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normalized microtransactions

I’d say it’s maybe a little more honest to say they normalized the gambling exploitation in gaming with the TF2 lootboxes.

You didn’t buy cosmetics, you bought a key to open a box that might get you the cosmetic you wanted.

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It’s that Simpsons episode where Mr. Burns is only alive because all the things that would kill him are cancelling each other out, but in PHP form.

I tend to use Squarespace because uh, they have a marketing budget and everyone tends to already know (or at least one of the people in the meeting anyways) who they are, which makes things an easier sell.

I don’t particularly think they’re the best or whatever, but they at least do what they say at a price that’s reasonable enough and I’ve yet to be burned by suggesting them, sooooo…

Not quite: it’ll drop a v2 captcha for you to solve when a v3 one can’t clearly classify you one way or another.

So if v3 isn’t entirely sure you’re human, it’ll make you do a v2.

It’s still mindboggling that Kia sells any cars without immobilizers.

I get they’re cheap cars and the way they’re cheap is to skimp on everything but uh, maybe that’s not the right place to skimp?

I’ve been pushing Squarespace for most people who come to me asking about setting up a small store or just simple business website.

Yeah, it’s closed source and blah blah blah, but the end of the day, it’s not about my opinions on software, it’s about the most cost-effective, simple, usable option for the client who is asking me for my expertise, which is almost always not something they’re going to have to keep paying me to maintain.

Like if you really really want Wordpress, I’ll get you set up, and then quote you a couple thousand a year for maintenance.

Unshockprisingly, very few people think that’s the right choice once they see what the keep-it-from-being-exploited cost is.

(And for anyone who thinks that’s an unreasonable amount, okay cool. But maintaining a staging environment and testing updates and then pushing everything into production assuming there’s no regressions you have to address takes a lot of time.)

Depends on if you need a CMS, or if you can use a static site generator.

For a CMS, I’m still a fan of Ghost and it has (mostly) not enshittified to the point it’s unpleasant to use.

If you don’t need the whole CMS thing, there’s an awful lot of options. (And hosting them is super simplified since you can just stuff the output into a S3 bucket/Cloudflare Pages/Github Pages/a dozen other providers for basically free.)

Wordpress is not a good fit for their complex web application

Seriously. People want to shove everything into Wordpress then get cranky when you can’t make Wordpress into a ecommerce store, marketing platform, personal blog, file sharing service, and NFT marketplace.

And then it gets hacked because they needed 14 SEO plugins, 2 different form plugins, and were not going to pay for managed updates because that’s easy they can do it themselves.

Would it be wrong to hope they manage to commit some gross act of mutual destruction, and that the outcome would be that I never have to deal with Wordpress ever again?

So that apk strikes me as probably malware, and who the hell would trust some spamming jackass with their personal data even if it isn’t?

They did, and it was. Coined the term ‘glassholes’

And Snapchat tried it with their uh, whatever the hell they called it and pretty much ended the same way.

Basically, it’s an easy way to put ‘giant dipshit’ on your forehead and make people avoid you.

Been wanting to play with a meshtastic radio and the TC2-BBS stuff, but the official site was uh, not the most clear as to what the hell I actually wanted/needed.

This certainly clarifies that, at least, so thanks!

80% of all BSODs I’ve traced back have always had a root cause because of some shit piece of software fucking around in the kernel

CrowdStrike has entered the chat.

Why are you assuming a desktop user has a fast connection?

There’s still millions of people on slow ADSL/DSL connections, satellite, fixed wireless, and so on.

Don’t use 20mb images when 100kb ones will suffice, good lord.

The problem is that if you’re working in any of the big tech companies we’re talking about, at basically any level, a substantial portion of your compensation is stock.

The dude writing the code and the CEO are sharing the same set of incentives, if not the same value ($) of incentive.

It’s shockingly good at taking otherwise decent people and flipping the moral center off because now you’re deeply deeply invested in value extraction via stock prices, regardless of what you have to do to get there.

I’ve had more than a few friends turn utterly unrecognizable and defensive over shit they absolutely would have thought was gross as fuck in the past, except now they look to make six or even seven figures from it, so whatever, it’s fine. If not them, then someone else, and they might as well be the ones to cash in.

So you’re not wrong, but stock options are shockingly good at getting everyone’s goals and desires aligned and while I don’t have enough of a supply of tinfoil to think that might actually be the point of giving everyone options, eh, I’d be shocked if it wasn’t at least an understood outcome.

Well, I don’t think all the guys writing the code and building the servers are dismissing it outright: there’s no question the MBAs and c-suite are, but they’re worthless fucks in general. (Sorry MBA havers, but it’s true and you know it.)

The tech bros just want the money and are willing to be as amoral as they have to be, but that’s going to last only and exactly as long as they’re getting overpaid and are being bribed into not caring.

Ultimately these guys (probably) have sufficient power to force change if they really really wanted to, but it’s firmly a case of change-will-hurt-them and so… they listen, but do nothing.

tech community isn’t listening

I know I’ve posted basically this comment before, but they’re listening.

They just don’t care.

Nothing that’s been enshittified has hurt their stock options or base pay or caused massive layoffs, and until all (most?) of those become true, they’re not going to care.

Their customers keep eating the shit sandwich, they keep making $300k a year, and getting option refreshers, so nobody is going to rock the boat.

Indeed.

And, unfortunately for you, Lofwyr isn’t a dragon that would do that just to screw with you and enjoy laughing at you spending the rest of your life looking over your shoulder.

Doesn’t look like they went to an Office Max/Depot or Staples either, which honestly, would be my first stop for printers and printer accessories these days, since printers have very much fallen into just office-use shit and that one damn thing a year you have to print because some jackass is still stuck in 1988.