Google accused DOJ of aiming to force people to use “inferior” search products.

Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine::Google accused DOJ of aiming to force people to use “inferior” search products.

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    162·
    10 months ago

    I work as a website developer and I think number one is so, so much more likely. The average person barely knows how to use a computer at all, let alone how it works and different terminology.

    An older, non-IT person - an actual judge, yeah I’m not giving them the benefit of the doubt here - they likely don’t know lol

      • English Mobster@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        The article you link says the judge already knew how to code beforehand.

        He’s been coding in BASIC for decades, actually, writing programs for the fun of it: a program to play Bridge, written as a gift for his wife; an automatic solution for the board game Mastermind, which he is immensely fond of; and most ambitiously, a sprawling multifunctional program with a graphical interface that helps him with yet another of his many hobbies, ham radio.

        • mulcahey@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Yes, because he taught himself.

          “At some point, I looked at the BASIC book and decided I would learn that.” He taught himself straight from the book, which he recalls was “pretty straightforward.”

      • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
        51·
        10 months ago

        It’s because these things work by probabilities. Generally when you think of older people who aren’t working as IT professionals, you wouldn’t expect them to be great with computers - and you’d probably be right.

        Do you really think that a judge that taught himself to code would be common-place and would be the norm? That judge is awesome, but he is very clearly an outlier lol

      • krolden@lemmy.mlEnglish
        12·
        10 months ago

        Knowing how to code doesn’t mean you know the difference between a search engine and a web browser.