It is amazing how many companies are enshittifying their business to death.

Piss off customers, demand more money.

#Money #Insanity #Enshittification

Oh look! It's Monday.

ArsTechnica: HP printers stop working with HP toner due to update

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/firmware-update-bricks-hp-printers-makes-them-unable-to-use-hp-cartridges/

#printers #enshittification

Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges

HP already has a reputation for breaking printers with updates.

^{Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)}

hey help me out, is it good or bad that ai garbage has persuaded thousands of ppl to show up at an IRL location at least twice in the last three months?

#ai #capitalism #latecapitalism #surveillance #enshittification #aislop

Thousands duped by hoax firework display ‘created by AI’

Crowds gathered in Birmingham for a non-existent event that had been falsely reported on blogs

^{Constance Kampfner (The Times)}

Problem with that is (besides occasional bugfixes), most people including myself would see #curl to be functionally complete and anything "nice to have" would be considered not worth the balooning in #complexity and #size.

• I mean, does curl need to be able to do #BitTorrent (magnet:), #IPFS (ipfs://) or god forbid #blockchain (i.e. #EVM) support?
• Do you really want to integrate @torproject / #Tor support natively into curl when using #HTTP (localhost:8118) and #SOCKS5 (localhost:9050) #proxy allows for the same and doesn't necessitate having to handle and ingest Tor arguments as well??

In fact if #toybox didn't have a #wget implementation that I could use for OS/1337 I would've merely chosen tiny-curl -o as a global alias or if #tinycurl wasn't an option, curl -o instead.

• Maybe someone who wants to have said functionality like tor support built-in will go and IDK make i.e. #[url=https://infosec.space/tags/neocurl]neocurl[/url] or sth. along those lines or build something like #[url=https://infosec.space/tags/ethcurl]ethcurl[/url] or #[url=https://infosec.space/tags/tor]tor[/url]curlor #[url=https://infosec.space/tags/ipfs]ipfs[/url]curl or whatever...

That being said I am glad curl isn't solely maintained by you but has other contributors (give them a shoutout!) but I also am glad you maintain that vital software that most "#TechIlliterate #Normies" most likely never heard of but propably use on a daily basis as part of all the #tech they use to #consume media with...

• I consider curl to be "the #vim of downloaders" (tho that's kinda insulting and limiting since curl is more than just a downloader and more intuitive than vim) with wget being "the #vi of downloaders" (tho wget is even simpler to use than vi)...

Either way, curl is awesome...

#OS1337 #Enshittification #Bloat #Bloatware

Set aliases globally for all users

I have certain paths, which are too long to type, so I need to wrap all those in one script as alias and source that script to my existing package code. These should set alias permanently over that

^{Stack Overflow}

OK the latest in enshittification is that I sent an e-mail last week with an attachment, and the whole mail was silently dropped.

No indication whatsoever that it was not sent. Sits in my sent items folder, nobody got it.

#enshittification #microsoft #office365 #outlook