Yes, I certainly see what you mean. It's a shame too. Usenet has been around for a very long time. I despise these Facebook type things. So much foolishness.
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 1:46 PM Wolfgang Pfeiffer <r...@gmx.net> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 08:44:20PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > >I've been observing, from the sidelines, the devolution of mailing > >lists, Usenet, and IRC into web-based discussion forums of various > >flavors; getting the bar lowered to the level of Twooter, Spacebook, > >and TokTik, and more of the same. It takes more mental effort and > >discipline to participate meaningfully in the former, but much less in > >the latter. It's a much lower barrier of entry; hence this latest > >episode with Gnome. > > > > Nailed it: Twooter, Spacebook, TokTik. > > Devolution - whatever you call it - in the West seems to be a fact in > many fields. Whereas intellectually and when it comes to patents > Asians are getting a lot better over the last years. 2021 more than > 50% of patent filings [*] came from Asia (China 25.1%, Japan 18.1%, > Republic of Korea 7.5%), USA 21.5% and Germany 6.2% - this is a total > reverse from the numbers of 1994: US were No.1, Germany #2, Japan #4, > Korea #18, China #21. > > But yes: Let's all be happy with a few butttons to press. > > "Press Green" > "Say yes" > "Now Go away" > > Wolfgang > > [*] https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pctndocs/en/2022/pct_news_2022_02.pdf > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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