...was a mistake.

>>57605700
Android

the new macbook

javascript

java

>>57605700
Social media was a mistake

>>57605700
image boards

Windows 8 / 8.1 / 10

Smartphones.

Cellphones in general. When's the last time no one bothered you during the weekend?

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internet was a mistake

the transistor

>>57605700

Technology is never a mistake. Are you a fucking Luddite?

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>>57605864
>Technology is never a mistake.

>>57605713
>javascript

You would have thought we'd learned our lesson from flash.

Social networks
"""Full time""" YouTubers/monetization

>>57605864
Lots of technology is a mistake. Technology isn't good by default.

Electricity.

>>57605700
systemd
3D
metadata mining

>>57605899
>>57605811
>>57605713
Letting plebs get involved with the internet in general was a mistake. And I include us in that.

>>57605782
>Windows 8 / 8.1 / 10

The DOJ decision that forced IBM to outsource an OS for their first PC was a mistake because everything related to Microsoft and Gates has been a mistake. Gates was your typical HS nerd on his way to middle management except his parents had connections and IBM needed an OS.

Linus is a genius. Stallman is a freak but a genius. Jobs was an asshole but he did have vision and he really did want to change the world, i.e. bring technology to everyone. Woz was a nerd but at least he had talent and was a legit engineer, unlike Gates.

Gates? Gates was a parasite and everything he touched was shit or became shit over time.

Tinder, coz I get no matches.

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>>57605716

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>>57605909

>>57605968
foh sus nigga prolly use grindr

>>57605716
it has pretty much ruined culture. remember when you didn't fake a smile for a photo? remember when you could see an old friend and they didn't already know everything you've been up to? remember when you could sit waiting for a bus and be impulses into scrolling endless shit you don't even really care about? remember when sjw didn't have a voice? remember when you could simply email people to 'stay in touch'?

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>>57605967
>yfw Gary could have been the richest man alive...

;_;

Touch screens

microsoft

>>57606001
>remember when sjw didn't have a voice?

Clearly you never went to any higher education.

>>57606001
>remember when you could simply email people to 'stay in touch'?

This never happened, but I agree social media is cancer

>>57606008
>>57605967
>>57605782
This.

Oh god, this.

I can not think of a single thing that's had a more cancerous effect on technology that this.

Javascript

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>>57606001
Yes. Yes I do.

A lot of technology is "backwards innovation". For example:

wired charging - wireless charging with microwave plates
3.5 mm analog audio output - putting batteries, computers, radio in your ear
sleek standalone applications - broken web applications

etc.

democracy

Moving away from pure text.

Javascript. Interactive web pages in general.

Putting processors in home computers that need a shit ton of cooling.

Microsoft in its entirety.

Laptop speaks - why even bother?

Always-on broadband internet access.

Animated GUIs.

Miniature devices which are connected to the internet

I feel like we should sometimes be disconnected but nobody ever is

Typing this from a bar while my friend uses the toilet btw

>>57606262
>>Laptop speaks - why even bother?
my macbook pro speakers sound pretty good senpai. Glad they put them on there. Stop buying $250 laptops.

Touch screens on everything
I miss having physical inputs for portable devices

I also miss the public terminals that were fucking everywhere where I live for some reason, I have so much nostalgia for those things, standing around with my friends and trying to find non-blocked porn on them

Now that everyone has a web enabled phone in their pocket they've done away with them

>>57606274
I'm sure being always connected is bad for us. All this constant stimulation, and a constant thirst for it can not be good for our brains.

And I think its bad for the web as well. I remember not actually ever reading things online, but rather downloading them and reading them later, because its better to do that than rack up all the time on dial-up charges.

I mean, it sucked, but I wonder if it wasn't better for us to be limited in such a way.

>>57605700
Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Facebook

>>57605700
the global internet. everything should be alright if things would be like in best korea where there's a intranet basically. there's no reason for people from different countries interact this easily.
all these fucking sandniggers, africans, pajeets, gooks, spics, etc. should gtfo.

Smart Home.

Anybody who thinks that a fridge needs internet access is a retard of epic proportions (or is trying to make money selling this crap).

>>57605700
my birth

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>>57606324
>everything should be alright if things would be like in best korea

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>>57605700
Losing my virginity was a mistake.

My neighbors woke up when they heard their dog yelping.

>>57606021
I think he meant compared to how bad it's gotten recently.

