And that's the problem. The average person isn't looking for it, and will absolutely not see it. As long as it's good enough, that's all that matters. A plausible enough video of Joe Biden talking about rounding up Christians into internment camps that gets shared on Facebook, or something like that which panders to right-wing bigotry, is enough to get people going. Even real images and videos that are miscaptioned are enough, and even when a link is there that disproves the caption.
People seriously underestimate just how horrifying the possibilities are with this shit. And as high stakes as this election cycle is, and the state of politics in this country, the tendency for people to latch on to anything that affirms their preexisting ideals creates a fucking minefield
The largest code contributors to Linux are corporate contributions
Regular people who contribute to OSS do so as a passion project, as a hobby, and have other unrelated jobs that pay the bills. Those people still have to make a living, they're just not doing it from their software contributions. Journalism isn't a hobby and you can't work a day job and still be an effective journalist. News orgs don't come together as hobby projects.
I'm not defending advertising. I hate it and think it's ruined the web. I'm just addressing the analogy here wrt Linux.
Isn't that a prerequisite for enshitification? Publicly-traded companies are required (by law, I think) to maximize profits for their shareholders, even if that means utterly ruining their original product (Reddit, Boeing, etc.), yes? What do you think?
Meta, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon all need to be broken up into a thousand different companies, same as we did with AT&T.
And unlike with AT&T, after divestiture there needs to be an order in place that perpetually prevents the divested companies from ever merging or buying each other up. At this point AT&T has almost completely re-formed from the companies it was broken into, and that should never have been allowed.
And for fucks sake we need to make the fine for white collar crime that extends state lines to necessitate the forfeiture of the entire C-suite’s and board of directors assets, both domestically and internationally, upon threat of seal team 6. Empty their bank accounts and leave them with nothing
Absolutely this. We need to abolish corporate personhood, and hold company leadership directly responsible for the company's behavior. Since it is the people who are doing these things. The "company" isn't some autonomous entity that has a will of its own. People drive it, and those people should be held accountable.
Gods yes. It basically steamrolls everything and you end up with two situations: people who knowingly game the algorithm for malicious intent and pollute search engines and media platforms, or you have people who are earnestly playing to the algorithm to help their "content" get noticed because that's the only way it will get noticed. It creates this homogeneous landscape where everything looks the same, everyone's doing and posting the same things, everyone is chasing trends and virality, and no one is doing anything interesting or creative anymore because novel ideas that aren't SEO'd to death don't get noticed.
So what we end up with is our current situation: a toxic landscape of "influencers", "content creators", content farms, ad farms, bots, etc. polluting everything, and people with genuine passion and interesting ideas getting buried under a sea of engagement bait, rage-bait, and disguised ads.
while websites just repeating the search phrase over and over with no answer in sight are at the top
A decade or so ago, this was a really bad problem, especially with sites like Experts Exchange et al. Content farms just grabbing your query and puking back to you. Or, sites that would take a thread on one forum, and then replicate it across 10 other sites as though they're different forums, but it's the exact same posts. But it's gotten so, so, so much worse in the last year or so. Google searches these days are like wading through a septic tank trying to find a microgram of gold.
I absolutely agree we need this. But the problem stated in the article
The complex web of human interactions that thrived on the internet’s initial technological diversity is now corralled into globe-spanning data-extraction engines making huge fortunes for a tiny few.
is the crux of it all, and without violence or extreme governmental measures forcibly breaking up big tech companies, the banning of selling personal data, etc. (all of which would also require violence because our government absolutely will not do these things) this simply isn't going to be fixed. Politely asking billionaires to give up their captive revenue streams, and the power they wield with their platforms, will never produce results. And "well, what if we all just delete Instagram/Facebook/et al?" isn't an answer either. "Content creators" are tied to these platforms for their own revenue streams and livelihoods, and they're not going to give that up either. And for the most part, a large part of the population simply does not care enough.
