Software Defined Talk

Episode 451: How does anyone use the Internet?

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This week, we discuss what “enshittification” is, what causes it, and whether it can be prevented. Plus, stay tuned until the end to hear the Software Defined Talk origin story.

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Runner-up Titles
  • Enshittification
  • The Fahrenheit 451 Reorganization
  • Wait for Wifi
  • Taxes by beef rib
  • It’s actually not fine
  • Smoking crack in Disneyland
  • AI is accelerating the crappiness.
  • Why don’t you just sell more cloud?
  • Generated Garbage
  • I can’t tell if it’s a coffee mug or a ballistic missile.
  • Accidentally upgraded
  • Jury duty…”pretty cool.”
    • Rundown
    • Airalo for mobile cell phones plans when traveling.
    • How Google perfected the web
    • AdNauseam - Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To
    • Subprime Attention Crisis
    • 2023 Word of the Year Is “Enshittification”
    • Instagram’s co-founders are shutting down their Artifact news app
    • Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find
      • Relevant to your Interests
      • Tens of thousands of GPUs go under-utilized in the cloud
      • Creating a Sales Commission Plan
      • The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams - Waxy.org
      • Nutanix set to benefit most from Broadcom's VMware upheaval
      • VMware is killing off 56 products amid "tectonic" infrastructure shift
      • Taming the dragon - Chinese and US Semiconductor competition
      • ‘I dreamed of blocky pixels’: the strange, sweaty, sociable early days of gaming – in pictures
      • Lofree Flow — Keyboard Review via Tim Bray
      • Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home
      • IBM Consulting orders a return to office - and means it
      • Apple Dials Back Car’s Self-Driving Features and Delays Launch to 2028
      • Introducing Docker Build Cloud
      • It's time to build
      • "And we call it... the Vision Pro holster. We think you're going to love it."
      • For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything
      • Campfire is ONCE #1
      • Lessons learned: 1,000 days of distributed at Atlassian - Work Life by Atlassian
      • Bosses want to work from home more than employees do, says new survey—but they're still pushing RTO requirements
      • Nvidia, a $1 trillion AI powerhouse, is fine with remote work
      • Why constant job cuts could be the new normal for Big Tech
      • Culture Change at Google
      • Frustrated Googlers are speaking out on the corporate dysfunction
      • Bell Labs & Google: bookends of the same sad story?
      • Mourning Google
        • Nonsense
        • We lost some real stars this past year
        • Startups Are Shutting Down!
        • It’s Just a Water Bottle
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                • Recommendations
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                • Matt: Perplexity.AI
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