Dream about the day we could install Windows on our cell phones and carry our computers with us everywhere. And play snake on our dumb phones.

Yeah, theres a very good reason I dont use Spotify anymore. Not any music streaming services at all. Only good ol’ reliable mp3s. Their idea of “service” is to silently remove songs from my playlists as their licenses expire, and then top it by replacing “Hotel California” with the WORST cover song I’ve ever heard.

Imagine if Sony stopped selling on Steam, and Steam in response silently replaced my “Days Gone” game with “The Day Before”? I would have been so pissed. But with music it seems that is totally okay.

Once. It’ll better be one hell of an ad because it will lose them my subscription. I stopped watching television back in the late 90s because of all the ads, before even I had internet to watch pirated media. I don’t wear clothes with too visible logos. Just saying to illustrate how this ain’t an empty threat.

Losing a single customer probably doesn’t matter to them. But I hope Im not the only one?

Absolutely, bringing laughter and curiosity to people worldwide 2K years later is THE way to face death. But that guy is gonna be hard to beat…

Oh hell no, my last known action on this earth is NOT gonna be spent complaining about someone else’s music skills. Unless they are playing a vuvuzela or something…

They can. But theres a reasonable level of trust that a security feed has been kept secure and not tampered with by the owner if he doesnt have a motive. But what if not even the owner know that somewhere in their tech chain, maybe the camera, maybe the screen, maybe the storage device, maybe all 3, the image was “improved”. No evidence of tampering. We’ll have the police blaming Count Rugen for a bank robbery he didnt do, but the camera clearly shows a six fingered man!

How long until we got upscalers of various sorts built into tech that shouldn’t have it? For bandwidth reduction, for storage compression, or cost savings. Can we trust what we capture with a digital camera, when companies replace a low quality image of the moon with a professionally taken picture, at capture time? Can sport replays be trusted when the ball is upscaled inside the judges’ screens? Cheap security cams with “enhanced night vision” might get somebody jailed.

I love the AI tech. But its future worries me.

In a normal world, someone in power who immediately starts blaming without any proof or cause or connected reason, should have been marked as crazy and shamed out of any place of power. I don’t care if its left or right or between. They should be as relevant as those who blame aliens for building the pyramids. They have no place deciding the fate of others.

That a lot of US are so ready to fight immigrants that they dont mind their politicians jumping blindly to conclusions and seeing enemies everywhere… Its scary. Even on this side of the Atlantic.

“Who teachers felt had problems…” Oh. Teachers. Those people who comes in AFTER things has gone far past reasonable limits, and assigns blame based on whoever the majority of the class points out as the instigator. 😒

I don’t do well with lying. Because of childhood trauma. I am an open book. Even online. A boring open book though.

But I am sometimes a bit confused. Might say stuff I later realize I should have done a second thinking about. But I don’t call it misrepresentation when I believed it myself, even if I later realize my mistake.

I believe MOST people have such a strong need to follow something that they will ignore or invent justification for the morality of it. And I dont think one can learn that, rather one has to learn NOT to follow. But I’m no psychiatrist.

I dont think theres so few. A lot of people have a need to be led. And if it isnt religion and gods it is something else. Like “leaders”. Like the golden(-ish) cow the US’ republicans are worshiping.

Dont forget ink recipe. A new type of ink had to be invented for the printing press. Soot, turpentine, and walnut oil should do it.

I don’t think you would survive either. People wasn’t stupid back then and you’d probably quickly get fridged for being a walking curse.

“Turning it off” today just turns modern tech to standby mode. Those who has learned the long-press to get up a reboot menu magic are chosen as the families new tech guru.

Ha! No. If it ain’t got touch and an app, gen A don’t even understand why we bother.

Its still a perfectly good word even if not everyone is a 100% on the same page with what it means. There isnt any better word that could be used. If we stopped making up words just because a few uncultured wordsmiths might mistake part of its meaning, we wouldnt have new words at all. Enshittification has the important part down; things are getting done shittier with intention.

No, im saying that if you want to say what exactly is shittified, you say whats shittified. Theres no way to make a single word contain a full definition without relying on some common knowledge. In this case saying enshittification, then both you and I have both read that blogpost and knows what the full meaning is. While someone who hasn’t can at least know its about stuff getting shittier, and guess the rest from context. You can’t really find a better single word than that.

Also I’ve rarely heard “shit” used for its actual meaning. It is common knowledge that shitty doesn’t literally mean “covered in poo”. Its pretty clear what it means. And it has never been a shocking word in the 40 years I’ve lived. Probably back in the 50s or something they could use it for shock value.

Oh you’re wearing one of those neuralinks. Dont try any of that mind control on me.

😁 I’m so looking forward to use this quote in real life.

Reminds me about that post about wishing humans had a dedicated sound for warning each other about bees.

Theres no single word that can clearly communicate the entire reason, context, and meaning. If we want to tell the reason for the shittyness, then we say that in a full sentence.

Though most people would understand from context if I just said “Bees!” instead of spending an entire sentence telling them where the bees are and why they should run.