The rise of smartphones in the late 2000's really heralded the beginning of this downfall. There are walled gardens to be found all up and down the pipeline: the phone OEM, the OS devs, the apps and their platforms, the app stores, the service providers, etc. And you now have a device in your pocket that has always on internet connection either through wifi or cellular, a GPS radio, accelerometers, cameras, microphones, NFC, bluetooth, and all of these way to track literally everything about your life: everywhere you go, every app you use, every website you visit, listen to everything you say, and watch everything you do. And because it's all so convenient, we willingly allowed ourselves to accept this unprecedented level of invasiveness and control.
The people who have that kind of power will not give it up willingly. And our government is too invested and has its fingers too far into all of it to do anything about it. I truly do not believe we'll see something come along the way FB killed MySpace. Nothing is going to do that to Meta now. They're too big and have too much power. There's no market solution. There's no regulatory will.
Nothing short of violence would ever be able to fix this. And I don't see any kind of critical mass on the part of average folk to rise up against big tech to fight back, no matter how much information you show them, or how much you explain the dire need.
"Question every narrative, but don't question these things. Don't show bias, but here are your biases." These chuds don't even hear themselves. They just want to see Arya(n) ramble on about great replacement theory or trans women in bathrooms. They don't think their bile is hate speech because they think they're on the side of "facts" and everyone else is an idiot who refuses to see reality. It's giving strong "I'm not a bigot, "<" minority ">" really is like that. It's science" vibes.
For far too long, there's been this idea in tech spaces that a person, regardless of how shitty they are, is automatically deserving of adulation because they're some "10x" developer. That soft skills, and wider understanding of the landscape, are completely unnecessary. They think it's "meritocracy" where all that matters is the code you deliver, and you can be the shittiest person on the planet otherwise. It's created so much toxicity, so much hostility, and driven so many people away. And it's so much more apparent in OSS spaces where pull requests seem to be the only currency people have to wield.
Those kinds of attitudes completely pushed me away from participating is nearly all Linux/OSS communities. I used to be really active on a number of forums and in irc. But that kind of shit became so overbearing it just wasn't worth it anymore. Not to mention the fact that it felt like 75% of the people there were also 4channers and well on their way down the alt-right rabbit hole.
Plus, it's not really a matter of being able to withhold your money from a company, when you bought a game 20 years ago and don't want to see it disappear, or if you're trying to buy a game from 20 years ago that is no longer sold. People would literally throw money at companies if they just kept games available somehow. But "I won't buy the next game you release if you delete my digital purchases" isn't a viable method of protest. The money the company thinks they're "saving" by doing so far outweighs any losses from your non-purchases
Elon Musk has fired a significant number of employees across different instances. Specifically, Musk has fired over 6,000 people at Twitter since taking over the company, reducing the staff to around 1,500 employees. Additionally, Musk sacked around 3,700 Twitter employees in the first week of November after acquiring the company, and further layoffs followed, resulting in a substantial reduction in the workforce. Overall, considering these instances and others not explicitly mentioned in the provided sources, Elon Musk has fired thousands of employees across various companies and contexts.
This opening paragraph is absolutely written either by an AI, or someone with a 6th grade understanding of writing. It's painful to read.
If that's your view of it, then you truly do not understand how businesses operate (especially larger companies). "Hey this is free, let's switch to this!" isn't a pitch. There are so many factors to consider: service, support, contracts, deployment, on and on and on. It would be great if every business adopted OSS, but they're not going to. And that's not a failure of one employee to convince a Fortune 500 company, for example, that LO would be a cost-saving measure.
The point is that those "thousand" benefits for LO do not matter. That's simply not how businesses run. It would be great if it were, but it isn't. And your experience as an individual user with MS support is completely irrelevant with regard to business support.
For me, Google video search, Google books (Internet Archive is good, but doesn't always have the same stuff), Adobe InDesign (but in the process of learning LaTeX), and Typewise. As for the Google stuff, I liked Whoogle a lot, but almost all their instances seem to have been blocked or shut down. Also, apologies if this is...
