emptyother @ emptyother @programming.dev

A classic nerd from Norway.

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Dont try to drag me into your sinister, ink stained agendas!

The way I see it, explaining others also helps me understand it better. If its so basic (or too advanced) that I get nothing out of explaining, then I leave it to better suited people to help them instead. Being on these kindsa forums, its supposed to be enjoyable for both the teacher and the student. I don't see any shame in dropping it as soon as it turns frustrating.

"Turning it off" today just turns modern tech to standby mode. Those who has learned the long-press to get up a reboot menu magic are chosen as the families new tech guru.

Ha! No. If it ain't got touch and an app, gen A don't even understand why we bother.

Should be govt supported online libraries. Not under regular copyright rules (but they aren't allowed to profit or redistribute it either) but for potentially culturally relevant content that is 5 or more years since publication.

Its still a perfectly good word even if not everyone is a 100% on the same page with what it means. There isnt any better word that could be used. If we stopped making up words just because a few uncultured wordsmiths might mistake part of its meaning, we wouldnt have new words at all. Enshittification has the important part down; things are getting done shittier with intention.

How do you reliably turn pages that fast without accidentally grabbing two pages and skipping? Im impressed!

No, im saying that if you want to say what exactly is shittified, you say whats shittified. Theres no way to make a single word contain a full definition without relying on some common knowledge. In this case saying enshittification, then both you and I have both read that blogpost and knows what the full meaning is. While someone who hasn't can at least know its about stuff getting shittier, and guess the rest from context. You can't really find a better single word than that.

Also I've rarely heard "shit" used for its actual meaning. It is common knowledge that shitty doesn't literally mean "covered in poo". Its pretty clear what it means. And it has never been a shocking word in the 40 years I've lived. Probably back in the 50s or something they could use it for shock value.

Oh you're wearing one of those neuralinks. Dont try any of that mind control on me.

😁 I'm so looking forward to use this quote in real life.

Reminds me about that post about wishing humans had a dedicated sound for warning each other about bees.

Theres no single word that can clearly communicate the entire reason, context, and meaning. If we want to tell the reason for the shittyness, then we say that in a full sentence.

Though most people would understand from context if I just said "Bees!" instead of spending an entire sentence telling them where the bees are and why they should run.

Can't say I didn't expect that.

You send in one of those 30-days requests to have all your data purged from Google, probably.

“Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification.”

Platforms that over time is made shittier to serve the business before the user. What definition are you using?

Human nature. Voting with ones wallet will never work as long as advertising, as we know it, exists. We can't really blame the average person to do what an average person does.

Its a good and direct word. I could guess what it meant before I even heard his definition of the word: Things that are willingly made shittier.

"Un-userfriendli-fication" would never catch on.

If you haven't, and you enjoy scifi/cyberpunk fiction, you should read Cory's book "Radicalized". Four short stories, all of them damn relevant to today.

The first story, "Unauthorized bread", is my fav. Hackers versus the coldness of corpos and shitty landlords.

It was okay. Looked good, had good gameplay mechanics, and a good main story. Not a big fan of stories told through small pieces of scattered notes and audioclips. And side missions could been better.

I'm glad it comes to pc finally, because while it isn't a game worth buying a game console for I'm still looking forward to see where the story goes.

Nah, a charlatan has class. Musk doesn't.

If the models were trained only on data that was out of copyright it wouldnt have been an issue, but nobody want to train on only 100+ years old data. Copyright laws are too long when their content arent culturally useful by the time they are free for public use. It hinders the creation of useful tools, among them these generative AIs. Maybe time for some reduction of those laws to something useful, and at the same time increased strictness for businesses to misuse copyrighted content?

Seems like its a common mistake, maybe brought on by its use as a stylistic choice in entertainment. "Myguy vs/ Yourguy" became "MyGuy v⚡s Yourguy" became the abomination that is "v/s". Probably. I'm no etymolog.