Don’t joke too flippantly about it to their face, though.

I did once and the dude sat me down and very patiently explained to me all of the ways people still suffered because of that period, like how his friend had to suddenly pay his cancer treatment out of pocket for months and months and would have ended up homeless if not for being able to crash on this guy’s couch.

Effectivement. Le plus récent, c’est dans mon autre poste.

Pour ma part, c’est la première fois que j’apprends l’info. J’ai partagé l’article ici après ne l’avoir vu qu’uniquement retransmis par un bot qui miroir reddit sur le fedivers.

Vu que ça risque de ne pas être que cette espèce d’oiseaux qui sera en voie de disparition bientôt, peut-être qu’on pourra répéter la technique ?

Good stuff near the end:

I will never forgive these people for what they’ve done to the computer, and the more I learn about both their intentions and actions the more certain I am that they are unrepentant and that their greed will never be sated.

These men lace our digital lives with asbestos and get told they’re geniuses for doing so because money comes out.

I care about you. The user. The person reading this. The person that may have felt stupid, or deficient, or ignorant, all because the services you pay for or that monetize you have been intentionally rigged against you.

You aren’t the failure. The services, the devices, and the executives are.

I don’t feel like Zitron completely addressed my remark in the parent comment, but the end result/destination is the same.

Where The Rot Economy separates is that growth is, in and of itself, the force that drives companies to enshittify.

Not finished reading the article yet, but my reaction to reading this line is that Zitron is missing the mark in the same way he qualifies Doctorow’s Enshittification does.

I don’t think growth directly drives companies to enshittify. Rather, infinite (and especially constant-or-better) growth in a finite space is only possible when things degrade. Physical widgets do this pretty decently on their own, though we (humans) had to come up with planned obsolescence to keep degradation above a certain threshhold. Software, on the other hand, doesn’t naturally degrade over time. It only seems to do so because the different actors in its ecosystem, from the software “bricks” to the underlying hardware, are similarly incentivized to churn out new things that deprecate the old, indirectly degrading them.

We’ll see where Zitron goes from here to the end of the article.

It just takes a little effort to filter to see and reach the right people’s content. Otherwise, I don’t think completely withdrawing would be very beneficial in my industry and the era I live in.

I have been thinking about this a lot. Wrestling with how much consumption I can allow myself to sustain, and how much I can allow myself to abstain from.

As more and more of the world around me is interfaced with through machines and/or the internet, I can’t just “take a break from computers” for a few days to give my brain a break from that environment anymore. From knowledge to culture, so much is being shared and transferred digitally today. I agree with the author that we can’t just ignore what’s going on in the digital spaces that we frequent, but many of these spaces are built to get you to consume. Just as one must go into the hotbox to meet the heaviest weed smokers, one shouldn’t stay in the hotbox taking notes for too long at once because of the dense ambient smoke. Besides, how do you find the stuff worth paying attention to without wading through the slop and bait? The web has become an adversarial ecosystem, so we must adapt our behavior and expectations to continue benefiting from its best while staying as safe as possible from its worst.

Some are talking about “dark forest”, and while I agree I think a more apt metaphor is that of small rural villages vs urban megalopolises. The internet started out so small that everyone knew where everyone else lived, and everyone depended on everyone else too much to ever think of aggressively exploiting anyone. Nowadays the safe gated communities speak in hushed tones of the less savory neighborhoods where you can lose your wallet in a moment of inattention, while they spend their days in the supermarkets and hyper-malls owned by their landlords.

The setup for Wall-E might take place decades or centuries from now, but it feels like it’s already happened to the web. And that movie doesn’t even know how the humans manage to rebuild earth and their society, it just implies that they succeed through the ending credits murals.

The most infuriating part of the exchange for me is the initial response to the maintainers’ guess of “slop” is to act hurt, betrayed, and to threaten to spread negative press about the project.

