Just came up with a new analogy I'm rather proud of: LLMs are digital compost heaps. They decompose whatever you hurl in and turn it into artificial excrement.
Also I'm moving from StackExchange to Codidact. If I'm going to do any more unpaid labour it's going to be for a not-for-profit, rather than a for-profit company. Feeding that work into a digital compost heap is the push I needed.
Sorry, I had to procrastinate more by making a detailed sampling of the Facebook timeline shiteousness. I understated it. Scrolling through 102 postsafter a refresh the breakdown was: 3 from my follows, 79 "suggestions",19 ads, 1 reels item (this time just once but often that comes up multiple times). Worse, posts from my follows only occured in the first 10. The suggestions started off not bad but then got horrible. Ads were universally garbage. Thank god for the fediverse! #fediverse#facebook#enshitification
If Apple starts sending all my fucking search, messages, photos, files, etc. data to Google or OpenAI I'm done with them. They are my compromise platform because I hate adding to the Google/Facebook style data reseller big tech data lakes. I honestly don't know what the alternative will be at that point besides having to hobble my experience with /e/os, LineageOS, whatever, self hosting services, etc. and try to figure out a work around for banking apps. Motherfuckers! This is so enraging. I have a feeling I better start getting my ducks in a row to depart their ecosystem sooner rather than later. #rant#apple#ai#enshitification#BigTechShouldNotExistmacrumors.com/2024/04/26/apple…
Between Windows 11 "reportedly display[ing] a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements" [1] and cramming ads into the Start menu [2], I'm really not looking forward to having to update next year [3].
"As such in 30 days we will be removing subscribers from our mailing lists unless they also have an account on https://accounts.eclipse.org, which impacts your subscriptions."
This is a must watch video if you haven't already seen it. This video uses Uber as a great example of the broader #enshitification trend that really does need to be checked by both users and governments.
I use #Fongo mobile and used the in-app purchase to remove ads and get access to a shortcut menu. Worked fine for years. After the latest update ads now overlay the shortcut menu. Is this a bug or enshitification?
Turns out that Fongo has joined the enshitification march and ad removal has changed to a subscription service with no notice, no warning in the update release notes, and no grandfathering existing customers. Are there any decent companies left?
On the #enshitification of Google, but not much many of us can do. For one, I can't just write a check to something like Kagi for my search needs (and I highly doubt my library would pony up for it either). Will just have to keep looking for options, but it gets harder. And not only does the company not care, very often my brethren #librarians don't care either.
@brembs@albertcardona@academicchatter Thanks. But to be fair, I'm not going to claim the idea as such either. At the time the infrastructure was there to do this consistently, even when still dealing with PDFs on the backend (flawed as that "standard" might be). I was merely trying to point this out, in a idle hope of adoption (we're now a decade later, and I've given up #enshitification is the norm I fear).
If #Serif#Affinity#software changes over to a #SoftwareAsService model in their next versions now that they’ve been purchased by #Canva, I’m dumping them —hard. I’ve seen this pattern too many times before to believe when a CEO says “nothing’s going to change” after a reputable company gets taken over in a buyout or merger. Part of me hopes this isn’t the herald of #enshitification come, but the rest of me has been trained over time to anticipate a future betrayal.