What the actual fuck @fedora !!!!!

AI????? I thought we as a community were better than this...

#enshittification #Linux #FedoraLinux #Fedora

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/strategy-2028-april-2024-update/

Fedora Strategy 2028: April 2024 Update – Fedora Community Blog

from Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller, on behalf of the Fedora Council First, a personal note! As you may have seen, I was out sick with Covid for a month after getting home from our annual Council face-to-face meeting.

^{Matthew Miller (Fedora Project)}

"If we don't write content tailored to the algorithm, no one will see our work.”

If you are specifically writing content for the algorithm, nobody needs to see your work.

#enshittification #SEO #ContentFarming

Can someone remind me what I am meant to think about #Bkuesky? I can't be bothered to get an account and work it out for myself.

#SurveillanceCapitalism
#PlatformCapitalism
#DataPrivacy
#Enshittification

Programs that make you break your blog post up into 33 posts

#Enshittification #Mastodon

From 2015 to 2022, I spent hundreds of hours on Duolingo, translating articles, answering language questions on the forums, and helping to improve the smaller courses by reporting mistakes.

There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo: the course creators who wrote their courses, the volunteers who created grammar guides (some smaller languages had an entire second course in the forums), the wiki contributors, the native speakers who answered questions in the sentence discussions.

All of their work made Duolingo the powerhouse it is today. Duo was built by a community who believed in its original mission: language learning should be free and accessible.

Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company. And now that work is being fed into their AI as training data.

Well, I've learned the true lesson of Duolingo: never give a corporation your labour for free. Don't ever trust them, no matter what they say. Eventually greed will consume any good intentions.

#duolingo #languagelearning #enshittification #capitalism

Just had a thoroughly dystopian online chat with a computer at HMRC where it failed to even offer me basic information on the correct topic, despite me telling them what the topic was in a very succinct manner.

It wouldn't have helped, as I've already read that, but it would have at least felt like it was potentially achieving something.

Fuck this future, I want my jet pack.

#enshittification

Aaaaand I just saw for the first time in the wild "#e14n". Took me a bit to figure out it was for "#enshittification". 🤣

#memorandum