Ok so to turn off the fucking wordpress "steal my stuff" option, go to admin page of your blog, click on settings, then scroll till you find "Prevent third-party sharing for (blog url)"
#wordpress #tumblr #plagiarism #theft #noAI #orphanCrushingMachine #enshittification
More #enshittification, this time by #WordPress. After being able to view my stats for more than 20 years on my WordPress sites, I now need to pay $8.34/month for the privilege of contining to do so.
Pardon me, but FUCK THAT.
I guess it's time to completely uninstall #JetPack. Anyone have a suggestion for stats monitoring on a WordPress self-hosted blog?
Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to #StackOverflow because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their #ASR code wasn't working, or assist with a #CUDA bug.
Now that a deal has been struck with #OpenAI to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train #GenerativeAI models, like #LLMs, without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.
https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/
The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an #LLM and sold back to me.
In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.
Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's #enshittification.
Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create #GenAI solutions.
The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?
While this is just one more example of #enshittification, it's also a salient lesson for #DevRel folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.
LOL, it just gets better and better with Adobe. This is late-stage enshittification.
They've apparently run out of "AI" training data and now want access to every user's personal data for their AI.
If you don't accept the new TOS, you can't even get support or uninstall the software.
https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/06/change-to-adobe-terms-amp-conditions/
Adobe can go f**k itself. There are alternatives. I've switched to Affinity + other software - yes, it can be tricky. But better than continuing to use Adobe.
Dear mastodon,
My teenager did an uh-oh.
And now we need a new computer monitor.
Previously, we would search “best gaming monitors 2024”
But now I know that #enshittification is a thing, and I trust no-site.
Can you all please recommend a non- #AI generated evaluation of best value-for-money monitors website? #Reviews
Thank you, Humans 🙏!
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"…the one certain thing is that #OverDrive, from its monopoly position, has begun the cycle of purposeful #enshittification: making their platform worse for both #libraries and their patrons with the sole aim of further enriching some of the most rapacious, amoral capitalists on the planet."
#publiclibraries
https://ninelives.karawynnlong.com/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries/
