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danielpinchbeck.substack.com/p

The Great #Hallucination
What happens when you can no longer trust anything?
Daniel #Pinchbeck

..."While the hallucination problem is getting worse for unknown reasons, the world‘s most powerful #technology companies such as Google and Microsoft rush to insert #AI agents and Chatbots in almost everything. The whole #Internet is being rapidly reconfigured – #enshittified – around AI. We now know that AI is incredibly unreliable. Instead of this pro"...

Liminal News With Daniel Pinchbeck · The Great HallucinationBy Daniel Pinchbeck

Cool. Canon Camera Connect was apparently #enshittified some time in the last months 😐

What, before, was a bearable app to remotely control my camera's shutter and note importantly check the viewfinder is now a piece of garbage I will not touch again.

Time to dust off my old remote shutter cable, I guess. FFS.

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@kobilacroix @katja I use a #ThinkPad-style #Trackpoint integrated in the 65% #Keyboard but since #Lenovo #enshittified that, #TEX is selling good alternatives...

And yes, I'm mad the KU-1255 was discontinued for a 3x expensive version just so Lenovo doesn't have to offer a wired version and a bluetooth version.

If you can, try a trackpoint espechally when you're more typing than mousing...

I've written a couple of connected blog posts across my blogs today, about my anger and frustration at Big Tech and LLMs wrecking open communities and making the Dark Forest internet more likely. Hopefully this isn't just me but it's been bottled up for a bit.

The angry part is over here: alextheward.com/blog/big-tech-

The "What am I doing about it" part is here: cthonicstudios.com/ttrpgs-as-c

alextheward.comBig Tech is Wrecking Community
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The latest #Pebble blog post reminds me of why I’m backing this project: ericmigi.com/blog/gratitude-an

On the one hand, Pebble proved to the world that smartwatches are a thing, and now there are several out there, but most are slick, locked-down things.

The new Pebble is a scrappy, tiny company, building a watch that is specifically open-source, extensible and repairable, with the visible-in-sunlight screen and massive battery life I love. It's nicely anti-#enshittified

ericmigi.comGratitude and FAQGratitude and FAQ
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@david yeah, every #car after 2016 is #enshittified like that!

Does it also nag you about databsharing like a #Peugeot2008 ?
infosec.space/@kkarhan/1130551

Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)Attached: 1 image RANT: Yet another reason why I'll never buy a new car in my life - I had a rental (#Peugeot2008) which is one of these garbage *"#Crossover" / #SuperUselessVehicles* that are *PHAT* outside but crammed af inside due to a needlessly *W I D E* center console and barely adjustable driver seat and steering wheel. - This car is basically impossible to reverse without staring at it's backup camera as it has a giant-ass deadzone behind it. - It's shitty front allows children to hide even easier than the rear and makes parking even more stressful But what made my blood boil is the obnoxiousness with which it's shitty tablet decided to randomly (!), whilst driving >50km/h to just pop up a demand for #tracking bs, offering only "allow" and "later" instead of a "no thanks" / "don't ask me again" option. - Shit like this can literally *kill* people as they fiddle around trying to dismiss it. - I had it pop up 2x (!) within 5 mins (!!) on the same (!!!) trip [not pulling ignition key!] And at the 2nd time decided to pull over to document this shit. This kind of #Enshittification in the form of a #Car comitting an *"Exhaustion Attack"* against it's *own driver* needs to be outlawed, not mandated! Cc: @bmdv@social.bund.de @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu / @EU_Commission@respublicae.eu #Peugeot #Cars #Downgrade #Downdate #UI #UX #DarkPatterns #ExhaustionAttack #InfoSec #OpSec #ComSec #Privacy #ITsec

I am on the verge of buying an e-ink screen for an #esp32 board and start a vendetta against #garmin by making a foretrex of my own that will be used as an #aprs/lora and whatnot terminal besides navigation.

While #foretrex is still the least #enshittified device Garmin makes, it having bluetooth and can do crap with it drives me crazy. My radio, my gps, my pc have BT and non can talk to each other.

What do you think?

#gps#gnss#gis