Enshittification

This is a worthwhile read and an interesting and perhaps important perspective: Tiktok’s enshittification. Don’t let the title fool you, the article is about a more general phenomena than relates to Tiktok. I came across the enshittification article today while reading How To Make the Least-Worst Mastodon Threads and about Jedi Blue.

Cory Doctorow writes some interesting stuff, like this: Como Is Infosec: Content moderation is a security problem.

And I learned about fisking, which sounds more risqué than it is. Sounds like what we’ve been doing since forever on usenet.

Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic

I read Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic and found this interesting quote:

“They weren’t called ‘controls’ originally. Alan was going to call them ‘waldos’, named after remote manipulator arms. I couldn’t make sense out of that name, so I called them ‘gizmos’. Microsoft must have thought this name was too frivolous, so they renamed them ‘controls’.”