>>57605700

Google Inc
JavaScript
Java

>>57606326
I can imagine how it could be useful in the distant future, however, it's a waste of money in its current state.

>ctrl + f
>1 minuscule mention of adobe flash

kys

Email is a mistake.

>>57606262

You.

You are 100% spot on.

>>57606477
I feel you

4chan

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>>57606001
I miss those days...

2chan

internal combustion engine

Systemd
Windows
Social media
VR

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>yfw when homo sapiens has never existed without technology.

>>57605817
This
Fuck that shit

>>57606001

Fuck nostalgia.
The world keeps on turning, wether we like it or not, don't hate the player, hate the game...

;__;


>>57606515

Oh I forgot about SystemD, thanks!
Fuck SystemD.

You fuckers sound like the memberberries in South Park.


[spoiler]member powerpc? I member ;_;[/spoiler]

>>57606477
Flash is a demon of the past, anon. There is no need to mention his name again, lest it reawaken him.

>>57605700
UEFI

MBR partitions

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>>57605883

>>57605716
>Getting dinner with someone old friends I haven't met since Highschool
>"Oh, hey, guys. What've you been up to?"
>"Mrrmble grmmble mrrmble facebook"
>"What?"
>"He said 'hold on, let me check my Facebook'"
>Entire rest of the night, they're on their phones until it's time to pack up and go home

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Proprietary software.

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>>57605700

Installing the OS on hard drives.

>Hey guys this EPROM is super fast right?
>I know! It loads instantly and is inherently secure
>FUCK THAT
>slow ass hard drives
>"It is now safe to turn off your computer..."

>>57605700
unix

for technology that isn't a mistake, see: plan 9

>>57605700
YouTube

It turned computers into just another idiot box.

>>57605716
this

Ruby and all other SJW languages
9fag, tumblr, Google run yt
''web designer'' that bloat all the pages
twitch and easy Internet

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>>57606256
fuck off Kim

>>57606256
>>57606324
Kim shillin hard as fuck in this thread t b h fa.m >>57606371

>>57606997
how are they supposed to remotely install telemetry updates when people are running their system off of ROM?

GUIs.

>>57607128
you missed the P

>>57607160
doesn't matter, you wrote EPROM, which can't be remotely written to either
or did you mean EEPROM?

>>57607179
>you wrote
1) that wasnt me
>can't be remotely written to
2) says who?

>>57607200
The hardware. The computer didn't have the capability to erase or re-flash it.

Hence the security.

>>57607200
to be specific, EPROM can be written to remotely, but not erased, so you couldn't rewrite it remotely
EPROM is erased by exposing the chip to UV light, something that can't be done remotely (unless you did something like hooked up a UV light to it and controlled that remotely, i suppose, but then you might as well just use an EEPROM)

>>57607222
lmfao.

>he doesnt know about backdoor'd firmware, airgapped viruses/malware, etc

>>57607236
Sure, but when people say EPROM they are usually referring to EEPROMs

>>57605700
Javascript
PHP
Social networks
Internet of things
The Cloud
UEFI
Killing the M68K

>>57607265
>Sure, but when people say EPROM they are usually referring to EEPROMs
not that i've seen, if the writing is specific enough to say "EPROM", that's what they meant

Microsoft.

Flash.

X11.

JavaScript.

Active cooling.

>>57606001
Just because you never heard of them, doesn't mean they didn't exist.

Just means you were just a child during 90s

swift

>>57606001
>remember when you didn't fake a smile for a photo?
no
>remember when you could see an old friend and they didn't already know everything you've been up to?
how would they know what i've been up to?
>remember when you could sit waiting for a bus and be impulses into scrolling endless shit you don't even really care about?
i play solitaire on my phone when waiting for something outside of home
>remember when sjw didn't have a voice?
no
>remember when you could simply email people to 'stay in touch'?
i think i can remember the last few hours, my memory isn't completely shot

>social media is shit!
then why did you jump onto it in the first place?

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>>57607149
>>57606486
>>57606262

16:9

>>57605716
Classic /g/

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>>57605918
>systemd
This. Pic related.

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>>57607796
>If social media is shit why do you jump on it in the first place

>>57606001
>remember when sjw didn't have a voice?
How old are you? Do you think radical leftism is a new thing?

>>57606515
See >>57607885

>>57607928
The technological barrier to entry kept them off the Internet for a looooonnnggg time.

