Tag: enshitification
My least favourite part of `the web`
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I was catching up with some tech news yesterday and while I was listening to a discussion about the latest updates coming from Google and their potential impact on the web I had a sudden realization: when tech reporters say “the web” they don’t mean the web. When these people talk about the web they’re…
Liberate your Audible books with Libation
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I’ve really never worried about my audio books on Audible, but with Amazon turning the cranks up on being a shitty company as they take away ownership of your books I decided to use Libation to download all 200 of my Audible books. Setup was easy and it’s churning away right now downloading them all.…
Maximum Time Usage, Your Notes and Blogging – 3 Threads
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This is brought to you by members, become one to keep the content coming. Full Maximum Capacity Time Usage Dami Lee is talking about slow reading here but I took exception to one comment in the beginning of the video which I linked to. She talks about reading books that had a big impact on…
Google is Squeezing iA Writer
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Another story of a big tech company using their monopoly to get more money and harm little companies. While I don’t use iA Writer currently, I have used it and found it to be an excellent app. I follow their site because they have very interesting content in many fields showing they think deeply about…
Enshitification in Polish Trains?
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Yes the manufacturer of a train in Poland remotely bricked the train because they didn’t like who worked on it. Now that “hackers” who were hired by the train company to get the train rolling again have fixed it the train company is now threatening to sue the hackers that got a crucial piece of…
If Apple is So Awesome – Why Make it So Hard for Competitors
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In How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, Cory Doctorow asks the question, if Apple is so gosh darn awesome with keeping their software safe, and keeping your hardware safe with their repair facilities…why do they make it so hard for competitors? Apple doesn’t do this to “keep you safe” as the often claim, they do this…
Cory Doctorow on Halting the Internet’s Enshitification
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This is an excellent video about what we can do to help stop the enshitification of the internet. It’s going to take time, but it is within reach.