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Rewild-the-web-sideblog - We GOTTA Get The Internet Back!! - Tumblr Blog
thank god anything at all useful is being torn down and made illegal so that the computer can just be a box you turn on to watch ads for fake phone games
What always gets me the most is like staff doesn’t seem to ever give a warning like. Hey this thing you’re doing or this content you’re posting is worthy of termination. Stop doing that and delete those posts or we’ll terminate your blog. They just decide when someone deserves to get erased from the internet and immediately do so
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The fact that if someone posts a link to a tumblr post in a reply I cannot navigate to it using the tumblr app highlights the reason I hate apps replacing websites.
There’s nowhere in the tumblr app to enter a URL—your only option is to search up a user name and then try to find the post manually
If you copy-paste the link to a web browser like Firefox you get a login-prompt doorslam as soon as you scroll, even if you’re logged into the app.
You cannot easily click on a button from the webpage to load the post in the app
Even copy-pasting the URL is a PITA because the iOS tumblr app doesn’t actually let you select a portion of the text of a reply, only copy the whole thing to the clipboard.
I really hate the way apps break basic interface functionality that’s been standard for decades across different web browsers, to deliver content that is fundamentally just a webpage. @staff please fix this very annoying UI issue at least
theres bikes around the city you can rent but you have to use an app that needs your drivers license. theres buses that drive right to your destination, but if you dont have change you need the app. you can wash your car here if you sign into the app. you can go to the bathroom here you just have to unlock it with the app that needs your location on. you can order at this restaurant if you scan the code and download the app. im losing my freaking mind
For anyone who uses the bird app for any reason:
Text from Tweet by '@easybakedoven:
"Twitter just activated a setting by default for everyone that gives them the right to use your data to train grok. They never announced it. You can disable this using the web but it's hidden. You can't disable using the mobile app
Direct link: https://x.com/settings/grok_settings"
Additional screenshot of grok settings option with checkbox from tweet reads:
"Data Sharing
Allow your posts as well as your interactions, inputs, and results with Grok to be used for training and fine-tuning
To continuously improve your experience, we may utilize your X posts as well as your user interactions, inputs and results with Grok for training and fine-tuning purposes. This also means that your interactions, inputs, and results may also be shared with our service provider xAI for these purposes. Learn more
Delete conversation history"
It feels like @staff and @humans have really lost the thread on what tumblr actually is, because tumblr is theoretically not a social media site
Back in ye olden days having your own personal blog with like blogspot was all the rage, it was clunky to find other blogs since they were entire other websites AND THATS WHAT TUMBLR IS
Tumblr is a hub that lets you look at all the new content from your blogs in one place, that’s why it’s so different fundamentally from what I’ll call the MySpace model of social media, that’s why I think redditors as forum users fit into the ecosystem so much faster than twitter people, because Reddit is tumblr but for forums instead of blogs
Trying to make tumblr look and or function like twitter, a fundamentally different product, will just end up making people leave en masse like we did in late 2018 to find greener pastures, and especially pastures that don’t roll out updates in vague corporate speak and with no specific prior notice (because staffs recent post was worded towards shareholders and not Us)
No matter how you slice it, this whole incident today is going to cause some pretty significant changes in the tech world.
1) More people are now acutely aware of the dangers of monopolies and near-monopolies - Crowdstrike Falcon was not the ONLY security suite used on an enterprise level, but the fact that it had so much of the global market share...well, if it didn't, this certainly wouldn't have happened
2) Crowdstrike is fucking hosed. They may be able to restructure majorly and continue existing as a company, but this revealed MULTIPLE major flaws in their business structure; SEVERAL people are getting VERY fired just to start TRYING to save the whole operation:
Okay, sure, someone could write a bad update. That happens. People make typos in their code, they slip up and make fatal redundancies or miss spots, whatever. Shit happens. But...