>>57607928
>sjws
>leftists, not liberals
Kill you're self

>>57605713
Javascript Web Developer DOTR when

>>57606001
I don't even know if e-mail is still going to exist in the future, soon normies will look at it as "boring ugly outdated thing no one uses" and replace it with some bloatnet alternative

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>>57607885
daily reminder

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>>57605700
(((Node.js)))

>>57607885
I always thought it was sketchy how quickly it was adopted, even by Debian. Usually that's out of date by design, but they leapt on SystemD as soon as it could.

Isn't Slack the last safe distro?

>>57607995
No, the last safe distro is Gentoo because on Gentoo you can compile packages without code from systemd. Also you build your binaries yourself so you know nobody tampered with them.

>>57608066
>compiling source code means you are safe
What did you check every line of code yourself? Fuck off.

>>57606939
Botnet Input Output System

The internet pretty much destroyed the idea of pop culture as we knew it, as well as the average person's social skills. Would get rid of it immediately if I had the power to do so.

>>57608087
It makes you a bit safer, because you get the source code straight from the developer via the ebuild script. While on binary based distros, the distro maintainer does the compiling himself, and because its done a different way than from the official binaries in many cases, you cant verify that the binary though SHA checksum, meaning it could be tampered by redhat or another organization.

>>57605700

higher technology should only be used for higher purposes. Mixing advanced technology with frivolity has been disasterous for mankind.

>>57608278
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwGY2r7FPPw

>>57606939
>try to help someone who bought a 2GB computer that came with a 64-bit OS install 32-bit windows or Linux
>it has that satanic UEFI secureboot thing
Why the fuck UEFI allowed? Because muh GUI?

>>57608366
I think mainly because it can access 32-bit or 64-bit memory space

>>57605782
>When's the last time no one bothered you during the weekend?

Jokes on you, no one ever messages me.

;_;

>>57605782
>When's the last time no one bothered you during the weekend?
i can't remember the last time someone bothered me during the weekend

>>57607995
Because Redhat was pushing for kbus to get into the kernel, which would have mandated systemd. Debian adopted it out of concern that they might lock version 8 to outdated everything, with a low likelihood of compatibility with newer software.
They adopted it, then Linus caught wind of that bullshit and put a stop to it.

>>57606991

I wonder what life would be like if everything was open source and free.

>>57605700
"Flat" or "minimalist" design.

>>57608543
Not much different.
You can enslave people with free software. People even embrace it.

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>>57606975

>>57606001
>it has pretty much ruined culture.
that's you and your culture
>remember when you didn't fake a smile for a photo?
Yes, yesterday
>remember when you could see an old friend and they didn't already know everything you've been up to?
I don't put everything of my life in facebook, don't be an idiot
>remember when you could sit waiting for a bus and be impulses into scrolling endless shit you don't even really care about?
Yes. I read books in those time (this fucking morning)
>remember when sjw didn't have a voice?
No, I didn't born before 1960
>remember when you could simply email people to 'stay in touch'?
I never do that. I called by phone


You are an idiot, you should fix your life

any kind of programming higher than assembly

>>57608456
>>57608487

I get just one or two calls from one of my friends the entire weekend. This has been my life for the last 4 years. Kill me /g/ ;_;

>>57608720
this 2bh family

>>57606001
Remember when you were literally forced to have social media accounts?

Yeah, me neither.

>>57606052

>This never happened

I still do it faggot.

>>57608755
no, keep suffering

>>57608727
>C is bad
>python is bad for small projects
C is way better than assembly because of portability and ease of use while providing nearly the same speed and features. Also python is not bad if you creating a simple program like a gui interface to a cli program.

>>57605713
>Android
Google's implementation of Android was a mistake. More specifically, letting OEMs modify the hell out of it for their own devices, create custom skins, and fill it to the brim with bloatware. That was a mistake.
Android should be a lot more like Chrome OS; updates silently in the background and functions exactly the same way on different devices. Bad shit happens when you start letting hardware manufacturers (cough - Samsung - cough) handle software as well.

>>57605716
Social media ruined the attitude/atmosphere of 2007-era internet. Otherwise, social media is fine.

But God damn the internet is boring now because of it. There's no more adventure, really. Smartphones made it significantly worse; MySpace was a massively popular social network that didn't completely destroy the internet.

>>57605899
This. YouTube shouldn't be a job. It's too serious now. All the fun has been sucked out of it.

