pluralistic, to random
@pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar

A funny thing happened on the way to the enshittocene: Google - which astonished the world when it reinvented search, blowing Altavista and Yahoo out of the water with a search tool that seemed magic - suddenly turned into a pile of shit.

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Suspension on my laptop (closing the lid) causes Wifi to not be available.

Hi, this is a long lasting problem that I didn't really manage to fix when I started using linux (Mint, Cinnamon). But now that I've been using it regularly for half a year and I have more experience in fiddling around, I'm trying to get it resolved....

pluralistic, to random
@pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar

11 years ago, my kid's daycare surprised us by announcing that they were closing for Christmas break a day before everyone else, so I ended up with our then-four-year-old daughter, Poesy, at my office for the day.

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golgaloth, to writing
@golgaloth@writing.exchange avatar

The struggle is real.

tbernard, to random
@tbernard@mastodon.social avatar
rberger, to random
@rberger@hachyderm.io avatar

@pluralistic coined yet another great new word describing the dystopian era we are living in:

The Enshittocene

Google reneged on the monopolistic bargain

"A funny thing happened on the way to the enshittocene: Google – which astonished the world when it reinvented search, blowing Altavista and Yahoo out of the water with a search tool that seemed magic – suddenly turned into a pile of shit.”

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task

SherBeareth, to Colorado
@SherBeareth@mastodon.world avatar

Holy Hell. 😶 Federal election subverson .

Per Slate.

After oral arguments at the in a grand that appears to make practical sense as a is beginning to come into view: The Supreme Court unanimously, or nearly so, holds that does have the to Trump from the , but in a separate case it rejects his argument and makes go on this spring or summer on charges.

Jeffrey Epstein got $300 mln tax breaks, paid US Virgin Islands police, JPMorgan says (www.reuters.com)

JPMorgan Chase said the U.S. Virgin Islands gave Jeffrey Epstein more than $300 million in tax incentives and waived sex offender monitoring requirements, shielding the disgraced late financier as he gave cash and gifts to top officials.

blackcilantro, to random Spanish
@blackcilantro@mstdn.mx avatar

Vengo de un evento familiar: hubo dos horas y media (tal vez más) de controversia ininterrumpida de política. Me siento pletórico. . Nomás quiero ver mi novela y fugarme del cansancio mental tamaño jumbo que me cargo.

random_musings, to random German
@random_musings@social.tchncs.de avatar

Yesterday, @pluralistic wrote about companies gutting once renowned publications such as Popular Science and CNET and turning them SEO clickbait properties: "Google reneged on the monopolistic bargain"
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task

Today, Yahoo announces doing exactly that to Engadget: "...the changes paint a picture of an outlet cutting staff to focus on things like Google traffic, SEO, commerce, and affiliate revenue" 😔

"Yahoo lays off the leaders of Engadget"
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080215/engadget-layoffs-tech-news-blogs-editorial-restructuring

spaceflight, to random
@spaceflight@techhub.social avatar

#WashingtonPost 📆 June 22, 2022 #ULA (United Launch Alliance) - a #company that had enjoyed a #monopoly 🤑 for years and had gotten #complacent. #Not having to #compete, it extracted #enormous #sums 💰 from the #Pentagon, which didn’t flinch at the #exorbitant #prices as long as the company kept up its #launch #success https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/22/ula-boeing-lockheed-martin-tory-bruno

#LaunchCost #SpaceCompany #SpaceAgency

ppatel, to random
@ppatel@mstdn.social avatar

95% humidity is an awesome thing when you're trying to exercise.

stadtstreunen_at, to random German
@stadtstreunen_at@urbanists.social avatar

Hab im Standard den Artikel über luxuriöse Kindergeburtstagsparties gelesen, die mehrere hundert Euro kosten (bis hin zu 50.000 Euro und noch mehr für die super rich people). Macht mir richtig Lust, doch noch Kinder zu kriegen.

davidou, to random French
@davidou@piaille.fr avatar

Contre ma volonté dans le temple de l'addiction la pire au monde, du capitalisme et de la consommation de masse.
Cette joie.

glynmoody, to random
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

UK protests planned amid ‘epidemic’ of dangerous driving - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/29/uk-protests-planned-amid-epidemic-of-dangerous-driving good job is closely attuned to the UK public's real problems...

br00t4c, to random
@br00t4c@mastodon.social avatar
simonforgues, to random French
@simonforgues@jasette.facil.services avatar

Me semble que ça manquait au Canada.

Depuis le 18 août jusqu'au 4 septembre à Toronto.

La reproduction d'un faux jet privé pour que les wannabes et les m'as-tu-vu puissent se prendre en photo et mettre ça dans leur Instragram. 🙄

https://dailyhive.com/toronto/toronto-getting-fake-private-jet

fast_junkie, to random
@fast_junkie@mas.to avatar

1/
... switched from to , as to get caught in the price hike... (I'd rather get )

All went well... 16 ... one fell swoop... even my @protonmail...
Or did it...? Nope... worked for a week, then... nothing.

But I followed all the instructions... all the were green...!?!

Then it happen @protonmail disabled all my email accounts... ugh... now what... they can no longer my .

anderseknert, (edited ) to random
@anderseknert@hachyderm.io avatar

"(Editor's note: A YouTube video of Dadgar and Hashimoto talking about HashiCorp's commitment to open-source software was mysteriously taken private after it was published right here.)"

LMAO

https://www.runtime.news/as-hashicorp-adopts-the-bsl-an-era-of-open-source-software-might-be-ending/

HoustonDog, to random
@HoustonDog@mastodon.world avatar

if the 5 person, million dollar guest log for Oceangate’s lost sub crashed very close to the Titanic wreck … that tour operator can now double ticket prices to $500,000 for future billionaire gawkers of tragedy.

ferricoxide, to random Romanian

Gotta love quotes like:

…like Popular Science, which began as a magazine in 1872 and became a shambling zombie in 2023, after its PE owners North Equity LLC decided its googlejuice was worth more than its integrity and turned it into a metastatic chumbox of shitty affiliate-link SEO-bait.

Kudos, @pluralistic

RL_Dane, to random
@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org avatar

~ $ uname -srm
Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 x86_64
~ $
~ $ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Release: 12
Codename: bookworm
~ $
~ $ ps aux |wc -l
115
~ $ too bad
~ $
~ $ mount |wc -l
26
~ $ .
~ $
~ $ df |wc -l
8
~ $ . ;)

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