@evacide a next revealing example of #enshittification, with especially disgusting proximity to food #iot

#privacy #PSA: If, for whatever reason, you find you need to be on #LinkedIn, then protect your privacy as follows:
1) Go to https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/categories/ads, click through all the individual settings hanging off of that page, and turn them all off.
2) Go to https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-ai-improvement and turn it off.
3) Go to https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/policy-and-academic-research and turn it off.
You may need to repeat this periodically as LinkedIn comes up with new ways to invade your privacy and makes you turn them off individually.
#enshittification

‘Pay to reject’ is a whole new bag of bullshit. #enshittification // @pluralistic

#privacy #PSA: If, for whatever reason, you find you need to be on #LinkedIn, then protect your privacy as follows:
1) Go to https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/categories/ads, click through all the individual settings hanging off of that page, and turn them all off.
2) Go to https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-ai-improvement and turn it off.
3) Go to https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/policy-and-academic-research and turn it off.
You may need to repeat this periodically as LinkedIn comes up with new ways to invade your privacy and makes you turn them off individually.
#enshittification

‘Pay to reject’ is a whole new bag of bullshit. #enshittification // @pluralistic

Proud to be the 1,948th 😎 on #BackerKit for #Enshittification: the DRM-free #audiobook. Thanks @pluralistic - always a pleasure, will back the coming books as well, because while your blog/mast posts are great, the long form is special.

Proud to be the 1,948th 😎 on #BackerKit for #Enshittification: the DRM-free #audiobook. Thanks @pluralistic - always a pleasure, will back the coming books as well, because while your blog/mast posts are great, the long form is special.

enshittification, die:
Qualifizierte und teure EntwicklerInnen durch "vibe coder" ersetzen und dann zusätzlich billige "Vibe Coding Cleanup Specialists" einstellen.
#Lohndumping #enshittification

Google Secretly Handed ICE Data About Pro-Palestine Student Activist

Google handed over Gmail account information to ICE before notifying the student or giving him an opportunity to challenge the subpoena.

https://theintercept.com/2025/09/16/google-facebook-subpoena-ice-students-gaza/

#google #gmail #meta #ice #privacy #surveillance #enshittification #dystopia #technology

Google Secretly Handed ICE Data About Pro-Palestine Student Activist

Google handed over Gmail account information to ICE before notifying the student or giving him an opportunity to challenge the subpoena.

https://theintercept.com/2025/09/16/google-facebook-subpoena-ice-students-gaza/

#google #gmail #meta #ice #privacy #surveillance #enshittification #dystopia #technology

An almost perfect example of @pluralistic’s #Enshittification in action; financially-engineered holding companies with many “competing” brands inserting DRM into the batteries they make to give them an informational advantage in denying your warranty claim. And a missed opportunity to make the battery better by using that on-battery computing to rebalance the cells.

And if reverse engineering a fix wasn’t a felony in the US, this guy could publish a fix that helps consumers.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yoVd1PAlT-Q

An almost perfect example of @pluralistic’s #Enshittification in action; financially-engineered holding companies with many “competing” brands inserting DRM into the batteries they make to give them an informational advantage in denying your warranty claim. And a missed opportunity to make the battery better by using that on-battery computing to rebalance the cells.

And if reverse engineering a fix wasn’t a felony in the US, this guy could publish a fix that helps consumers.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yoVd1PAlT-Q

Jesus fucking Christ! Just write a goddamned article and post it online somewhere. You're notable enough these days to reach an audience that actually gives a shit about what you have to say. This is a fine example of the #Enshittification you claim to hate. Don't fucking spam my timeline with 32 posts that is fundamentally an article you could post elsewhere.

And I didn't read it incidentally.

And you've been unfollowed, but I'm sure you don't give a fuck.

Next month, Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices outside of the EEA region that have the Microsoft 365 desktop client apps, Bleeping Computer writes.

"The Microsoft 365 Copilot app integrates the AI-powered Copilot assistant with Microsoft 365 suite apps, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as other features like Notebooks and AI agents.

"Redmond also advised admins to notify their organizations' helpdesk teams and users before the app is forcibly installed on their devices "to reduce confusion and support requests."

"The rollout will start in early October and be completed by mid-November; however, the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will not be installed on systems within the European Economic Area (EEA)."

The new AI mantra: You want it. You get it. We got what you need. You ain't gotta sweat it; we're gonna make you bleed.

[okay I stole that last bit from Chris Smither]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-force-install-the-microsoft-365-copilot-app-in-october/

Next month, Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices outside of the EEA region that have the Microsoft 365 desktop client apps, Bleeping Computer writes.

"The Microsoft 365 Copilot app integrates the AI-powered Copilot assistant with Microsoft 365 suite apps, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as other features like Notebooks and AI agents.

"Redmond also advised admins to notify their organizations' helpdesk teams and users before the app is forcibly installed on their devices "to reduce confusion and support requests."

"The rollout will start in early October and be completed by mid-November; however, the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will not be installed on systems within the European Economic Area (EEA)."

The new AI mantra: You want it. You get it. We got what you need. You ain't gotta sweat it; we're gonna make you bleed.

[okay I stole that last bit from Chris Smither]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-force-install-the-microsoft-365-copilot-app-in-october/

FFS. Now GritHub won't let me see the text in a text file without running their proprietary JavaScript, eg;

https://github.com/MariaDB/server/blob/main/COPYING

(Using LibreFox on Fedora GNU/Linux)

Why is any Open Source project still using this rapidly enshittifying monstrosity? There are dozens of community-hosted replacements, and if you have the skills or support from someone who does, you've even got the option of hosting your own;

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/List_of_Community-Hosted_Code_Forge_Instances

#GitHub #enshittification

FFS. Now GritHub won't let me see the text in a text file without running their proprietary JavaScript, eg;

https://github.com/MariaDB/server/blob/main/COPYING

(Using LibreFox on Fedora GNU/Linux)

Why is any Open Source project still using this rapidly enshittifying monstrosity? There are dozens of community-hosted replacements, and if you have the skills or support from someone who does, you've even got the option of hosting your own;

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/List_of_Community-Hosted_Code_Forge_Instances

#GitHub #enshittification

An excellent keynote from @span pluralistic on the enshittification of everything, the policy decisions, actions, and inaction that brought us here, and what we can do collectively in solidarity to counteract it.
https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K091225/
#enshittification #tech #policy