Final Fantasy 7?

XRP at least has instant feeless payments. No consumer protection though. Some banks use it for intra-bank transfers.

This person networks

Where’s the enshittification in macOS?

Now THIS I can get behind

Seriously though, I never got near those numbers. I did put about 2500 hours into TFC and TF2 before it became a bot hellscape.

I also went into NextDNS and put blocks on the news sites I got into the habit of checking. Fuck this, I’m not even in the US.

Just yesterday I banned Facebook’s user agent that is supposedly only used to generate link previews. It was being extremely aggressive, making 20 requests per second. At the time I thought “I bet they’re actually building their own search index”, and here we are.

I haven’t read wired in a few years, and it looks like I haven’t missed anything.

Daily Mail?

Brass Eye was incredible for shining a light on media and political hysteria. Their episode on drugs was hilarious and tragic.

I don’t think it’s earned by Murdoch, but otherwise agree with the sentiment.

It’s not fine. They are not archiving the internet.

I had to ban their user agent after very aggressive scraping that would have taken down our servers. Fuck this shitty behaviour.

After the edibles kick in

Glassdoor “may update your Profile with information we obtain from third parties”