Notices by Justin du Coeur (jducoeur@social.coop)

Based on the enemies they're making, Wikipedia is clearly doing something right…
https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113868325221306547

@pluralistic is back with a new novel, firmly anti-enshittified as usual (yay for supporting Libro.fm, which is where I now get most of my audiobooks), about the early days of enshittification: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/picks-and-shovels-marty-hench-at-the-dawn-of-enshittification

Apparently already done, so this looks to be one of the fastest-turnaround Kickstarters I've seen. Check it out!

@nomad2035 @kbsez @cstross I'm a little disappointed that they don't have Orion in that listing yet -- still beta, but I *think* it would score pretty well. (It's been eye-opening using it this past year, and seeing how many sites it blocks by default.)

I've said for some time that I care less about technologies than I do *business plans*. Here's a good example of why: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/30/ai-tools-may-soon-manipulate-peoples-online-decision-making-say-researchers

I don't mind LLMs in principle: they're just a tool. But when the users are being sold to advertisers (especially when the companies are VC-backed), the incentives go way beyond “perverse” -- they become downright inhumane, focused on manipulating, even controlling, the users rather than informing them.

This is, BTW, why I'm such a passionate #Kagi enthusiast. Their technology is good, but their business plan -- subscriptions instead of advertisements, bootstrapped instead of VC-based -- matters way more. It means that they *have* to focus on what's good for their users, not what pleases the current whim of the stock market and the billionaires.

I dearly wish more companies would catch that clue…

Useful, short, informative post from @siderea: https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1822650.html

The title kinda says it all: “#Covid exhalate drops only after 8th day of infection”

So basically: yeah, if you come down with Covid, please keep masking longer than five days. (Which always seemed suspiciously short, but now there is evidence to confirm that it's generally insufficient.)