I was just texting with someone on my Motorola Android phone, and my text prediction started going absolutely wild: mostly with curse words, obscure emojis, and porn terms which have never been typed into this thing at all. I opened up a new message to test it again and it seemed to have reverted back to normal. What the fuck was that!? Has anyone else seen something like this? #enshittification
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Imagine if a product's user messages were honest....
"This release, that you will eventually have no choice but to install, contains a shiny looking new thing that you certainly won't use but is designed to distract you from the removal of two rather popular interoperability features. The new install size is still much larger because we fired the lead developer who was standing in the way of us bloating the code with humongous and brittle third party libraries"
"We messed up (again!) and the software we supplied for you has a pretty crazy security vulnerability that puts your personal data at rush. This is due to its unnecessary over-complexity and our desperate need to rush things to market as quickly as possible"
"Congratulations on being part of our success. We now enjoy a large enough market share to begin "the squeeze". Customers looking to postpone (temporarily) the imminent and continuing service deterioration are requested to join our premium tier"
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#selfhosted #selfhosting #opensource
Self-hosting brings that feeling back. Solid software, built by real humans, tended to like a garden, engages with the community. What a breath of fresh air when I compare it to a lot of the websites and apps that are complete slop, tweaked for SEO, tweaked to encourage monitization, etc etc basically the #enshittification of the web.
"If you click on a link in a Bluesky post, it is now automatically redirected via the domain go.bsky.app before it actually goes to the link in the post. There is no way to stop this..."
Turn that shit off, @bsky.app
#spyware #BigBrother #enshittification
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Average 2025 search misresponse. A dogbox isn't exactly an unheard of part, DDG. I just want to know if my bike is synchronous (therefore not great to clutchless shift) or asynchronous (fine to CL shift). I would rather not have to replace synchros if I don't have to.
#motorcycles #enshittification
Mastodon is the old Twitter. What do I mean by that? Well, sit down at your mobile device, lad, and I'll tell you a story. Once upon a time…
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/social-media-2/2023/11/mastodon-is-the-old-twitter
Garmin met fin à l’ère du tout gratuit pour son application sportive - Les Numériques
https://www.lesnumeriques.com/montre-connectee/garmin-met-fin-a-l-ere-du-tout-gratuit-pour-son-application-sportive-n234845.html
La merdification de Garmin Connect est en route 
Tous les marqueurs sont là : ajout d'IA, badges exclusifs pour favoriser les abonnés, ...
#garmin #enshittification
Les Numériques · Garmin met fin à l’ère du tout gratuit pour son application sportive
The tech bros' (and other companies') corruption and collusion with governments is the beginning of #fascism. This looks to be a great example of #Enshittification at its finest, with Meta's shareholders taking legal action against the company.
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/meta-delaware-musk-zuckerberg-litigation/
jacobin.comMeta Helped Write a Delaware Law Protecting Mark ZuckerbergThis week, Delaware passed a bill that would shield tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk from litigation. Zuckerberg’s company, Meta, helped write the law.
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What strikes me, is that its not #Perplexity that is so good, but rather the search engines undergo #enshittification.
Crap. Got a Garmin bike computer for Christmas and now they look to be going full #Enshittification . Sigh.
So much for my plans to get a Garmin watch when my current fitness tracker stops working:
TechRadar · Furious Garmin users revolt over new subscription service – "We need to take a firm stand"
Sigh. Now even #garmin has entered the #enshittification race with their "AI" addon.
I hope it remains an addon, that everything we have now stays free.
Now that #Garmin has introduced a subscription service for watches, I expect that in the future you will have to look at the ads on the watch before you start #running or #walking. #enshittification
#Servicetoot
Deaktivieren der KI-Übersicht bei der Googlesuche:
entweder 'fuck' oder besser noch '&udm=14' als URL-Parameter hinzufügen (weil sich damit die Suchergebnisse nicht verfälschen).
Einfach eine eigene Suchmaschine definieren mit dem Suchstring: google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14
t3n Magazin · Schimpf dich frei: Die überraschende Lösung gegen Googles KI-Zusammenfassungen
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@heiseonline Entschuldigung, aber ist es eine gute Idee, mehr Menschen in den Amazon-walled-Garden zu schicken, wo sie direkt in die Abhängigkeit kommen? Mag ja sein, dass es da ein hübsches Tool gibt, aber das alleoine ist kein Grund, sich von einem US-Unternehmen abhängig zu machen. Sagt den Menschen doch wenigstens, wie sie plattformübergreifend frei publizieren. #publishingwide #Selfpublishing #Amazon #ChokepointCapitalism #Enshittification
Ffs members only YouTube is now a thing? I’m learning a new software and an heavy cited channel put almost everything behind a paywall. The cited links aren’t broken but inaccessible.
People talk about the #enshittification of the internet as a novelty, but in fact all communication technologies of the 20th century, telegraph, telephone, radio, television started with utopic promises for a "better world" but quickly degenerated.
Searching for a mode of communication that has managed to resist that dynamic takes us back to a profound invention that survives against all odds: the printed book.
What was so resilient about it and can it be replicated in the digital era?
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#Garmin has introduced a subscription service for watches. #running #walking #enshittification