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‘AI is making us dumb!’ -2025

‘Social media is making us dumb!’ -2020

‘Smartphones are making us dumb!’ -2010s

‘The internet is making us dumb!’ -1990s

‘Television is making us dumb!’ -1970s

‘Books are making us dumb!’ -1500s

You’d think we’d know by know that that’s just how technology works - it makes us ‘dumb’ because we don’t need to spend the effort to do things we’ve automated away with technology and thus can focus on shit that is more important to us. If I don’t have to sit around thinking about math because someone invented a calculator, that’s more time that I can spend doing the thing I want to use the math for. The math is a tool, not the point itself.

0.03 is 7.5x more than 0.004 tho?

Yeah, what’s even funnier is after noticing and appealing the temp ban I logged off and the only time I went back was to check my mail for a response which is when I noticed the perma-ban, so between those two time periods I was literally not even on reddit, so I have no idea what the fuck they were on about.

Indeed, Nazi scum can fuck off.

It’s continued to get worse since I left a couple weeks ago? I’m shocked. Shocked, I say!

Yup. What’s left of their user-base is cranky, well-entrenched against their bullshit, and not afraid to show it. See: the APIpocalypse, etc. I would bet they lost millions of users over that, and now they’re alienating tens or hundreds of thousands more. They have a pretty shit business model which largely relies on enshittification.

I had no idea that was a thing, nor who I would have done it with considering none of my friends or family use reddit. Much less how I could’ve done it without even knowing about it.

I was perma-banned like 11 hours before my temp-ban was lifted, per the timing on the messages in my inbox, so I think the admins just got a lil carried away with the fashy bullshit and then walked it back a little.

They 7-day banned me for ‘encouraging violence’ for saying I didn’t think Mangione deserved to go to jail for what he did. I appealed it and it was lifted, but not before it was upgraded to a permanent ban for ban-evasion on other accounts (I’ve never had more than one account in my 14 years of reddit.) The perma-ban was lifted on appeal too, but by that point I was just like fuuuuck off.

Meh. I joined Reddit in the original great Digg exodus, I’m not going back.

And this right here is why I laughed my ass off when they were doing their IPO and offered me an early buy-in. The company has never made a profit to my knowledge, why on earth would I imagine its value would go up?

What we do not see, from even the most enthusiastic promoters of standardization, is the argument that standardization is for the benefit of capital.

Ok, I’ll make it. Companies participate in standards organizations because it is strictly in their best interest to do so for several reasons.

1. You get to help determine the standard so you can try to keep the ultimate result nearer to your existing version so it’s cheaper to modify your products to meet the standard.
2. There is some amount of brand prestige in being part of the creation of a standard, and that translates into some sales at least.
3. You have a heads-up about what the standard is going to look like before it’s published and can start tooling production around it before companies that aren’t part of the process, thus getting an early-adopter advantage in the market and keeping you from having to rush and spend a lot of money to catch up.
4. Most importantly, interoperability will directly generate more sales (or at the very least keep you from losing some) for you and everyone else involved.

If these companies didn’t benefit financially from participation a lot fewer of them might participate; big companies like IBM for whom pushing technology forward is a part of their identity would probably still participate, but the little Taiwanese company that only makes CD players probably wouldn’t give a shit and would only adopt the standard after the fact to avoid losing sales with none of the expense of contributing to the standard.

Wow, what scummy bastards. I used the browser for a little bit, and I kinda figured they were up to some shady shit when I noticed a crypto-wallet was included, but I ignored all that shit and it was fine. But if I’d known what the CEO or the company in general had been up to I’d have dropped that shit like a bad habit long before I did for other reasons.

I’ve literally never noticed an ad on desktop since I joined discord in like 2010.

Yeah I was thinking about that if desktop gets ads, cause at least ublock origin can block most things.

Welp, good thing I don’t use discord on mobile. We’ll see how it goes when they come to desktop.

Nah this is bullshit, and I’m shocked to see it coming from the EFF. If you can’t build your ML model without stealing other peoples’ work to do it, don’t fucking do it. The purpose of IP law is to ensure that people who create are compensated for their work, and I never thought in a million years I’d see the EFF arguing against the protection of people over business.

Yeah, but old browser extension has let me block all advertisers (and all of them are equally my most-hated) forever, so reddit is cordially invited to get fucked. And they can construe that as ‘encouraging violence’ all they like.

Yeah, it’s still set as my default for handling PDFs, so I keep opening them in there and then copying the address over to chrome by hand because I’m too lazy to go find the default app settings.

I haven’t used it in a couple years now, so maybe they’ve gotten better. shrug Also never tried it on my phone, I use duckduckgo’s browser.