Yeah, but name a single big box retailer that takes a cryptocurrency at the point of sale? You can't because none do. Having to find an ATM to be able to complete a transaction isn't scalable. And for retailers, seconds count at the PoS. So if it takes any significant time at all to process a transaction, they're not going to do it. Further, they're not going to eat the kind of fees that crypto brings along with it. Same reason a lot of retailers don't take AmEx, for example. The transaction fees are outrageous. So as a retailer you either eat it, which most won't, or you pass the cost on to the customer, and alienate your customers.
Until you can walk into a McDonalds or a Walmart and swipe or tap something at their payment terminal to pay with your cryptocoin, it's not going to be viable. And I'm not talking about exchanging it for cash, and then paying. I'm talking about the retailer actually accepting the coin.
As a currency, crypto has utterly failed. It's nothing but a speculator market, and an extremely dirty and volatile one at that.
Think of the Internet as the US Interstate Highway system. The web is a chain of tourist attractions you can visit along those roads.
The Internet is the physical and logical collection of interconnected networks. The web is a protocol that runs on top of that infrastructure, just as email, ssh, ftp, irc, etc. do.
But it's not muddy though. The Internet is the infrastructure that the web runs across. And there are still plenty of other protocols out there beside the web that are in use every single day. Even if the average user were to primarily use the Internet for accessing the web, it doesn't mean the definitions of the two have become muddy. Interstate 4 is not Walt Disney World, even if you only ever drive I-4 to get to Disney.
Yeah, this is strange. They fork a repo, but clearly have no idea what they're doing. Or they thought they'd just grab the code before it went down, and had no plan on what to do with it. Their website doesn't work. The readme says "Most of the development happens on GitHub" even though they're on GitLab.
Many users on Lemmy seem actively hostile to the idea of decentralization in a way that feels self defeating. They don’t want a better alternative to Reddit, they just want Reddit 2.0 and attempts to sway them towards something better feels like pulling teeth.
I keep seeing this, and I don't really understand. Lemmy is a link aggregator that allows users to organize those links into categories/communities/etc, and lets people comment on the links and have discussions about them. From an end-user perspective, that's exactly what Reddit is. So I'm genuinely curious what's meant when people say they don't want Reddit 2.0 from a technical perspective. From a social perspective, the toxicity, brigading, shitposting, etc are definitely not desirable. But with shit moderation tools, those sort of things don't get sorted, and federation just magnifies all of those problems. Though I think disabling voting definitely helps discourage shitposting and low-effort responses.
But I genuinely do think a lot of problems really come down to the fundamentals of federation. And given how many downsides there are to it, I'm not convinced it's actually a benefit at all.
F4 has only had staying power simply because of the modding community. It's succeeded despite Bethesda. Modders took an extremely mediocre game and made it something much more rich and interesting.
I recently did another playthrough, starting with 1. When I got to three, I spent a couple hours with it and just gave up. It's just so shallow, bland, and lacking compared to 1 and 2.
New Vegas is the sequel 1 and 2 deserved, and Bethesda tries really hard to pretend it doesn't exist.
The problems is that's not what Fallout is. It's not a settlement sim. But when I played F4 for the first time, it felt just like Fallout Shelter with a quest tacked onto it, which is not at all what I wanted. Especially the way the game strongly pushes you into the Minutemen. It makes it extremely tedious for a new player. After the first time, I walked away from the game and didn't come back to it for over a year. I decided to give it a go and completely ignored the Minutemen, and it was such a better game. But you have to know you can do that.
Also it wasn't until modding was opened up that the settlement system got good, IMO.
The problem with Starfield's settlements is that they are entirely resource mining operations. They aren't really settlements in the way Fallout's are. You have to spend a phenomenal amount of time to get the perks needed to make it even remotely useful or manageable, and by the time you get there, it's not even worth it (which is true for most of Starfield's mechanics, IMO).
Not the person you replied to, but for me Oblivion has some long and rich faction quests, really interesting side quests, and Shivering Isles basically adds an entirely new game to it, there's so much to do there.
However, my biggest issue is that the leveling system (particularly the level scaling) is completely broken. If you rise anywhere above lever 5 or so, the difficulty ratchets up so much it makes the main quest nearly impossible to complete. I know level scaling is a big topic in the industry, but for me, the way it's implemented nearly ruins what is otherwise a mostly great game.
