#eshittification — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #eshittification, aggregated by home.social.
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Pues ahora Posit ha metido IAG a RStudio, al menos en su versión de pago. Cosas muy necesarias.
Se agradece que sea con suscripción, así no tengo que molestarme en buscar la opción que lo desactiva (pero voy a mirar, por si acaso).
Sí, incluyo esto en el enmierdamiento, porque sólo puede resultar en mal.
#Posit #RStudio #eshittification #GAI #genAI -
Pues ahora Posit ha metido IAG a RStudio, al menos en su versión de pago. Cosas muy necesarias.
Se agradece que sea con suscripción, así no tengo que molestarme en buscar la opción que lo desactiva (pero voy a mirar, por si acaso).
Sí, incluyo esto en el enmierdamiento, porque sólo puede resultar en mal.
#Posit #RStudio #eshittification #GAI #genAI -
Pues ahora Posit ha metido IAG a RStudio, al menos en su versión de pago. Cosas muy necesarias.
Se agradece que sea con suscripción, así no tengo que molestarme en buscar la opción que lo desactiva (pero voy a mirar, por si acaso).
Sí, incluyo esto en el enmierdamiento, porque sólo puede resultar en mal.
#Posit #RStudio #eshittification #GAI #genAI -
Pues ahora Posit ha metido IAG a RStudio, al menos en su versión de pago. Cosas muy necesarias.
Se agradece que sea con suscripción, así no tengo que molestarme en buscar la opción que lo desactiva (pero voy a mirar, por si acaso).
Sí, incluyo esto en el enmierdamiento, porque sólo puede resultar en mal.
#Posit #RStudio #eshittification #GAI #genAI -
Pues ahora Posit ha metido IAG a RStudio, al menos en su versión de pago. Cosas muy necesarias.
Se agradece que sea con suscripción, así no tengo que molestarme en buscar la opción que lo desactiva (pero voy a mirar, por si acaso).
Sí, incluyo esto en el enmierdamiento, porque sólo puede resultar en mal.
#Posit #RStudio #eshittification #GAI #genAI -
Finally ditched Spotify for TIDAL, some of my music wasn't found but apparently there's an option to request music? Still better than Spotify's eshittification and AI slop.
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Finally ditched Spotify for TIDAL, some of my music wasn't found but apparently there's an option to request music? Still better than Spotify's eshittification and AI slop.
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Finally ditched Spotify for TIDAL, some of my music wasn't found but apparently there's an option to request music? Still better than Spotify's eshittification and AI slop.
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Finally ditched Spotify for TIDAL, some of my music wasn't found but apparently there's an option to request music? Still better than Spotify's eshittification and AI slop.
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Finally ditched Spotify for TIDAL, some of my music wasn't found but apparently there's an option to request music? Still better than Spotify's eshittification and AI slop.
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RE: https://layer8.space/@killyourfm/115998594458318932
I switched over to Linux about 25 years ago, and have been that irritating person in your life extolling the virtues of making the switch.
With the growing #eshittification of #Microsoft #Windows over the last couple of years, perhaps 2026 is the year to switch?
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Wonder if consumers are going to get more uncomfortable with sharing personal details/info to apps and services now that we see how the government is USING information like that to track people down and/or squeeze folks via organizations like ICE?
If they didn't feel it already, the surveillance state and surveillance capitalism is real.
#eshittification #surveillancecapitalism #surveillance #surveillancestate
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Bought my wife a smart scale from Wyze (based on Wirecutter recommendations). The pain in the ass it was to set up in their app and the amount of information needed to was uncomfortable and frustrating — and I was the one doing it.
Not to mention their app is more of a "hub" app for all kinds of "smart" devices of theirs you could connect to. Not what I expected, nor needed. Grumble, grumble.
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Bought my wife a smart scale from Wyze (based on Wirecutter recommendations). The pain in the ass it was to set up in their app and the amount of information needed to was uncomfortable and frustrating — and I was the one doing it.
Not to mention their app is more of a "hub" app for all kinds of "smart" devices of theirs you could connect to. Not what I expected, nor needed. Grumble, grumble.
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Bought my wife a smart scale from Wyze (based on Wirecutter recommendations). The pain in the ass it was to set up in their app and the amount of information needed to was uncomfortable and frustrating — and I was the one doing it.
Not to mention their app is more of a "hub" app for all kinds of "smart" devices of theirs you could connect to. Not what I expected, nor needed. Grumble, grumble.
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Bought my wife a smart scale from Wyze (based on Wirecutter recommendations). The pain in the ass it was to set up in their app and the amount of information needed to was uncomfortable and frustrating — and I was the one doing it.
Not to mention their app is more of a "hub" app for all kinds of "smart" devices of theirs you could connect to. Not what I expected, nor needed. Grumble, grumble.
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Bought my wife a smart scale from Wyze (based on Wirecutter recommendations). The pain in the ass it was to set up in their app and the amount of information needed to was uncomfortable and frustrating — and I was the one doing it.
Not to mention their app is more of a "hub" app for all kinds of "smart" devices of theirs you could connect to. Not what I expected, nor needed. Grumble, grumble.
