HN commenter nails it:

Any thoughts on the aspect of tool like this being, gosh, I don’t know else to say it except evil?

To some extent, you’ve sanitized the business of ruining people’s lives. This is the meat grinder. YOU as its creator don’t fear it because it’s your pet basilisk.

But make no mistake, your pet is a killer monster the only real purpose of which is to but a rubber stamp on every kind of bias while removing accountability for doing violence to real people’s lives. If you get rich with this, at least now you can’t say nobody told you where the money was coming from.

Think about it. What would you say if it made a mistake and ruined your life? “We’re sorry, the AI says you’re not allowed to have credit anymore.” “We’re sorry, you met the criteria to be targeted for extermination by a drone.” “We’re sorry, the AI scored you 8/10 on the deport-with-no-due-process chart, so off to no-rights terrorist prison.”

You’d care if it was you, but the fact is that you won’t have any way of knowing when your client uses your product to ruin or even end a life. A counter won’t tick up by one. You’ll just be there thinking “another happy customer.” Now that’s vom-inducing.

Great, so you agree with OP, who was criticizing people who are:

posting about it, praising it, giving it free advertisement, and what not

From HN comments, a link to the non-video writeup: https://www.thestockpot.net/videos/whykmart

As The Fucking Article says:

humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence. Word-of-mouth and community networks worked just fine. First-party websites and online communities would now improve on that

1. Because USians are so terrorized about losing their jobs (and losing housing, food, medical care, education), have such nonexistent or useless unions, and almost no legal protections from termination, that they’ll do close to anything their boss tells them.

2. Lifetimes of propaganda has taught everyone that “organizing” is something only done by commies / criminals / fools, and the only legitimate way to change society is to carry on stoically, individually doing what capitalism demands of them while waiting for a charismatic politician / business leader / media celebrity to pop up and nudge things along the inevitable, barely perceptible, slope of forward progress.

3. The “just following orders” excuse worked out pretty great for the majority of Nazis the first time (rare overrepresented examples notwithstanding), why would it not again?

I saw it was from Microsoft and bailed before it even loaded… the only thing those clowns know about open source is how to try (and fail) to kill it

this is an amazing study in how to go carefully, point-by-point, through something, and refute none of it.

any Firefox fork, while we wait for Servo to be ready

I think you might be 180° missing the point of the meme

switching to a browser engine developed by a literal advertising company seems like a weird protest against advertising

servo is the only one I know of

if you’re in one of the areas it covers, Offi is pretty solid Offi https://f-droid.org/packages/de.schildbach.oeffi/

Citymapper is also not bad but the coverage is v limited and it’s not open source

if you think that a videogame with a gay character is “promotion of homosexuality” and “grooming”, but you don’t think the same about a videogame with a hetero character, then I would ask you why, and why you think that isn’t textbook homophobia.

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I’m --><-- close to just deleting OARS completely

Don’t threaten us with a good time Hughsie

the definition of enshittification is absolutely about money, it doesn’t just mean “making things worse”

https://mastoreader.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frecurse.social%2F%40dylnuge%2F112224580867240812

yeah with this much effort folks could set up a jellyfin server and an entire piracy stack jfc

last time I checked, IMAP/SMTP required not only a paid account, but running Protonmail’s proprietary bridge app

protonmail is also proprietary.

that said, gmail is surely a terrible recommendation