The Internet Archive is hosting recently discovered episodes from a mid-’80s California computer show that were transferred from reel-to-reel tape. While full of time-capsule descriptions of 1980s technology news, the most exciting aspect of the show has been the variety and uniqueness of the interviews. The list of people that the show interviewed is a…
Like many people, I departed Twitter after Musk purchased the company, since it seemed like as good a time as any to make a break with the service. The user experience predictably tanking shortly after also helped. Despite many predictions of its impending demise, it’s still chugging along thanks to the twin forces of habit…
There’s a popular belief that Google, and the internet in general, started going to shit the day it killed the beloved Google Reader. If nothing else, it was the first signal that the fun and experimental Google everyone knew and loved had put on its big boy pants and gotten down to Serious Business (i.e.,…
It’s unfortunate, and I loved the Pi, but this is how enshittification begins. Time to start looking for alternatives, as they will no longer be incentivized to focus on users, but rather shareholder value techcrunch.com/2024/06/11/r…[image or embed]— Pauliegon (@paulie.cool) Jun 12, 2024 at 10:14 PM
This really looks like it starts out of nowhere unless you read this first. The end result of the tech industry’s stagnation is that software has ceased being a useful tool and has instead become an increasingly mediocre service to funnel revenue to enrich investors and executives, while offering diminishing returns to the users. I’ve…
What a crazy time. Twitter went into the shitter, Crypto bros tried to convince everyone they could get rich off a scam they created, and now the shiny new toy is a digital bullshit artist everyone is calling “AI.” In addition to all that nonsense, we’ve also seen the drive to make everything a subscription…