#TheUser

Ecologia Digitaljosemurilo@mato.social
2025-02-08

"#MySpace pages, Media player skins, the eye searingly gaudy hot dog stand theme. These all were vectors for #selfexpression. But to offer these #freedoms, you have to trust the person operating your system, honour their agency, and respect them as a serious intellectual partner instead of a gibbering idiot to be manipulated for your own ends.
…personal computing needs to make a firm return to normative #design practises.
#TheUser is dead. Long live #PersonalComputing!"

pastagang.cc/blog/kill-the-use

2024-07-20

Today I was listening to "Symphony #2 For Dot Matrix Printers" by The User (2002)
#music #listening #TheUser

Album cover art for "Symphony #2 For Dot Matrix Printers"

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