Because they want to oppress people.

Not to defend this practice but my guess is that the firmware was released before Thanksgiving, but the owner didn’t turn on the grill until Thanksgiving, which is when the grill picked up the firmware.

Guy is still an idiot for buying a device that REQUIRES Internet access.

They blame Obama on things that Trump has explicitly caused.

I think what makes enshittification is “give users less and charge more”. It’s about returning shareholder value instead of customer value.

Netflix is a great example. They have pulled back on content, made password sharing more challenging, and increased cost. They still report increases in paying users.

They’ve done the math. They know they can take lost in users because they know they’ll make up for it. That’s the sad part in all of this.

This is a great compromise honestly. More OSS devs need to be paid for their work and if an anime character helps do that, I’m all for it.

The line demands you cut costs but also increase service.

The line demands it go up. It doesn’t care how you get there. In many cases, decreasing service while also cutting costs is the way to do it so long as line goes up.

See: enshittification

ELI5: Torrents require a way to send data and that’s done through a port. Either you need to have a port available or someone else does. While you can upload without port forwarding, you’re more likely to get higher connections if you have it turned on.

“many titles are designed from the ground-up to be rent seeking”

There is absolutely a connection between how shitty corporations are treating their customers with how likely those customers are likely to stop paying and start sailing.

Netflix in its prime was the GOAT, showing a very significant decrease in piracy. We’re only seeing a rise now because of the proliferation of streaming companies. No one wants to pay for 4+ streaming services.

I can’t remember the court case per se but it involved a self driving car hitting a pedestrian I think.

My cursory search on Google seems to now show companies being held liable for AI hallucinations, with one court case currently pending where an AI chat bot encouraged a teen to commit suicide.

Given our current administration and make up of SCOTUS I’m not holding my breath.

Courts have ruled that using AI allows companies to avoid liability.

Schrödinger’s corporations: corporations are people and and not people, depending on how much money they stand to gain or lose.

I’ve actually done this as what looks like a horizontal line.

It doesn’t seem to help though.

There are websites that block copying to the clipboard. I wish browsers would block event binds to system keyboard shortcuts.

I followed most of that.

But how I read it was “Fraud? Sounds like fraud. But the kind that rich people do and won’t ever get punished for.”

Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.

Airplanes reproduce like salmon where they spray their sperm in the air so that receptive female planes absorb it through their skin.

That’s what chemtrails are.

This is the real LPT. Recruiters are so annoying to deal with. Avoid them if you can.

I just rewatched The Dark Knight Rises.

I don’t remember this scene.

Iirc, permissions for iOS are required for devs to be able to use the functions/methods under those permissions.

So if the app doesn’t use them, they won’t show up as needing them.