The #enshittification of I2C sensors is happening too. Bosch has been a frequent offender, but they're not the only ones. The sensor powers up with no internal firmware (an I2C paperweight). You have to load a proprietary binary blob into the sensor before it works. This blob is controlled under a restrictive license agreement. Luckily there is still some competition in this sector, but innovative/new parts try this trick.

cc @pluralistic

"Mark Zuckerberg has always been an awful person, but – as Sarah Wynn-Williams demonstrates in her book – he was once careful, worried about the harms he would suffer if he harmed us. Once we took those consequences away, Zuck did exactly what his nature dictated he must: destroyed our lives to increase his own fortune." - @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/08/faecebook/#too-big-to-care

#Meta #fraud #enshittification #capitalism #regulation

@pluralistic
An article that talks about the killjoy of people using AI for fun activities, like escape rooms. A good read. But the part I like was the author’s playful use of enshittification.

“Killjoy in the MachineWhy do so many people use AI to cheat at fun?” by Michelle Santiago Cortés - link to the article: https://www.thecut.com/article/would-you-use-chatgpt-to-cheat-at-hobbies.html

#enshittification

Do you know what I really want?

ONE BUTTON to turn of ALL AI assistants on my damn computer. Every single one. With one press of a button, rather than doing it for every single program or site separately, and doing it again, and again, and again, after every single fucking update or restart.

#ai #enshittification #wastingtime

"Mark Zuckerberg has always been an awful person, but – as Sarah Wynn-Williams demonstrates in her book – he was once careful, worried about the harms he would suffer if he harmed us. Once we took those consequences away, Zuck did exactly what his nature dictated he must: destroyed our lives to increase his own fortune." - @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/08/faecebook/#too-big-to-care

#Meta #fraud #enshittification #capitalism #regulation

@pluralistic
An article that talks about the killjoy of people using AI for fun activities, like escape rooms. A good read. But the part I like was the author’s playful use of enshittification.

“Killjoy in the MachineWhy do so many people use AI to cheat at fun?” by Michelle Santiago Cortés - link to the article: https://www.thecut.com/article/would-you-use-chatgpt-to-cheat-at-hobbies.html

#enshittification

So excited to start @pluralistic’s #enshittification which I finally got off the waitlist for on #libby!

Don't miss the intro and first keynote by @evan!!

"Free the social web"

Live now!!

#SeaGL2025 #activitypub #fediverse #social #sns #socialnetworks #blogs #enshittification

So, I’m one of the people Microsoft has been forced by the ACCC to email in Australia to offer a downgrade on their O365 Family subs (I'll eventually convince my family we don't need it) because they hid the option to take a version without CoPilot.

However, when you click on the link in the email to downgrade, rather than going to a page where you can do that, you go to a page where you are offered a new subscription to a single-user-only version.

Parsing the URL it goes to, it's pretty clear how to figure out what it *should* be, and you can complete the downgrade by changing the url to https://checkout.microsoft365.com/acquire/purchase?language=en-AU&market=AU&requestedDuration=Year&scenario=microsoft-365-family-classic&matchDuration=true&campaign=M365ClassicDowngrade&upsell=false

I’m fairly certain this is not what the Commission intended.

#microsoft #enshittification

So excited to start @pluralistic’s #enshittification which I finally got off the waitlist for on #libby!

Adam Conover did a long-form interview with Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic), https://pluralistic.net/ ) about how tech corporations are turning everything to crap for no good reason.
#Capitalism #Enshittification

https://youtube.com/watch?v=P1EKQidRooc

Don't miss the intro and first keynote by @evan!!

"Free the social web"

Live now!!

#SeaGL2025 #activitypub #fediverse #social #sns #socialnetworks #blogs #enshittification

@steveroyle

My understanding was that the word was more general that "pathway to exploitation". My understanding was that the word described the inevitability of feature creep that occurred due to certain corporate structures and inevitably made products worse rather than better, noting that this feature creep was particularly evident and egregious in software due to the ease of digital changes. And that one consequence of #enshittification was that large monopolies produced a pathway to exploitation.

But we can ask the source:
@pluralistic

The #enshittification of I2C sensors is happening too. Bosch has been a frequent offender, but they're not the only ones. The sensor powers up with no internal firmware (an I2C paperweight). You have to load a proprietary binary blob into the sensor before it works. This blob is controlled under a restrictive license agreement. Luckily there is still some competition in this sector, but innovative/new parts try this trick.

cc @pluralistic