I want to do that. Last week there was an article from a person that vibed their whole system in assembly and it was super fast and it did exactly what the person wanted and nothing else. That was eye opening.
This will probably finally push me to migrate away from Bitwarden. Somehow over the years the UI was getting worse and worse too. It's more steps to add custom hidden fields than it used to, etc.
It's also couple percent cheaper to send money internationally using bitcoin as the "rails" when compared to e.g. Wise. Even for sending money from classical bank in one country to a classical bank in another country. On bigger amounts you can save quite a lot of money.
I think it depends if you pay them money. If you do, then you should indeed have strong expectations towards them and hold them accountable. If they provide a free service to you, then it's still reasonable to feel upset, but at the same time you get what you pay for.
Does this logic still applies if the company is getting other benefits from having me as a user? (Genuine question, I can see arguments for both sides)
For example, if I am using the free tier of a service and "paying" by seeing ads, should I have similar expectations?
I'm not saying that's how users pay for github - in that case it's more subtle, for example by giving up control of some of their stack and bolstering github already near monopolistic network effect.
I think Midnight Commander is still the most advanced TUI there is. It has so many hidden capabilities that you may not even know about. You can be connected over ssh to another computer, while browsing the inside of a compressed zip file and previewing the content of the file inside of it . If you enable lynx motion and case insensitive - you are navigating across folders so much faster than just trying to "cd" and "ls"... It's impressive that this category of file managers has worked the same way for more than 40 years - the same shortcuts, etc.
I think the effects of how the services operate in the background are observable by the real users at some point. Unfortunately it's often too late do something about it. You get hit by censorship when the overton window moves past you, you get deplatformed when your mastodon instance shuts down - that has happened to me and so that's why I have bad aftertaste from mastodon.
On nostr there are some very cool sub-communities - there are surprisingly a lot of surfers, there are multiple book authors with bestselling books, there are local non-english communities, etc. And on top of that there's a variety of applications on top of it, like divine.video.
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