The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

I'd rather go live in a swamp for the rest of my life

it's one of those days where I only really want to stare at old computers

Oh yeah you know I am edgy and hardcore because there are characters in my name that are NOT ALLOWED on the Australian census Ain't nuthin' but an é thang

So the Anthropic chatbot saw the system date is 2026 and concluded that "this must be staged" (because the training data it's trained on probably ends in 2023 or whatever) and ignored it's instruction that "you're in sandbox". Truly the brightest minds of a generation working on this stuff.

When you're excited about a new project but then you see this

Well, that's a relief

Funnily enough, Sam Altman states that the AI singularity will keep happening whenever his company needs press coverage

Thomas Fuchs@thomasfuchs.at · last yr.

In 1960, Herbert Alexander Simon stated that AI will “do all human functions in organizations within much less than 25 years.” This guy was celebrated and won a Nobel prize and the Turing award.

"Yes" / "Maybe later" is not consent.

For many years, people didn’t randomly film others in public—not because we didn’t have the technology, but because the social contract said you didn’t do that. That’s why Meta is going full court press on their PR and celebrity endorsements. They remember how people ran google glass outta town.

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Of course I had to recreate this with CSS/JS. codepen.io/defaced/pen/...

Neale Denaro @nealedenaro.bsky.social · last mo.

Anyone got the latest patch for Nivea suncream? My bottle seems to be glitching.

Operation Mediocrity #webcomics #comicsky

when tech collapses we can go back to having fun on computer

Fun fact: To keep production costs low, many Star Trek scenes were actually filmed on Earth rather than on location in outer space.

Listen, if you are a designer or developer and this is what you come up with as the cancellation UI, please leave the industry.

AI is a scam.

I don't like how tech news that used to get me excited doesn't anymore. I miss when computers were fun.

Shipping fast only matters if you're shipping the right thing to the right audience.

Imhex is really neat for inspecting binary files, but it's a pain working in an app with a non-native interface so not even text fields work like expected. It's like you have to relearn all shortcuts from scratch 🤦‍♀️

Increasingly feels like the fluid nature of software is more a hellish trap than a feature Like having people break into your house every night to rearrange your furniture, reprogram the tv, and swap out family pictures for stock photos and ads

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel.bsky.social · 4w ago

Why, why, WHY @adobe.com would you add such a useless and annoying thing to Acrobat? Who the H wants to share that text via whatsapp? Has anybody figured out how to disable this? My search only showed ppl are annoyed with it and a pseudofix for Mac.

This might be a dumb question, but what's the benefit of woff/woff2 compressing tables when web servers usually compress HTTP responses already?

Every UX designer knows how much users LOVE when all their shit moves around for no reason

The Verge@theverge.com · 3mo ago

Taco Bell is experimenting with an AI-driven menu board, which will use the technology to “dynamically change the layout, content, and visuals on a car-by-car basis.” Read more from @emroth08.bsky.social:

How it started / how it’s going

Lauri Donahue@lauridonahue.bsky.social · last mo.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

It's extremely frustrating how Notion has change the shortcut to copy a link to the page to copy a link to the currently selected block (which there was a shortcut for already). Unless you select the title you will always get a link to the block the caret is in 🤦‍♀️

New on the blog: bell.bz/youll-miss-t...

"You're a commercial user of libcurl who use it for free and you ask a volunteer to fix your problem on his spare time?" Sometimes I need to say it.

I think you deserve malware if ur still using twitter tbh

9to5Mac@9to5mac.com · last mo.

Malware found spreading through sponsored ads on X

Rsbuild now supports Import Text ✨ Import file contents as source text with `{ type: 'text' }`, no extra configuration needed