M. Blackmore
I've had an awful fight to try and "send" a contribution via a Paypal account that hasn't been used for years, that seemed to have been put into abeyance, with different phones and addresses associated that are long gone etc etc. Nightmare.
Just to do the "right thing" and give a bit like in the old shareware days of the 80s - if anyone here is old enough to remember that era before our modern saturated online, internet mediated age. (There weren't many of us around in that erstwhile times of Bulletin Boards and email lists; such as Cix here, and Craig's List in the US - and anyone old enough to remember such as compulink, the .apc domains, the association of progressive computing? A time of innocence, high ideals and vision? Like Greennet: @gn.apc from circa 1979/80 origins? Systems which I, now, in this age of communicative abuse think actually worked better noise/signal ratios than present-day "social meeja" with its Total Surveillance Capitalism. Worked better, in a vastly simpler manner etc etc. For e.g. we had better and further -reaching information diffusion and links into the deepest recesses of "underdeveloped" lands, in Africa for e.g, until relatively recently with the rapid, only recent years, diffusion of mobile phones into the wider world. And as I said, without the systemically embedded abuse of privacy and information there now exists).
Frustration. Either I've put in the price of a pint of Hook Norton Gold best bitter from our local traditional brewery (est. 1680-something) into Paypal's "send" click field at least EIGHT times, and on each been slung back to the login prompt. No idea if its me missing something and pressing the wrong button, or with the recipient's account...? I've checked "Activity" record and no payment seems to have been sent, but if its not been logged properly the developer is becoming a rich man at my expense... Plus I'd completely forgotten a standing monthly payment to support Wikipedia set up about the turn of the century! So the account has been active despite being unable to access it without being tied into knots. Don't begrudge Wikipedia at all, so will continue (and urge others to do so, despite its travails of persistent "truth pollution" from certain sources (looking at broad associates of a movement supporting corporates and ex-presidents for example). Indeed more resources might help with issues of veracity checking and suchlike.
Well.. Its taken nearly 3 hours to get to this point of writing onto the review page, after having an equal struggle to recover useable Google accounts for one I can actually log onto in order to post to this review page... Accounts that haven't been used since, with the earliest, the beginning of the last decade when it was in beta test. (Later it was realised Google was farming email data for commercial gain, and in at least Gmails earliest beta and rollout days, apparent evidence email content was being scanned for analytic marketting purposes). There are a couple or three early Gmail accounts irretrievably lost 'cos the ancient mobile phones of 90s vintage and numbers are long gone as linked recovery devices, as are the ancient 70s and 80s email addresses also associated with Google and Gmail. No idea the system had been set up in a manner as error intolerant, or as user friendly as a cornered rat.
Is the world really run by the Devil, where doing the right thing is made so awkward? Does this explain the inverse koan of the motto "Do no evil", of a modern, "natural" monopolist corporation embedded in the communicatively driven new world order? Where is Teddy Roosevelt and the trust-busting Congress of 1900s when we need them, one of the best things the Yanks ever did - and seems so long-forgotten in a mean, dishonest decade, now? Will Pratik ever be rewarded for his contribution to the web page reading public benefit? Ah. Well.
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