forrcaho

@forrcaho@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So, giving you what I called the choice dialog. That makes sense. Intent intercept wouldn’t help then, it would just give you one more basically irrelevant choice to do all the things (although it’s useful for developers).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it actually opening up the Sprinkler app for all those other purposes, or giving you a choice dialog? If it’s actually opening up the app, maybe installing Intent Intercept would at least make it a choice dialog, as it also tries to open everything (just to show information about the request; it’s a dev tool).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  xkcd.com/1367/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some basic info about USB⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s gotten so bad I eventually ordered a USB cable checker to figure out what any given USB cable is capable of (and to see if the cable has gone flaky, which seems to happen a lot). I haven’t received it yet so I don’t know if I can recommend this item, but … gosh darn you sure need something like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Uruguayan company teaching people how to turn regular cars into EVs.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Although safety is certainly a legitimate issue, I can almost guarantee that car manufacturers will use that as an excuse to kill this form of competition – yet another way in which capitalism is dooming our species to extinction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Should art be regulated by the SEC?” NFT artists file lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kind of a shame that Jonathan Mann got wrapped up in all this NFT grift. Many of his songs are quite catchy, I recommend checking him out on YouTube if you haven’t already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shein sues Temu over copyright infringements as legal feud heats up.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fast-food chains battle for low-income diners with summer value meals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People learned how to cook again during the Pandemic … found out it wasn’t hard, and some even found it enjoyable. Tacking on a period of inflation right after that, and fast food is no longer anywhere near the economic staple it was in the Before Times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOJ finally posted that “embarrassing” court doc Google wanted to hide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Roszak’s notes also said that because users got hooked on Google’s search engine, Google was able to “mostly ignore the demand side” of “fundamental laws of economics” and “only focus on the supply side of advertisers, ad formats, and sales.”

  This is textbook phase one of what Cory Doctorow calls “enshittification”. Users don’t have much of a choice, so make it as shitty as you are able without them leaving? Check. Phase two (which Google is no doubt also doing) is to do give the same treatment to the advertisers.

  The pressure to maximize profits ensures that all private entities performing this sort of connection role on the internet will eventually become enshittified. There’s no escape (under capitalism).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, you’re right. We really need to bring back something like USENET, where newsgroups (their “communities”) weren’t tied to a specific server. We could almost just resurrect NNTP, although the handling of images (and binary data more generally) probably needs some tweaking.