Nothing says user friendly like making the user read the manual for his manual so he can memorize the nine different categories (plus perhaps custom categores like TCLs) to get the manual page he wants.
I use man and apropos all of the time, but I have no illusion that they're new user friendly. They're amazing when you just need to look up some options or get the syntax for a system call, but if you've not assimilated the Unix way of thinking they're quite obtuse.
Must depend on eras, yes, because personally I avoid using the phone at all costs. I'd rather take my eyes out with a spindle gouge than talk to someone over the damn phone
You are anonymous here, and your post contains no personal information, and none of your real life friends and acquaintances will see any information you intended to keep private.
With facebook, you are not anonymous, many of your posts would contain private information, and many of them could be pushed to people you didn't want to share with.
I don't know what threat models you find compelling. But the damage HN could do to someone with the info they have from an account holder is an order or two of magnitude less than the damage facebook could do.
It all boils down to: you're storing data in someone else's database. At this point, technically, they could do whatever they want with it. All that stops them from doing so is their ethics, the law, and the desire to keep their business.
That's also the only thing that stops tens of thousands of people from walking into my house, murdering me and leaving with my possessions. It is working so far.
What kind of social network could exist where no one besides the author can modify the content or privacy settings of their posts? I'm guessing every user would have to self-host their own content?
Reddit does not allow mods or admins to modify comments from the website UI, but that didn't stop the admin from modifying comments by editing the database directly.
About a day and a half. (that's based on 2017's $48 billion net income)
So Apple almost certainly could afford to buy the company, but they'd need a business case for doing so, weighing that option against all the OTHER nice things they might want to spend $200 million on.
