There's a word for that: enshittification

Netflix will what now? Sorry, I was busy canceling my netflix account.

Kidding, I canceled it ages ago when the $10 version became SD-only with ads.}

Why do we keep paying people like this to enshittify everything?

There is (or at least used to be) a debug command to write-protect a hard drive. No idea what it's for or why such a thing exists, but you flip a certain bit from 0 to 1 and drive no write. I won $100 once at work with this knowledge. We had a training course about how much better the new version of windows at the time was and how much harder it was to break - so hard they'd pay $100 (in early 2000s money) to anyone who could unrecoverably break their demo windows install during the 10 minute presentation. The instructor (who worked for Microsoft) said he'd been doing this for 6 months and they'd never had to pay out that prize before, much less 30 seconds in.

I've heard it said before that the limitation on empire size is about 2 weeks. That is to say, if it takes longer than 2 weeks to get a message from the capital to the frontier it causes instability. So, it's more about time than absolute physical size.

Detail unless it's pictures or something where the icon is a preview of the file's content.

Also because that lump sum is all there is. If you take the annuity they put the lump sum into an investment account and then pay you out of the proceeds (from which they take a cut, of course), and you can get the same returns they get, without losing their cut, doing it yourself.

...and still be a billionaire.

Why should oligarchs get to decide where the proceeds of their exploitation get spent?

They're common in the US too in doctors offices and hospitals because of the security requirements of transmitting patient records and such.

Funny how every time anyone talks about replacing capitalism everybody trots out the examples of innovation and competition as things we would lose. Meanwhile capitalists are over here doing their level best to sabotage innovation and buy or legislate their way out of competition so they can remain complacent in their dominant market position. 'Won't someone please think of the billionaires' is wearing kinda thin when they're actively undermining the purported benefits of their wanton exploitation and delivering nothing but stagnation and enshittification.

• ublock origin, first last and if necessary only extension you really need
• dark reader
• youtube shorts block - converts shorts links into regular video player with actual fucking seek/volume controls
• youtube sponsor block - I pay for my bandwidth, I decide what gets downloaded.
• privacy badger

Streaming was different for years and years. But then people got greedy.

but I am determined that “he died rich” will not be one of them.

Bill Gates has a net worth of ~$168 billion. Even if this isn't just PR intended to launder his image, even if he does in fact give away 99% of that, it will still leave him with $1.68 billion dollars. Even if he ups that to 99.99% that'll still leave him with $16.8 million, which is still rich by anyone's measure. Bill Gates' idea of 'not dying rich' is radically different than yours or mine; he was never not going to die rich.

Enlightenment has been around for decades, and it was quite a bit more popular in its early days because things like KDE/Gnome/etc weren't the de facto DEs pretty much everyone used like they are now. I used it back when I had a linux box like 25 years ago and it was great, it was very slick and pretty, but now so much is written for KDE/Gnome that it feels like using anything else is just asking for trouble.

The catch is now you have games in their ecosystem and are more likely to spend more time and money there.

Yeah, art deco is definitely high on that list. Also brutalism. I especially love brutalist interiors.

'Yeah I have no idea whose hand that is stuck up my asshole and operating me like a sock-puppet. whistles innocently'

Because light is affected by gravity but gravity isn't. Gravity—the curvature of space-time—can't stop changes in the curvature of spacetime from propagating outward. But also that information isn't coming from inside the event horizon, it's coming from spacetime around it.

Yeah, Microsoft came to bargain, but I came to flip 'em the bird cause I already switched to linux.

As someone who used to have a bad case of wanderlust for the same reasons, let me just say: the place where you belong is not a place out in the world that you find, it's a place that you make inside of yourself from your satisfaction with your life, your connections to others, etc. What you seek can be found anywhere, but nowhere will make you happy until you do. Travel is a heck of an adventure and I have a lot of great stories from that time so I'm not saying don't travel. Just don't expect to find what you're looking for wherever you go or you'll never be satisfied with the experience in itself.

Describing this as a 'new wave of attacks' makes it sound like it's unprovoked, which it extremely was not. Which is a weird choice from an Iranian news org.