Hmmm, @cloudflare are depreciating auto minify in August because of dropping amount of usage - “since minification is included in most modern web development frameworks.”
So my carefully crafted hand built sites on Cloudflare will be slightly slower because they don’t use a ‘modern web development framework’.
Meta said in a statement: “This feature aims to strike the balance between protecting people from seeing nude images and educating them about the risks of sharing them, while not preventing or interrupting people’s important conversations.”
Translation:
Emperor fires tailor, after fitting session revelations.
Just came up with a new analogy I'm rather proud of: LLMs are digital compost heaps. They decompose whatever you hurl in and turn it into artificial excrement.
Also I'm moving from StackExchange to Codidact. If I'm going to do any more unpaid labour it's going to be for a not-for-profit, rather than a for-profit company. Feeding that work into a digital compost heap is the push I needed.
Sorry, I had to procrastinate more by making a detailed sampling of the Facebook timeline shiteousness. I understated it. Scrolling through 102 postsafter a refresh the breakdown was: 3 from my follows, 79 "suggestions",19 ads, 1 reels item (this time just once but often that comes up multiple times). Worse, posts from my follows only occured in the first 10. The suggestions started off not bad but then got horrible. Ads were universally garbage. Thank god for the fediverse! #fediverse#facebook#enshitification
If Apple starts sending all my fucking search, messages, photos, files, etc. data to Google or OpenAI I'm done with them. They are my compromise platform because I hate adding to the Google/Facebook style data reseller big tech data lakes. I honestly don't know what the alternative will be at that point besides having to hobble my experience with /e/os, LineageOS, whatever, self hosting services, etc. and try to figure out a work around for banking apps. Motherfuckers! This is so enraging. I have a feeling I better start getting my ducks in a row to depart their ecosystem sooner rather than later. #rant#apple#ai#enshitification#BigTechShouldNotExistmacrumors.com/2024/04/26/apple…
This is a must watch video if you haven't already seen it. This video uses Uber as a great example of the broader #enshitification trend that really does need to be checked by both users and governments.
On the #enshitification of Google, but not much many of us can do. For one, I can't just write a check to something like Kagi for my search needs (and I highly doubt my library would pony up for it either). Will just have to keep looking for options, but it gets harder. And not only does the company not care, very often my brethren #librarians don't care either.
If #Serif#Affinity#software changes over to a #SoftwareAsService model in their next versions now that they’ve been purchased by #Canva, I’m dumping them —hard. I’ve seen this pattern too many times before to believe when a CEO says “nothing’s going to change” after a reputable company gets taken over in a buyout or merger. Part of me hopes this isn’t the herald of #enshitification come, but the rest of me has been trained over time to anticipate a future betrayal.
other than market #enshitification or bias toward absence of real hills and cargo, why are there no #eBikes with both crank+hub drive motors combined?
Hub motors give smooth power and regen braking but can't gear down for steep slopes. Getting started with the crank drive gets the hub up to an effective speed without putting so much force through the chain (and human-scaled cassette) while the hub bridges the shifting gaps. Regen braking greatly reduces brake pad maintenance & extends range.