The Miseducation of Kara Swisher | Edward Ongweso Jr.
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Kara Swisher made a career of dumbing down tech reporting and criticism. She’s a little sorry!

Too tired to sneer at the book myself right now but the article doesn’t pull punches either

Figured it’s worth posting since the book author has featured here more than once recently and has definitely been an enabler to The Shit

  • selfAEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    archive link since the baffler was so fond of telling me I had only 1 free article left, meaning refreshing the tab would most likely lock me out of reading the page

    • froztbyteOPEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      that really is a fucking annoying banner, yeah. also, lifehack: open these fuckers in temp containers or priv sessions of $browserflavour. counter cookies can’t do shit when they always die.

        • froztbyteOPEnglish
          5·
          2 years ago

          it’s so good

          and it just goddamn works

          on my workstation I have that + Choosy (there are other-OS alternatives to Choosy as well), and I profile-route things as needed along with fallthroughs into complete memoryholes for things I want as little state as possible on

          (I hate the modern web so fucking much)

      • cornflakeEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        Using Firefox Focus as default mobile browser also handy for this

        • froztbyteOPEnglish
          5·
          2 years ago

          (sorry, this rant isn’t directed at you, but)

          for FUCKS SAKE, mozilla

          Firefox Focus is a free and open-source privacy-focused mobile browser by Mozilla, based on Firefox. It is available for Android[4][5] and iOS smartphones and tablets.[6][7] Its predecessor, Focus by Firefox,

          jesus christ can these people have a worse fucking product development team and/or strategy?

          this company squanders so fucking much potential and goodwill, holy shit

      • selfAEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        true! I really need to squash the Lemmy bug that kills my session when I switch tab groups on mobile

        • froztbyteOPEnglish
          5·
          2 years ago

          I’ve been using mlem on iOS as my client, if you want something to try out

          • selfAEnglish
            6·
            2 years ago

            I have it installed, but haven’t tried it since our instance launched! I should give it another try soon and see if they’ve implemented the admin frontend yet

            • Sjmarf@lemmy.mlEnglish
              7·
              2 years ago

              Mlem dev here! Admin features aren’t live quite yet, but they should be available as part of an upcoming beta in a couple of weeks or so.

              • selfAEnglish
                6·
                2 years ago

                nice, I’ll definitely keep an eye on TestFlight! thanks for all your work on Mlem!