Money sucks fun out of everything. ;_;

Flat design. It was fine at first but now we're really going fucking overboard with it.

Moderation, people. Jesus.

Minecraft

>>57605883
ZUCC

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>>57606001
Ooh yes, I member
member Bulletin Boards?

>>57605782
>Smartphones
Fucking THIS especially when more 12 year-olds got more access to the internet.

Social networks and the "share muh every fart" culture
Websites that display text and a few images but somehow need shitloads upon shitloads of JS to do it

>>57605700
Linux

thinness meme

Opencl
Soldered on CPU's
Type based computing with expection of DOS, UNIX and Redhat
Planned obsolescence
DRM's

>>57609532
A good mistake though.

unremovable batteries, how could anyone accept that when removable ones were the standard for so long?
Also every single cuck who payed for xbox live on their piece of shit 360, I hope your shit red ringed and you ended up with hundreds of dollars in games that you can't play anymore.

>>57605700
Facebook News Feed

Basically anything other than a strict temporal-based feed is complete trash and actively refuses to give you new content even when you explicitly search for it. Throws you into an echo chamber.

Everything else is fine though.

>>57607991
Node.js does have some good applications since it has non-deadlocking networking capabilities. But yeah, I agree that everyone uses it for trash apps.

Gaming hardware

>>57605700
Mass food production

Medicine that allows people with severe genetic defects to live and procreate

>>57608720
>I called by phone
I still call people. Easier than texting in some circumstances.

>>57609910
How about we start by sterilizing you first?

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>>57609930
Wow u got upset fast

How does it feel that eugenics is inevitable when humans become intelligent enough?

>>57605885
lol what does this comment even mean

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Gaming hardware. By far, anyone's who have been playing on PC for decades would agree with that.

Gaming hardware made everything unnecessarily expensive and ugly.

God, I hate kids.

>>57609958
Not upset, but we should really start eugenics by sterilizing you.

Also gene drives are better at implement eugenics, edgelord.

>>57606786
>>57609463
>I member
Back to >>>/reddit/ you go.

>>57605700
Multitouch

>>57605967
Except that Microsoft makes some really good shit, including hardware, and Apple PCs have never been good

>>57609964
you have to be over 18 to browse this site

>>57605782
The only thing that makes my blood pressure rise more than getting a phone call right before or shortly after starting something, whether it be eating, watching television, working, or the limited amount of time I see family is windows updates.

>>57605883
i don't see a problem.

>>57610015
i mean what lessons from flash could we have applied to javascript? the problems with flash (insecurity and instability) are completely different from JS' alleged "problems" (people are just confused by prototyping tee bee aitch)

hating javascript is just a meme partaken of by kids who want to pretend that pure html is more usable

>>57610030
the look of pure glee on his face is kind of unnerving. He's fucking psychotic and sees those people as nothing but zombies to exploit

>>57608260
You could keep most of the shit prior to http. Normies used email like postage-free letters...when they even had it...and didn't go near Gopher, FTP, Usenet, etc.

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>>57605700

>>57610014
>Except that Microsoft makes some really good shit, including hardware,
No.

>and Apple PCs have never been good
Yet I'm sure you would cite Microsoft's copies of Apple's innovations as "good hardware."

Your break is over Pajeet, time to go back to the call center.

>>57610036
We don't need 20MB of fucking code for a fucking web page whether it's fucking Flash or fucking JavaScript. THAT'S the lesson.

>pure html is more usable
It usually is.

>>57610133
Surface Pro and Book vs any iPC

1v1 me on the shitting street m8

>>57610072
I'm thinking more VR in general you don't have to suck the Zuck.

>>57610144
>people use a technology unwisely but we should blame the technology itself

this is what you're saying right now

>>57610133
Fuck off to your shitting street and finish your glass of cow piss(your mother juiceS)

Vaccines. Without them, this cancer species wouldn't have spread so much.

>>57610128
https://youtu.be/O_iw5-7U_KA?t=2m09s

>>57605700
Nuclear weapons.

anime

>>57605700
>>57605716
+
walled garden instant messaging
Windows, post-7, was poorly implemented. 7 itself wasn't great, but it was better
smartphones with the processing power to play 3d games

>>57610248
This. Hypocritical retards don't see the irony of their criticism against popular programming languages.

>>57610248
More like "web apps are a mistake, period." The web is for information, not for pretending to be a fucking desktop application.

