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- 1Developers vent frustration at GitHub's grip on coding●GitHub can f..k you and you are forced to love it. or live with it...
A blunt complaint about GitHub is drawing attention on Hacker News: the argument is that developers depend on the platform so heavily that they have no real alternative, even when it treats them poorly, leaving them to 'love it or live with it'. The sentiment taps a long-running debate about Microsoft-owned GitHub's near-monopoly over code hosting and collaboration.
- 2MTV Died the Day the Doors Multiplied●MTV Didn't Die of Bad Taste: It Died the Day the Doors Multiplied
A widely shared essay argues that MTV's decline was not caused by a drop in taste or quality, but by the moment its barriers to entry disappeared and countless new channels and gateways multiplied, diluting the network's cultural monopoly. The piece frames the music channel's collapse as a structural shift in media distribution rather than a failure of programming.