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Reading about an early 90s tech exec complaining that public schools aren't replacing their old PCs with new ones fast enough for her company's bottom line, and suggests maybe we need to get rid of public schools and replace them with private schools that can afford new PCs that use her CD-ROMs.

So no, this BS didn't start with AI.

Delphi has never changed.

If you took a Delphi developer who only knows modern Delphi, and sat them down in front of Borland Delphi for Windows running on Windows 3.1, they would be able to make hello world in about 10 seconds.

The user experience has remained fundamentally unchanged for over 30 years.

They designed a thing that worked, and it has stood the test of time.

Meanwhile, your android phone moves some button to a different place every few months, and adds three new gestures, one of which you won't discover until a year or so later.

RE: https://todon.eu/@redjives/117223317766147041

This is absolutely right, and I think a big part of the problem is that tech has utterly refused to standardise on *anything*.

Oh, you want a web server? You can get a cheap managed one but it'll only run certain languages and databases. Or you can rent a computer somewhere and install everything up to and including your favourite Linux distribution, and maybe you'll even set it all up securely. That's ridiculous. We've had the internet for decades now, you should just be able to download a zip file with an app in it in a standard format and put it on a standard server and expect it to work securely.

In practice, the nearest thing we ever had to that is that Lamp stack. This is, I think, a big part of why Wordpress is so popular — it's easier to find a hosting service that runs Wordpress and configure it with plugins to be what you need than it is to set up and install a second server stack.

Obviously we'll always want to be able to just connect computers running arbitrary code to the internet, but we should have *something* that's easy and standardised by now (but then, when have software developers every tried to make this stuff *more* accessible to regular people?)

Do you like terminals? Do you have too many terminals? Do you like things that go zoop zoop and move around? Check out my wideboi here.

(I'm screwing around with building a terminal multiplexer because I'm a masochist)

https://github.com/lmorchard/wideboi

A new article from me:
I’ve been around for decades of discourse about the GIMP, and it’s high time to retire this conversation forever. I’ll contribute my last word on it:

https://aria.dog/barks/gnu-imp-manipulation-program/