So its now the “land of the free to arrest and deport anyone as ICE sees fit”.

Finnish Post has decided to start using your data for service planning and development. What for? Well of course for "personalized content and targeted advertising". This is opt-in by default.

"My data may be used for service planning and development, as well as for delivering personalized content and targeted advertising using profiling.
Profiling refers to automated processing of personal data where the information is used to evaluate personal characteristics, such as interests or service usage. The purpose of profiling is to enhance the customer experience and ensure that the customer receives relevant and interesting recommendations and services."

Notably for some reason this is separate from "Marketing consents" and is enabled by default.

You can turn off this option at: https://my.account.posti.fi/settings

I am seriously considering getting rid of Curve app and the card. Their system has randomly blocked the card three times now. In all cases, the payments were ones that have been occurring monthly for years now. It doesn't help that the customer support is behind a useless AI chatbot, so getting the card unfrozen is a chore. This thing is getting more trouble than it's worth.

We've made #America Great! We're now living in #Russia.

#Oligarchs-led #MAGA #enshittification is #equalOpportunity — screwing #customers & #gigWorkers alike

She phoned #Lyft that night looking for answers. In that initial call they told her this was something Lyft was piloting. A week later she received a message from a member of the company which blamed it on the driver for recording her without her consent and said "proper actions" were taken against the driver

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/lyft-conversation-transcribed-1.7508106

How YouTube harms creators https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250414/ #YouTube #Enshittification

Fun #enshittification artefact arising from the Carole Cadwalladr talk, “This is what a digital coup looks like”.

In it she rightly says:

“We have to learn how to digitally disobey”

and includes as an example

“Don’t accept the cookies”.

And if on iOS you block cookies and then go to https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like

…the page doesn’t load its content except for a thumbnail of her talk and no video player.

That, and that Ted are inviting Sam Altman tells us quite a lot

Fucking #ANZ has embraced #enshittification and has added #google to it's banking app.

Now I can't pay my rent or transfer money because I can't "verify" because #google can't "secure my device".

Data rape = security according to google!

To "verify" manually I need to fucking use microsoft teams.

Fuck you #anzbank give me my money, WITHOUT sending MY DATA to microsoft or google!

> Meta Says Its Latest AI Model Is Less Woke, More Like Elon’s Grok
https://gizmodo.com/meta-says-its-latest-ai-model-is-less-woke-more-like-elons-grok-2000587772

Translation: They're training it to be bigoted, RWNJ model like Eli Cologne's piece of shit #AI. And Zuck is busy lamiendo #PendejoInChief culo.

For some reason, Apple Maps is showing my arrival time in UTC but the local time everywhere else.

Siri also can’t tell me what the current UTC time is unless I enable ChatGPT.

One fundamental thing I wish was in more disability writings about AI, for example, this unquestioningly PR hype by @steven_aquino gets so close to hitting on the point I wish more would tackle. Even with the best technology, we're still disabled. This is ultimately why I find Techno Ableism to be particularly misleading. To be clear, he isn't peddling techno Ableism, but many in the blind community do. When this tech moves behind an expensive paywall, which, it will, the bandage for societies inaccessibility will be locked behind a steep paywall and I wish more examined what happens when #Enshittification comes for AI and how society and ableism haven't changed. https://www.curbcuts.co/blog/2025-4-9-googles-april-pixel-drop-shows-how-ai-can-be-more-transformative-than-trivial-pursuit #AI #AIHype

Breaking: Tim Cook announces new Public Viewing Platform at #Apple Campus.

Staff will be able to peer over their walled garden and see non believers scrabbling to survive.

That Plant in the White House is really paying dividends.

Also a question: will Unicorn Tears and Rainbows escape tariffs?

Why I use #Bittorrent

https://mastodon.social/@dtgeek/114326703091612101

#Komoot fängt wohl schon an zu zerbröseln. Seit etwa 4 Tagen zeigt die Startseite nicht mehr an, wenn meine engsten FreundInnen und sonstige Gefolgte eine neue Tour gemacht haben (Benachrichtigungen bekomme ich eh selten, trotz korrekter Settings). Umgekehrt scheint es ebenso zu sein – ich mache die tollsten Touren, und es gibt keinerlei Reaktionen. Der Support reagiert auch noch nicht. Erlebt ihr auch so komische Sachen?

Oh, also: I can't plug it into my Mac & forgo "pairing" (or whatever the fuck they call it) to just let it charge while keeping it at hand & not having to bring the wallwart charger to the table, because then both laptop & phone go into a fugue state where they just keep spawning dialog boxes until the heat death of the universe, no matter how many time you click "Cancel" on them...

https://helvede.net/@jwcph/114324986265676147 #apple #iphone #Mac #ux #enshittification

This sort of user-hostile, #privacy-destroying #enshittification is the reason why #Microsoft is the most hated, least trusted #bigtech company after #Meta

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/microsoft-is-putting-privacy-endangering-recall-back-into-windows-11/