My small act of #resistance against the #enshittification of the web today has been to use client-side #XSLT for something different that #RSS styling: generating multiple #SVG plots from the same #XML data:
My small act of #resistance against the #enshittification of the web today has been to use client-side #XSLT for something different that #RSS styling: generating multiple #SVG plots from the same #XML data:
One of my #Zebras was acting up at my job,
The reverse before printing did not play well with the paper that was used, Tried google, Gemeni #AI ranted about setting som kinda media format.
(bad word)
I have the #zpl manual, open it in #adobe (pdf),
Ooh nice, we can now log in on the pdf viewer
Tried Ctrl f
Spinnig circle..
Opend the damn pdf in chrome (work computer)
Found the cure
End of story
#enshittification #bigtech
One of my #Zebras was acting up at my job,
The reverse before printing did not play well with the paper that was used, Tried google, Gemeni #AI ranted about setting som kinda media format.
(bad word)
I have the #zpl manual, open it in #adobe (pdf),
Ooh nice, we can now log in on the pdf viewer
Tried Ctrl f
Spinnig circle..
Opend the damn pdf in chrome (work computer)
Found the cure
End of story
#enshittification #bigtech
With #DuckDuckGo being #enshittified, I just randomly decided to see if some ancient search engines are still alive. Sure enough, there are a few throwback engines still going strong.
#Lycos: Alive and well! I don't see much enshittification, it's clean.
#Dogpile: Also seems clean and functional
#Excite: Clean, but has ads in the results.
#enshittification #aislop
Today, Cory Doctorow will explain how countries could be leveraging intellectual property laws to respond to trade tariffs. We'll also discuss the state of #Enshittification and how #AI is threatening the power of tech workers.
https://podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2025/08/04/tariffs-vs-ip-law/
Today, Cory Doctorow will explain how countries could be leveraging intellectual property laws to respond to trade tariffs. We'll also discuss the state of #Enshittification and how #AI is threatening the power of tech workers.
https://podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2025/08/04/tariffs-vs-ip-law/
On Monday I'll be chatting with none other than Cory Doctorow, making this his 6th appearance on the show - and becoming my most-interviewed guest of all time! We'll talk about DRM and tariffs and (of course) #enshittification.
Subscribe here:
https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/podcast/
On Monday I'll be chatting with none other than Cory Doctorow, making this his 6th appearance on the show - and becoming my most-interviewed guest of all time! We'll talk about DRM and tariffs and (of course) #enshittification.
Subscribe here:
https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/podcast/
"No one is coming to save us except us. There is such a thing as #society, and you're a part of it, and so am I, and so are the rest of us.
You can't fight #enshittification. But together, we can."
There is still hope, reading @pluralistic helps a little bit.
I just asked #CoPilot to correct spelling and grammar mistakes and to suggest improvements in an English text.
I looked at the result and could see any changes.
I asked CoPilot to highlight the changes. It did. 11 of them.
I checked again. It turned out 9 of the 11 instances were no changes or corrections (one was a spelling correction, and one was inserting the full name of a person).
This #LLM stuff seems to get worse even for my simple glorious autocomplete task 🤬
"No one is coming to save us except us. There is such a thing as #society, and you're a part of it, and so am I, and so are the rest of us.
You can't fight #enshittification. But together, we can."
There is still hope, reading @pluralistic helps a little bit.
I still have a few Google Nest speakers around, but I hardly ever use the voice assistant. I was talking to my kid about Spider-Man and decided to ask, “How many Spider-Man movies was Andrew Garfield in?” because I forgot the titles, and if there were two or three.
It showed on the screen: “At least 24,” and then told me out loud, “55.”
It turns out he has been in two.
Age verification laws are a trojan horse, endgame is destroying anonymity.
The path seems clear: normalize checks -> ban circumvention tools (VPNs) -> roll out state-controlled digital IDs -> build a permanent record of your digital life for corporations and "pre-crime" analytics.
You are trading a free, open internet for digital chains. If there ever was a moment to defend decentralized and anonymous systems, it is this.
#enshittification #privacy #surveillance #infosec #artist #music #vpn
But the most important part of enshittification is its causal hypothesis: the answer it proposes to why this degradation is happening everywhere, right now:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/#franklinite
Here's why you're getting enshittified: we deliberately decided to stop enforcing competition laws. As a result, companies formed monopolies and cartels. This means that they don't have to worry about losing your business or labor to a competitor, because they don't compete.
6/
I've created four "paradoxes" to describe how market capitalism undermines itself:
1. Property rights limit competition
2. Property rights enforcement invites exploitation
3. Markets reward secrecy but need transparency to function well
4. Market success undermines market competition
Age verification laws are a trojan horse, endgame is destroying anonymity.
The path seems clear: normalize checks -> ban circumvention tools (VPNs) -> roll out state-controlled digital IDs -> build a permanent record of your digital life for corporations and "pre-crime" analytics.
You are trading a free, open internet for digital chains. If there ever was a moment to defend decentralized and anonymous systems, it is this.
#enshittification #privacy #surveillance #infosec #artist #music #vpn
Age verification is creating an information desert.
The Online Safety Act sets every UK user to child as default.
Teenagers? Blocked. Adults? Content denied unless we do age checks with unregulated companies.
It's not just porn! News on Gaza and Ukraine is being scrubbed from view, threatening #freedomofexpression as well as #privacy ⛔
#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #palestine #gaza #ukraine #reddit #ageverification #ageassurance #censorship #ukpolitics #ukpol
I should start a PeerTube channel called "Tales of Enshittification". Each episode would be a 15-minute rundown on a great product or service that was completely ruined by corporate shit nozzles.
I've just discovered another instance of #enshittification. When I tried to use the canon connect app to download photos from my $2,000 #canon camera. Apparently the latest update requires an account on canon's cloud service just to use the app to connect to the camera over WiFi. This might seem harmless, it is not! Now I am required to have an Internet connection in order to take advantage of camera functionality that was previously working without one.
This is unnecessary and unacceptable.
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