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Something else great about alt text on Mastodon is that it’s useful if the image or video *doesn’t load* because of the fragility of federation.

Amazon is being sued by the FTC and 17 states for, among other things, being an illegal monopoly.

HERE'S WHAT WE'RE NOT GONNA DO. We're not gonna get mad at people for shopping on Amazon because of this, because *that's what you're forced to do when they're an illegal monopoly*.

apnews.com/article/amazon-ftc-

Periodic reminder:

GetFirefox.com/

Once installed:
* Menu button
* Add-ons and themes
* Find more add-ons box: "ublock origin" [Enter]
* uBlock Origin by Raymond Hill
* Add to Firefox

Every Web browser sucks, but at least use one *not* designed to let everyone track you & install malware & fake warnings urging you to call 1-800-FLEECE-ME to remove extended car warranty viruses.

Chrome is designed to let google spy on you in order to serve behavioural ads. So it should be no wonder third parties are using it to inject malware into your devices. The only reason these are "exploits" is because someone other than Google, the world's largest advertising company, is using them.

darkreading.com/vulnerabilitie

it's so funny to me how webp literally got a massive vulnerability in its library and people are still defending it over png and jpeg

daddy google is not going to notice you

I really miss the Web 1.0 days, when websites assumed you meant exactly what you said or only *offered* corrections for ambiguous potential mistakes.

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No, YouTube. I copied my search terms straight from the Billboard chart. I thought you would've learned by now what your autoco-wreck exceptions should be, but here we are.

Project manager: "What's technical debt? Explain it to me like I'm 6 years old"

Devs:

Today in "stop reinventing HTML poorly & stupidly in JavaScript":

Using the Avast Uninstall Tool | Official Avast Support

support.avast.com/en-us/articl

Speaking of LLMs as the enshittification du jour, the lawyer who had ChatGPT do his homework for him: futurism.com/the-byte/lawyer-c

Depressingly got away with it via a punishment a lot less severe than the disbarment he deserved: futurism.com/the-byte/lawyer-c

All this does is perpetuate the soul-destroying bullshit's appearance as the new hype.

This isn't the future I was promised.

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LLMs, in the context of online and meatspace enshittification, are "large language models." The invisibly-failing & gatekept ripoff ChatGPT is simply the most famous LLM.

if the cyberpunk themed product is not trans as fuck and anticop you aint got punk, you got neonliberalism

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