Zuckerberg is the face of enshittifcation. He knows what it is and doesn't care.

I looked back at Ray Bradbury the other day, I don't think I've ever heard anyone say anything bad about Fahrenheit 457. Unfortunately there is no author currently who comes close to that aliveness and energy. For a while I started thinking modern authors are just unskilled.

But now I have a different hypothesis. My new hypothesis is modern authors are skilled, but they have a different aim (which they achieve). Instead of being energetic like Bradbury, they are aiming for a feeling that is more like opium. Give the reader a numb feeling, just like you get from doom scrolling, or many online games these days.

I'm hoping the extra iron going into the sea will cause plankton to grow faster and absord more CO2. Also more forest = greater CO2 absorbtion. Though obviously this is probably more than offset by the permafrost melting not to mention forests dying off where its now too hot further south.

There's all sorts of good stuff in the application notes of IC catalogs. Some of it not even copyrighted.

Came across a Burr-Brown (!) catalog in the library at work about 15 years back. And I was thinking...why would our professionally staffed research library keep a vendor catalog from a defunct company? And then I opened it and saw a whole cook book for high frequency analog designs.

If this is what passes for news for nerds or stuff that matters than things are not OK.

And yet, you would be foolish to hire him.

That's why I'm not a member of either party.

do you suffer from reading comprehension disability of some sort?

Cannot trust or use the regular Firefox anymore. They are also part of the "We'll never give you true lazy loading" crowd that has built-in "lazy loading" (don't load tabs until you click the tab and stop JS in there) which does literally nothing at all (ever). They are empty checkboxes that don't actually work. Neither do any of the plugins that claim to do it for Firefox. I just tried the other day loading bookmarked tab-groups and both the default browser and all 5 of the plugins that claim to do it... don't. They loaded every fucking tab right away. I can only speculate as to why (advertisers angry because their ads won't load and meta-refresh/reload).

I refuse to use Chrome. So maybe it'll do it while selling your data out to Google. Opera does lazy-loading and even proper cookie-sandboxing (another feature they refuse to give us due to advertiser hate) properly but is chocked full of other trendy bullshit and likely corporate spyware and hasn't been usable since version 13 or so (and of course using an old version breaks JS and won't render properly anymore).

So, nowadays, the more aggressive the web "developers" get with JS and cookie spying, the more I use Palemoon, Elinks, or Dillo. When they go high-tech, I go low. Pfft. The web is more of a useless cesspool every day and I find myself simply just using the Internet less and less due to how disgusting the delta is between my values and the folks who ruined it.

No the EU should act like vassal state that it is and do what what the USA wants or face the consequences of being left to deal with Russia, north Africa, and Middle East on their own.

The point is an America First Government should be pressuring the EU to not impose onerous requirements on American businesses.

Doing so is there prerogative, but it should come with diplomatic consequences, right up to an including if you're unwilling to be a good market place for US products you are not worth defending if attacked!

The Administrator needs to unambiguously tell the EU, stop DSA actions against US tech companies or there will be negative consequences for the NATO umbrella.

"There is still value to cover letters."

No there isn't, this is 2025 not 1985. The vast majority of job applications now come from agencies who field candidates to the companies, and personal experience has shown me that applying direct through a company portal is a waste of time. You either hear nothing or it goes via an agency favoured by HR anyway.

I've got thousands of tracks on a USB stick. Can plug it into the laptop or streamer. Unfortunately modern cars won't recognise a stick for [reasons].

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