Just think of it as OpenStep, minus the "open" part. 🤓
I don't mind using a Mac at work. It's just a BSD with a proprietary UI; it's close enough if that's the choice IT gives me.
But how did he stay in the club while being a fugitive from the law? How did he maintain access to his assets?
They also weren't actually anti-technology, just anti-exploitation.
(Also it's "bad rap," BTW.)
They make it go through an app and a cloud service on purpose these days so they have an excuse to upsell you on a subscription.
Right, and Skullgrid wanted to avoid polluting his browser history. It's the right use-case.
Sure, you can earn your right to vote, just fill out this basic literacy test real quick:



Now, you might complain that some of those questions are ambiguous. Don't worry, it's intended to be like that. It's real simple: if you're white, the test-giver will interpret it to agree with the answer you gave and you'll get to vote. If you're black, the test-giver will interpret it against you and you'll be disenfranchised. Totally fair!
And yes, this was a real test, used in Louisiana in 1964. People were getting disenfranchised using this as an excuse within living memory.
Source: https://allthatsinteresting.com/voting-literacy-test
I don't want to agree because I like biking, but damn if "literally speed run" isn't clever.
To be fair, it's not as if it supports languages other than fucking Javascript anyway, so it mostly doesn't matter.
Edit: I don't want to split hairs about modules or json or whatever; I just want to be salty about how we could've had Scheme or Python in the browser.
even though the implementation was questionable
The implementation was not questionable. The implementation was blatantly nefarious and he fucking knew it, because why else would he have tried to hide it?
That's roughly what I remember: the threats were against "zionists" or "genociders" or similar, not any particular user by name, but this guy basically told on himself by interpreting it personally anyway.
(It's possible I'm unaware of other, more egregious, behavior as the situation escalated, but I think this was at least the thing that started the pearl-clutching initially.)
Because if literally every new car on the market is doing it, you don't have much of a choice.
(Okay, sure, you could resolve to drive old cars forever -- and that's what I do -- but let's not pretend that's possible for everyone. Even if people were willing and able to accept the maintenance/reliability/safety tradeoffs, which many are not, there simply aren't enough old cars for everybody to drive one.)