Online stores pushed this hell upon us. It's the one use case where you really do benefit from some desktop application like interactivity.

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>>57605700
- IoT
- JavaScript
- Modern browsers
- Social Media
- CoC
- C++
- Windows 10
- Adobe Flash
- DRM
- Web apps
- PHP
- Bitcoins
- IPV6
- Intel AMT
- Ads
- Useless distros
And the list goes on...

>>57605700
Flint tools, fire making.

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>>57605883
>>57606975
>>57608672

not necessarily tech but copyright and intellectual property

>>57612473
>- IoT
but how will i have my toilet read out my facebook feed while a nation state actor watches me take a shit?

also this blog is funny
https://twitter.com/internetofshit

>>57605700
Smartphones
Ultrabooks
Emojis
Social media
Nigger music
Dubstep
Apple after 2005
Microsoft after XP
Chinese devices
Chinese manufacturing

jet engines for aviation was a mistake
aviation was so beautiful and much less noisy before jet aircraft became a thing

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>>57606477
>flash

Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time...

a long time

>>57613053
Implying propeller driven aircraft do not produce even more noise than your typical 737

>>57605967
>Gates was your typical HS nerd on his way to middle management
Didn't gates demolish math 55? Idk i think he was probably pretty l33t

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>>57612875
XP was the mistake

>>57606786
>You fuckers sound like the memberberries in South Park.
People still watch southpark?

>>57606786
No one here is 'member-ing over things that were shit, and no one is hating things that are bad.

There is no one on the earth getting misty-eyed about cassettes.

>>57605967
>freetards
>muh freedumbs commercially viable licenses are the devil :^)
>nothing good ever gets made in neckbeards spare time what a surprise

>apple
>muh le design muh vision
>just keep buying a new pc/phone every year goyim
>lol what is compatibility
>fuck developers

>microsoft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE
>real world end user experience is top priority
>go to court multiple times for the sake of the user experience
>don't necessarily follow spec if there is a better way
>genuine innovation, first smartphones, first tablets, first touchscreens etc etc

>>57613772
member when south park used to be funny?

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>>57613783
>he doesn't know

>>57613800
yeah, i member. member when kenny would die in every episode?

>>57605700
1080p TFT LCDs

Seriously, fuck that shit, we have the same amount of screenestate in 2004 or something, computerscreens are depressing.

Some smartphones already have 2xxx by 1xxx pixels, whereas most screens I see on PCs are 1920

inb4
>BUT MUH 2 CHEAP 1080p SCREENS, I CAN WATCH 2 HOLLYWOOD MOVIES AT ONCE
fuck off

>>57613800
>remember when south park used to be funny?
Honestly no

mousedrivers

>>57613789
>real world end user experience is top priority

This post has performed an illegal operation and must be shit down.

>go to court multiple times for the sake of the user experience

They went to court because of racketeering, including their EEE and FUD behaviour that destroyed possible competitors.

>don't necessarily follow spec if there is a better way

Nothing Windows ever did was the "better way." Storing documents like word processing and spreadsheets as plaintext (e.g. postscript for one) is better as the whole thing doesn't break because one bit went screwy. Wordperfect saved the syntax in a transparent system, Word did not. This is why they used propriety binaries as data storage. This also locks out competitors and forces consumer to all march in lockstep.

As for the last one. No.

removing USB type A

>>57613842
That's the joke, it was never funny.

jquery and all the similar frameworks that let developers make their """"""efficient"""""", modern websites.

>>57613812
Fuck everything.

>>57613853
they went to court for including a top tier browser and media player software in their base package

selling 4chan

keeping recaptcha after acquisition of google

4chan js extension built

>tfw F5 is a deprecated key now
>tfw (You)-collectors are a thing now
>tfw people do not into noko (newfag autofilter) anymore

>>57613874
That's not what happened, Pajeet.

There's a reason we protect against this kind of shit, and the reason is that it's anticompetitive. They were mid-tier quality, but it didn't matter because they were there, so the consumer was stripped of choice by the illusion of there being no choice at all.

It's why we have protections against monopolies.

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>>57605700
Non-4:3 laptops

>shameful bezels
>worse resolution

>>57613910
>protection
You mean the free condoms they hand you before you get to use your googlel anal-ytics internet?
monopoly protection my ass, wake up nigger, there is no monopoly protection anywhere.

>>57613800

The first 1-2 seasons were nice, very political and satirical.

Then it somehow became the simpsons with more swear words.

