I never stopped, Bandcamp sells DRM-free files (especially on "Bandcamp Fridays" once a month when more of the money goes to the artist, unlike Spotify and other streaming services), and VLC works on both desktop and mobile.
Exactly why I banned React from my pipelines years ago, native Web Components + dispatchEvent gives you the modern web without bloat and churn, and Vite for a lightweight HMR thanks to native ES Modules.
Server-side you can use jsdom to polyfill document, it supports Web Components too.
I had a family member who had sudden onset of massive seizures. He could not remember any of his passwords or hints at all. It was a real challenge getting into any of his accounts to figure out what needed doing.
Power reveals rather than corrupt: it's easy to act moral when there are consequences (real or imagined) when you don't, but you see someone's true self when they know they could get away with it.
For example, this is why the way someone treats service workers is a good indicator of someone's character.
I'm looking this via the lens of moral development where:
Pre-conventional level is the narcissist me-me-me level, that seems to dominate the geopolitics and tech.
Conventional is most of us as the sheep. This level follows the loudest crowd that right now is the pre-conventional.
Post-conventional is the few that can do standalone thinking and morals.
Most conventionals can though understand the difference between and also the outcome we're headed to with the pre-conventional human gods, but we need to build the normalcy for the post-conventional ones together and make it structural.
My hunch is that first step could be to start the discussion on what is excessive on personal level. Consumption, wealth, political power.
Something like Mamdani or Polanski have showed, only more blunt. The majority of people are waking up that the current trajectory means the end of the world and extinction after the short period of accelerationist-dystopian hellscape.
I haven't been participating as much lately because life got in the way but I'm still thankful this community exists, it remains one of the very few places I can have high level discussions with fellow inquiring minds.
It's not just who you follow, it feels like the way people post changed as well: I follow mostly the same people as I did on twitter but most act different now, more hot takes and opinions, less signal. To be honest I'm not fond of the popularity contest vibe, but that's irrelevant to the protocol itself.
Even using "big words" gets you mistaken for AI these days, which is especially frustrating when you have a richer vocabulary than average due to growing up reading a lot of books.
My kid is an above average and pretty articulate writer for her age, and I'm just waiting in dread for the first time her school accuses her, with no proof of course, of using AI to write an assignment. We'll have to sit down and dumb it down, make some mistakes, and use smaller words so it passes the school's AI filter. It's 100% going to happen, I've never been so certain about anything.
In general forums it's quite often like you've been stuck in an episode of Idiocracy. If we extrapolate the current trajectory it feels like we'll be communicating online with grunts and emojis in a couple of years.
honestly I'm just trying to break the addiction this site and Reddit have intentionally foisted upon me; I'm fairly certain you're all bots, and I hate it here, but I compulsively take out my phone and navigate to this site anyway.
https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays