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Coworker shared an interesting web site with us on Slack today and, wow, if it isn't an example of modern #web #enshitification
All I think of when on the internet these days is #Enshitification
The Enshittification of American Power
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.
https://www.wired.com/story/enshittification-of-american-power/
Finally got around to starting Black Mirror season 7.
Episode 1 is a very disturbing extrapolation of where Enshitification is headed.
Now that the #LitPhoto app has turned itself into by registration only use, any suggestions for an open access, non-data stealing app to compress photos?
Google Photos doesn't offer this basic process.
“[E]ven if an L.L.M. was trained exclusively on the best peer-reviewed science, it would still be capable only of generating plausible output, and “plausible” is not necessarily the same as ‘true.’ And now A.I.-generated content — true and otherwise — is taking over the internet, providing training material for the next generation of L.L.M.s, a sludge-generating machine feeding on its own sludge” writes Zeynep Tufekci.
The folks at X say don’t worry, they’re on it.
The New York TimesThe whole capitalist infrastructure is designed for corporations to fully exploit profitability to the most extreme possible result. Sure, we can blame capitalism, which is a useless activity. In fact, it’s a harmful stance because blaming capitalism artificially puts solutions out of reach.
Within this capitalist system we are stuck with, can you blame the corporate enshitifiers? Again, same problem. Doing so puts the solution out of reach as corporations who work for their shareholders (not you) laugh all the way to bank.
It’s our fault. We have control and we squander it. You don’t have to solve CAPTCHA puzzles. You don’t have to switch to the clearnet every time a website blocks Tor. You don’t have to send a message to a GAFAM recipient. It’s because spineless pushovers fail to stand up for themselves and solve CAPTCHAs, tolerate cookie walls, and do whatever dance the corps force on us. We need more people to get a constitution and stop licking boots.
Corporations are doing their job (profiting). We are not doing our job. As consumers, it is OUR job to reject the garbage and ensure that we don’t make enshitification profitable.
Dismiss. FO!
Let me guess, In a year it'll be 'upgrade your subscription to keep access to your online ONLY files'.
I repeat, local storage is comically cheap. You are a backup and syncing tool, nothing more. Go away.
NO! Hardrive space is comically cheap. I want you as a backup not a critical resource. GTFOH!
#Enshitification #Dropbox #MustGetAroundToFindingAnAlternativeNonBigTechService
@Le_M_Poireau @MedBel je fais partie des irréductibles qui achéte encore des cds... je refuse spotify depuis le début. Mais le streaming a tué le systéme. Je comprends que mes enfants et connaissances ne fasse que ca. Ca va être très difficile de faire marche arriére. Le service va se dégrader, va coûter de plus en plus cher, on le sait, le processus est bien décrit. Pas d'humeur positive ce matin, désolé. #enshitification #spotify #music #libertariens
Enshitification (noun): Synonym for end-stage capitaiism. #end #capitalism #enshitification
I'm not going to throw out my #Garmin (i've had one from the very first) but this is yet another example of a kind of #enshitification, this time to support #MAHA. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/wearables-and-wellness-populism-how-smart-watches-got-mahad/
Here's my watch telling me to try harder.Fifteen years…
Science-Based MedicineWell you gotta choose/support with your wallet.
E.g. Kobo ebook readers allow you to even circumvent the sign up process and sideload a third party ebook reader (in my case #Koreader) which performs better and has better functionality.
I think there will always be a market for people that want non-smart devices. But I think when it comes to cars it's pretty bad in this regard.
I have the luxury of not needing a car, but the #enshitification is pretty bad, I reckon.
Und deshalb ist #KI #AI mit ihrem unvermeidlichen #SLOP so ein wunderbares Tool für die Radikalen. Die #Enshitification findet statt und hilft unlautere Absichten zu verbergen, Fake News sind da nur ein Beispiel. Und das Rad dreht sich immer schneller. Selbst ChatGPT selbst schlägt ein KI-Moratorium vor. Fragt es mal. /6
Another company lost to AI. Wanted to order toilet paper from a brand that claims to be social and sustainable.
Well, they changed their entire support system to AI.
I had an issue with their Googel (bad enough...) address completion during the order. It claimed my address was invalid. So, I reached out to support and received a response from an AI bot which, unsurprisingly, wasn't helpful at all.
Just off a #PhoneCall about an important matter. (Funding.)
The quality of the audio was so poor.
Syllables and words often smearing.
Seems to happen quite frequently, but far from "all the time".
I'm thinking the algorithims they're using to shrink the bandwidth of the audio signals are not suitable for the environment they're being used in.
#Enshitification
#PhoneCallAudioQuality
#PhoneAudio
#AudioQuality
#ConsumingIn2025
Ach guck, wird ja immer besser: Zum Übermitteln der benötigten Medikamentennamen und -dosis bei einer Rezeptanfrage ist das Kontaktieren von Facebook und der Google Tag Manager als Drittanbieter natürlich unerlässlich
Aber klar: Terminvergabe, Rezeptanfragen etc., die jahrelang problemlos per Mail gingen, die muss man 2025 natürlich an so einen Abschnorcheldienst outsourcen, weil: Macht man ja jetzt so.
Schöne neue Datenwelt.