>>57613921
The left one looks based, the right one does not :ˆ)

>>57605700
The concept of Software patents.

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>>57613946
I know, that's the whole point of the post.

>>57606930

>Flash is a demon of the past, anon.

How many HTML5 games are out there? Maybe 10?
And how many thousands of Flashgames?

Flash isn't dead, it's just not that common anymore. But it will still be there in 10 years, mark my words.

>>57613948
>The concept of Software patents.
Would you rather software be covered by copyright?

>>57613969
Games and swf animations is the only good thing that came of flash.

He's obviously referring to its use on webpages at large

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File compression.

React
Angular
Single Page Websites
tons of Layers of abstraction

>>57613999
How.

>>57613999
is that the eat shit guy?

Touchscreens as a primary input was the biggest mistake of all, followed closely by MS/DOS.

Infinite scrolling/pageless web design

>>57613969
flash games can now be easily ported to html5, it's only a matter of time

>>57614004
>Thom Henderson writes file compression software called ARC
>released as shareware with the source because it was accepted practice from his mainframe days
>Asshole called Phil Katz takes the source, then sells it as PK ZIP
>Thom takes Phil to court
>Thom wins because Phil is a moron who left the misspelled code comments in his source (which wasn't released with PK ZIP, of course)
>Phil paints himself as the victim and rallies a hate campaign against Thom that destroys him

Luckily Phil Katz died as an alcoholic in severe pain and Thom is still kicking.

>>57614057
How does it make file compression a mistake?

>>57614062
Thom Henderson really is the eat shit guy?

I thought I'd never know who that guy was..

>>57606939
Still got nightmares about that piece of shit.

>>57608366
faster boots, less cruft, basically

>>57614013
Fucking this
>Try to scroll to the end of the page
NOPE NIGGER HERE'S SOME MORE CONTENT TO LOAD

>>57606277
>pretty good
Yeah you dont have any idea about what even decent sound is then.
That said I use laptop speakers for things that arent music.

>>57607813
Looks comfy as fuck.

Not even being hipster or anything.

>>57614057

Let's just ignore the fact that Thom didn't start from the scratch, but also basically used the LZW-algorithm (which was public domain).

Also PKArc was 10 fucking times faster than Arc, it's not like Phil just changed the file name, he did a rewrite of the crucial parts in assembly and he was a freaking wizzard here.

The problem was more about the licensing model itself, the problem was that Phil claimed it was his own code when he copied some (unimportant) parts for conveniece. And he rightfully called "PKArc" to show the heritage of Arc. Nowadays you would just call it a "fork" and wouldn't have any legal problems.

>>57605700
women's rights was a mistake

>>57605883
behold judaism 2.0

>>57605700
The world was a mistake
t. God

>>57615072

God was a mistake
t. Nietzsche

Anime was a mistake

>windows
>non-free software
>'open source' (since it means less people making free software and instead compromising)
>nvidia drivers
>steam (buggy and non-free, like the nvidia drivers)

Social Media.

Specifically things like Facebook.

Twitter gets a pass because it's actually good in terms of getting information instantly from your favorite public figures. Before it wasn't in real time and it wasn't as efficient as this.

Anyways, things like Facebook really have made things worse. They genuinely were a mistake.

The problem with them is that not only are they designed poorly. Such as seeing a bunch of advertisements, clickbait, fake news, farmville requests, fake quizzes, etc. but the people there are shitty. The people you will see most often are insecure and want attention. Normal people don't use Facebook (if at all) enough to make an impact on the general vibe of the place, you know? Even they're forced to be fake if they want to survive so to speak.

There are no redeeming qualities about Facebook. It's just a bullshit competition and it's annoying as fuck. It's just better to keep in touch through email, but even that is a bullshit excuse. What do you mean you use it to keep in touch? In touch with who? If they haven't been in your life this long there's a reason for it.

>>57605700
Social Media.
Windows 8+
Cloud, IoT, Smart Homes.
Island-style keyboard (it's actually good for minimization and mobility though and some people prefer typing on these to traditional; the actual mistake here is that chiclet has completely flushed the market and even Thinkpads have them now).
Bloating all software because "we have enough computational power for it". Fine, you can build an app in Python or Java in 2 weeks but please try to optimize your shit just a little. Waiting 1-2 seconds for a text editor to load on 4-core 2,5GHz 8GiB system is a mistake.
Bloated web apps.
xorg
UEFI
GRUB2
Shittons of different distros and WMs nobody ever uses. We should limit to 2-3 most popular in each major category.
Producing cheap shit meant to break quick and be replaced by more cheap shit rather than more expensive but solid and reliable products. Particularly the mistake here was almost completely abandoning the latter to flood the market with the former (it wouldn't be a mistake if both could coexist though).

