Post #4259035

@chu@climatejustice.social I bet some of it comes from the fact that stocks have, historically, been the implementation-easy solution for "the boss wants us to have a good demo of why internet-polling widgets are cool and why we're cool to have that feature." I look at it and feel convinced it's a perpetual hanger-on from early days of tech demos, now impossible to get away from (because to a business idiot, if they were to not include the stock ticker as a standard feature by default, the new version of the OS would be worse because "they don't have the stocks thing anymore" - it's a crowd with a lot of your fate in their hands, but who can't figure out how to enable an optional desktop widget). None of this is to disagree with you. There are a lot of implications to be read from a world where this is the path of least resistance.