You know it's time to clean out your email inbox when you're getting automated emails from god damn Cirque De Soleil... 💀
#spam #emailMarketing #enshitification of #email

The #FIFA #ENSHITIFICATION of World football continues at break neck speed 🚤 💩 😑

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/dec/11/world-cup-2026-ticket-prices-fifa

L' #enshitification c'est aussi l'Etat qui démolit arbitrairement une API qui fonctionne pour se greffer à une autre sans aucune cohérence et surtout en documentant très mal la migration.

Du coup, j'ai testé l'usage de l'#IA, pour voir si ça m'aiderait.

Spoiler : l'IA m'a pondu 50 nouvelles lignes de code sorties de nul part pour une modification ne nécessitant in fine l'édition de 4 lignes uniquement sur mon code original.

Pire, l'IA n'a pas été capable de trouver la nouvelle URL de l'API.

@firefoxwebdevs Get the Large Lying Machines out and restore the work of the japanese translation workers you replaced with AI slop

https://linuxiac.com/ai-controversy-forces-end-of-mozilla-japanese-sumo-community/

#Mozilla #Firefox #LLM #AI #GenAI #Japanese #Translation #Enshitification

Ordered some more digital timers to replace the old ones that have failed... Last ordered some of these about 8yrs ago. So they've lasted ok.

All of the xmas lights are now back on timers so we don't have to remember to run around at night turning things off, a lot of which is plugged in behind furniture.

Even the battery operated lights outside are on timers... 6hrs on, 18hrs off. So they come on at 4pm until 10pm.

I also have lamps in the lounge on timers so my mum doesn't trip/fall trying to turn them on in the evening as she often sits there watching tv or on her phone and doesn't realise it's gotten dark until... well... it's dark. 🤔 😆

I know I could get 'smart' plugs... but to put it bluntly... fuck no... that enshitification bollocks can shoves itself up it's own arse. Why the fuck would anyone think it's a good idea to give over control and your private data to some 3rd party... just so you can turn a light on/off from the comfort of your own sofa... by sending the single across the airwaves to your router, down and out into the internet for hundreds if not thousands of miles to some 3rd party server in some data centre in who knows what fucking country... only to send it back across the internet into your house, over the air to the plug socket.

A service... that can be turned of at the whim of whatever company has been invading your privacy and stealing your info to sell to advertisers... if they decide to change the terms and brick your device if you don;t start paying them a monthly subscription fee.

Think I'm over reacting... well, I'm not... it's happened to thousands of devices over the last 10yrs or so. Company A goes bankrupt after selling devices with a lifetime access to services... gets bought by company B (often controlled by the same owners of company A) and the devices bricked unless you pay company B a subscription fee.... Or they're just evil corpo scum who want to increase shareholder profits 0.000.1% by fucking over their customers time and time again.

Some of you will think I'm over reacting... I think you're gullible fools.

But I'm the one who's been proven right, time and time again over the last 15yrs... and I will be proven right again in the coming years.

The has been a PSA rant on behalf of all sane and rational people.

#Enshitification
#RightToRepair
#YouOwnWhatYouBuy

Cracks where the light shines in or sth

https://slrpnk.net/post/31332329

I hate the icon for the clock app. I use it all the time. I switch Standby to not have this unreadable face and now I’m forced to use it. #LiquidGlass #Apple #enshitification

I gave up trying to stay on iOS 18 because Apple progressively made it a crappier experience.

It just works is dead.

Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From “Enshittification” | The Daily Show (15 minutes; Dec 9, 2025)

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/50585861

Liquid Glass is the most interfering, distracting interface and it would get the opposite of Apple Design Awards.

I go to landscape to view larger text and when a third of the screen is blurred and no decipherable border.

Bouncing things is not even good eye candy and is the antithesis of focus.

And thank you for making the clock icon unreadable and not configurable.

Epic fail #Apple #LiquidGlass is the opposite of clear vision. #enshitification

#CoryDoctorow @pluralistic makes a very notable appearance on the #DailyShow to promote his new book 📔 “ #enshitification „ of #digitalindustry. I think that one quote sums it all well:

:newl: When you love your friends more than you hate #MarkZuckerberg , then #Meta can ruin you. :newr:

Watch the video to understand it better!
👇
🎬https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5nE

📔And get the book! 👉https://craphound.com/enshittification/2025/10/01/announcing-the-enshittification-tour/

@pluralistic

👍
Nice, cleaned up You Tube link for everyone.
Great interview!

I love the backstage photos.

#Enshitification

#Facebook og korleis dei fekk tak i alle.....: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoL8olX-259lS1N6QPyP4IQ #enshitification

Divine D. open source smartphone inches closer to launch, gains microSD Express, micro HDMI, and LoRa support
https://liliputing.com/divine-d-open-source-smartphone-inches-closer-to-launch-gains-microsd-express-micro-hdmi-and-lora-support/
I love seeing new open hardware options coming out with all the #enshitification going on. The device having LoRa is awesome and something I was planning on my comms project. @dawndrums I'm curious, though will the Lora firmware (Meshtastic/Meshcore/RNode/etc) be software switchable?

@Gargron #Enshitification, the book will be under the Christmas 🎄...and thank you wholeheartedly for #Mastodon 🙏

So something in our CI pipeline broke recently. One my team has spent all day working out why we could no longer update the README file for a docker container we push to Docker Hub.

Turns out Docker use CloudFlare WAF and they have recently updated their rules to drop anything that contains the string /etc/hosts, which is certainly an interesting choice.

#WAF #CloudFlare #Enshitification

Mastodon got a shout out! I’m waiting for my copy to arrive! #enshitification #Cory_doctorow
https://youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE?si=wpLpnmHsMqnRw4sc

@pluralistic hey, you were on top at the daily show, that word is spreading around the world even in France culture, the elite radio here in france sort to say. (I've forgotten how fast you speak though ;) ) #enshitification

@themipper @nyquildotorg As far as I'm aware it is - at least in the EU. I hope they're ashamed of themselfes.
crash and burn. #enshitification

@andyjennings
If you have a in-depth look at AI investment (actually unsecured loans because they are not asset-backed investments) for the majority of the funds, it is cross-investments amongst AI companies betting on each other to make it all, somehow, happen for them.

It’s a bloody oscillating market bubble primed for a world-shacking bust, soon… the house of cards, or the fields of tulips if you like, is reaching extreme instability…

Watch for sell off in the markets as the leaches take what profits they can before it all collapse (along with its road companion BitCoin and the likes).

Can’t happne soon enough for me.

#Enshitification #AIBubble #AIInvestments

European countries are heeding the call:

“Calls for public institutions to invest in digital sovereignty are increasing across civil society. The term digital sovereignty means that an institution has autonomy and control over the critical digital infrastructure, data, and services that make up their online presence. Up until this point, social media has not been a part of this conversation. We think it is time to change that.”

It’s not just ‘time to change’ it’s bloody well getting late in that change happening. This is partly due to neoliberal-think which favours the ‘markets’ (whatever they might be) to sort themselves out in such a way to be most efficient (at making profits and syphoning currency out of the economy), which results in deregulation and outsourcing public assets and services as an MO that is the problem here.

#NeoLiberalism #StateCapture #InternetSafe #DigitalSovereignty #Enshitification #TechBros #Grifters #EatTheRich #Antifa

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/