>>57606300
>Touch screens on everything
Well, it's not yet happening.

>>57607005
kys

>>57607008
It depends on how you use it, just like any other place on the Internet maybe except shit like social media and imageboards. For me there's no better music recommendation than one I get from Youtube. The sound quality may be shit but I don't care, it suffices most of the time.
>>57605899
This.

>>57607021
Ruby is great but using it in production is a mistake.
Honestly I don't know a modern programming language that sucks. All have some advantages and some flaw but never enough to make it unusable. Except for LaTeX. Fuck that shit.

>>57608296
Oh yeah, forgot about Auto-Tune.

>>57608597
Minimalist design is best design. I agree that we see it misused too often though.

>>57609330
This.

>>57609400
There are some Open Source clone of it.
Regular Minecraft players shouldn't be allowed on Youtube and some other places as well. It's still quite a fun game though.

>>57609908
>>57609910
>>57609968
These.

>>57610036
>>57610248
These. The anon you were replying to was a mistake.

>>57610949
And this.
>>57610903
Apparently the two of them were not enough.

>>57610488
>cancer species
You sound like one of them.

>>57613847
Use libinput… oh wait, you can't.

>>57613870
Once again, the developers were the mistake, not the tools.

>>57613921
Lenovo's """Thinkpad""" are mistake.
Also, abandoning the idea of "Butterfly" keyboards was a mistake. Those were cool bastards.

>>57614013
This.

>>57614831
kys yourself.

>>57615109
This.

>>57615379
nVidia drivers.

>>57605700
DASH
JSON
javascript
VP9
HTML canvas

iTunes, Steam, proprietary e-book formats, all the DRM shit that gets you to buy a permission to use a product (which they can just take back if they want to) instead of a physical copy of it.

>>57616127
twitter is literally the worst
propaganda spreading piece of shit
you could update any site instantly you fucking moron

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>>57616637

>>57616306
>LaTeX is a programming language.

>>57617475
Moreover, it is also Turing complete.
https://www.sharelatex.com/blog/2012/04/24/latex-is-more-powerful-than-you-think.html

>>57616306
>>57617957
In that case, LaTeX is one of the worst programming languages.
It is very focused on one thing (making documents), And making applications is neither well supported or very intuitive.
But I would rather make documents in latex than I want to do it in python, perl or ruby.

R is also a language where you can use it for everything, but it is meant to be used for calculations.
As soon as you have a large project, spanning many files, you are using it wrong.
If you need some functionality, you write it in C++ and then call the function from R.

>>57618148
>In that case, LaTeX is one of the worst programming languages.
>It is very focused on one thing (making documents), And making applications is neither well supported or very intuitive.
That was exactly my point. But LaTeX also sucks balls for making documents, at least for documents that are more complicated than math papers. But we don't have anything better.

Next time I have to write some document I'm gonna try XeTeX and then LuaTeX and see what happens.

>>57618196
> But we don't have anything better.

What about PostScript?

>>57618196
What do you mean when you say complicated?
If it is complicated to make, it is probably complicated to read.
I have yet to encounter something that I find "complicated" to make, worst case, you use tikz.

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>>57618317
Even something simple like trying to place a table inside multicols properly can make you spend hours of sorrow trying to fix yet another problem caused by the fix to the previous one. As long as the structure of your document is somehow repetitive LaTeX is OK.

>>57605716

>>57608755
Why are you a cry baby dyde?

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>>57618464
so something like this?
Is that even a problem?
I mean, I also have to fit content to be easy to read and if it has to be in a single column, then that gets harder, but it is problems that are "hard" to solve automatically, so we just make humans solve it.

Touchscreens. At least until development of tactile touchscreens.

