Glyphe

@glyphe
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Here's to all the open source developers who put hours and hours of their lives into a project they built, put it out into the world, and now it sits with approximately zero users.

Thank you for putting labor into the world to try and help others, even if it's never been recognized.

Brag about your project here if you'd like!

Edit: if you saw this earlier, come back and check out all the cool projects people have shown off since!

Before midnight you'll be visited by 3 ghosts

#retro #retrocomputing #unix

"The short version is that YouTube used AI to 'enhance' the videos of Rick Beato and Rhett Shull. YouTube used an AI smoothing filter that made the videos look like they were AI generated, and didn’t tell Beato, Shull, or their viewers that they were doing it. They only admitted to it after the two made videos proving it happened, later claiming it was only a 'limited test'.”

@joshsjunkdrawer, 2025

https://joshgriffiths.site/youtube-is-awful-im-not-posting-there-anymore/

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#YouTube #MOLE #AI #enshittification

YouTube is Awful. I'm Not Posting There Anymore.

I’ve made YouTube videos for ten years, but I can’t do it anymore. I can no longer tolerate the abhorrent things YouTube and Google have gotten up to in the ...

Josh Griffiths

My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words.

I cannot search three words in quotes.

Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.

And now we have condescending mollycoddled shit.

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

#retrocomputing

my one brain cell under load