Bots now have a higher success rate with captchas than people.

Ah, so Patreon is the next company to implode. We’re on quite the roll with tech companies being massively dumb.

Good on them

Yeah, that is indefensible.

It’s important to note that this is an official safety recall, even if the fix is a software update. How the fix happens is immaterial to NHTSA’s safety recall process; the point is that the public and owners are notified that there is a safety defect and that there is a remedy.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/12/more-than-2-million-teslas-are-being-recalled-due-to-unsafe-autopilot/

Holy shit snacks, I had no idea Sam Altman has been fired

Another interesting comment Mozilla’s takeaway from the experiment was that Firefox "users made it clear that they look for and want and expect Google.”

Apple Silicon

Cloudflare not impressed https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-mitigated-yet-another-okta-compromise/

Another sad example of the harm caused by the war on drugs.

CompuServe email addresses

Stremio + Real Debrid is definitely not worth investigating. Avoid it at all costs. Keep giving these media companies more money. All the money. Disney needs your dollars.

I run a bunch of e-commerce businesses and am a freelance developer. LLMs have absolutely changed my workflow and what I can achieve. There is hype, sure, but underneath it are absurdly useful platforms that, for me at least, have replaced the need to hire digital marketers, copywriters and junior programmers. This is too useful to be called a fad and dismissed the way the metaverse or NFTs rightly have been.

Noooo! I started web development in 2000 and those days were horrendous. No proper CSS, tables for layout, those awful browsers and search/replace in Dreamweaver to make a style change. Working for an ad agency developing websites for IE4/5/6/* will forever be a dark time.

Now development is way easier but the actual experience of using the internet has degraded thanks to enshittification .

Here’s the rational answer, folks. Anything else is your emotional response.

Powermonger did it for me.

At this point it really doesn’t matter. Say it however you like.

So it begins.

The war on drugs eh? What a farce.

Yeah, like fuck you don’t. Given you also posted “New book reveals Tiananmen square massacre, others fabricated by US” we know what you are.