Notices by Valerie (val99erie@ruby.social)

@cammerman And it's easy for rent seekers to kill free tools:

1. Flood them with slop PRs to make the maintainers give up

2. Flood them with money to implement AI features (like Mozilla)

@inthehands Bruce Schneier said something similar, but his reasoning wasn't about the quotas:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/digital-threat-modeling-under-authoritarianism.html

Dear web site: If your date picker widget is more clunky and annoying to use than just typing the date, you're doing it wrong.

@jackwilliambell @Mushroot @pluralistic

This is one of the problematic outcomes of enshitification: I can no longer pay money for services that I want, because I know that someday they'll change the service in a way that harms me.

I can't bring myself to pay for anything because I can't trust any company with my identity or payment info.

@inthehands There's something similar with video games. Demanding to install anti-cheat software that scans your harddrive and kills processes it doesn't like.

Realtors are a massive security hole in our banking system.

If your company has a requirement for senior engineers to mentor juniors before they're able to get a promotion, then there's probably a swarm of seniors swimming around the juniors like sharks, until they can pounce and inflict their "mentoring" on those poor souls.