I've been wondering the same thing and just like Ruben, I end up being in favor of archives.
I've been wondering the same thing and just like Ruben, I end up being in favor of archives.
I'm really looked forward to that one.
lol?
Oh please, yes. Let him post through this.
Minchin is such an interesting person. I went ahead and ordered the book immediately.
A nice companion piece to the "modernity is stupid" article I bookmarked before.
the Internetâs business model is betrayal. Every mature social media platform has betrayed us. Every big search engine has betrayed us.
Yes. And double yes:
And donât tell me about enshittification, that is a thought-terminating cliche that does not actually perform useful or interesting analysis and is little more than the new âjust use linuxâ of annoying Fediverse reply guys.
This one is pretty neat.
wtf. This dude should stay offline for a few months and think about what he's doing.
He's a grumpy old man but he's absolutely right.
In many ways it's all just so sad
Good god, it gets worse with every day, doesn't it?
Good overview of the story so far
I only idly wondered how inflight entertainment works and this is a great insight into all the details
Big brain thinking here. A supply chain attack on your own software, genius.
Oh, good. The whole thing is hitting the non-tech media now.
Aren't there any grownups around to handle this mess? So childish.
Oh wow.
Ouch.
I can't see any winners here. Not one of those two sides, not the community. I guess people who produce popcorn?
This triggers both the old Nu-Metal listener and the Atarashii Gakko fan in me. Great combination.
Good summary of the whole drama
I really like using software. And yet, here I am, agreeing.
Oh god, this is amazing. I'm cleaning out my domains that I randomly registered for side projects that never materialized and all of this is close to my heart.
This is almost art
So basically - we still don't know.
It's not something I had to think about a lot, because honestly my personal sensibilities are are even more vanilla than most corporate social media sites. Alas, he is of course absolutely right, people should be able to let their freak flag fly on their own websites and curators (human or semi-automated like webrings) should give them spaces to do so.
Funny.
I've never been a Lonely Planet person but I always found it fascinating. And this interview with two of the people who worked on it early on is really good.
Oh, this is fun - both the video and the camera