Should they be more or less difficult, though? Really basic coding seems easier to me than remembering an endless soup of hotkeys I’ll rarely need.

I think it was supposed to be an insult to everything lower, but the easy-weak quadrant doesn’t deserve that.

Man, anything would be better than swipe apps. I’d use that.

They’re a thing mainly because an “app designed to be deleted” is not a good way to make money. Almost all the big sites have switched over to swiping for that reason.

While I think the basic idea of deliberately introducing friction is interesting, I’d say the philosophers cited are making what’s really a psychology statement, and so exceeding their qualifications, which irks me. The essay itself is philosophy, at least in the “design philosophy” sense.

If you are designing friction in, how do you go about it without turning away users? BeReal is the first successful-ish example that comes to mind. Forcing you to post at an inconvenient time is arguably friction-y, but people sign up in that case because the friction is experienced socially all at once, and it’s a statement against the atmosphere conventional social media creates. For more practical tools that might be hard to replicate.

Enshittification goes brrrr.

So just another layer of suck on an already completely compromised machine, I guess.

It sounds like there’s no way to patch it once it’s the exploit has been used on a machine, though, so until one goes out it’s open season.

So basically Reddit wants to be OnlyFans?

Altruistic. ALTRUISTIC.

Usually 1984 comparisons are whack, but this is some “Ministry of Love/Peace/Truth” shit where you coat all the terrible things you do with a glurgy layer of ultra-positivity.

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Is this a reference to something I’m not aware of?

Thank you!

TIL. I had tried to understand it a bit, but felt lost pretty fast, and then eventually found out that’s because it’s huge. Is there a good intro to the basic instructions you’re aware of?

By “play act the compiler” I mean a fairly elaborate system of written notes that significantly exceeds the size of the actual program. Like, it’s no wonder they started thinking about building machine compilers at that stage.

I wouldn’t be able to write Rollercoaster Tycoon in assembly because keeping track of all that code in assembly files must be hell, but people pretending like you need to be some kind of wizard to write assembly code are exaggerating.

Well, they’ve got a point for the bigger machine codes. Just the barebones specification for x86 is a doorstopper IIRC.

From what I’ve heard, writing big stuff in assembly comes down to play-acting the compiler yourself on paper, essentially.

Which target did you use? Having to learn even a fraction of modern x86 would be ridiculous, but SPARC or something could be good to know, just to reduce the “magic box” effect.

Man, wouldn’t that be nice. There’s too much money in appearing on searches for me to ever expect that to happen, though.

Subscription-based hardware should be illegal.

If you’re renting something, you rent it and give it back to be rented out again if you stop paying. There is no common good argument for this remote sabotage bullshit.

Reborrow then, haha.

Hmm. They can’t evict you by app, can they?

Somebody should make this hurt for them.

300 pages of terms of service where i agree to be a human centipede

Oh my god, that’s exactly what it’s like. I’m borrowing that one.

It could also be just what it “feels like”, based on the measurement method of “made it the fuck up”.