I really don’t think this qualifies as enshittification. There’s no evidence they’ve taken funding or have any shareholders they need to appease. They also only increased prices and have not moved the paid/free boundaries in any way.

I think it’s much more likely this is a side project that simply doesn’t pay for itself well enough, and the alternative would be shutting it down. If people aren’t happy with that, it’s totally reasonable to just cancel.

I have a feeling the “especially for the amount you do” is an important factor here.

Everyone knows that ultrasonic cleaners are great

Mate, wtf is an ultrasonic cleaner?

Edit: this is a rhetorical question, I’ll read the article.

Orgs commonly need idp, fuck managing ssh key auth for hundreds of engineers.

This isn’t aimed at individuals or self-hosters, though you can if you find it interesting enough.

Fuck me, tell me someone else has risen to effective project lead since then?

I didn’t see anything about a backdoor at the link.

Provide steps to replicate or we’ll assume you’re just bad at technology.

Amazon spent 20 years being unprofitable on purpose. You think they don’t have long term strategies?

It’s the old bait and switch, they had to have this feature to build initial trust in ebooks.

Many have moved to or added the GitHub registry. It’s still a corporate controlled registry, but Microsoft are far more likely (and able) to eat the cost for developer goodwill.

I’ve got a registry running on my homelab that I haven’t quite moved fully over to yet.

They don’t lose money on users like you.

The US is 4% of the world’s population.

I’m not that conventionally attractive and Bumble worked great for me in my late 30s. People on different platforms are looking for different things. Bumble had its niche and it was very successful there, even if it was not for you like the other apps we’re not for me.

4k works great on most TV devices, that’s where they expect people are consuming it. I think the crux of the complaint is actually that they don’t make any of that clear before you waste money on it.

I can’t tell whether you’re being intentionally ironic. Yes the EU would be up for it. The EU didn’t ban cookies. Putting it simply, you do not need a cookie banner if you aren’t tracking people.

It’s a misogynistic relic of a joke. Enjoy the downvotes.

It’s normal if you accept it. You do not have to accept it. There’s also a good chance that it’s illegal in Spotify’s case, if not in the US then likely in Europe.

It’s literally common practice to refer to the person who wrote some code as the author of it.

The protected title for Medical Doctors is Doctor of Medicine. I can get a PHd in Software Engineering and call myself Doctor.

There are separate titles for accredited engineers in the US and UK. If anyone cared enough they’d already be using them. The fact is, vanishingly few software engineers work on high risk (to human life) projects. Versus, for example, structural engineers doing it daily.