It’s 21 year old news.

Are you German? They’re famous for their sitzpinklers

Buying trophies from Nazis.

It’s satire of your suggestion that we hold back progress but I guess it went over your head.

Nudge nudge wink wink honoring slavers.

Let’s get rid of the printing press because it can be used for smut. /s

Changing the name would hurt the feelings of all the US soldiers who want to honor their ancestors’ legacy of killing US soldiers in the name of slavery.

KidPix 1.0 available online

Illegal business can operate online for a long time if they have good OpSec. Anonymous payment systems are much easier these days because of cryptocurrencies.

But still being driven into the ground by Matt Mullenweg.

Just because you don’t know any artists doesn’t make you cool for ripping them off.

Dude I hate ads too but I recognize that people like you and me who view content but block the way to pay for it, we’re actual parasites on the creatives. Google is just a bigger parasite and exploits both creatives and advertisers.

The people paying for content are the parasites?

I thought it was the monopolist in the middle engaging in rent-seeking behavior like this.

The real group getting screwed here are advertisers who used to get free protection against their campaigns running with excessive frequency.

This change lets Google burns their customers ad budgets of a bunch of junk duplicate impressions.

Optimizing AI performance by “scaling” is lazy and wasteful.

Reminds me of back in the early 2000s when someone would say don’t worry about performance, GHz will always go up.

I used to love Sonos but the old CEO fucked it up to replace fast local control with flaky slow cloud BS.

They can’t revert because their stupid new headphones require the new version.

I’m not buying any more of their kit unless they fix the user experience.

The article keeps falling back to the bike example, which totally ignores the time required to equip the bike and lock it up at the destination.

Their other example of a bad romantic relationship is also hung up on switching costs.

I prefer the version “broken gets fixed, shoddy gets ignored”.

This would have a lot more weight coming from a human rights organization than from genocide lobbyists.

“Aims to support Israel” is all I need to hear to shut my ears.

They’re getting big mad that they’re being called out for genocide. Cry harder.

As an out of touch old fart I have to ask:

What is there to see on TikTok besides meme-y short videos?