Another day, another person using LLM/“AI” to waste the curl project maintainers’ time…

A tweet thread I found:

link to first tweet: https://x.com/SyeClops/status/1866189782419984714

Not the most clear lineup with “left” or “right”, but this person is clearly a product of our times.

Runs on 6 D batteries

I wasn’t prepared for that second throwback

Congrats for sticking it through!

Je rejetterai un coup d’œil dans 20 ans, si c’est encore là c’est que c’est là pour durer. Un des points qui m’ont fait m’intéresser à Groff c’est son âge et sa stabilité

Je comprends tout à fait! Pour un truc aussi minutieux que de la mise en page c’est très pénible de devoir changer d’outil.

The ‘special law’ requires approval by a simple majority in the National Assembly, meaning both RN and NFP would need to reject a request for it to fail.

Outre que je tenais a signaler que deepL a pas compris que les lettres de l’acronyme NFP sont déjà dans le bon ordre, ça me fait tout rigolo que ça parle du NFP comme acteur politique au même titre que le rn, alors qu’en France on n’arrête pas de dire que c’est déjà enterré 🤣

Très intéressant d’apprendre que ce qui met en page les manuel man <n> <commande> a bien plus de souplesse que ce j’imaginais.

Perso, pour ce qui est de la mise en page, j’essaie typst depuis peu. Je ne m’en suis pas encore servi pour un document multi pages, comme j’ai pu utiliser LaTeX pendant mes études, mais pour l’instant c’est parti pour remplacer LaTeX dans ma boîte à outils numérique.

Compilation unique, langage de programmation complet plutôt que des macros, une offre de libs/paquets tiers assez étoffée. Étant écrit en rust, le compilo me semble assez léger à tourner (mais j’ai des machines démesurées par rapport à la tâche donc concrètement j’en sais rien). À noter que le compilo typst (qui se lance en commande terminale épelée idem) n’est pas l’éditeur collaboratif dont le site du projet fait la promo. On peut très bien éditer ses documents typst avec un éditeur de textes “bête” comme on le ferait pour LaTeX (vu le ton du blog je me dis que c’est pertinent de le mentionner).

I don’t want to be a downer, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_deed has a long history of doing that and so far it kind of culminated in world war 1.

That happened to me at first as well. What made it feasible was to reconsider how I was approaching the fights

Ça me donne envie d’organiser des ateliers citoyens de fabrication de ceux-ci : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-rape_device

Et de développer une variante taser…

At this point, who knows? The far right are holding out for their turn in power, and can afford to let macron burn himself out until then. Conversely, macron cannot afford to himself go any farther right nor left without becoming indistinguishable from the parties that already historically have occupied those positions and principles, parties that he campaigned twice against on being the “rational forward-thinking” candidate to their “partisan” bullshit.

The leftist circles I frequent are more worried that this will be the opportunity for the center-left liberal parties (namely the so-called Socialist Party) to jettison the actual left-leaning party from any coalition that ends up governing. Which would basically be setting us up to repeat the Hollande years, which gave us Macron right after.

Round and round the cycles go, where it stops nobody knows…

Even though we’ve been at the forefront of privacy and open source, people weren’t getting the full picture of what we do. We were missing opportunities to connect with both new and existing users.

…so we decided to do a massive rebrand because that will give people the full picture?

“Mozilla isn’t your typical tech brand; it’s a trailblazing, activist organization in both its mission and its approach,” said Lisa Smith, global executive creative director at JKR. “The new brand presence captures this uniqueness, reflecting Mozilla’s refreshed strategy to ‘reclaim the internet.’ The modern, digital-first identity system is all about building real brand equity that drives innovation, acquisition and stands out in a crowded market.

Yuck. All this does is send me the message that Mozilla cares way too much about being a trendy brand and has essentially capitulated in the face of the so-called market.

I really hope this ends up working out for them, I hope that I’ll regret being so cynical about this announcement…