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Zillow caves to #eshittification. They had been rating climate risk factors facing individual properties. The real estate industry hated it, so they've stopped.
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Made the mistake of following the #eshittification hashtag, and now I have to resist correcting everyone who is using the word outside of the context of a company purposefully making their product worse to extract profits at the expense of their users.
Things that are not enshittification:
- products starting off bad.
- products getting worse due to neglect or ineptitude.
- products becoming bad because of government regulations. -
Fucking hell. To get their products and services into AI chatbot responses, companies are auto-generating slop and posting to the known SOURCES of chatbot data — Reddit, etc. — to try and game the system.
Need to come up with a better term for how people are trying to "game" this new age of LLM/chat/voice-based interfaces, where the traditional web is acting less as a direct interface and more as a secondary data store.
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/26/reddit-is-being-spammed-by-ai-bots-and-its-all-reddits-fault/
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Unfortunately Warp has fallen to hard into the AI side of things. Going back to iTerm, I never should have left.
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The calendar year 2023 was a miserable one in countless ways — wars, abortion rights, record high temperatures, the decline and fall of Twitter/X — but it was the best of times for the mainstreaming of strong language. At the American Dialect Society’s 34th annual word of the year vote, held on the evening of January 5 in New York City, no fewer than six sweary lexical items — a historical record — were nominated for WotY honors. Two of them won in their respective categories, and one, enshittification, was named overall word of the year.
Here’s how it went down. (Note: I was not present at the vote but followed along as best as I could via various Bluesky accounts.)
Enshittification
Digital word of the year, overall word of the year
Back in February 2023, when I wrote about enshittification for Strong Language, I predicted that the noun and its verb counterpart, enshittify, were “primed for neologistic success.” Both were popularized by the journalist and sci-fi author Cory Doctorow, whose January 21, 2023, post on “Tiktok’s enshittification” was quickly picked up by Wired and then spread far and wide. Doctorow put it like this:
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two sided market,” where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.
Doctorow didn’t coin enshittification: As language researcher Barry Popik pointed out on Twitter/X, the word has appeared sporadically since 2013. But as Strong Language contributor and ADS “Among the New Words” editor Ben Zimmer observed in an email, “it was Doctorow’s specific framing of the word in terms of (shitty) digital platforms that made the word catch on.” In the ADS press release announcing the WotY vote, Ben put it this way: “Enshittification is a sadly apt term for how our online lives have become gradually degraded. … From the time that it first appeared in Doctorow’s posts and articles, the word had all the markings of a successful neologism, being instantly memorable and adaptable to a variety of contexts.”
Enshittification was the resounding choice of the attendees at the WotY voting session, receiving 158 votes. The runner-up, (derogatory) —a “parenthetical comment humorously appended after a word that might not be
expected to be derogatory” — received 121 votes.FAFO
Acronym/initialism of the year
The initialism for “Fuck Around [and] Find Out” wasn’t new in 2023 — Jesse Sheidlower, author of The F Word, has traced it back to 2007. (The Anti-Defamation League, which tracks extremist movements in the U.S., says FAFO is a slogan associated with the neo-fascist Proud Boys.) But 2023 was a year in which FAFO met the ADS criterion of “newly prominent”: A lot of folks FA’d and, too late, FO.
In a January 2023 op-ed, the Washington Post’s Amanda Katz chided the ADS for not making FAFO its word of the year for 2022: It was in December 2022, she reminded readers, that Elon Musk kicked Kanye West off Twitter, as it was then known, “for tweeting an unflattering photo of the platform’s memelord-turned-overlord.” Musk explained his decision “[i]n a four-letter tweet that forced the actual adults following this squabble to look up what FAFO meant.”
Although generally speaking FAFO is a “warning that foolish actions will result in unwanted consequences,” as the ADS press release puts it, there has been at least one attempt to turn that meaning on its head. In 2023 an Anaheim, California, brewery called Bottle Logic introduced a bottled stout called FAFO; its creators assert that “the amount of fucking around you’re willing to do is directly proportional to the amount of finding out you’ll accomplish.”
FAFO sweatshirt via Shithead SteveAITA
Runner-up, acronym/initialism of the year
The initialism for “Am I the Asshole?” received 47 votes to FAFO’s 177, putting it in second place in the category. It has gained prominence from a popular Reddit forum in which questioners ask the online audience to determine whether they are at fault in a particular situation.
LFG
Honorable mention, acronym/initialism of the year
I admit I was a little surprised to see the initialism for Let’s Fucking Go! among this year’s nominations: I associate it with the 2020 election season, when U.S. senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren made it her unofficial slogan. (See my January 2020 post.) Spelled out or shortened, it’s an exhortation to action, and it came in third in its category.
Cunty
Nominee, most useful/most likely to succeed
Cunty was one of two nominees in this category that originated in LGBTQ ballroom culture. (The other was mother as a term of endearment.) It’s an example of word reclamation: Whereas cunty has historically meant unpleasant or disagreeable, it may now mean “having an audaciously exceptional appearance or displaying fierce femininity.” For more on the C-word, see Michael Adams’s 2016 guest post, “Making Friends with ‘Cunt’.”
