Google and Microsoft didn’t “kill” the decentralised e-mail of yesteryear. They beat it fair and square

Sure, they might’ve cornered the market fair and square, but they’re certainly doing anticompetitive things in keeping it cornered.

Just try setting up a mail server not connected to any of the big corpos (Google, MS, Cloudflare or their clients with more niche marketing) and see who will actually recieve your mails. You most likely won’t land into the Spam folder either.

lifted subscription fees

So they’re not charging anything?

God. I can’t believe how the bots are shifting the Overton window and how successful they are.

Sorry to hijack your comment, but seeing that “my grandchildren are in my daughters’ ovaries post” right above this one and your comment made me wonder:

Why is gas so damn cheap in the US while saying “healthcare is expensive” is a giant understatement.

Compared with Europe, where gas prices are regulated (and gas stations still seem to be doing just fine to the point that new ones keep popping up around where I live at an astounding rate) while it’s the healthcare that is subsidised and made availiable to all.

How come? Why aren’t gas companies in the US be as greedy as hospitals and pharma there? Why aren’t European gas stations few and far between, continuing to barely hold on, fail and ultimately closeleaving Europe gasless?

It’s less stupud to listen to Taylor Swift than it is to Ben Shapiro.

Choose who you listen to wisely. And no, her being a singer has little influence on that decision.

Yes. Yes it did.

No, they did not report that in media.

but not the misuse of public content

Is that an admission that they don’t own the content others posted on their site?

No.

As the AI said, the l in “LLM” (Large Language Model) stands for lntelligence. (Notice the “l” is a lowercase l).

So, AI is very lntelligent. Gotta give it props for that.

Therefore, AI is very dumb

Which clearly gives them a carte blanche to genocide and apartheid

The only unfair thing about the upcoming election is that this guy is running. And also not in prison, but that’s not directly related to the election anyway.

Don’t forget that grocery prices form a large part of most inflation calculation, so the 11.5% actively raises the 7% statistic.

Dionysius is the smurf in the picture

The nicest part is that according to my (admittedly very limited) knowledge of ancient greek, you’d read Οώθ as “Oof”

Don’t forget waiting for hours, going to the toilet for a leak and returning to see you’ve been skipped

Meta … can’t guarantee “what a third-party provider does with sent or received messages.”

We (Meta) can guarantee that we do all the bad stuffs to your data!

About thinness: I also like my phones bendy and snappy (iPhone 6), as well as exploding batteries (Galaxy Note 7 or 10, I don’t remember the exact model tbh).

Or you have to ‘hold it right’ (OG iPhone).

These were all huge issues that could be fixed without sacrificing the thinness.

Thinness shouldn’t be used as an excuse for otherwise shitty phones, since it’s clearly a non-sequitur.

Yeah. ‘Decay’ has a natural whiff to it, while ‘enshittification’ reeks of it being actively made that way.

Thanks, never heard of it & will switch to it myself!

Just as short and not as inappropriate.

Honest question: What are the alternstives?

I agree that enshittification is a, well, shitty term, but I know obly it to describe the problem at hand.

Alternstives I think of are walled gardens, collapse of the internet as we know it, lockdown of social media sites, etc. - none of them all that simple and miss the point enshittification has.

OpenAI says it’s impossible to create useful AI models without copyrighted material

Good riddance, then just don’t.