vacuumflower
It’s funny, I’ve never met anybody who’d have that kind of experience and use the word “hacker” in this meaning simultaneously.
A lot of the people who think IP jives well with the internet were the ones who looked at me weird when I said I had online friends circa 2000
This checks out.
Back when “FOSS” was “Free as in Beer” and fuck that Richard Stallman with his “free as in speech” bullshit.
I remember exactly the opposite, people being much more acutely aware of the difference, and Stallman being much more popular than now.
people like Bill Gates stealing the foundations of technology
Clarification? Movies about Steve Jobs excluded.
Those same Russian air-defence systems proved themselves effectively useless against the F-117 in the Balkans
There’s been some improvements in the past 20 years too, sometimes even not only on paper.
Anyway, the biggest problem of the ex-Soviet militaries is their incompetence, not their tech. The systems employed are up to the necessary tasks and sometimes more adaptable than NATO systems, it’s just that even their normal operation sometimes can’t be achieved by people using them.
Games, Steam, firmware, fopnu, darkmx, “Skype” (relatives), WhatsApp (relatives), Telegram (relatives and work, I don’t care if the client is open), Opera Presto (sometimes for nostalgy).
Good post!
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Glory to the strong jade rod comrade Xi!