spankmonkey
@spankmonkey@lemmy.world
Also known as snooggums on midwest.social and kbin.social.
- Comment on Discord plans to roll out third-party ads on its mobile apps, starting with a mobile pilot for Video Quests, video ads that let users earn rewards, in June 2025. 5 days ago:
user-first, reward-focused advertising experiences
I just threw up in my mouth.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 6 days ago:
Stop gAsLiGhTiNg me!
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 6 days ago:
People use terms wrong all the time and ruin the nuance. Like calling all lying gaslighting.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 6 days ago:
The same way drowning can be used to describe all types of suffocation, sure. As long as you absolutely ignore context, words can mean anything!
Making things worse, making them stop functioning, and making them overly restrictive are three different things.
Enshittification: making online products and services worse over time to serve business interests.
Planned obsolescence is making things stop working after a period of time, not just making them worse.
I don’t know what the term is for HP printers not allowing third party ink to work or not letting a scanner in a combo printer/scanner work without ink but that also isn’t something getting worse or stopping due to an arbitrarily short end of life. Those are overly restrictive design decisions, which is different than enshittification because the printer sucked from the day it was purchased.
- Comment on Trump plan to fund Musk’s Starlink over fiber called “betrayal” of rural US 6 days ago:
Voter disenfranchisement is a significant portion of that, where the difficulty of voting or inability to vote because of voter purges, having the ability to vote denied because of felonies, and other barriers exist too.
Plus polling was fairly close so roughly half would have voted for Trump if they were forced to vote.
Not to mention the high chance that the election was actually rigged this time with all the election deniers put into positions of power, the fact that Republicans love to project what they are going to do on the opposition before they do it, and Trump bragging about Musk being able to rig voting machines (which is probably a baseless boast, but shows his willingness to cheat).
Blame the people who voted for Trump. They are the real problem.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 6 days ago:
Originally coined it was meant to describe online software that started out useful and frequently free, then run into the ground when it came time to monetize it.
Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is the term used to describe the pattern in which online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.
Just because people atarted using it to mean ‘stuff gets shitty’ doesn’t change the original meaning.
- Comment on Trump plan to fund Musk’s Starlink over fiber called “betrayal” of rural US 1 week ago:
I did vote against the orange turd and it is still happening.
- Comment on Surprisingly, Valve rated Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced and Rainbow Six Siege as Steam Deck Playable 1 week ago:
Sounds like there needs to be a separate indicator of whether it is playable online.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 1 week ago:
Owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks running Roku OS
The article clearly states
Owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks running Roku OS
It IS affecting tvs with roku built in.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 1 week ago:
Enshittification was coined for online services, which includes roku, but doesn’t apply to all products.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 1 week ago:
What? This is reported to be happening on both sticks and tv versions of the rolu app.
- Comment on Email signatures are harming the planet and could cost people their lives — it’s time to stop using them. 1 week ago:
The results showed that in Canada, where about 15 per cent of people include gender pronouns in emails, the resulting carbon emissions from this small change (three extra words) may contribute to the premature deaths of one person a year, according to the 1,000-ton rule.
This a comedy piece, right?
- Comment on A court has rejected Elon Musk's request for a temporary injunction against OpenAI, OpenAI says Elon Musk "is finding out, facts matter - especially in court". 1 week ago:
Openai saying facts matter is pretty fucking funny.
- Comment on All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets 1 week ago:
On top of the tech not working as promised, it has been continuously enshittified in the interest of selling more and more crap. Alexa used to answer questions asked, which was a cute novelty, but now she tries to sell something or rambles on at length about related topics instead of answering the question and shutting up. I’m sure that was the starting goal, but it means something that was mildly convenient is now tedious and annoying to use because it has reached the monetization phase.
Not to mention all of the ridiculous filters on top of the seemingly less accurate results over time. It could be that I use it rarely enough that the decline is more obvious, or that I mainly remember the wrong results, but even if it credits the source there is often missing context. Like the meme about John Backflip being the first person to do a backflip or the glue on pizza being from reddit misses the context that they were posted in a joke subs.
- Comment on Google changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 1 month ago:
So fucking petty and stupid.
- Comment on A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 1 month ago:
I guess there are no checks and balances that apply?
- Comment on Trump says new US sovereign wealth fund could purchase TikTok 1 month ago:
Malicious socialism.
- Comment on Library 1 month ago:
Racing game, FPS, arcade style fighting game. I trade off which of the three I’m playin.
This also explains how I’m only ok at all three!
- Comment on Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. 1 month ago:
It is fucking freedom fries all pver again.
- Comment on Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. 1 month ago:
As a US citizen I want it left as the Gulf of Mexico.
- Comment on Almost a third of developers think generative AI is a negative for the games industry, says new survey 1 month ago:
Games and movies have already used algorithms for background crowds and hair movement, AI would just be a continuation of that kind of thing. One reason to be against it for that purpose is because of the concern of how it will be implemented, since those old algorithms were seen as a tool for professionals to use instead of something to replace those same professionals.
The main concern with generative AI is the ‘replace your workforce’ mentality that is associated with it.
- Comment on Politics content to be pushed on all Instagram and Threads users 2 months ago:
Full on propaganda machine, and as usual they blame ‘most users’ for what they force on all the users.
- Comment on Hermen Hulst: Sony Will Continue To Make Live Service Titles, As They Are “Learning” From Helldivers 2 2 months ago:
Sony is most likely learning all the wrong things from HD2. For future projects I forsee the normal trends:
- They willl force PSN requirements ip front (already in progress)
- Benefits of monetization will most likely be dialed up.
- Content releases will be spread over time, but not for in game reasons or to allow time for fixing QA issues like with HD2.
- Crossover with other media will be a mix of overpriced ceap with a small numbef of freebees because they don’t understand the free stuff was in response to fucking up in the first place.
- Sony will most likely think that a buggy release is fine because people put up with it.
- Comment on Promoted by influencers, this popular browser extension has been a scam all along 2 months ago:
A paypal extension promoted by voluntary shills is a scam?
Say it ain’t so!
- Comment on Large language models continue to be unreliable concerning elections 2 months ago:
And everything else.
People who love jerking off to AI probably wouldn’t care if their calculators were ‘close enough’. Or if their bank statement balance looked likely to be true.
- Comment on Google Ads Testing Showing Same Ad From Same Advertiser On Same Search Results Page 2 months ago:
Policies for thee, but not for me!
- Comment on Helldivers 2's first licensed crossover is also Killzone's official debut on PC, sort of 2 months ago:
eeeeewwwwwww
- Comment on The Witcher IV revealed with Ciri as the protagonist 3 months ago:
She also wasn’t replacing an established male lead character, she was her own thing.
A large world like the Witcher switching protagonists should be the a good setting for switching up a lead character.
- Comment on Character.AI has retrained its chatbots to stop chatting up teens 3 months ago:
The teen LLM is designed to place “more conservative” limits on how bots can respond, “particularly when it comes to romantic content.”
Here comes the consensual BSDM model.
- Comment on First big Marvel Rivals patch makes Doctor Strange less of a monster 3 months ago:
Good articles don’t assign homework!
No, I’m not going to share pictures. You’ll have to google that filth yourself.