Well, at least the first few minutes before they had to break for recess.

PiHole can break some funtionality for your main computers. This is especially sensitive if you work from home. You can opt for PiHole on your PC via manual IP setting but many IoT devices only use DHCP.

We had a few Roku left, but now we are going to finish our.transition to Nvidia Shields.

You can add libraries to pihole that focus on blocking tracking urls, so you can easily expand the functionality beyond ad serving URLs.

1. Install a PiHole.
2. Create a guest wifi (most current routers allow you to do this)
3. Configure PiHole as DNS server on guest WiFi DHCP
4. Add all IoT devices including Roku and SmartTVs to guest WiFi

If I wanna look good and not be bummy,
Xi, you better give me that money!

Hey, Inari, baby Xi’s got your money
Don’t you worry, Xi said hey.
Baby Xi’s got your money.

If you are going to cooy and paste, copy and paste the entire thing.

Enshittification, also known as platform decay, is a process in which two-sided 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 both users and business customers to maximize short-term profits for shareholders.

Examples:

Academic publishing

Between 2016 and 2022 the turn over and profit margins of academic publishers increased partly due to article processing charges from open access. This has been accompanied by predatory publishers who prioritize profit over scholarly integrity. This Academic enshittification results in a scholarly system that is “overwhelmed by quantity, distorted by profit motives, and is stripped of its purpose of advancing knowledge.”

Amazon

In Doctorow’s original post, he discussed the practices of Amazon. The online retailer began by attracting users with goods sold below cost and (with an Amazon Prime subscription) free shipping. Once its user base was solidified, more sellers began to sell their products through Amazon. Finally, Amazon began to add fees to increase profits. In 2023, over 45% of the sale price of items went to Amazon in the form of various fees. Doctorow described advertisement within Amazon as a payola scheme in which sellers bid against one another for search-ranking preference, and said that the first five pages of a search for “cat beds” were half advertisements.

Dating apps

The market for dating apps has been cited as an example of enshittification due to the conflict between the dating apps’ ostensible goal of matchmaking, and their operators’ desire to convert users to the paid version of the app and retain them as paying users indefinitely by keeping them single, creating a perverse incentive that leads performance to decline over time as efforts at monetization begin to dominate.

“Chat, the billionaires are acting super sus while hungry New Yorkers are in need of a carry. So let’s flip the script. Spend your Bezos bucks here and you’ll help the needy. Let’s goooo!!!”

It’s always a scam. It’s always a grift. Always.

Join us in the “snip snip” club.

If you want a Cybertruck, you want the all-wheel version a vasectomy.

Please don’t reproduce.

LOL, I have not updated my LinkedIn in about 12 years.

Ideally, higher quality audio circuitry.

“Well, the plague didn’t work. I guess I’ll try raining hell fire.” – God

Revanced to discover new music, then selfhost what you liked.

Infosec professional for almost 30 years here. I can confirm that the latest iterations of AI models are finding high quality bugs and vulnerabilities in the code we work with. If Daniel has access to Mythos, I suspect his experience would be even more shocking.

The problem I have is that the AI tools can find bugs faster than they can be patched, which is eventually going to prompt companies to use AI to patch bugs found by AI. Before long, no living being will be able to make heads or tails out of the code we run. Just my 2¢.