Created this after reading conversation in comments below some tech article somewhere. Someone mentioned "surfing the #internet sewer" and I really liked that phrase.
This article nicely sums up my suspicion about the state of 'Xwitter'…
"Twitter is now a siloed attention roulette machine just like TikTok. That was the plan when Elon took over and they succeeded. There's no going back."
So if you have #Recall installed, always make sure you have a media player window open, playing some DRMed content, I dunno, Disney’s Frozen or some such. Paused, perhaps, or you’ll start losing it. Then it won’t record you. #LetItGo#Microsoft#Enshittification
Think I need to start planning for a total free software future. Been using Windows 10 for work and because it’s tolerable. Changed to VS Code because it’s a very good lightweight IDE. This #Recall spyware has forced me to conclude that #Microsoft have turned evil. I was optimistically naïve to think they might not be, in hindsight. So, must look to changing to Linux Mint everywhere, and getting my #NeoVim setup perfected. (May revisit #Helix, if it has a tree view now). As for Apple.. hmm.
@M0CUV this is peek #enshittification and Apple will most definitely follow, they already do to a large portion, albeit not (yet) so blatantly as Microsoft
Starting to get sick of this stuff, Brave. I should not be trying to figure how to turn this off, because it should never have turned on without asking me first. #enshittification#ai
Well our dishwasher that I bought a year and a half ago has started giving us a "failure to drain" message. My husband has disassembled it and the motors are working fine. Nothing is clogged up. Maybe it's the electronic controller. Why do modern appliances suck so bad? I'm about to just start washing dishes by hand I'm not buying another one. #Enshittification
Yesterday, I replied to a question in the Godot forum with a wrong answer (since I misunderstood the question at first). Today, if you google "godot delete pattern", that answer will be displayed as a "featured snippet" right on top. 🙄 (The correct answer is in the same thread, but so far Google hasn't picked up on it)
Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Meta while shove AI down your throat whether you like it or not. If you want to do anything on the Internet, you will HAVE to use AI.
Cory Doctorow was right. The Enshittification is here.
Is it just me, or has Microsoft gone completely crazy? They are implementing spyware that takes screenshots every second and forcing AI integration. Why would anyone willingly purchase this? Anyone with experience in computer or information security knows that it is a bad idea, even if it is locally done. Just don't do it. Yet, here we are, and they are doubling down on this idea. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/#privacy#security
"A billionaire got mad, bought your favourite social media site and ran it into the ground. A different billionaire got mad, bought the magazine site you liked to read on your lunchbreak and shut it down completely. "
oh great - the software I use to directly instruct computers what I want them to do (often with elevated privileges) wants to "help suggest commands" with OpenAI </SARCASM>
“(Sam A) felt that by my voicing the system, I could bridge the gap between tech companies and creatives... He said he felt that my voice would be comforting to people”
Johansson
Translation:
Trojan Hoarse Voice, hired for main assault, flees the stable.