Assholocene
Nominee, most creative word of the year
Here’s what I wrote about assholocene in my own words-of-the-year post, on Substack:
Technically speaking, the era we’re living in is the Holocene, a word coined in 1897 from Greek words meaning “entirely new.” But thanks to enshittification you could also call it something bleaker, as Kyle Chayka reported in a “2023 in Review” essay for the New Yorker. What new label could we apply to “our chaotic historical moment”? Chayka’s suggestions include “the Terrible Twenties, the Long 2016, the Age of Emergency, Cold War II, the Omnishambles, the Great Burning, and” — my favorite — “the Assholocene.” I don’t often give thumbs-up to a portmanteau, but this one is a pretty great blend. The earliest citation I’ve found is from a June 25, 2023, Urban Dictionary entry: “the current period of human history in which people in power tend to be assholes.”
See all of the ADS WotY nominations here. Were any important words overlooked? Let us know in a comment.
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For some background on how words of the year are chosen by the ADS and other voting bodies, see my January 2023 story for Medium, “Words of the Year, In and Out.”
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2024/01/07/the-sweary-wotys/
#AITA #assholocene #cunty #enshittify #eshittification #FAFO #LFG
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What I had hoped was: I buy the ebook, get the ePub file, can upload to #ReadwiseReader on my devices, highlight the sucker as I see fit, and then easily be able to access all the highlights/notes from wherever.
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Bummed to find out that while Bookshop.org allows you to buy ebooks in ePub format, you don't actually get access to the file itself for download and use unless it's DRM-free.
Had hoped to find an alternative to purchasing eBooks from Amazon/Kindle and support stores/writers more meaningfully. But nope. Need to use the Bookshop iOS/Android app to read the sucker. Just a different lock-in.
For durable ownership, paper books are apparently still the primary way to go.
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Google is removing #chat and call history features from Business Profiles, feature will cease to exist from August onwards, no new chats starting July 15, backup old chats by July 31.
I don't know how many companies I've talked to via #Google Search and #GoogleMaps integrated chats, esp first contact
Small businesses will feel this
Google continues to kill its products, with Google Podcasts being the latest sacrifice for YouTube Music integration. #eshittification
https://www.androidpolice.com/google-business-profile-chat-history-death/
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I broke my #1 software rule... Wait a week to upgrade to see about bugs and user satisfaction.
Full of bugs and useless #eshittification
Luckily I did a full backup and can start over from scratch and restore.
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2/ YouTube's been experimenting with ads that play while your video is paused
They won't be happy until they make ad money off of breathing.
Over the last few months they have increased ads so much, that my usage of YouTube is significantly less. It's too annoying. I had a 30 second no-skip ad for 7 second clip the other day. I already didn't use it as much as others.
Hopefully more fediverse platforms expand content.
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Microsoft will remove the current built-in PDF viewer from Edge in early 2025 and is now rolling out the new Adobe Acrobat PDF experience to regular Edge users.
You can switch by navigating to the edge://flags page and enabling the "New PDF Viewer" flag. Note that turning it on will also place an "Edit with Adobe" ad promoting the Adobe Acrobat subscription ($15.59 per month when paid annually). #eshittification
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-will-remove-the-old-pdf-viewer-from-edge-in-early-2025/
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Ever since the #OneUI security and "enhancement" update the other day, my Samsung phone has been crashing. I've never experienced a phone crash and I've been using smartphones for over a decade
Everything closes &the UI reloads
Security updates I can understand, but "enhancement" updates that make your phone useless because it crashes all the time, esp on a phone that's a little older? Come on. I think they do this to force us to get new hardware
Mine was doing the job for me #eshittification
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#LinaKhan is about BIZness! #Amazon #Eshittification #monopoly https://progressivegrocer.com/ftc-goes-after-amazon?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=adreanalangstonpost&utm_campaign=PG_NL_BreakingNews&mkt_tok=ODI1LUxTUC01NDUAAAGOcX7nBmAvfYEqrAMZLyCSgZeZBUs_NbzTHG1y5p1Y-udvyALUpeiPIIRG0Yc44FDWSV8yE1SQmRsoLCSoSyVdi8eKq3kuI8MnG7q4GqmaTA @pluralistic
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What I had hoped was: I buy the ebook, get the ePub file, can upload to #ReadwiseReader on my devices, highlight the sucker as I see fit, and then easily be able to access all the highlights/notes from wherever.
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What I had hoped was: I buy the ebook, get the ePub file, can upload to #ReadwiseReader on my devices, highlight the sucker as I see fit, and then easily be able to access all the highlights/notes from wherever.
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What I had hoped was: I buy the ebook, get the ePub file, can upload to #ReadwiseReader on my devices, highlight the sucker as I see fit, and then easily be able to access all the highlights/notes from wherever.
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What I had hoped was: I buy the ebook, get the ePub file, can upload to #ReadwiseReader on my devices, highlight the sucker as I see fit, and then easily be able to access all the highlights/notes from wherever.