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by ryandrake 113 days ago
"Preventing users from running the software they want to run" seems like such an anti-feature, yet every major system seems to be moving quickly in this direction. I feel like general purpose computing is going to be on life support, soon.
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Cory Doctorow’s “The coming war on general-purpose computing” said it all. In 2012.

https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html