
If you want to know what a company thinks of their customers, listen to how they talk to their shareholders. You’ll hear them openly brag about raising prices, selling data, pushing ads, general enshitification.
If you want to know what a company thinks of their customers, listen to how they talk to their shareholders. You’ll hear them openly brag about raising prices, selling data, pushing ads, general enshitification.
I got quoted a couple of times in this AP
story about Grok searching for opinions by Musk https://apnews.com/article/grok-4-elon-musk-xai-colossus-14d575fb490c2b679ed3111a1c83f857
Ahhh but now I have to figure out why the lights on my trailer aren’t working. The yaks, they are never shaved.
Everyone believes learning how to computer is the kind of thing that only happens to other people
@Gina have you seen this paper? interesting to think about in light of fosstodon's revised code of conduct. "While rule change was often prompted by challenges during community growth or decline, change also depended on volunteer leaders’ work capacity, the presence of member feedback mechanisms, and relational dynamics between leaders and members." Seems on-target! Lots of other interesting stuff there as well.
Zig Day Portland (OR) event has been announced! https://zig.day/usa/portland/0/
Adobe: "We increased the price, but now you get free monthly AI tokens!"
STFU, I just want to move a fucking pixel...
Adobe Photoshop pricing got so wild I had to cancel Netflix, Spotify, and my hopes and dreams.
At this point I just doodle on paper, whispering "layers" to myself.
*** Online shopping in 2010 ***
Me: Hello, UnderpantsEmporium.com? I’d like to buy underpants.
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*** Online shopping in 2025 ***
Me: Hello, UnderpantsEmporium.com? I’d like to buy underpants.
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*ding* UPS MyChoice: Your package is on the way.
*ding* Underpants Emporium: Your pants-ckage is en route from us to you.
Me: dudes…
*ding* Underpants Emporium: Be sure to review your underpants!
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*ding* Underpants Emporium: how’s that review coming along?
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*ding* Underpants Emporium: customers who bought underpants also bought
⚠️ If you see a post or DM saying "your account is currently suspended for verification purposes", do NOT click on the link. It is a scam.
Fediverse servers do not ask people to verify their identity. There is an optional self-verification system, but that's just for those who want to use it. No one is ever asked to do it.
If you are in ANY doubt about ANY official-looking message, contact your own server's admin directly using their public email address on your server's website's "About" page.
Tyvm @mtrc for organising such a fun event!
Meet our new backend developer.
Slide requirements for (checks notes) Open Source Summit Europe:
PowerPoint format
I'm thinking "working for free to aid the starving tech giants"
My week: https://lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel/2025-July/000118.html
graphs, memory limits, security, rc3, CRA, old TLS, release, QNX, CI=true, curl_multi_getinfo,