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So I don’t really understand why people are still trying to educate others about the problems of closed platforms, algorithms and how they work with silos like threads and blue sky. It’s very clear that people just want to talk to their friends and they don’t care about close platforms versus open platforms, algorithms, or who controls it or any thing of the sort. My advice, rather than try and convince people to move over to an open activity pub enabled platform, just let them do their thing and continue to improve the open social network. When their beloved social media platform goes through the #Enshitification cycle and they’re looking for an alternative because they realized that their platform was out of their control, that’s when you show them your much more mature open social media then it was years ago. In short, if they want algorithms, let them have it over there in a closed platform. Let them go over there. Let’s just continue to improve the space and cultivate this space into something people wanna actually join. #BlueSky #Threads
#bluesky #enshitification #threads

Viendo los cambios que trae Firefox 120 te das cuenta de lo rota que está la internet actual.

Estos cambios no deberían ser necesarios, y sin embargo, lo son más que nunca: copiar enlaces sin parámetros de rastreo, pedir a los sitios que no vendan tus datos ni te rastreen, auto-denegación de cookies innecesarias...

mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/120.…

Y Chrome yendo en la dirección contraria. Se viene un cisma en internet.

#enshitification #firefox #privacidad


Firefox 120.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

Mozilla
#firefox #privacidad #enshitification

So Google is now preventing people from removing location data from photos taken with Pixel phones.

Remember when Google's corporate motto was "don't be evil?"

Obviously, accurate location data on photos is more useful to a data mining operation like Google.

From Google: "Important: You can only update or remove estimated locations. If the location of a photo or video was automatically added by your camera, you can't edit or remove the location."

It's enshitification in action.

Source: support.google.com/photos/answ…

#technology #tech @technology #business #enshitification #Android #Google @pluralistic #infosec

#android #google #infosec #technology #tech #business #enshitification @Cory Doctorow @Technology

Metro.co.uk headline "Tesla goes down across Europe leaving some drivers unable to charge cars" metro.co.uk/2023/02/14/tesla-g…

DID YOU KNOW? You can actually design electric cars that can charge their batteries WITHOUT AN APP or any computers of any kind? Kind of like how gasoline pumps used to work? Sure, a battery pack with a microcontroller tends to be more efficient, but it is not strictly necessary. The electric motors of the car must be fully computer controlled, but these computers need not be tied to apps either.

Electric cars all being designed to become useless without an app controlling them is not inherent to electric car technology itself. It is a result of modern day #consumerism (capitalism) where every single business on the face of the Earth gathers data about you, and earns money from selling #ads to you. IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. This is what @pluralistic calls #enshitification .

And I can't wait to hear people argue with me about how gasoline-fueled cars are better and more reliable because their engines work just fine without apps or cell phones. Electric cars could be this way too, but due to the way businesses make money nowadays, they do not.


Tesla goes down across Europe leaving some drivers unable to charge cars

The app issues began in North America before spreading to Europe.
Kirsten Robertson (Metro.co.uk)
#ads #consumerism #enshitification @Cory Doctorow

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