I’m excited for the push this is gonna give Godot. Wouldn’t mind it becoming the mainstream engine.

Yeah, that ain’t gonna cut it.

enshittification is an inevitable late stage consequence

Maybe, but I don’t think it is. Enshittification is a direct result of our tax policy that encourages cashing out, only looks at the short term, and requires constant growth.

There was a time when companies built a reputation and held onto it for a hundred years. We could go back to that.

Tax the rich.

Yeah, this will insure I never use Unity. But at least they can collect from their existing games.

I recently moved from Chrome to Firefox, so I get that. But Apple is a hell of a lot worse about it.

Using the iMessage thing to create social pressure in kids is pretty evil.

You can get a cheap android (but don’t have to). You can’t get a cheap iPhone.

And are you really going to get your 12 year old the latest flagship android when there are cheaper options?

If every android kid got the latest Pixel, I bet they wouldn’t be seen as “the cheap phone”.

Plus Apple’s been pushing nearly every anticompeitive angle they can. The iMessage thing is 100% intentional. It’s not that the android phones aren’t capable of working with iMessage. It’s that Apple wants to make your experience worse when something happens that doesn’t involve giving them money. Because they want you to push your friends into an iPhone, and people are dumb enough to fall for it.

I’m okay with helping people find their things. Especially if I’m in an airport or generally in public.

Maybe I’d want it off when I’m connected to my home WiFi.

Don’t bother with the bullshit clickbait article. Honestly, don’t give them the views.

The underlying study is good though, and worth reading.

https://purl.stanford.edu/vb515nd6874

Security is related. With a password manager you don’t have to worry about credentials from one site being used on another.

The biggest mistake* Mastodon made was that they promoted “Mastodon” instead of a specific instance.

I think they’re absolutely right to just pick an instance and recommend that, or if that instance doesn’t work, try this other one. Which instance they pick is not what I care about more than just picking some specific instance. Beehaw may or may not have been the best choice, but I’m glad they picked one.

*I understand why Mastodon wanted to be neutral, but it was horrible for onboarding people.

And you think there aren’t Russian and Chinese propagandists on Reddit?

pro-US imperialist propaganda

Right. Like all those school kids getting shot.

“a literal US military arm” is just as ridiculous. It’s neither.

It’s well known and accepted that the Chinese government has significant control of Chinese companies, and Reddit is partially owned by Tencent. That’s not xenophobic.

The fact that it’s something like a 5% stake is more relevant.