I know we hate Cloudflare, but that’s a good feature addition.
Went to turn it on on the domain covering some of my stuff, and they also directed me to their Radar site, which shows the volume of and which bots are making the most noise, and not the least bit shockingly, it’s AI bots all the way down.
If nothing breaks I’m totally leaving this on and Amazon, Google, and OpenAI can all go screw themselves.
Honestly this sounds like something that OnlyFans should do, as a public service.
175 million bots, all letting each other know that there’s pussy in bio.
Yeah and as the article mentions, they’re not talking DAU/MAU numbers.
Which means 175 million is a big ol fat marketing lie.
I’d love to see how many people actually do more than use it once then go ‘meh’ and go back to scrolling instagram.
Agreed. As much as I understand the urge to build your own shiny new thing, I’d pay real actual human money for someone to take Blink, and put it in a non-lobotomized, non-enshittified, non-garbage UI that has things like a self-hosted sync server, built-in adblock/noscript/etc, and the ability to use extensions for things like password managers.
But no crypto stuff, no gaming stuff, no VPN services, no browser password managers, no sponsored links, no sponsored default search engines, no email client, blah blah blah.
Browser, adblock, self-hosted sync, done.
Hilarious, I suppose, given the origins of Chrome and that it was a team of people sitting down to make a new browser from the specs.
Seriously. Accepting the PR would have zero impact and take about 10 seconds and avoid all the drama.
That’s a fair assessment. I’ll admit to having a severe case of doomerism when it comes to tech lately, and the levels of shit tech bros will go to to monetize shit has me skeptical there’s any sort of protocol or technology that could be made bro-resistant for more than a short period of time.
EEE is pretty prevalent and has been a very standard practice with these tech companies for a long time. See: Meta and Threads for a recent example.
Gemini protocol
IDK, but I don’t think that the problem is that any particular application protocol is bad so much as it is capitalists going to capitalist, and they’ve shit all over everything in the Quest to Make a Buck.
It’s not like a new protocol, if it becomes as widely adopted, won’t see the same vultures swoop in and strip mine any value they can find there, too.
That’s just some Unicode stuff; the domain name is non Latin characters so that’s how you represent it where unicode isn’t properly supported. Doesn’t mean mean anything malicious.
Well, I have a new favorite Lemmy client.
Eh, scriptable content was probably fine.
Techbros going ‘holy shit, we should make EVERYTHING a website!’ was the curse that doomed us.
I could have been a little more clear: I don’t think the whole must-compete-or-forget-it mindset makes any damn sense.
I’m more than happy to use software that does what I want/need (which, more and more, is simply just not fucking spying on, trying to sell things to, or otherwise annoying me) even if it’s not like, the most bestest version of whatever.
I think it’s less that it’s “impossible” but rather that it’s expensive.
Honestly we’ve in general shoved too much shit into the browser that’s not strictly related to just browsing web sites.
And you “have to” support all the layers and layers and layers of added stuff, or you can’t “compete”.
But, at the same time, the goals of making a good-enough browser that mostly works and isn’t completely enshittified and captured by corpo big tech interests is a very worthy project and 100% support what they’re doing.
Because most poeple don’t care and just want to play the latest $GAME_NAME_HERE?
And I mean, Nintendo has already sued people into essential slavery and nobody said shit, so I don’t know what the fuck will get people’s attention.
LTT
Fair enough; I haven’t watched LTT in a long, long time since his tech clown gimmick just irritates me, but he definitely used to be all over his sponsors, and not in a good way.
I also don’t think LTT ever calls anyone out about anything, ever. He’s made noises about ethics and sponsorship, but he’s never actively gone after a big sponsor, except maybe kinda ASUS and I’d bet that’s because everyone else did and he thought it’d be a bad look if he didn’t.
You mentioned nVidia, and I’ll mention what happened to Hardware Unboxed when they didn’t toe the marketing line. Sure, sure, they “apologized” after public outcry, but the point is they absolutely went after someone who didn’t stay in line with what they wanted the message to be.
Yep, I’m also in the dev’s matrix chat and it’s pretty much been cycling through working and broken for pretty much everyone :(
I’d wager walmart is listed because they weren’t paying their floor rent for all the redboxes they have at walmarts, not that they were buying DVDs there.
Yeah this makes me so very very happy I do not use Facebook or Instagram, because that sounds like an absolutely awful experience which would make me very very annoyed.