All enshittification is a shame, but doing it to youtube feels especially bad.

The platform already has a critical mass, to where it was essentially democratized television. If you want to make documentaries, DIY how-to's, or fictional comedies, the answer is the same. Youtube would be the home for any long-form videos requiring working attention spans.

But with the enshittification, not only is the experience worse for viewers as well as creators, but it provides a motive for people to migrate away from the platform.

So what we're going to see will be akin to the transformation from when Netflix was the one stop shop for streaming movies and shows for one low price, versus now where it's just one overpriced service out of many.

This is basically saying "reject humans, become a Google/Microsoft/Anthropic subsidiary!"

Mine doesn't go that high but I am still gonna check it out. Thanks!

I remember reading a while back how 4K resolution is kind of a sweet spot for rendering all the phosphors for a really good CRT simulation.

I do like experimenting with those things sometimes. Just the other day I was showing my son something in Mario World and started playing with the filters. The worst looking ones (composite and god help me, RF) definitely were the most cozy!

It's really great to see one of our politicians answer questions as if they were actually a public servant concerned with the good of the country. I mean, obviously.

But it's equally tragic how unique it is for a politician to answer like that, and how many people in her own party (in addition to 99% of Republicans) will assume it is BS political talking points to suggest that somebody is serving a high profile political position for any reason other than blind personal ambition.

It cuts to ONE OF the roots of the problem. It's just not the "evil gigacorp" problem.

It's the problem of the effect on the user, regardless of how evil or altruistic the AI and its creator are.

I have lamented in a few comments recently about how many people seem to think the purpose of technology is to make it so they don't have to put effort into their life. They don't need to learn, and they don't need to create. They just need the right technology and a good enough bank balance to pay for it.

I'm a tech person but for the last couple years I have made my hobbies and home life as much about nature and life sciences and physically interacting with the outdoors, building shit, taking care of my animals, etc. It has been very very good.

I have so much of that old stuff in bins, and it's really a treat because one of my nephews goes nuts for gaming relics from 10-20 years before he was born.

But funny enough when I want to play an old game, I stick with emulators.I'm old and have limited time, so I ain't afraid to use rewind (save state on steroids) and most of the time I use no visual filters/shaders and go with sharply defined pixels. My 10 year old budding AuDHD videophile self would spend hours tweaking the 2 or 3 picture dials on my shitty old hand-me-down CRT trying to get the yellow blocks in Super Mario World the perfect shade of yellow or see the most detail in my ActRaiser avatar. I am aware that some of that old art was drawn to look more detailed on a CRT than the original clean pixels would look on their own, but I still dig it.

Absolutely.

It's almost funny, like they are going through a checklist to retcon everything they ever said about their opponents to be projection.

Of course, a lot of it was genuine projection because that's how they think.

Plus obviously it's not funny to watch a cult of personality take hold so easily and wreck so much for so many.

When I did my taxes this year it asked if I wanted to open a Trump Account for my kid, so that it would receive any future deposits the government gave out.

It was so disturbing and disgusting to see something that gross in writing in a real-world context.

No fucking thanks.

Better use the self-checkout while you still can!

https://www.gs1us.org/industries-and-insights/by-topic/sunrise-2027

Pfft. I'm in my 40s with an established engineering career and a small home that I've owned for 18 years now.

I am also not paying for any streaming services I can avoid, not buying many games, sailing the high seas, and our cars are like 13/14 years old.

Because shit is crazy, especially being in the US. I am keeping my world small and focusing on my family and my community.

I remember seeing that as an image with text on it ages ago before we started calling those things memes.

The picture was something like generic young bombshell blonde in a swimsuit, I want to say.