“I apparently walked past this yesterday but did not notice due my phone addiction”.
- Comment on post
https://evgrieve.com/2025/04/in-tompkins-square-park-creative.html?m=1
And now, I can’t download docs in the Files app, receiving the warning to enable Cellular for iCloud Drive…which is already on.
What in the hellscape of modern tech is this horseshit? Now I *have* to receive auto-updates from Apple (well known to release broken updates!!) to use Apple Pay on my Mac? Apple has gone nuts.
I am very capable of managing my own devices, thank you.
(27 Apr) Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025)
Today’s links The enshittification of tech jobs: Our last line of defense has fallen. Hey look a...
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/some-animals/
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/7pmre
#ai #big-tech #class-struggle #class-war #enshittification #i-fight-for-the-user #labor #monopoly #precaratization #proletarianization #tech #tech-industry
The point of AI isn't to make workers more productive, it's to make them weaker when they bargain with their bosses. #enshittification
Once again via @pluralistic
So, is #DuckDuckGo now using AI to rewrite preview text for #Wikipedia pages?
If I search e.g. for "Bob Dylan", the preview for WIkipedia on #Google and #Bing is the start of the Wikipedia page.
DDG has replaced it with generic "Learn about ..." text that does not appear in the HTML. The same happens with other searches for prominent people. I haven't explored further.
“Thus, this article marks our [TidBITS] final post to X/Twitter and Facebook. I [Adam Engst] can no longer ethically provide material support to platforms whose leadership so actively undermines civil society.”
A person/publication that understands ethics.
#tidbits #ethics #enshittification
https://tidbits.com/2025/04/25/why-tidbits-will-no-longer-post-to-x-twitter-or-facebook/
My local NBC TV news station is feeding some fake, AI garbage click bait story about Goldie Hawn at the top of their news app. SMDH
The second a platform becomes a viable avenue for advertisement is when it stops being viable for any kind of quality.
Not that AI does a lot good at that, anyway.
Here is how ad agencies are working hard to make sure you see ads in ChatGPT responses
https://www.neowin.net/news/here-is-how-ad-agencies-are-working-hard-to-make-sure-you-see-ads-in-chatgpt-responses/
#chatgpt #enshittification #enshitification #ai #llm #ads
The key differences between #Mastodon and #Bluesky: one is resilient against - nay, resistant to - #enshittification ... the other is ripe for it.
https://phillipjreese.com/the-social-network-that-cant-sell-out-understanding-mastodon-vs-bluesky/
I’ve made a number of films for the Imperial War Museum, and would have killed for some of the current AI tools, for colorising/restoring film.
But beyond that edge case, any potential is being utterly destroyed by the avalanche of fantasy slop that it’s unleashing - poisoning the well of real images. This crap is not being flagged by the shisters at Meta and Google.
Only 2 AI rage post today.
Trying to ration my angst.
Absolutely incredible introduction on why #enshittification by @pluralistic . 
Simply put, I'm going to and to recite this every time people talk why things keep getting worse in tech.
Google, what the fuck is this? 
Why do I have an undismissable notification on my phone?
Why do you want me to pick a search engine app? I already do searches how I want to, using a browser. I don't need nor want to install a dedicated app for this.
Why am I only allowed these choices? Why can't I pick none?
How do you have the nerve to state these apps are listed in a random order, and then give me the same list, in the same order, the three times I loaded it? The order that just so happens to have Google in first place, by the way - how lucky of you.
I don't need your nagging, Google, go away! 
Pewdiepie's message in his latest video is excellent: we don't have to deal with Big Tech's bullshit and Linux and open source is fun and awesome. With his massive audience I'm hopeful that this might become a pivotal moment in the desktop Linux adaptation in the mainstream, especially in the gaming community.
Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge Copilot venture flatlines in popularity
https://www.xda-developers.com/microsofts-huge-venture-flatlines/
Hi followers, help wanted.
I hear fosstodon.org is not a great place to be anymore. And other communities want to defederate from it.
I had no idea what was going on, but I don’t think I want to be here anymore.
Where should I move? I am from #Denmark, and it could for example be a Danish community. I am also into software development (not a brogrammer), generally interested in combating #climatechange and other #collapse aspects as well as tech #enshittification, and quite skeptical of #AI.
You know, Netflix introducing affordable, functional legal streaming pulled me off of pirating - and now #enshittification is sending me right back...
Bosch had a nice feature in its ebike app (Flow): you could lock your bike motor so that it wouldn't start if the display was not in place. The display would then work as a sort of key to your ebike.
I used this feature and loved it.
With the latest update I don't have it anymore. Bosch now says in order to unlock it I need to install an extra module on my bike (around 150 €).
Enshittification is definitely not limited to the tech sector. I'm pissed.
