Microsoft's May 2026 upgrade fail just cost us $250 in data recovery and many many hours of lost time trying to restore and reconfigure my wife's laptop.
The impunity with which these large corporations can screw over their "customers" (read: hostages) is despicable.
@lxplm
Das Prinzip #enshittfication von @pluralistic wurde hier schön übersetzt ins analoge Leben. Und am Schluss die Feststellung: "Du bildest es dir nicht ein. Digitale Dienste werden schlechter. Aber erfreulicherweise muss das nicht so sein." 💟
Mehr Info und den Bericht "Breaking free – pathways to a fair technological future" gibt es hier.
https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree
The new business model of technology is "Buying Isn't Owning" #enshittfication .
Yes, you paid for these features already, but they can be bricked for existing customers on a corporate whim.
Stop the data stream to 3rd parties from a household appliance, bricked
Repair your farm tractor on your own, bricked.
Tick off Elon Musk, your Tesla, bricked.
Refuse to use AI on your computer or phone, bricked.
Coercive Capitalism, the inevitable consequence of Surveillance Capitalism.
Joe Manchin's daughter is why these life-saving devices ballooned in price.
Pharmaceutical billionaires profiting off deadly allergic reactions.
Coercive Capitalism -- just one more element of #enshittfication and anti-democracy
Democrats need to get better at culling these faux "centrists" in Republican drag sooner.
https://jacobin.com/2021/10/joe-manchin-daughter-heather-bresch-mylan-epipen
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/09/manchin-large-campaign-contributions-epipen-scandal/
https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/politics/manchin-defends-bresch-mylan-epipen-price
https://theintercept.com/2021/09/07/joe-manchin-epipen-price-heather-bresch/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Bresch
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-manchin-heather-manchin-bresch-centrist-political-group-donors/
As if his own record weren’t bad enough, former coal baron and current West Virginia senator Joe Manchin’s daughter Heather Bresch — who doubles as a major donor to Joe — is a price-gouging drug profiteer who has played a central role in her father’s destructive political career.
Preisanstieg bei KI-Coding-Tools: The Free Lunch Is Over
It's enshittification, stupid. Schon wieder. Ist halt doof, wenn man sich als Firma oder Entwickler abhängig macht. Ja, es gibt Open Source Modelle, nur werden diese auch von großen Companies trainiert.
Digitale Souveränität geht anders. 🤷♂️
#Netzpolitik:
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Stirb langsam: Warum es mit X nun zu Ende geht
Soziale Netzwerke sind wegen des Netzwerkeffekts nur schwer totzukriegen. Doch dem Twitter-Nachfolger X von Elon Musk droht nun genau das. ..
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https://netzpolitik.org/2024/stirb-langsam-warum-es-mit-x-nun-zu-ende-geht/
14.12.2024
#Ausbeutung #BlueSky #Desinformation #Enshittfication #Hass #InterestGraph #Kommerzialisierung #Machtmissbrauch #Musk #Netzwerkeffekt #Propaganda #SocialMedia #Twitter #Verschwörungstheorie #X #Zensur
Soziale Netzwerke sind wegen des Netzwerkeffekts nur schwer totzukriegen. Doch dem Twitter-Nachfolger X von Elon Musk droht nun genau das. Wie konnte das passieren? Welche Plattformen könnten die Nachfolge antreten? Eine Analyse über Aufstieg und Fall sozialer Netzwerke.
In the software industry, the release of newer, better versions is part of the natural order. It's a relentless march towards perfection that started with the first personal computers, and continues today. We expect software to get larger and more sophisticated over time, to track with the hardware improvements that
Olha só! O dicionário australiano Macquarie escolheu a palavra criada pelo @pluralistic, #enshittfication, como palavra do ano de 2024!
Vi numa rede que o Cory incluiu nas fileiras da #merdificação 😅
(Valeu Bruno Murtinho!)
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