I've spent more than three hours on Mailchimp's tech support chat today. Ironically this was because they're "improving" their services and some of the legacy functions, which I need, are no longer working as intended. However, the new improved services are slow and clunky and not working properly either.
#enshittification
See tagged statuses in the local Rambling Readers community
don’t own a car, so i can’t imagine the hell i’d probably have to go thru to find and buy an un-enshittified one. i often think, if i were to buy a car without spyware and with the least amount of plastic parts, how old would it have to be? am guesstimating, at least 20 years old?
https://www.wired.com/story/why-car-brands-are-finally-switching-back-to-buttons/
Microsoft Confirms You Cannot Cancel New Windows 11 24H2 Update
It includes Recall and sends your files and data to their cloud storage in Redmond
#Microsoft #Windows #windows11 #ai #enshittification #surveillance #privacy #tech
Omg, the comments! Luis, read the goddamned comments! (and then backpedal)
The fucked thing is that (just like with all the other companies doing this) there'll be a backlash, they'll do it anyway, people will forget, their business will have more problems for the remaining employees to handle, and people will get used to paying the same or more for a worse product.
https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers
I'm sorry, Dave, I can't let you do that.
Maybe there isn't A Tipping Point, but several. Like milestones on the long road to freedom. I've just reached one.
If you'd like to remove DuckDuckGo's AI features from a search, and get pre-slop results, try this:
(replace %s with your search term)
It disables all the AI features and it limits the search from 1/1/2001 to the end of 2021, right before ChatGPT came online and the slop began.
I know this means later info isn't searched, but it's getting harder these days to find new content.
TIL: Whatever #ebooks or documents you put on a #Kindle, they're being indexed & uploaded automatically to the #Amazon server if the device has an internet connection. Just found out with an unpublished #manuscript that someone wanted to read on their Kindle and it ended up on the Amazon server, although it was put onto the Kindle manually via cable. Whatever you do with Amazon devices, you're adding everything to Amazon's data collection. #Enshittification #AuthorRights #IntellectualProperty
today is officially *THREE* weeks until the submission deadline for Good Internet magazine!
Good Internet launches in May 2025. it's a volunteer-run, not-for-profit print and digital quarterly magazine for personal website owners and those interested in using the internet as a means of self-expression, art, and recreation.
🔍 we're looking for 1,500-4,000 word articles about anything related to that!
you could write about:
* #internet history
* personal #websites
* #accessibility on the #indieweb
* finding inspiration for a #blog
* #webdesign trends
* running from the #enshittification of the #web
* lessons or post-mortems from #webdev projects
* news or overviews of #opensource projects
if it relates to hobbies on "this side of the web," whether you call it the #smallweb or indieweb, we probably want to run it!
you can have your article as low-media (meaning only …
today is officially *THREE* weeks until the submission deadline for Good Internet magazine!
Good Internet launches in May 2025. it's a volunteer-run, not-for-profit print and digital quarterly magazine for personal website owners and those interested in using the internet as a means of self-expression, art, and recreation.
🔍 we're looking for 1,500-4,000 word articles about anything related to that!
you could write about:
* #internet history
* personal #websites
* #accessibility on the #indieweb
* finding inspiration for a #blog
* #webdesign trends
* running from the #enshittification of the #web
* lessons or post-mortems from #webdev projects
* news or overviews of #opensource projects
if it relates to hobbies on "this side of the web," whether you call it the #smallweb or indieweb, we probably want to run it!
you can have your article as low-media (meaning only text and images) or interactive, where you code an entire webpage to help tell your story.
if you're interested in learning more, you can sign up for our email list for when we launch or you can check the submission guidelines @ https://goodinternetmagazine.com!
(please boost if you can! <3)
#JamesBond was pretty much the only franchise I actually followed. In between the 'splosions and the f*cking there was some reasonably intelligent storytelling going on, y'know? Now it's gonna be all product placement and sh*t. He's probably gonna be driving a Cybertruck. F*** that! 🤣 #Enshittification #Culture #Cinema https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mn9gz5x3mo
"Your #iCloud storage is full" LOL Nice try #Apple 🍎 💰 🤣 #Tech #Enshittification #Capitalism
The security bugfix iOS release 18.3.1 "fixes" the very useful bug in Apple Intelligence that stops it working if the AI language is different from the system language—and re-enables Apple Intelligence.
This is #enshittification in action, at Apple. (I turned AI off because DO NOT WANT, EVER, PERIOD.)
"The web is now hostile to people trying to browse it. Visiting a website has gone from one click to a chore of checkboxes and close buttons."
A brief history of how the web has been turned to shit...
@pluralistic offers the most cohesive, timely, and listenable survey of the current state of tech, its historic context, and the most proximate opportunities for resolution.
