This isn’t just personal sites. Large blogs (Gawker), whole news sites (Vice), and other content no longer exist, because cynical corporate parasites bought them out. Newspapers that exist from before the internet era are arguably better archived on microfilm, Google Books etc, than today’s news. The Internet Archive and other sites exist, but they are nonprofit and can’t keep up with the sheer scale of content being pulled down. Also strongly disagree with your assertion that some sites don’t need to be saved. The whole point of archiving is that we often can’t judge what is important to future generations

Gemini soon to be rebranded Allo Assistant All Access Chat

That’s the rationale Google uses. “We’re the best, that’s why users pick us.” They built a moat of investment in search and the browser that other companies can’t compete with. But as a consumer, I am not willing to accept that argument. Ma Bell claimed the same thing. We’re a lot better off economically in a world where Ma Bell was broken up, and Microsoft was forced to stop their anticompetitive activities. Google will be better off as separate companies, worth more than the sum of its parts

If there were multiple sources of traffic, the pressure to optimize to one source would be lower, and the disruption caused by algorithm changes would be muted. Which would mean more interesting content less driven by a narrow set of metrics

It’s an example of why monopolies are harmful. They create distorted economies that don’t serve consumers. Like ecosystems overcome by a monoculture, monopolies are inherently less resilient, less functional and prone to sudden disruption.

Link to mirror original article, now also struck down from waybackmachine: https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/Appin_Uncensored

Yeah, these services don’t have to add much friction to trap vulnerable folks like the elderly. Obscure the cancel button under a couple menu levels and dark patterns and they have people trapped for life. It can be very insidious

Sigh, I wish there was a better repost notification. Maybe the third party app I use is the issue

Newsasfacts.com

Techmeme.com

Memeorandum.com

Metafilter.com

But mostly I’ve started just monitoring dozens of RSS feeds with the Feeder RSS app (android)

I found it worked pretty well, seemed to understand my interests pretty well after a couple days, when I usually don’t feel that way, having tried many many similar apps. The chrome web view wasn’t ideal, but I use pihole which helped :)

Unfortunately, many people don’t consider them :( Getting a vaccine is not just for ourselves. It’s an investment in civilization.

Yes, the immunocompromised people are relying on the herd for protection, and the morons are letting them down

If only they were islands to themselves and didn’t take innocent people down with them in pursuit of their Darwin Awards

The anti-vaccine movement has been fighting their pro-disease fight for decades now

My mom has lymphoma. She gets extremely sick from even minor colds. I am very worried about losing her to an infection, and the thought that it could be a vaccine-preventable infection fills me with rage

Apple Fitness has logged either one skydive or 2000 flights of stairs

It’s only if you want to find it that it’s hard to find. You have to pretend you don’t care either way.

Twilio is under a lot of pressure from shareholders eager for more profit (CEO was just pushed out), so I figure this is just the start of a long wave of enshittification. I switched to Authenticator Pro (Android), which is much better in every way. Can backup between devices, has WearOS support, and a proper dark mode. I’d use bitwarden, but I hesitate to keep my TOTP keys in same place as my passwords

But no comment on whether his dad read it to him when he was a kid

Kind of wild how this guy feels entitled to have people pay him