I also wish you weren't able to join all the factions. Like, if you're high up in the Mage's Guild, why tf would the Fighter's Guild want you to join them? That was something Morrowind did really well. You really had to be deliberate about those kinds of choices.
Didn’t Oblivion already have the difficulty slider? You could just adjust that, no?
Not sure how much it affected the scaling. I usually just stuck to Normal difficulty. But as you went on, in Kvatch and inside Oblivion gates, instead of stunted scamps or clannfear runts, you'd start seeing spider daedra, daedroths, storm atronachs, and Xivili. Going back through Kvatch the second time, or when you get to the end of the main quest going through Imperial city you would be overwhelmed with a huge mob of Xivili and spider daedra.
You mentioned immersion breaking, and that's another big issue. Just walking around seeing bandits go from wearing fur or leather armor, to wearing glass or daedric armor, is just ridiculous.
which provided an immersive way of gating content and a real sense of achievement when you came back later with better armour and weapons to finally defeat the enemy who gave you so many problems earlier. Basically the same experience you had with Death Claws in Fallout New Vegas when compared to Fallout 3 - they aren’t just a set piece, they are a real challenge
This is precisely why I dislike level scaling at a whole. It ruins any sense of progression. And I do love the way FNV used the deathclaws and cazadores as a gating mechanism.
The thing is that you're both right: your landline at your home would continue to work during a power outage, assuming the central office still had power or there wasn't a mechanical failure there. And if the CO went down, your phone would stop working. And this is a case of the CO going down.
I'm making this request on behalf of a community I'm part of, which has some fairly specific requirements that we're struggling to fill. Basically, we're an art and writing group that makes extensive use of building our own old-school webpages (almost exclusively HTML, some of us use some CSS as well). This group has been...
Eclipse is a popular IDE that's super customizable and extensible. They have a huge marketplace of plugins. And swear I remember there being a WYSIWYG editor for it, but now that I'm searching, it seems there might not be anymore.
I definitely understand the pain though.
We have experimented with CMS options, but had various issues arising from this - lack of customisation/design flexibility (each individual page we create often has a completely unique design based on the content
I'm a web dev who got their start back in the 90s. I'm also an enthusiast for classic computers and restoring them. One of the biggest problems is that older web browsers won't view anything with HTTPS, have no idea how to render modern web languages, and modern browsers make a mess of classic sites (though this is also an effect of much larger screen resolutions). So I was working on a project to try to build sites on the modern web that older browsers could view, using like HTML3, with no CSS nor JS. I had this ambitious idea that maybe there was a way to create a CMS that could build older sites like that. I was trying to use a headless CMS that I could take content from with a modern frontend for a modern experience, and then build a backend that could wrap the content up in 90s-tastic style. And it's possible if you want just a generic, bland and basic site. But if you want anything that looks like things did then, it's impossible. Like you mentioned, everything was so bespoke. so often pages then were built largely with images: navigation, layout, styling, etc. Everything was so unique, custom, and specific to the site. It wasn't like now where everything is based on the exact same grid, or Bootstrap theme, or WP theme.
The sad part is that there were so many WYSIWYG editors back then that you could use, and even web-based ones (Angelfire, Tripod, Geocities, etc) but all that's gone now. I did find a copy of Dreamweaver 1 and 2 on MacintoshGarden and gave that a spin for a bit on an old PowerMac G4. That was fun, but I can't remember if they had a Windows version during the 90s. Though as hard as it is to get even 10 year old software to run on Win 10 and 11, that probably wouldn't work anyway.
Long-winded way to say: the divide between the 90s and now, wrt web tech, is vast. Not sure how close this is to what you're trying to do, but thought I'd share it.
In a just world, the idea of SEO shouldn't even exist. You shouldn't be able to game an algorithm to rise to the top. But that's what literally our entire world has become now. Social media influencers, scammy and spammy websites and services, AI art thieves, content farm sewage. None of it would exist if the algorithms didn't let you game them or promote certain behaviors.
