You’re accusing Cory Doctorow, the guy who invented the phrase “enshittification”, of making a blog post that’s really an advert…? Really???
You’re accusing Cory Doctorow, the guy who invented the phrase “enshittification”, of making a blog post that’s really an advert…? Really???
Natural History Museum in London… before you even get to the exhibits it has some of the most breathtaking architecture.
Usenet
The Working Time Directive means you can’t work more than 48 hours per week and it also prevents employers from making you work more than 48 hours per week (there are some exceptions eg workers on ships and trainee doctors) but in most EU countries you can opt out of it.
Lotus Notes
Plot twist… my new employer uses it even more 🤦🏻♂️
Have a read on the trouble the 2600 guys have been having sending out emails for the next HOPE conference - the junk filter is also great at filtering out topics it deems unsuitable.
I’ll give you one more guess…
Can only speak for the UK but as the lowest civil court here, small claims decisions are not binding on any other court (including other small claims courts) but they are considered “pervasive” and thus a judge should be aware and take them into consideration.
He said he was UK based… 100% unenforceable, an employment tribunal wouldn’t even bother hearing it
Well in which case you probably won’t believe me but I’ve been using Kagi for a while and am extremely happy with it… no link with the company at all other than a very satisfied user 🤷🏻♂️
You can improve Google a bit using ublacklist but it still wasn’t anywhere as good as Kagi.
I will say Kagi isn’t as good when it comes to looking for local businesses or services… I still use Google for that but you can do that within Kagi with a !g and it anonymises the search
Pronounced “shitter”
If you replaced “company” with “monopoly” in your last sentence, I agree.
Also it depends what’s driving that attitude… if it’s an ethos from Gabe then great but he won’t be around forever… what happens when he dies/retires?
Many companies have started with great ethics that went out of the window when the founders moved on, and Steam is in a fantastic position to enshitify if it wanted to.
Fingers crossed on Larian getting a licence for Traveller…
Do we have a Fediverse equivalent of Facebook yet…?
Nice ad hominem…
He was also creative director for the original Ultima Online game and Star Wars Galaxies… both awesome and innovative MMOs at the time…
I mean I guess it could happen… so I guess why trust anyone? May as well just switch it all off!
This article is a pretty good summary of why, by Google’s own words, an ad driven search experience will be rubbish:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not-feeling-lucky/#fundamental-laws-of-economics
Not only does Kagi produce great search results, as good as “old Google” IMO, its business model means the above cannot (or at least, shouldn’t) happen. If it ever changed its model to include ads etc it would collapse so fast.
So for me, unlike the other poster, I’d recommend it to everyone who’s finding the existing search engines are rubbish and full of useless Etsy and SEO etc links.
Carl Sagan’s Demon Haunted World
They claim that they don’t link/save your search history so although they have your details for payment, technically it’s not linked. If they aren’t lying…