Dedicated PhysX cards

>>57606001
>remember when you didn't fake a smile for a photo?
I always faked a smile for a photo and always come out goofy, but I haven't been in a photo for a decade
>remember when you could see an old friend and they didn't already know everything you've been up to?
I don't have fb so I don't know and they don't know, but this is happening less and less
>remember when you could sit waiting for a bus and be impulses into scrolling endless shit you don't even really care about?
It's sad, people are completely oblivious to their surrounding, liking posts and typing haha while looking miserable and the games they play ugh
>remember when sjw didn't have a voice?
If you don't listen to them they still don't have a voice
>remember when you could simply email people to 'stay in touch'?
I still do that, I miss chain mails with attached videos, funny pictures, jokes etc

>>57605700
(You)

>>57613987
Yes because that would mean you can independently reimplement an algorithm from a specification.

>>57621331
>Yes because that would mean you can independently reimplement an algorithm from a specification.
Are you quite sure?

>Substantial similarity, in US copyright law, is the standard used to determine whether a defendant has infringed the reproduction right of a copyright. The standard arises out of the recognition that the exclusive right to make copies of a work would be meaningless if copyright infringement were limited to making only exact and complete reproductions of a work.

>>57620583

Do those still exist? I remembered seeing them years ago, but I thought they dropped production back around 2013 or whenever nVidia realized nobody was going to drop another $300-$400 for a card that only did one thing.

>>57605899
career you tubers are a fad. Google can and has in the past released tweaks to how videos are recommended, which has the potential to ruin channels.

like short animations channels, which are not extinct since you tube decided to favor longer videos

>What in technology do you consider a mistake,
email attachments.
email was never designed for that shit.
fucking degeneracy

>>57605967
Not only are his products shit, his "philanthropy" is a sham. The Gates foundation spent more than 200 million funding Common Core. Fuck Bill Gates, seriously

>>57606477
but its dead, anon. who cares.

>>57622681
>stinky_monkey.wmv

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>>57605700
DirectX
the NT kernel

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>>57607061

Touch screen, it is revolunity, it is easier and it has completely changed mobile technology.
I fucking despise it, It just makes my life a fuck ton harder that I just do not use a modern mobile phone.

Please, please, give me a smart phone with some buttons.
Also the fact that they are forcing it into everything drives me nuts, when I went to get my learner's permit you had to join the queue using a device with touch screen.
Some old man came in, was told he had to use the device, fiddled with it for about five minutes and then left in frustration.

>>57623013
>learner's permit
>15 y.o.

Underage b&

>>57623036
This was four years ago, also you have to be 18 to get a learners permit in Ireland.

>>57608543
It would be called communism.
Don't be anti-American, buy a copy of Windows today.

>>57606477
Dont even make me remember it, thnks.

>>57606444
Google forced most standards on programing and pc-related-stuff. You have no idea how incredibly useful that is.
Java?
Js?
go program in php LUL

>>57609330
If google didn't let companies modify and install bloatware and shit on their phones, android itself would have never grown to the place where it is right now.
Imagine if linux was more 'n00b-user-friendly', meaning, to the extent of windows, pc/laptop manufacturers would totally use that on their pc's as well. Buying a samsung laptop? great! now samsung can track the fuck out of you throw the shit they implemented in their distro, and most users wont care!
Then Linux would be the next big thing

>>57623475
THEN I'LL MOVE TO HAIKU OR RISC-OS

YOU CAN'T MAKE ME NOT BE A HIPSTER

>>57609968
'gaming' hardware is just hardware, + marketing. MUMMY CAN I BUY THE GREEN SNAKE MOUSE IT LOOKS SO BADASS.

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>>57623489
Found the ruby programer

Computers was a mistake

>>57606001
those are just examples, but the main point is that social media has accelerated information and therefore culture itself. What I think is truly disgusting is how bland culture is among normies after the popularization of twitter. vine, and etc. This problem is mostly affects millennials and newer, but that makes me afraid for the future of our professional workforce.

controlling fire, rocks as weapons.

>>57613789
>t. Street Shitter

>>57613934

US law does not prevent monopolies because sometimes they form naturally.

What US law does prevent is a company using its market position...monopoly or oligopoly...to establish another monopoly.

Microsoft broke the law and they got smacked down hard. Which was good for everyone.

>>57613948

The problem is not with software patents, it's with the US patent office. They are overloaded so they don't research shit, they just grant the patents.

You could write up a patent for biological reproduction through the insertion of a firm device into a soft receptacle and they would probably grant it.

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>>57605883

For the love of God, please do some pushups.

>>57625080
software should be protected by copyright like other written things, not patents

>>57605700
smartphones

can't have a fucking conversation with someone without them staring at their fucking phone like a fucking idiot