"Bad guys are going to do bad things, so we shouldn't even bother trying to do anything to make things better, and just let the dystopia happen" is not the answer
If you don't see how even the most basic of AI images, videos, deepfakes, etc. can manipulate the public, the electorate, popular opinion, or even sow just enough doubt as a cause a problem, then I don't know what to tell you.
People are already dying because of deepfakes and fake AI porn. We know that most people who see some headline on Facebook will never click farther to read it, and will just accept the headline and/or the synopsis as fact. They will accept something a 1000x re-shared image says, without sources or verification. The fact that a picture or vid might have a person with 8 fingers on one hand in the background isn't going to prevent them from taking in the message. And we've all literally seen people around the web say , explicitly, something to the effect of "I don't care if the story is true or not, it's a real issue we need to consider" when we know for a fact that it is not.
Yes, mis- and dis-information are far more of an existential thread than chem or bio weapons, and we know this because we are already seeing the consequences of it. If you refuse to see that, then you are lost.
Elon specifically said that if a CT gets into an accident with another vehicle, the CT "wins". Which is such a fucking horrifying way to think about automotive safety. Same thing from people who bitch about how "your car gets totaled in even the lowest speed crash nowadays" when doing so is precisely what saves your life. Totalling a car and allowing you to walk away with only minor injuries or none at all, it is the point, but people like him have this idea that it's more manly to die in easily avoidable ways than it is to observe safety measures that we've known about for decades.
Public code repositories like Github are currently being beset by a flood of LLM-generated contributions. It’s becoming a bit of a problem and is one of the facets of the Great Flood the web is currently experiencing....
This has nothing to do with realizing the technology promise of the 90s, or "lowering barriers to entry," or user freedom, and everything to do with clear-cutting the entire technology scene. Handing everything over to LLMs isn't the way to fight the corps, because they're going to take those same tools, and destroy incalculable numbers of developer careers, destroy software quality, and anything else they can, just so they can pad their bottom line. And we will be significantly worse off for it.
Also, I am so fucking sick of language like "I don’t want this power to be constrained to a priesthood who know the secret language of coding." OP sounds like those people who think artists are "gatekeeping" art, and that AI image generators are "democratizing" art. It's so fucking disingenuous and gross. No one is gatekeeping anything. Anyone can pick up a pencil, or download a free drawing app and make art. Just like anyone can follow countless numbers of free YouTube vids and online tutorials to learn how to be an Android dev. There's no fucking priesthood or soldier at the gate preventing anyone from doing anything.
This whole article is nothing but AI/LLM apologietics wrapped up in FLOSS language.
People have been using country TLDs as cute URLs for years, and somehow it almost always ends up as a problem, or it furthers harms against the countries who own the TLDs (.io for example). Sure .tv or .io or .af sound fun, (anyone remember del.icio.us?) but it's just not worth it.
It's really frustrating in general how TLDs have been misused and abused over the years. They used to have very specific meanings and usages. Now anyone can register a .net or .org, and don't have to prove they're a network service provider or a non-profit.
People also forget that URLs designate a hierarchy, reading from right to left. For example, take the URL app.foobar.com
This designates
. -> There's an understood period at the end that's not typed. But it designates the root (or, well, top in this case) of the hierarchy
com -> The commercial space (hence top level domain)
foobar -> Company named Foobar in the commercial space
app -> The app site/service/etc from Foobar
If you're using a domain like foobar.tv, you're saying you're an organization called Foobar based in Tuvalu. There's still plenty of restricted TLDs (.gov and .mil e.g.), but everything has been thrown to the wind for the sake of cleverness, and spammers have ruined anything else that's not .com for your average user. Your personal info site generally isn't a commercial page, so .com doesn't make sense. But other gTLDs get blocked by default by so many admins, it's pointless to try.
