Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

ToroidalBoat said:
That is really, really, really, very shortsighted. What if the internet goes down? What about those who cannot afford internet? It also reminds me of the laundry rooms at an apartment complex I used to be at: IIRC a "smartphone" "app" was needed to pay to use the machines. What's wrong with the older coin-operated way that doesn't need internet?

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Oh the internet goes down regularly cause the provider is trash.

TAX: The new Substack UI is terrible and looks to mimic social media sites.
 
Señora Airi said:
TAX: The new Substack UI is terrible and looks to mimic social media sites.
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People don't even know how to install WordPress anymore.....

There have never been more resources on how to get a $5 VPS and a domain or the 1 billon shared hosting providers with cPanel or whatever to have your own site, but nope, that's too difficult for the nu-Internet niggercattle. It really is over isn't it.
 
888Flux said:
People don't even know how to install WordPress anymore.....

There have never been more resources on how to get a $5 VPS and a domain or the 1 billon shared hosting providers with cPanel or whatever to have your own site, but nope, that's too difficult for the nu-Internet niggercattle. It really is over isn't it.
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"Nu-internet niggercattle" people taking the path of least resistance to their long term detriment has been an issue for the whole of human history, its not a particularly novel problem that most people just choose to aggregate to general hosting sites instead of making their own. Most people also tend to have little of value to actually say so I don't even consider it that extreme of an issue.

Tax: Captchas are still genuine humiliation rituals, the guys behind the new retarded ai ones and especially the ones who made the github rock captcha should spend an eternity being splayed out over burning coals and getting constantly poked by molten iron rods
 
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Tremolo said:
people taking the path of least resistance to their long term detriment has been an issue for the whole of human history, its not a particularly novel problem
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It's always been like that so why change it?
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Is the line of thinking that leads to hell on earth.

The more things become centralized the easier it is for a corporation to undermine the concept of ownership itself to make easy money fucking you over. This is one of the drivers behind why everything on the Internet today sucks.

I'm also going to object to whether or not it's really "easier" to just sign up for a Substack versus a 10 minute WordPress install. Most of the time, people think one action is easier than the other, despite both having the same time or skill requirement.

Both actions require nothing but sitting down at a computer.

ToroidalBoat said:
Apple seemingly leads the way in.
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which just makes me sad. There was once a time where mobile software had a distinct visual identity
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888Flux said:
distinct visual identity
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What's ironic is that something like DOS or plain green text on a black screen could have more "character" than Current Year "smartphone" "apps" and website design. At least to me the former is less boring to look at than that Clown World design of flat buttons, soy fonts, "globohomo art", flat icons that look like boring custom characters, etc.

ToroidalBoat said:
Can the average "Zoomer" figure out how to use this OS?

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ToroidalBoat said:
What's ironic is that something like DOS or plain green text on a black screen could have more "character" than Current Year "smartphone" "apps" and website design.
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You can somehow be more expressive with 16 bit color and box drawing characters then you can with whatever flavor of the week frontend that soydevs use on the web.
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888Flux said:
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I disliked this eras visuals. Better than the modern situation where the moment I step onto a corpo website I feel like a mix between cattle and a toddler, but still did not like it.
 
HRT Heisenberg said:
I don't care if I'm late on this, as you probably know YouTube has AI generated auto dubbing on videos now. That's already the most depressingly retarded shit imaginable but if I'm logged on or on the app then I can turn it off. But did you know if you are in a country whose primary language is not English and you view an English video without logging in it will set you to an AI voice for a different language and you cannot turn off auto dubbing without logging in.

Companies serve us AI wherever it is not needed all the time for reasons I can't comprehend which is enough to make someone MATI. But leave it to YouTube to shove AI down your throat that you cannot remove without playing along with their rules. That is enough to make me want to fedpost to any company who does this.
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An update to this, today I ran into an English video on YouTube that auto translated and auto dubbed TO ENGLISH. That's right, even when your account is set to English and watch English videos there's no escaping the AI voices. The only way for me to explain these changes is that YouTube has decided we don't watch enough AI slop so YouTube has decided to take genuine videos and replace the audio track with AI.

Imagine you click on a real video where someone speaks over visual content, but because YouTube has changed the track to AI you now click away from genuine content assuming it's slop.
 
Goddamn, the only thing i use shorts content is quirky recipies and 99% of it cant be paused on Mobile and some creators are so gorilla niggered that they dont even have any external links to a written down version of it.
 
"Stupid AI Responses..." - Gurtyo

Oh yeah and like I said, an AI "answer" can be copied from a Reddit thread.

ToroidalBoat said:
One example of an AI-generated "answer" not working right was when I searched for the length of the Planet Express ship from Futurama. That AI "answer" got it from a way-off guess (~80 meters or yards long) from a Reddit thread. Also in that same thread, there is a more correct estimate (based on a screenshot from the show): ~30 meters or yards.
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888Flux said:
Is the line of thinking that leads to hell on earth.

The more things become centralized the easier it is for a corporation to undermine the concept of ownership itself to make easy money fucking you over. This is one of the drivers behind why everything on the Internet today sucks.

I'm also going to object to whether or not it's really "easier" to just sign up for a Substack versus a 10 minute WordPress install. Most of the time, people think one action is easier than the other, despite both having the same time or skill requirement.

Both actions require nothing but sitting down at a computer.


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The old realism UIs did look better. They changed them because they want people to forget that there ever was anything physical that was used for what this app is used for before apps were invented. It psychological conditioning to destroy people's connection to the past and to their history. It's all very 1984.

When ever I read messages on websites I know are written by poojeets, like "you've already submitted feedback" or "get $10 when you use the mobile app" I read it in a poojeet accent in my mind. Only the poojeet could automate groveling.
 
stares at error messages said:
It psychological conditioning to destroy people's connection to the past and to their history.
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Anyone old enough to remember that world before Current Year can still recall and prefer physical media, but "Generation Alpha" kids and maybe even younger "Zoomers" -- born too young to really recall the world before "apps" -- may be able to be duped into thinking that "streaming" or "the cloud" was how it always is. I doubt I would enjoy being so young that I cannot recall the world before "social media", let alone before the internet really went mainstream... sorta like how I look back on time before electricity.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Anyone old enough to remember that world before Current Year can still recall and prefer physical media, but "Generation Alpha" kids and maybe even younger "Zoomers" -- born too young to really recall the world before "apps" -- may be able to be duped into thinking that "streaming" or "the cloud" was how it always is. I doubt I would enjoy being so young that I cannot recall the world before "social media", let alone before the internet really went mainstream... sorta like how I look back on time before electricity.
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I'd hate white gas lanterns and having to go to bed when it's dark.:feels:
 
I really enjoy how every other video on the Internet now seems to be a vertical video in 240p with some ungodly aspect ratio where its just a fucking rectangle but vertical. On anything other than a goycattle digital Skinner box (smartphone) it looks like total dogshit. Really awesome stuff.

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Don't call it a grave. It's the future you chose
 
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