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Here’s a quote from Cory Doctorow himself at the end of his book Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It:

The longer I think about this, the more names I come up with. I’m going to stop now, but I’ll leave you with one final word: enshittification.
Specifically, I am giving you explicit permission to use this word in a loose sense, whenever you think it makes sense to do so. As I wrote in my essay “Dirty Words Are Politically Potent”: The fact that a neologism is sometimes decoupled from its theoretical underpinnings and is used colloquially is a feature, not a bug. Many people apply the term “enshittification” very loosely indeed, to mean “something that is bad,” without bothering to learn—or apply—the theoretical framework. This is good. This is what it means for a term to enter the lexicon: it takes on a life of its own. If 10,000,000 people use “enshittification” loosely and inspire 10 percent of their number to look up the longer, more theoretical work I’ve done on it, that is one million normies who have been sucked into a discourse that used to live exclusively in the world of the most wonkish and obscure practitioners. The only way to maintain a precise, theoretically grounded use of a term is to confine its usage to a small group of largely irrelevant insiders. Policing the use of “enshittification” is worse than a self-limiting move—it would be a self-inflicted wound.

np! The way line breaks are handled isn’t intuitive and the formatting guide offered through the Lemmy web-ui doesn’t even mention it.

I don’t have any suggestions for your list, but just wanted to mention if you put two trailing spaces on each line it will preserve your line breaks. Alternatively, using the Markdown list method instead of inserting bullets will also maintain breaks for each item.

#Markdown list style
* item 1
* item 2

Looks like:

• item 1
• item 2

Trailing spaces (“#” == space):
▪︎ item 1##
▪︎ item 2

It really pisses me off how difficult/impossible it is to record calls on cell phones (at least on Android, I have no experience with Apple stuff) in the US. Even with a custom OS it’s generally not possible. It should be a baseline option available after a simple warning to check local laws before enabling it.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

If they’re going to bring such heavy charges carrying such serious prison time for typical protesting actions (or apparel‽) it might just convince some people that any restraint is unnecessary and to “earn” their sentences. I get that the current assumption is that is the unspoken goal to claim additional legal power but there doesn’t seem to be much hope left that things won’t escalate there even without a “proper” inciting incident.

I look forward to every aspect of objective reality and lived experience having to be litigated. The future is so exciting!

If you’re talking about your “Vote like you will be competing against me for $16 an hour jobs.” post getting removed, it’s because this community only allows links to articles. It’s the first rule listed. If you want to self-post try something like [email protected] instead. You can check the modlog for moderation actions taken on comments and posts btw (on the webui there’s a link at the bottom of the page)

“[The] Republicans are selling their soul to win elections. Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. The government won’t work without it. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.”
-Barry Goldwater (November 1994)

I haven’t checked but I bet the lack of (prompt) moderation coincided with jordanlund stepping away temporarily for health reasons.

“The big one” can’t come soon enough

I don’t know offhand but I strongly suspect everything related to AI is defaulted to on/show.

DDG’s description of that feature:

If you don’t want AI-generated images to show up in DuckDuckGo image search results, you can filter them out a few different ways:

1. Anytime you’re viewing image search results in the Images tab on DuckDuckGo search, you can click the AI images filter and select Hide to reload results without AI-generated content.
2. Alternatively, open Search Settings > General or Search Settings > AI Features and turn on Hide AI-Generated Images.
3. Finally, if you want a search experience without AI-generated images, without Search Assist answers, and without Duck.ai prompts and entry points, start your searches on noai.duckduckgo.com instead of duckduckgo.com.

How does DuckDuckGo filter out AI-generated images in search results?

We rely on publicly available lists to filter out AI-generated content, like those provided by uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist, an open-source blocklist, manually curated by project contributors.

These lists are not exhaustive, but our aim with the “AI images” filter is to filter out as much AI-generated content as possible.

I run Firefox on Linux Mint with uBlockOrigin and uMatrix addons (with modified settings) so I can’t speak to the universality of my results, but it seems like DDG is pretty loose with how it categorizes and displays info.

1. With AI images set to hide on first search for “morse code chart” I get the following: Hide

2. Toggling the AI image setting to show instantly changes the results and displays these: Show (instant)

3. Without additional changes, just clicking the search button again slightly changes the results: show (re-search)

4. Toggling the AI image setting back to hide again instantly changes the results to: Hide (instant)

5. Re-running the search as is returns the same results as #1.

I’ve also previously had horrible luck getting the date filters to work when trying to use a bookmarklet style shortcut to add the dates as parameters in the address bar (they’re just completely ignored when a search is run that way for me), and as of ~2 days ago the date range just didn’t seem to work at all. I was trying to find a human authored post/article about the difference between opossums and possums and using a date range of 1950–2015 was still ONLY returning results post-2023 and they were all wordy slop.

Most important error is that you have AI results set to show instead of hide.

I’m really bad about even consistently playing VR games for fun, let alone for exercise. But once I finally make space, boot up the gaming pc and reconnect the VR kit, it’s almost always worth the effort and I kick myself a bit for not playing more often. I do have fairly annoying stick drift on my (Index) controllers though, so that strongly dissuades/prevents me from playing games that are designed around using them.

It’s been a couple years since I’ve really played any Beat Saber, but I think my favorite custom map just for fun was “Happy” by C2C (YouTube vid [not mine])

If you want to work out your legs you might want to check out Pistol Whip.

Here’s an “OC ReMix” metal version by PirateCrab.

Bill Stickers is innocent!

Thanks! Credit to World of Warcraft for my sensitivity to those kinds of typos; all those duel wielding rouges looking for Mankirk’s wife and whatnot.

I’m not a car person but I’m assuming they meant to prohibit dual (as in ‘double’) rear wheels as I don’t think there’s a configuration that would warrant using duel (as in ‘fight’).