That's what QA exists for. An error this severe and immediate? Now everyone can deduce with just the slightest bit of effort that Crowdstrike does not test their software updates before pushing them. Yikes.
And they didn't even stagger the update to make sure it worked as intended at scale - they sent it out to everyone, then packed up and left for the weekend. More understandable than NOT TESTING AT ALL - people who know business better than they know tech (i.e., most of the people paying the bill for this software) might very well demand they not have even an HOUR delay in getting the latest update because it's TOTALLY safer that way right? - but even if that is the reason, that's really something that should be pushed back on for exactly this reason
3) The number of critical things that ground to a screeching halt because people have decided we don't NEED low-tech backup protocols to keep shit from stores to HOSPITALS running anymore is uhhhh...terrifying. Look, I have been a tech nerd for as long as I've been alive, and if there is one thing that was drilled into me from a very young age, it is that anything that would be worse than severely inconvenient if it fucks up should have a computer failure protocol as robust and comprehensive as a Waffle House, and yet here we're seeing people locked out of healthcare work because someone misplaced their BitLocker key and no one can boot their computers to safe mode to delete a file? Yeah, terrifying.
It's absolutely wild to me how much of a Major Historic Event this one shitty software update has the potential to be. Let's try and get some positive changes done because of it.
no i don't want to use your ai assistant. no i don't want your ai search results. no i don't want your ai summary of reviews. no i don't want your ai feature in my social media search bar (???). no i don't want ai to do my work for me in adobe. no i don't want ai to write my paper. no i don't want ai to make my art. no i don't want ai to edit my pictures. no i don't want ai to learn my shopping habits. no i don't want ai to analyze my data. i don't want it i don't want it i don't want it i don't fucking want it i am going to go feral and eat my own teeth stop itttt
Be the change
Microsoft systems update fucked up multiple computers worldwide... It's a good day to be a hater.
I saw the "AD BLOCK IS NOT ALLOWED ON YOUTUBE" popup on YouTube only for it to immediately disappear within a half second. I felt like a lady being shielded by the great knight sir Firefox from a terrible bowmans arrow.
the death of dvds is so fucked. what about bonus features
While exploring the evolving search habits of Americans, we discovered a surprising trend: Over 2 in 5 have used TikTok as a search engine. Consumers most often turned to TikTok to search for new recipes, but they also frequently searched for new music, DIY tips, and fashion advice. This shift was particularly pronounced among younger generations, with 64% of Gen Zers and 49% of millennials saying they’ve used TikTok as a search engine. Gen Zers were also 29% more likely than millennials to scour TikTok for new recipes. And even more striking, nearly 1 in 10 Gen Zers preferred TikTok over traditional giants like Google for their search needs. Another surprising find was the new chatbot on the block, ChatGPT. Over 1 in 10 consumers turned to ChatGPT to search for information, with 1 in 20 going as far as asking it for personal finance advice.
https://www.adobe.com/express/learn/blog/using-tiktok-as-a-search-engine
(Study conducted by Adobe, with 808 consumers, no data provided, and no information on how the consumers were selected)
Girls, if you listen to music on your phone, please use Musicolet, it has so many features and is so easy to use, yes it is mp3 files instead of streaming but that just means you can listen offline and won't lose access to your songs ever
Do we seriously have to skip both ads on YouTube now. Like we press skip on the first then we have to wait five more seconds to press skip on the second. Are you actually fucking kidding me
there needs to be so much more legislation when it comes to advertising, especially mobile adverts which are 99% lies and often predatory.
yesterday for April Fool’s my workplace had a short training article on recognizing computer-generated faces from real ones and one of the tricks mentioned was “count the teeth” and I just wanted to say that it’s both ironic and kind of horrifying how society has unwittingly cycled right back to IF YE MEET A MAN ON THE ROAD, COUNT HIS FINGERS LEST YE DEAL UNKNOWING WITH A FAE
very great coverage of stalkerware use by government workers in australia, im very happy to have worked with crikey to make this reporting possible!
