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.

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 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.”

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.

ISPs already do that here in the states. The court case is to decide whether they should shut off access.

I have a soy allergy too and don’t react to lecithin. My understanding is that by the time the soy is processed into lecithin, the “thing” you’re allergic to is pretty much non-existent and that’s why you don’t react to it.

This isn’t the case for all people who are allergic to soy. This is not medical advice.

I’m not in the autistic spectrum. They aren’t equals and they are barely tools.

One of the last posts I read on Reddit was a student in a CompSci class where the professor put a pair of googly eyes on a pencil and said, “I’m Petie the Pencil! I’m not sentient but you think I am because I can say full sentences.” The professor then snapped the pencil in half that made the students gasp.

The point was that humans anamorphize things that seem human, assigning them characteristics that make us bond to things that aren’t real.

I don’t think Lemmy would count as social media but that said, you can easily create a dummy account that just, for example, posts pictures of moths or beans or bread or whatever.

It’s almost like old school Google front page.

There was an article during Obama’s years that showed the negotiation tactics of Republicans and the summary was exactly what you wrote: Republicans draft bills with shit that they know will anger Democrats, but they’ll use it to pass the other shit that they want to pass.

Democrats fall for it every fucking time.

The article went on to say that compromise occurs far more often on the conservative side more often than the liberal side, meaning that Democrats often will give up far more than Republicans will.

No billionaire is going to pay this.

More likely is that MAGAts will harass if not kill the widow for even thinking of suing one of them.

I think there is a feature request to allow communities to subscribe to other communities so that their posts and comments are synced.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”