On the other hand, there is something to be said for having a small test before joining. I remember Usenet before and after it became accessible to AOL users.

Could have been a Friday afternoon one. The one I have is a workhorse that could print on bark using toner made of charcoal and dust.

Oh FFS. Not Brother as well. I used to recommend them to everyone. Who is left with unshittified printers?

Back on to 3d already? The AI bubble hasn’t even popped yet.

It’s not that bad yet. FF works on pretty much any site that’s not demonstrating some sort of bleeding edge fuckery. I haven’t seen a “best viewed in Chrome” for a decade or two.

Hopefully this sort of enshittification will drive more people to use other browsers.

To a more secure alternative, obviously. There are other options than Apple and Google.

So despite all the tough talk, they just roll over and capitulate. The only way to protest this is to move your stuff off Apple.

If text-to-speech doesn’t work, then is it not discriminatory against blind people?

Poisoning AI with backdoored code is surely a real risk now? I can see this getting quite nasty.

Because they know their target audience, presumably.

Maybe Linux isn’t the solution you are looking for in this case? I use Linux whenever I can, especially at home because I have far fewer problems than with windows. But it’s not a panacea, and if it’s easier to use windows then use windows.

There are alternatives to Youtube. Use them.

On the plus side, the BBC news website is normalising companies wanting to leave. This is a powerful message.

It does if you use AI to generate the pages it’s scraping.

That’s great. AI can deal with all the shit that humans have to do like working, and we can all chill out and take it easy.

Be evil.

I love it. I’m going to be deleting my Google Photos account soon.

All that free speech ain’t free, you know.

Have they stopped using every naming convention there is (including some from other planets) in their function names?

Anything community produced with a tool to transfer over WP sites would do pretty well at the moment.