundamental right to speech free of "shunning and shaming."

The very idea that you can't punch back and you just have to let haters spew their bullshit is the BASIS for a society that allows the discrimination and hate that we have today. The MEDIA like the NYT allowed Trump to go unchallenged and now we have fucking NAZIS again.

@Truck @ajroach42 Heh, I've been using word processors since 40 column on the C=64 and I write for a living.

I can tell you, from personal experience, that the word processor I use today is better than the one I used 20 years ago. Or even five years ago.

Is the support cycle for consumer software and hardware short? I'd say that's a fair assessment. Enterprise? Better supported, longer cycles.

I'm not sure a blanket "its gets worse and worse" is warranted.

@ajroach42 I have to disagree. I've been using computers since the early 80s, TRS-80, Commodore, IBM, etc. I have nostalgia for these old machines, but.....they sucked at a LOT of things. Rampant proprietary hardware, unreliable software, floppy disks...

While there is certainly bloatware out there...the productivity tools are just *better* today. I've never lost hours of work with autosave on a modern word processor.

There is a difference between *can* do a job and being good at it.

@clacke I am so sorry for your loss.