#enshittification

grumpy old man “Pet peeve that gets stronger every year”:

stop replacing actual pressable buttons with crappy ‘touch sensitive buttons’ on appliances.

1. they are shit,
2. they don’t work if you have wet/dirty fingers,
3. you have to look to find them as there is no affordance,
4. the markings explaining them wear off leaving an incomprehensible area of actions

#petpeeve #enshittification

2026 in a nutshell: I don't mind having to manually re-set the time on my stove and microwave, because that's a small price to pay for them NOT being connected to the internet. #InternetOfThings #InternetOfShittyThings #enshittification #IoT

The journey of tech empowerment and liberation from tech bros can be a long, bumpy road. The biggest tech regret of my adult life is that I didn't use a custom domain name as my main email address, so that when things invariably go south, I can simply hop to a new email provider. The hundred or so email aliases I made with #Proton are a real headache right now. Time to clean up my mess. What am I talking about? This ICYMI: https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/#NoAI #enshittification #ProtonMail

I'm finally ready to take the Fediverse seriously. Years of tech overreach and enshittification have worn me out. The final straw came when Meta decided I should pay over $50 a month just to share a few links to my own podcast. That includes a blue check that means nothing anymore (thanks, X). They already sell ads and our data. Now they want my money too. Bear with me while I adjust. If I pull out old habits, please don't yell at me. #Introduction #Podcasting #Enshittification #Meta

@Tutanota@mastodon.social oh but it makes perfect sense! It's just for _their_ security¹ not yours. 🤷‍♂️ ¹to ensure their continued absolute control over all your data and behavioral analysis. #Enshittification #PrivacyInvasion

"Passkeys Are Not a Trap"? Nice Try Scott Helme, founder and CEO of a company that markets a "Passkeys Protection" offering. https://scotthelme.co.uk/passkeys-are-not-a-trap/ Sorry, your article is patronizing me about what attestation is, then explaining that passkeys today don't give websites an attestation at all - though a site can ask. And in so doing, it completely fails to address the main criticism of the "Passkeys are a trap" blog post, i.e. that passkeys are the boiling frog of BigTech control on authentication. https://nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-are-a-trap-do-not-use-them The only point I concede is that TOTP are vulnerable to phishing. And yet, if I really have to choose, I prefer that risk rather than handing over control to Google, Apple, and co. In any case, hardware authenticators like Yubikey / NitroKey are the preferred solution. Sorry, not convinced. Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them. #passkeys #security #cybersecurity #bigtech #google #apple #enshittification #bigtech #digitalsovereignty #opensource #infosec #passwords #phishing #totp

Software engineering in 2026. Everything has to be an API or an LLM, even if it could quite literally be 5 lines of code. #enshittification

La Smart TV del living a partir de hoy empezó a mandar propaganda encima de la salida HDMI1 que es la salida de una Mini PC que usamos con Plex... Denme un momento para procesar esto sin agarrar la TV a hachazos en este mismo momento. Por favor diganme que hay una solucion porque no voy a poder lidiar con esto y el apagón analógico en la misma semana #android #google #larecalcadaconchadetumadre #tv #yameiba #smarttv #enshittification #mierdificacion

They had to enshittify even Tom's Hardware (not that it wasn't enshittified already a few times). Now you can't read almost anything without an account, even if free... 🤦‍♂️ #enshittification #pchardware #media

El Jannah, the Lebanese chicken chain famous for its garlic sauce, has reportedly been acquired by a New York private equity firm in a blockbuster deal valued at close to $1bn, according to The Financial Review. https://www.realcommercial.com.au/news/beloved-aussie-chicken-chain-el-jannah-acquired-by-us-firm-in-billiondollar-deal Enshittification will now roll on out. Loaded up with debt, the staff will be farked over for wages, quality of ingredients will dive. #ElJannah #Enshittification #Australia #PrivateEquity #Doom

Jeg har lige skrevet endnu en vred klage til Basiskortet om hvor få og dårligt placerede deres standere er. Jeg kom drønende ned på Islands Brygge station i den tro at jeg lige kunne nå hen til standeren ved siden af elevatoren og så nå min metro. Men nej, den var væk! Hen i den anden ende af perronen hvor jeg så fandt den, skjult bag en stor billetautomat og dermed helt usynlig fra den nedgang som er den mest anvendte. Arghhhh! #basiskort #tilmøgning #enshittification

My brother-in-law's laptop stopped working. It's under warranty. So he called #Dell. "Hi! I'm your A.I. assistant. Before I can help you, you have to read me a tiny number from the back of your laptop." He can't read it, he's blind. I read it. The "A.I" has one job. It is very bad at it. I read it out 20 times before the machine got it right. In the middle of this debacle, I asked the "A.I." to put me through to a person. "I can't do that until you read me the number." #Enshittification

*boost for reach* Do you pirate media? #askfedi #question #piracy #netflix #streaming #movies #enshittification #sysadmin #programming

💩 OMG there is now a *sequel* to the excellent Enshittificator short film about #enshittification named "The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator": 🍿 https://vimeo.com/1226731365 Definitely also check out the first installment: https://vimeo.com/1168468796 Thanks to @finnmyrstad@eupolicy.social for the original post: https://eupolicy.social/@finnmyrstad/116141082378515849 And, of course, @pluralistic@mamot.fr for coining this iconic term! Sources: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/shortlife/ https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree #bigtech

#Enshittification ist jetzt nicht mehr nur ein Buzzword, sondern auch ein Buchtitel:

Me everyday when products gets inflicted with malicious and slop for the past decade by replacing or migrating to one after another. Nature wouldn't do that to us, maybe I should love it more. #slopware #enshittification #betrayed

I made a new account on #Reddit just to answer a question from someone who was stuck on the current No Man's Sky expedition (I was stuck there too and know the solution to the problem). I won't be spending time on there anymore because all the reasons I left in the first place are still there, but it's worse than ever now. So much garbage. "Earn money on reddit," a billion ridiculous and childish "awards," and the vomit-worthy AI that pops up when you're searching for something. As I suspected when I left, them going IPO sent them straight to the toilet. They were already halfway there but they've hit the metaphorical goal like an asteroid crashing into the planet. Ew. #Enshittification #Internet

@sjpurrs@mastodon.social They don't let you flag content without an account, and if you don't have an account you quickly get recommendations for the bottom of the barrel content. All done on purpose I have to believe. #enshittification

My #xbox has gone from stylish home entertainment console to an unavoidable ads for vertically integrated games. #enshittification

I'm so tired. People, I am not interested in reading *blogs* generated with claude, gemini or chatgpt. No, not even ones proofread by AI. Do it yourself. I do not wish to even accidentally click on "one-shotted" dummy projects. Don't show me your AI-generated analysis of anything. Above all, I do not wish to see images/artwork someone prompt created. I value real content, with all its good and bad quirks, from actual human beings. Somebody please normalize auto-tagging of AI generated content across all formats - text, images and code so I can blanket ban them from my personal computer. This is a plead for help I never thought I'll have to make. #noai #enshittification #writing #bookstodon #reading #books #quotes #quote #cybersec #mentalhealth #adhd #art #cooking #blog #indieweb