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Julie Webgirl<p>Read this carefully: </p><p>“As we continue to expand Alexa’s capabilities with generative AI features that rely on the processing power of Amazon’s secure cloud, we have decided to no longer support this feature.”</p><p>That processing power ain't free folks. There's a reason they used to pawn that part off on the user: $$$$</p><p>Now they're willing to pay for it?</p><p>They WILL get a return on that investment.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infosec</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FuckBezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckBezos</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-march-28/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/everything-you</span><span class="invisible">-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-march-28/</span></a></p>
Phillip :usa_distress:<p>The modern internet is unusable. </p><p><a href="https://social.lol/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a></p>
Klongeiger<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> never stopped using RSS, though realizing YouTube channels also have RSS feeds was enlightening. </p><p>However, and a new low, whenever I want to actually watch the video in my feed reader, I get those obnoxious "Sign in to confirm you are not a bot. This helps to protect our community" messages. Helps to keep up your business model of exploiting people’s data, more like. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> at its finest: take a good thing (automatic RSS feeds) and then make them next to useless.</p>
Tommi Nieminen<p>Looks like <a href="https://mastodontti.fi/tags/Bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bluesky</span></a> <a href="https://mastodontti.fi/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> has now started: the so-called <a href="https://mastodontti.fi/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> is crawling its way in. <a href="https://mastodontti.fi/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodontti.fi/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a><br><a href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/17/0434237/bluesky-proposes-new-standard-for-when-scraping-data-for-ai-training" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/</span><span class="invisible">17/0434237/bluesky-proposes-new-standard-for-when-scraping-data-for-ai-training</span></a></p>
Metin Seven 🎨<p>𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒆𝒃</p><p><a href="https://garry.net/posts/the-death-of-the-web" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">garry.net/posts/the-death-of-t</span><span class="invisible">he-web</span></a></p><p><a href="https://graphics.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/WorldWideWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldWideWeb</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/future" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>future</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/commercial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commercial</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/1990s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1990s</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/apps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apps</span></a></p>
Jose J. Fernández<p>Did you ever want a computer mouse that respects your <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/RightToRepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightToRepair</span></a>? A mouse that didn't force you to buy a new one, just because a switch failed?</p><p>Meet Ploopy: <a href="https://ploopy.co/mouse/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ploopy.co/mouse/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>A fully open source, open hardware, repairable, <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/DYI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DYI</span></a> friendly, <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sustainability</span></a> friendly, printable computer mouse made by 2 guys in Canada, that costs up to CAD$ 140, roughly 90 €.</p><p>Meet its authors:<br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@PKL" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>PKL</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@pronk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pronk</span></a></span> </p><p>But this highlights a sad truth: these two guys in a first world country can send you a fully working mouse with so many good things and without the <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> for the same price as multinational megacorpos that manufacture cheaply in Asia, even though most likely, the cost-per-unit is at least an order of magnitude higher for Plooply than for the shitty-build mice in the market.</p>
Zot Nobot 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nixCraft</span></a></span> I don't, and I won't. The more they try to shove shit like that down my throat, the more I'll resist. </p><p>Games, which I have never ever ever ever played on Netflix, take the whole screen when I start the app now, and of course I can't hide it.</p><p>The same crap made me cancel my Spotify subscription when they did that with Podcasts.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a></p>
Sheridan<p>Wow. I upgraded Windows and now Microsoft is shoving ads on my desktop.</p><p>Fuck this, I'm switching to BeOS. </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/windows95" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows95</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/win95" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>win95</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/win9x" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>win9x</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a></p>
Don Bellenger - Nurturepunk<p>PSA! Today's the last day to leave a comment on the regime's action plan for AI. If you feel like GenAI is destroying culture while being a dead-end technology that devours our ecology and transfers wealth upwards, then head over here and let them know about it!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/02/public-comment-invited-on-artificial-intelligence-action-plan/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">whitehouse.gov/briefings-state</span><span class="invisible">ments/2025/02/public-comment-invited-on-artificial-intelligence-action-plan/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email</span></a></p>
