It’s not that “excellent.” It’s just ‘for the evulz’ mustache-twirling comical villainy, which ends up downplaying what’s actually important to know about enshittification, which is how self-serving and abusive it is. When companies enshittify products and services, they’re not just making them worse; they’re specifically making them more exploitative.

A lot of the examples shown in the video – cutting holes in socks, sawing off a chair leg so it wobbles, drying out a marker, etc. – are not enshittification. Enshittification is stuff like putting spyware in devices so that you double-dip on the purchase price and the value of the data, or turning products (as opposed to services) into a subscription. Stuff that extracts unearned value from the customer.

It touches on it in the latter part of the video, but for the most part misses the mark.

Turn that metal grating into a front rack/basket.

Aye

On a jabberchat I run

A what?

What tree is larger by some other measure? Pando, I guess?

That’s typically one of the warrants. In addition to vehicle, bicycle, and pedestrian volumes, other warrants include things like vehicle approach speed, sight distance, and crash statistics.

The city ultimately determined the intersection did not meet the required traffic volume for additional stop signs

For the record, this is 100% a lie. Every single warrant document (list of criteria) used by an engineer will have two magic words written at the bottom of the list:

“Engineering judgement.”

That means there is no such thing as a “required traffic volume” for a stop sign or any other kind of signal or marking. If the engineer, in his professional judgement, agrees that one is warranted, it’s warranted.

Engineers who hide behind things like warrants, pretending their hands are tied by them, are cowards and aren’t doing their jobs properly.

The city engineer who refused to approve the stop sign didn’t want to approve it because he cared more about drivers’ convenience than he did children’s safety, but was too chickenshit to tell it to the dad’s face.

That’s a pretty old cat.

Currently the community is mostly viewed as just ‘free’ and ‘open-source’ tech standards pushed by corporates. They have inadvertently ‘polluted the well’ of what FOSS/open-source was, and reduced the unwritten ideals to just meaning ‘free’.

Yeah, “inadvertently.” Because trying to rebrand “Free Software” to “Open Source” was entirely an accident.

Why not ask the guy he was replying to, who was aggressive first?

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By definition, no. Legitimate women’s healthcare providers don’t call themselves “crisis pregnancy centers.” Instead, they use other labels, ranging from “family planning” to “abortion clinic.”

That’s not enough. Just like with systemd, you will be made to care about what the corporatist Microsoft-garglers at Red Hat do, whether you use it or not.

Ah, I just love how laws against anticompetitive business practices have basically been totally flushed down the toilet worldwide, don’t you?

They already were, but that doesn’t mean they’re getting paid back.

It would be nice if Lemmy’s markdown were better documented so that it could be properly standardized across clients. There’s this, which is what you get if you click on “formatting help” in the web UI comment editor, but it’s incomplete.

In Lemmy Markdown, you have to put carats around each individual word ^{check "view source" to see} .

all so that old grudges can be settled renewed

FTFY

The blurb in the post is doing the union dirty because it cuts off one sentence too soon.

After the largest Co-op member uprising in REI’s history, REI’s new CEO, Mary Beth Laughton, “promised to return the Co-op to its roots.”

She lied.

Then use Keepass, which is literally just a local app.