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A pie chart where the vast majority of the circle is filled with a space nebula background, labeled "Shit you don't know you don't know." A small blue sliver is labeled "Shit you know you don't know," and a tiny green line represents "Shit you know."
You have 99 problems ?
Learn French.
Voilà, now you have
4, 20, 10, 9 problems
This video was released by #Forbrukerrådet, the Norwegian #Consumer Council, a few days ago. It imagines the career trajectory of an "enshittificator"
It was hard for him to enshittify minor aspects of daily life in person, but became easy for him to do so at scale once he embraced the #Internet and #technology
The collateral of the investments is the hardware. The same hardware that will be worth nothing after three years... unless the price of the new hardware goes up. So these companies have interest into increasing the hardware prices.
The timing is awfully convenient for the tech companies.
A chip with a sata and 10 SD card slots
The world’s solar capacity reached 1,419 gigawatts in 2023, way beyond any predictions. 1 gigawatt = power for a medium sized city
If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse
La CNIL a sanctionné Free (cf sur Mastodon: La CNIL sanctionne la société FREE MOBILE). Plusieurs autres entités ont fait fuité des données, mais la CNIL ne semble pas réagir.
Move slow and fix things
Bonjour, votre vie privée et votre sécurité sont d'une importance capitale pour QAPA. C'est pourquoi nous vous informons que notre plateforme été victime d'une cyberattaque, affectant la confidentialité de certaines de vos données personnelles.
Se traduit en:
Votre sécurité est d’une importance capitale pour nous, c’est ainsi que nous avons sous-financé nos équipes IT de 80% et que vos données sont donc dans la nature.
Black and white cartoon-style illustration divided into four horizontal strips.
In the first strip, with the text “BOSS,” a person sitting in a cart is pulled by four people in front.
In the second strip, with the text “LEADER,” the cart is pulled by four people together, including one in front leading the movement.
In the third, with the text “INTROVERT,” only one person pulls the cart alone.
In the last, with the text “AUTISTIC,” the person does not pull the cart, but drives a steam locomotive, representing a completely different solution.
Rust devs who want async.
Rust devs who understand Rust's type system.
People who like BSDM.
For a software release, it is relevant to include what the software is doing.
I just have no idea what three quarters of these projects actually do. When you announce a new release, please give us (your adoring but slightly confused audience) just a tiny bit of context. What the software does, why the release is cool and what it requires to work.
Based on this photo, how many of our ES servers do you think fit on top of each other in one of our self-designed racks?
Website idea: enter the year you left school and the website will generate a list of outdated facts and concepts that you were taught at school and which have since been disproven.
Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.
No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.
This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.
So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.
I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?
The Firefox fox cutting its branch thanks to Mozilla and with the help of a chainsaw brought by the AI bird.
Ratatui running on the R36S console (gameboy advanced).
An extension of the original XKCD about some random guy maintaining a cornerstone of the Internet
« Le design, c'est faire des produits utilisables, limiter frictions, risques et déceptions »
« Idées reçues : pas la peine de demander aux utilisateurs, les designeurs ne savent faire que du cliquodrome, pas besoin d'UX pour le backoffice »
Intéressant, les orateurs disent bien qu'ils ne travaillent qu'avec des gens convaincus des beautés du libre. Sinon, la migration ne se passera pas bien. Il y a assez de travail avec les gens qui sont volontaires, il ne faut pas perdre de temps avec les autres. (C'était dit moins brutalement.)