thekernel

Ecuadorian lead best lead

ooor they just bought it from aliexpress and who knows what the ink is made from

I like the concept, but hate the configuration schema and tooling which is all needlessly obtuse (eg. helm)

seems like a lot of revisionist bullshit in this rant, eg:

WhatsApp rose by trapping previously-free beings in their corral and changing their habits to create dependence on masters

WhatsApp rose because:

a) If was free

b) it used data vs sms/mms which was becoming cheaper

c) it was cross platform at the time (blackberry, android, nokia, etc)

d) It used your existing phone number as your identifier, so onboarding and finding existing contacts was swift