The Taliban blew up huge statues of Buddhas that had stood for 1500 years because they'd suddenly decided they were blasphemous. They would absolutely hijack a queer forum so they could hunt down any user who might be in Afghanistan
You can’t tell me there’s no difference in the amount of bias between Fox News and AP
If you say, "I don't want hatemongers, propaganda, and misinformation in this publication" that's still a bias. You're biased toward facts, inclusion, and accuracy. The choice of what stories to run, what sources to speak to or include, how articles are framed, etc. are all biases, conscious or not. There's no way for a human to be dispassionate about anything. Even algorithms can't be dispassionate because they carry the biases of the developers who write them, again, conscious or not. And even at news orgs where you have journalists keen on facts, the org itself is still run by some billionaire capitalists or multinational conglomerates who have intentions that may, overtly or not, drive editorial decisions.
The difference between Fox News and AP e.g. is whether or not they choose to platform mis- and dis-information, and whether they're happy to tell lies to rile up a mob of angry bigots. Not biased vs. unbiased
The SEO spam is terrible. It reminds me of the days of things like Experts Exchange that just hand your query back to you and pretend like it's what you want. "Here's the exact question you're looking for, just pay us and you can totally see the answer, we promise!"
The heyday of RSS is long, long gone. Everything has become a walled garden where platforms want you ON their platform, not reading a feed, or using third-party clients, etc. They want your eyeballs there on their site/service. So many sites don't even offer RSS feeds anymore, and when you get full text, you get piles of ads.
It's the same issue with so many sites/services either shutting down API access or severely restricting it.
I tried really, really hard recently to put together a good list in an RSS reader and tried to make it work. but it just doesn't. It's a miserable experience and you have to fight for every feed you get. It's not worth it. It's sad and extremely frustrating, but unless we can push sites to do a 180 on their strategies, RSS is essentially dead.
It's not a project used by anyone for production, or even testing environments. It's mostly just for shits and giggles at this point.
The problem is that there weren't enough developers able to help the project early on, and it's taken so long to make any kind of progress, that the targets they were trying to hit are long, long past. Even if it could be something that could 100% replicate an XP/Server 2003 system, I'm not sure how much utility that would have at this point, at least in a major production environment. Might be good for enthusiasts who still play older games and can't get a hold of an older copy of Windows. But even for production legacy systems, I can't see a business decision where they pick a relatively unknown OS like this to replace an XP stack instead of just modernizing. They might as well just stay on XP. And big enterprises don't choose projects like this for major deployments. They go with the tried and true solutions, regardless of cost or vendor lock-in. It's why "Wintel" has been a thing for 30 years, and why Oracle still exists.
I honestly don't think it will ever be a the drop-in replacement for Windows it aims to be. If it truly got to that point of completion, MS would sue them out of existence. They'd just tie them up in court making them prove it was pure blackbox development until they ran out of money and just folded.
From the (middle of the) story: The reason CES was so packed with random “AI”-branded products was that sticking those two letters to a new company is seen as something of a talisman, a ritual to bring back the (VC) rainy season.
We're hitting walls when it comes to increases in computing power. We've made transistors nearly as small as they can get, so all we can do now is parallelize the processing (multi-core, etc.). But even then, computing power has reached such a point that most people don't even notice the difference from one generation of hardware to the next. I have a MacbookPro from 2015 that still runs like a champ. I'm sure I'm going to start hitting walls when it comes to what hardware macOS will support, but the hardware itself is perfectly fine. So unless you're into specific niches (gaming, video production, 3D modeling, high-end workstation needs, etc.), incremental shifts these days are literally nothing to get excited about.
Operating systems barely change between major upgrades. Beside the horrendous change of the System Settings pane in macOS to look like it's iOS and iPadOS counterparts, you'd be hard pressed to see much of a difference in macOS from the last 4-5 versions.
The web has coalesced into a handful of walled gardens, AI generated content, SEO-driven content, algorithmically driven content, with every website looking just like every other one, every post looking like every other, and big UX shifts just for the sake of a version number change.
And the tech industry has become so toxic, predatory, and socially harmful that it's really hard to feel exciting by anything anymore. More landfill fodder from companies that are actively destroying democracy? The latest AI product to use as an excuse to layoff massive numbers of people and wreck entire industries for a garbage product, just to pad the bottom line? Fuck all of that.
