chaotic evil web development

Holy far-right dogwhistles, Batman!

It was never named Clippy 😉

The rules for this community say:

5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)

Start a new community with a tighter focus, and block this one, if you don’t like it 🤷‍♀️

The VCs know best as usual, it’s important not to ruin the pure perfect possibility of decentralization by actually implementing it

mournfully flipping the counter back to “0” on the “it has been X days since a turbolib said something deeply homophobic” sign

summary of issues with Wikipedia written by a Lemmy developer https://ibis.wiki/article/Announcing_Ibis,[email protected]

you’re right to be sarcastic, better sit back and shut up and wait for the free market to fix it /s

no there is no (good) option that doesn’t involve you signing up for an account. but that seems like a weird requirement; you were willing to sign up for youtube?

the developers of composer are way ahead of you, every time I run composer install I get a blue and yellow “stand with ukraine”…

https://www.healthline.com/ - has a two-click “disable all”, but if you choose it you get a static site with 10 of their articles https://anon.healthline.com/

they could have made their shitty DM system end-to-end encrypt messages by default, instead of burying that feature[0] in chat settings

or, they could have used their MASSIVE wealth and lobbying power to directly fight the warrant in court (if there even was one, they have a long history of just requiring a form ostensibly signed by any cop to turn over private data)

or they could have just lied and said they couldn’t find the data

I don’t disagree that people shouldn’t trust Facebook but saying “they don’t have a choice” is absurd

[0] https://www.facebook.com/help/messenger-app/786613221989782

correction: it was both! fedbook chat also supported xmpp at first, they never federated but you could at least use it with a jabber client. then when they had enough market share they killed it.

fun semi related fact is that whatsapp, at least a couple of years ago, was using modified ejabberd (ie an xmpp server) as the backend - so arguably they helped with EEE too.