#Adobe #Acrobat pukes up a bunch of #AI 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.

Care less Capos https://web.archive.org/web/20250310221013/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/books/review/careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams.html

“…she finds a female agency worker having a seizure on the office floor, surrounded by bosses who are ignoring her. The scales falling from her eyes become a blizzard.” These people, she decides, just “didn’t give a #Fuck”.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/13/careless-people-by-sarah-wynn-williams-review-zuckerberg-and-me

“Post Free-Speech” Fact-Check please
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/13/meta-apparently-really-wants-everyone-to-read-this-book-by-trying-to-ban-it/

#BooksOfMastodon #Capitalism
#carelessPeople #enshittification #Meta
#NASDAQ

Not just tech is subject to enshittification

Magic: The Gathering Just Got A Lot More Expensive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkzXtoG_bZE

PSA: Amazon Alexa discontinuing Do Not Send Voice Recordings

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.

...and those might legitimately not be available if those encryption keys are privately owned or if that Webservice just goes down or whatever tf...

Idk how I just learned this but I'm fucking furious. The #enshittification is never ending. Even physical media is useless.

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. #AI #LLM #enshittification

OpenAI predicting profitability.. In the next decade!

If you set all the money OpenAI is vacuuming up on fire, at least it would keep you warm!

There is no #AI race, just an attempt to control the narrative to form a monopoly to charge rent from everybody.

They’ll keep borrowing money on big promises they’ll never deliver to sustain an unprofitable business.

Just like Big Tech has done since 2010.
#enshittification

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.

Todays gibberish includes:

"select the declaration Buddha"
"We decorate for understanding"

#GoogleTranslate #LLM #Enshittification

* Nobody else seems to have a functioning API that works with Crow translate and speaks Lithuanian

If you have Yahoo mail, terms of service changed & you are signing off your data

March 2025, Yahoo mail started forcing changes to the UI in yahoo mail. With it, new changed terms of services. In short, they will sell your yahoo mail data to companies.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1jaud4r/if_you_have_yahoo_mail_terms_of_service_changed/

In our rapidly increasing #enshittification world, I have learnt a new word:

"Smishing."

"They’re so-called smishing scams — a form of phishing that relies on SMS texts to trick people into sending money or share sensitive information."

So we have phishing scams, smishing scams, flishing scams (Cheap flights BOOK NOW!!!!), fishing scams (buy this lure, it WORKS!!!) and smashing scams (Click HERE for the latest smashburger recipes from Nigerian Chef!!!!!!).

Oy.

Of course it does #enshittification

AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-search-engines-give-incorrect-answers-at-an-alarming-60-rate-study-says/

BCG Consulting will help you (Retail Grocer) use #AI to enter the Dynamic Game and "improve volumes, margins, and customer value perception simultaneously." -- "customer value perception" is very different than customer value, of course, which tends to reduce "volumes and margins". #dynamicpricing #enshittification #twiddling

https://www.bcg.com/publications/2024/overcoming-retail-complexity-with-ai-powered-pricing

Oh. Joy.

As of 500pm PDT, Useless Parcel dis-Service (aka UPS) just changed the delivery time from '130pm - 330 pm PDT' to 'arriving by 700pm PDT.'

#UPS
#Enshittification

Are we tired of social media once and for all?

In my latest blog post, I'm stating my thoughts of this particular topic: Even if there is an almost perfect social media platform, do people still even want to socialize online?

https://www.danielbrendel.com/blog/24-are-we-tired-of-social-media-once-and-for-all

Meine Datenschutz und Privatsphäre Übersicht 2025, für die Allgemeinheit

Teilen er­be­ten

https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/C3-dKGz23Qhw1ZSBmDnOAK3s/

 #DSGVO #TDDDG ( #unplugtrump )
#Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #sicherheit #Verschlüsselung
#encryption #WEtell #SoloKey #NitroKey #Email #Cybersecurity #Pixelfed #Massenűberwachung
#Google #Metadaten #WhatsApp #Threema #Cryptpad #Signal
#Hateaid #Cyberstalking #Messenger #Browser #Youtube #NewPipe #Chatkontrolle #nichtszuverbergen #ÜberwachungsKapitalismus #Microsoft #Apple #Windows #Linux #Matrix #Mastodon #Friendica #Fediverse #Mastodir #Loops #2FA #Ransomware #Foss #VeraCrypt #HateAid #Coreboot #Volksverpetzer #Netzpolitik #Digitalisierung #FragdenStaat #Shiftphone  #OpenSource #GrapheneOS #CCC #Mail #Mullvad #PGP #GnuPG #DNS #Gaming #linuxgaming #Lutris #Protondb #eOS #Enshittification
#Bloatware #TPM #Murena  #LiberaPay #GnuTaler #Taler #PreppingforFuture
#FediLZ #BlueLZ #InstaLZ #ThreatModel
#FLOSS #UEFI #Medienkompetenz

So #Bluesky is going to push that #enshittification button to 1000 plus.

https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/114150210915239605

How do you reckon this went down on Mr. Xitters Xitshow of a social network?

via Xitter @caltrain

I went to clear some cookies to test some software I'm working on and I was startled to see that fandom.com, a site I avoid as much as possible, was using over 100 MB of storage on my browser