No, private cars should be outlawed too.

There was a sitewide protest when they killed the API but no one left

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

It is, searchable, isn’t it?

At least the app I’m using does have a search function, and it works…

As for search engines, it’s searchable there too, there’s just no much point in filtering by site because… which site?

Search engines could add a specific “search only on the fediverse” filter, but they’re too busy enshittifying themselves and losing money with unprofitable “AI” “search” to do it…

You don’t need to have read Kafka to know about Kafka.

I’ve always told people what I do when fixing their computers: read the fucking screen.

Somehow they never learn.

Someone must have been telling lies about Some slop machine must have misidentified Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested.

They’re chicken, aren’t they? Chicken’s a dinosaur.

As far as I know pihole filters on the DNS level, so if the tracking pixel is on a domain it trusts (e.g., the bank’s) it won’t filter it, no.

You were just downloading images. It’s just that one of those images was specific for that particular message, and the server logged your IP and who knows what else when you downloaded it.

I assume it’s an img tag pointing at a one pixel image (every mail has its own querystring or URL), when you load it the server logs the time, requesting IP, and so on.

Obviously it’ll only work if you tell the mail client to download the images.

(It doesn’t need to be a single pixel, could be the bank’s logo or whatever, but since it has to be unique to ID you and avoid caching and whatnot I assume making it only one pixel is more efficient.)

I used to be able to do long division in my head. Square roots. That kind of thing.

Then they allowed us to use calculators in class, and I was too young to realise the danger. Now that part of my brain is gone. Dead. I can’t do those calculations without using the machine as a crutch. It mutilated me, maimed me, killed a part of me, and made me dependent on it.

I won’t let LLMs do the same to the rest of my brain, and will treat anyone who does with the pity, disgust, and existential nausea and horror they deserve.

Calling people NPCs because they delegate their thinking to a machine.

Unused, the brain atrophies. The human dies.

There’s still a living body, most of the time, but it’s merely the slop machine’s peripheral.

A husk, a mockery of humanity, a corporation’s wet dream, still given the same rights and respect as a real living human being, despite being merely a tool to carry on the corporation’s whims.

NPCs is appropriate. Clearer than reverse centaurs.

You can live with only one hand. Do it.

What Americans call “left” would be considered moderate conservative centre-right in any civilised country (anything left of that you’d call communism).

Your “leftist” politicians (the so called “democrats") are regular right wing conservative populists, with some extra ultracapitalism and religious fundamentalism sprinkled on top.

What you’d call right wing or conservative (republicans) are ultracapitalist ultrafundamentalist far right fringe maniacs.

And maga are outright unapologetic fascists, on top of that (though, to be fair, fascism has been a core value in the USA for a long time, and at least these bastards don’t try to hide it; non-fascist nations don’t wave their flags everywhere, all day, every day, and they certainly don’t make their children recite pledges of allegiance, much less every day before starting school).

There hasn’t been any political left in the USA for several decades, if ever.

Only works for publishers or developers who have a page.

The scammers producing slop clones don’t (or would just have a different one for each game), so they can’t be filtered.

everyone wanted a way to speak to their computer

No one who has the slightest idea of how to use a computer has ever wanted that.

That’s an awfully stupid, obnoxious, inefficient, and unreliable way to control an interface.

Want your computer to do things, read the fucking screen (seriously, 99% of IT is just that, 99% of the remaining 1% is reading the fucking manual, and 99% of what remains is trauma from having encountered some related undocumented issue in the past and having had to solve it by yourself), and click on whatever option does what you want.

Or use the command line if that’s your thing.

Want to automate something, use whatever task scheduler your OS comes with. It’s not rocket surgery.

Want it to do something it doesn’t already do, that’s what programming is for. And 99% of the time someone else has already done it, for free more often than not, so just save yourself time and use their work.

If you need a slop machine to operate your computer, you are not qualified to operate it (or any other form of machinery; computers are easy, as I said, just read the fucking screen, and the manual for good measure), and shouldn’t be allowed near one lest you become a risk to yourself and others.

It also gatekeeps non-Americans, I assume; I had to puzzle out the meaning and while the name Gateway does ring a bell (I probably saw it on some ad or CRT monitor at some point) I’d have never associated it with the cow and box emojis. 🤷‍♂️

They have two options: fix it fast or die.

A store overrun by slop will quickly lose its customers, and with them any developers offering actual games.

Once the ball starts rolling it’ll become a vicious cycle, and once enough developers and customers have left there’ll be no coming back. And it certainly looks like the ball is picking up speed.

At least two of them, apparently, one with even the same exact name 🤮 (how is that allowed?).

Game’s not my cup of tea, but I tagged both clones as slop (can’t report them because none of the reasons would apply, as this kind of cloning is still legal), not that it’ll do any good.

Least Vave could do is add “blatant slop clone” to the reasons to report a game.