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by jsz0 1376 days ago
It's still kind of crazy to me how cutting edge modern commutation in 2022 is basically just IRC from the 1990s.
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It's adapted to today's environment: a 100x slower Electron app that also snoops around on your system.
You think that's crazy, wait until you open a book written in the 60s explaining solutions today.

The real crazy thing is how slow our nontechnical progress is.

Why is that crazy? Would you expect the basics of human nature and community to have changed in the past 20 years?
We have threads and GIFs now