On Wed, Dec 25, 2024 at 10:17:02PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...]
> The idea that your application should do its own window management > because the user's chosen WM may differ from what you, the developer, > wanted is utter hubris. Especially when you can't even get it to > work the way you thought it should. It's not hubris. It's the idea that public space, your computer, your eyeballs, your brain (in roughly that order) belong to surveillance capitalism (a malign mutation of the already malign ad industry). It's the "new frontier" [1] of capitalist accumulation. Robbery, as it has always been. Merry XMas. [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/02/how-the-frontier-became-the-slogan-of-uncontrolled-ai.html -- t
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