David<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@LeftistLawyer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>LeftistLawyer</span></a></span> “Neoliberal” is one of too many examples of leftists and other progressives tending to be strategically self-defeating in our choice of labels for concepts. The misunderstanding of the term would have been entirely foreseeable and mostly avoidable, had the people coining the term (or later people coining a synonym) taken a moment to consider the perspective of the unpersuaded audience: particularly in light of non-vocational post-secondary education being, in most countries (certainly including the US), a class privilege. </p><p>In other words: it’s one of many examples where we really should’ve taken a lesson from capitalist marketers in branding. Condsider, as a counterexample, the term from leftist <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a>. There is roughly zero chance uninformed readers or listeners will mistake that for labelling anything good, or anything about themselves.</p>
Jon Snow<p>The Google Assistant era is over; Gemini is coming to your phone whether you like it or not</p><p>Before the end of 2025, Google will stop offering Assistant on devices capable of using Gemini, making the switch mandatory</p><p><a href="https://www.androidauthority.com/google-killing-assistant-3535315/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">androidauthority.com/google-ki</span><span class="invisible">lling-assistant-3535315/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Gemini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gemini</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>android</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a></p>
賢進ジェンナ<p><a href="https://pdx.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> is <a href="https://pdx.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> .</p><p><a href="https://pdx.social/tags/PSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PSA</span></a></p>
Misinformation-Superhighwayman<p>Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28<br><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">3/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/</span></a><br> <br>Amazon's latest bait-and-switch is shockingly bad. If you have Amazon Echo devices, say goodbye to privacy in your own home. Soon you'll be forced into a subscription where you pay for them to record everything you say and feed it to Amazon's Alexa LLM / AI training.</p><p>There's never been a better time to switch to private, secure, on-premises home automation and voice assistants such as Home Assistant.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AmazonEcho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmazonEcho</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Alexa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alexa</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HomeAssistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HomeAssistant</span></a></p>
Tarraccas<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Adobe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Adobe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Acrobat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Acrobat</span></a> pukes up a bunch of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> prompts when I'm just trying to do a simple text search now under the auspices of being somehow helpful. When what would actually be helpful is doing what I command and getting out of my way like a good tool, like Acrobat did 10 years ago no problem.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/noAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>noAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a></p>
Jon Snow<p>PSA: Amazon Alexa discontinuing Do Not Send Voice Recordings</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amazon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/alexa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alexa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/personaldata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personaldata</span></a></p>
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@existentialcomics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>existentialcomics</span></a></span> is existentialing hard today.</p><p><a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/oof" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OOF</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/latestage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LateStage</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/crapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/averyboringdystopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aVeryBoringDystopia</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a></p>
☕💻🌨️<p>TIL that Blu-ray discs use encryption as DRM protection so if you want to watch your Blu-ray collection in the future, you may need a key.</p><p>...and those might legitimately not be available if those encryption keys are privately owned or if that Webservice just goes down or whatever tf... </p><p>Idk how I just learned this but I'm fucking furious. The <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> is never ending. Even physical media is useless.</p>
Shantell Powell<p>Have you noticed that apps and tech companies all seem to have adopted the ✨ emoji to advertise their enshittification? Sparkling plagiarism. Sparkling ecological destruction. Sparkle sparkle. <a href="https://c.im/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a></p>
Toni Aittoniemi<p>OpenAI predicting profitability.. In the next decade!</p><p>If you set all the money OpenAI is vacuuming up on fire, at least it would keep you warm!</p><p>There is no <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> race, just an attempt to control the narrative to form a monopoly to charge rent from everybody.</p><p>They’ll keep borrowing money on big promises they’ll never deliver to sustain an unprofitable business.</p><p>Just like Big Tech has done since 2010.<br><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a></p>
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar<p>Google translate, which I use a lot, despite Google*, seems to have gotten infected with "AI" of late. It's very noticable how much shittier it got even for simple phrases.</p><p>Todays gibberish includes:</p><p>"select the declaration Buddha"<br>"We decorate for understanding"</p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/GoogleTranslate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleTranslate</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a></p><p>* Nobody else seems to have a functioning API that works with Crow translate and speaks Lithuanian</p>