The paradigm shifts we're seeing now aren't technological, capitalists are just using technology as an excuse to wreak havoc on society. It's fucking bleak
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) company Anthropic has claimed to a US court that using copyrighted content in large language model (LLM) training data counts as “fair use”, however....
This isn't an issue of fair use. They're stealing other people's work and using it to create something new and then trying to profit from it, without any credit or recompense.
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track ( arstechnica.com )
Major U.S. newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement ( www.axios.com )
It’s the End of the Web as We Know It ( www.theatlantic.com )
Does enshitification happen because companies are publicly-traded?
Isn't that a prerequisite for enshitification? Publicly-traded companies are required (by law, I think) to maximize profits for their shareholders, even if that means utterly ruining their original product (Reddit, Boeing, etc.), yes? What do you think?
Substack Competitor Ghost Announces ActivityPub Integration ( wedistribute.org )
AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' ( www.404media.co )
We Need To Rewild The Internet ( www.noemamag.com )
Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions ( mbin.grits.dev )
Credit to @bontchev
Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability ( www.404media.co )
Stop Killing Games — An initiative to stop publishers & developers killing games ( www.stopkillinggames.com )
also see the creator's youtube video about it: https://youtu.be/w70Xc9CStoE
“Job Creator” Elon Musk Has Fired Over 6000 Employees in the Last 4 Years, Some for Trying to Unionize ( medium.com )
Archive: https://archive.is/PhiXk
[ANSWERED]libreoffice or onlyoffice?
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What non-FOSS software have you been unable to quit?
For me, Google video search, Google books (Internet Archive is good, but doesn't always have the same stuff), Adobe InDesign (but in the process of learning LaTeX), and Typewise. As for the Google stuff, I liked Whoogle a lot, but almost all their instances seem to have been blocked or shut down. Also, apologies if this is...
Gumroad no longer allows most NSFW art, leaving its adult creators panicked ( techcrunch.com )
Are We Watching The Internet Die? ( www.wheresyoured.at )
Suyu, a potential replacement for Yuzu ( gitlab.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/12807782
My Love-Hate Relationship With Lemmy – Gavi's Blog ( jewy.blog )
I made a blog post discussing my biggest issues with Lemmy and why I am kind of done with it as a software.
[Opinion piece] Starfield Killed My Hype For The Elder Scrolls 6 ( www.thegamer.com )
Americans reporting nationwide cellular outages from AT&T, Cricket Wireless and other providers ( apnews.com )
Looking for FOSS WYSIWYG HTML editor
I'm making this request on behalf of a community I'm part of, which has some fairly specific requirements that we're struggling to fill. Basically, we're an art and writing group that makes extensive use of building our own old-school webpages (almost exclusively HTML, some of us use some CSS as well). This group has been...
How Google is killing independent sites like ours ( housefresh.com )
The rise and fall of robots.txt: As unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart. ( www.theverge.com )
This Is Why Tesla’s Stainless Steel Cybertrucks May Be Rusting ( www.wired.com )
Free to be Weird: Lowering barriers to Open Source contributions ( blog.mkhoury.org )
Public code repositories like Github are currently being beset by a flood of LLM-generated contributions. It’s becoming a bit of a problem and is one of the facets of the Great Flood the web is currently experiencing....
Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance ( www.404media.co )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11820406...
Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media ( nymag.com )
How Quora Died: The site used to be a thriving community that worked to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing. ( slate.com )
Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 ( lifehacker.com )
RSS is still the best way to track the news on the web, and these RSS readers can keep you right up to date.
"Open Source Windows" ReactOS just got better GUI install setup, no GPT yet ( www.neowin.net )
The Cult of AI: How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future ( www.rollingstone.com )
From the (middle of the) story: The reason CES was so packed with random “AI”-branded products was that sticking those two letters to a new company is seen as something of a talisman, a ritual to bring back the (VC) rainy season.
Amazon- and Google-backed AI firm Anthropic says “general-purpose AI tools simply could not exist” if AI companies had to pay licences for the training material ( www.computerweekly.com )
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) company Anthropic has claimed to a US court that using copyrighted content in large language model (LLM) training data counts as “fair use”, however....