In defense of the ‘drunken sailors’ of Steam, many of the games they’ve bought are likely to still be playable for a long time, some were bought in half-yearly sales, and some were part of ‘bundles’ that were bought for a different game. The 30% also pays for the Content Delivery Network, marketing, a forum and sometimes moderation, and a genuine customer feedback mechanism. Who wouldn’t want to be part of an un-enshittified system? Fanboy? You bet. I’m not saying they can do no wrong, but they’re doing a lot right.

The customer is not always right. Sometimes the customer is a douchebag.

Enshittification. Every human who uses computers on a daily basis needs to understand this word.

Oh, this EPA?

https://thehill.com/...

Top o’ the mornin’ to ya. Clippy O’Pilot at yer service.

If plastic surgery is based on people with good looks, it seems to be very loosely based on them!

In Australia they’re now called ‘intentional communities’. That might help with searching. Some are religious but some are not. Quite a few are just science/sustainability based.

Surveillance data

Takeaway: “What's the use of ranking high with content that doesn't engage visitors? If they feel like a bot wrote the content, it defeats the purpose. If this is what it takes to rank on a search engine, then there's something wrong with the search engine itself.”

True dat.

Absolutely. Do you remember the herp derp extension that would turn them all into ‘herp derp herp derp’ so that you wouldn’t have to read them?

Damn. Just when I’d learned to pronounce Eyjafjallajökull.

My friend said, “He’s so insane he must have lead pipes for plumbing.”

Ok, we can restate it. If your religion leads you to hate, you aren’t on the side of good, you’re on the side of bad?

Angry upvote you brilliant bastard!

I’m Australian. I read the title and immediately scanned the photo looking for the huntsman (spider).

@sh.itjust.works Yes it does, whether you want it to or not

I hope everyone got to the point in the article where Top Blokes is mentioned because that’s a good news story.

Yup. Guess who's doing the ID work - Persona. Yes the Persona that has the code to route every face scan via US checks. 'Governance' via coercion and control. 'The beatings will continue until social cohesion improves.' They're all jealous of China. And we have no sovereignty. We're full of US software and doing whatever 'Five Eyes' wants.

They know how dangerous AI is for cybersecurity and they're just pushing it through anyway and expecting engineers to deal with it. https://www.itnews.com.au/...

Andy Burnham is in favour of the social media ban in the UK, and we continue to roll forward: 10 Dec 2025 No accounts for under-16s; 'reasonable steps' to detect and remove underage accounts 9 Mar 2026 'Age assurance', i.e. ID check for adult sites 27 Jun 2026 'Age assurance', i.e. ID check, for all search engines Dec 2026 Private companies can be accredited as part of the Digital ID system. Oh we're so ready. Nothing bad will happen.

Moderation in all things.

To avoid negative thinking, challenge the thought that a problem is personal, pervasive or permanent (Martin Seligman)

Parenting: Set a good example. Don’t punish. Teach. Tell them what TO do, not what not to do.

Having ideas about the way things ought to be is great, but you can only respond to what is.

Be excellent to each other. Do as you would be done by.

What you're seeing is called 'enshittification'. In this particular example, in 2019, Prabhakar Raghavan – the ex-McKinsey, ex-Yahoo MBA who ran ad revenue for Google – came up with an ingenious solution: just make search worse. If you have to run multiple searches to find what you're looking for, that creates multiple chances to show you an ad. No really. This is real. https://www.wheresyoured.at/...

Why do people put up with this? You can find out more about enshittification here:

Short explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5nE

Longer explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZaoWpQ-3Zs

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