Youtube, twitter, and reddit have obviously been in the news a lot recently, but every day business applications also seem to just keep getting worse. Got new PCs at work which means version updates, and pretty much everything we use (autocad, adobe acrobat, and ms office, mainly) all seem to run much slower, despite the computers having substantially higher specs. Love that I can't use any old versions or alternatives because they refuse to grant me admin access.

I love capitalist innovation! Why make things better when you could just make them worse and charge more?

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I used to think the NERPs (New Exciting Retail Products) riots in Shadowrun were hyperbole and just a funny feature of the fiction, but if anything they underestimated how violent and fanatical consumers can get in terminal stage capitalism.

    I remember the bad old days on Reddit when we "Found the boston bombers" or utterly ruined that person with all the plush animals.

    I remember when Shia LeBouf's art project was found almost instantly by chanlord fascists tracking the fucking clouds in the background of a photo so they could vandalize it. yea

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Yeah that was something. There was also some actress who posted nudes and people found out where she was within a few hours by analyzing I believe the plastic covers for the power sockets on the bathroom wall.