it was smaller than Lemmy is now when I first started using it.

so now we know whom to blame for its enshittification

wait till you hear about white and black boards.

employees of companies with whom you’ve registered that email id sell it for some quick cash on the side.

i can aver this confidently since i know someone from dominos pizza has leaked my email id. i have a convoluted gmail id which i use to register to all these services and – because it’s gmail – i can set up random dots and a custom phrase behind a + to register specific variants to specific companies (e.g., abcxyz123@gmail vs. ab.c.xyz123+dominos@gmail).

all the spam and pseudo-phishing email is sent only to the variant which i’ve registered to dominos and not to a different variant (e.g., a.bcxyz123+bankname@gmail) registered to any other company.

the leaked email id doesn’t contain a name and is too random for it to just be “guessed” by the spammers.

obligatory QI clip about this.

what colour, my friend with the quick fingers on the left hand, is rust?

fairly appropriate username for the programming language in question.

it could be a feature to be added to their prime subscription?

conjecture: maybe autocorrect once got hold of “bugger” and things kind of evolved from there?

so you’re saying it’s a shire waste?

scanning a random qr code has to be this generation’s plugging in an unknown usb drive.

whatever you do with your life, friend, please don’t go into diagnostic medicine as a career.

if there’s a road accident and both riders are dutch, do they share the blame equally?

say what you will, but online gambling being the most blocked category is heartening to hear.

so did you “bare” this in mind, then?

the core benefit was in adoption. it was easy to get parents, for example, saying that they jist have to bother with one app for all of their messaging.

the minute they have to contend with sms and signal, they don’t mind adding whatsapp in the mix as well.

is it better to try it right after install or should it be left to age a little, first?

would it be about control? a fantasy about having access to a modernised version of a slave who is bound to do the protagonist’s oft-perverted bidding with reduced rights of their own?

this is so my life it’s not funny. i’ve even quit binge-drinking without realising it.

i can’t afford 5-atar treatment anymore but i wake up every morning so much more at peace which, one can argue, is the best luxury of all.

in this part of the world, we are blessed with stray dogs who are also protected by our supreme court. it’s quite literally against the law, for example, to prohibit the feeding of strays by animal lovers.

i once saw one of them shudder and whine at the sound of fireworks. its tail scrunched under and it pissed itself in fear and confusion. its plaintive moans were drowned out by the incessant blasts of the “mala” crackers (a literal garland of 10,000 or so crackers strung out in sequence that goes on bursting for an hour or so). the poor thing just did not know what was happening and it became a shivering ball of anxiety until the blasts stopped.

anyone who sees an innocent animal suffer like that will never, ever, want to light a firecracker again.

we’ve found the early bird.