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Of course this is intentional. The providers want to make their stuff as addictive as possible, like so much other digital crack sold on the internet.

Why would they fear anything? They’ve been getting away with criminal behavior for so many years now, I don’t even remember when it started. If they get fined now and then, it’s less than 1 percent of their quarterly profits, so that’s not even small change. This won’t influence their behavior in the slightest.

The word “unpopular” doesn’t exist in Trump’s vocabulary. The logic is that you don’t vote the Fraudster in Chief out of office during a war. And he desperately wants to stay in office. Ideally without being seen actively sabotaging elections.

If the war keeps Trump in office, it has fulfilled its purpose and will be counted a win.

This is why I suspect that Israel might at least have encouragement from the U.S., direct or indirect.

Vibe coding and spam are a perfect fit. What took them so long?

I’d even say all vibe-coded slop is spam as soon as anybody else than the original perpetrator has to read it.

> No wonder spammers are copying that.

Are you sure it’s not the other way around?

I still find this shit unreadable, even after years of practice.

> Atlassian has denied wrongdoing.

But if they say so themselves!

This is why “worse is better” always wins eventually.

Highly instructive, and some quite surprising to me as a gaijin.

> To take the tips of the chopsticks in one’s mouth.

Sometimes I'm having a hard time avoiding that. Apparently I need more practice.

Microsoft has always known better than their users, they practically invented this attitude. Others then copied it.

How do they expect anyone to believe they can improve when they show a complete lack of understanding what they are doing wrong. The only message I get is that they think their audience consists of comlete morons. So nothing has changed at all.

Exprience shows that braindead ideas are great moneymakers.

Sadly, nothing new. Why do they do it? Because they can. That regulators let companies operate this way is a massive failure.

Deregulation is just regulatory capture by industry and also a national security risk.

The war on facts continues.

Make that the past 100 years.

Agreed. There is way too much money in flight to believe that anything people say in public is true. If there was ever a time to get rich as a spin doctor it’s now.

Just ask the slop generator of your choice. Making sense of all that smoke and mirrors without AI support has become impossible.

The cowboy gunslinging knows no bounds.

The Fonts in Use page from Berthold is fascinating.

https://fontsinuse.com/foundry/159/berthold

To be more precise, they all stole the same stuff. I have no empathy for these crooks.

Except when they just hallucinate an answer that is plainly wrong.

Classic tragedy of the commons, this time with major impact on everyone everywhere.

> I just don't know why they seem to be going out of their way to make the system unfriendly to existing users.

Sadly, they’re not going out of their way. It’s fully in the way of beancounters in harvesting mode. Apple has become a lawnmower, just like any other megacorp.

Cory Doctorow’s “The coming war on general-purpose computing” said it all. In 2012.

https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

I’m not waiting any longer. I have exactly zero hope that Apple will fix anything. I even doubt they’re still capable of it, even if they could be bothered to be interested in it.

Rumors persist that you can in fact put a Linux on a macbook. Just in case you have one lying around (which I don’t).

This time for real. Multi-decade users of both Windoze and macOS won’t take any more shit and take action, instead of just complaining. That’s a quality I haven’t seen before.

I would so love to contradict you, but I can’t. I have to completely agree.