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#E14n
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Michael Dexter<p>In the future, every computer notification mechanism will show new notifications, even if none exist.</p><p>Especially on web sites you have never visited.</p><p><a href="https://bsd.network/tags/E14N" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>E14N</span></a></p>
C.<p>Cory Doctorow's (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span>) blog post for today is a speech he gave last night at the University of Toronto, the annual Ursula Franklin Lecture at Innis College.</p><p>It's worth reading:</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/urs</span><span class="invisible">ula-franklin/</span></a></p><p>It connects the dots between anti-circumvention copyright laws like the USA's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (and the Canadian copycat legislation) and the enshittification that ensues when Big Tech does ... well, practically anything. There's a specific example he uses that is horrifying. He also shows exactly how Big Tech has escaped what he identifies as the usual four factors for keeping the worst instincts of companies in check.</p><p>I agree with him that we should annul the anti-circumvention law on the books, and would go further in saying that we should explicitly enshrine in law the rights to alter, repair, remove etc. any functionality of products and services that we choose to use. I was one of the original 6,000 Canadians who submitted comments warning against the implementation of these restrictions to our government at the time, and my feelings in support of this are stronger than ever.</p><p>Give it a read.</p><p>Attached image: I think this is probably overdue.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/CoryDoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoryDoctorow</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/DMCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DMCA</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/circumvention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>circumvention</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AntiCircumvention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiCircumvention</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/DRM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DRM</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/e14n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>e14n</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>speech</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/UniversityOfToronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityOfToronto</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/InnisCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InnisCollege</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/DigitalLock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalLock</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/RightToRepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightToRepair</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a></p>
C.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Featherwatt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Featherwatt</span></a></span> </p><p>Yup. I still buy ebooks - but only from places that sell them with zero DRM, in open formats, so I can read them on whatever-the-hell device I'll have in forty years' time.</p><p>Publishers (and Amazon/booksellers) destroying the usability of their products with DRM are trying to speedrun the music business's failure to capitalize on new sales channels in the digital age.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/DRM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DRM</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/e14n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>e14n</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MakingItWorse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MakingItWorse</span></a></p>
C.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://nsinteger.com/@zacwest" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>zacwest</span></a></span> </p><p>Oops, me too. Even when I had Kindles rather than a Kobo, I never used their wireless delivery - I want files I can back up, that can't disappear from my device without my permission.</p><p>Thanks for the heads-up!</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/DRM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DRM</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/e14n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>e14n</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ebook</span></a></p>
gittaca<p>From <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/InnerSourcing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InnerSourcing</span></a> to <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/InnerShittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InnerShittification</span></a>: When org-internal software is being evolved to accommodate the whims of some rare few, instead of the needs of its daily users.</p><p>Oh, right! That's already called <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/EnterpriseSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnterpriseSoftware</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/e14n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>e14n</span></a></p>
C.<p>Ever since <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/SoftBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoftBank</span></a> bought <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ARM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ARM</span></a>, it was apparent that ARM would follow the same crash dive as every other tech thing that <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PrivateEquity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrivateEquity</span></a> buys. You have to squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, to try to achieve the impossible "double-digit growth, every quarter, forever" that investors demand.</p><p>It takes a long time to fully destroy a company this way - vendor lockin and switching costs mean a lot of big customers are trapped, grit their teeth, and keep paying the trolls' tolls. But it does happen - "first slowly, then quickly".</p><p>Today marks the day for the start of this process with ARM.<br><a href="https://www.fudzilla.com/news/60388-arm-plans-massive-price-hike" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fudzilla.com/news/60388-arm-pl</span><span class="invisible">ans-massive-price-hike</span></a></p><p>Just leaving it here for the history books. It's a good day for every RISC-V company.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/squeeze" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>squeeze</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/investors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>investors</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/e14n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>e14n</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>competition</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/RiscV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RiscV</span></a></p>
Michael Dexter<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://bsd.network/@dch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dch</span></a></span> Well, this evening, DoorDash placed me across the street. <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/E14N" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>E14N</span></a></p>
C.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.ca/@chad" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>chad</span></a></span> </p><p>M&M Food Market was acquired by Parkland Corporation in 2022. After time to complete paperwork, merge management, and do some company analysis, now would be about the perfect time for changes introduced by new management to be in full swing and reaching the buying public. <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> at work.</p><p>They're not a VC firm, but they are a giant conglomerate with fingers in lots of retail areas, so not much better.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/acquisition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>acquisition</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/acquire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>acquire</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/e14n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>e14n</span></a></p>
C.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> </p><p>I find it helps to just mentally add the "... for now." to the end of every claim a company makes about a proprietary service.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ForNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForNow</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/eventually" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eventually</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/e14n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>e14n</span></a></p>
KrisBuytaert<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jpmens" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jpmens</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/e14n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>e14n</span></a></p>
KrisBuytaert<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jpmens" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jpmens</span></a></span> welcome to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/e14n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>e14n</span></a> :(</p>
KrisBuytaert<p>Maybe it's time for t-shirts that say "Stop <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/e14n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>e14n</span></a>"</p>
Philipp Krenn<p>I learned a new numeronym today: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/e14n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>e14n</span></a> 😅<br>hint: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshitti</span><span class="invisible">fication</span></a></p>
KrisBuytaert<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@xeraa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>xeraa</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/e14n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>e14n</span></a> :(</p>
C.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dangillmor</span></a></span> </p><p>I have used Firefox exclusively since ... well, since Firefox was born out of the ashes of Netscape.</p><p>However, they are unfortunately going down the road of <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/e14n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>e14n</span></a>, becoming an <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/advertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>advertising</span></a> company and adding, well, advertising crap to Firefox, and turning it on by default.</p><p>I can see a switch away from Firefox in the not-too-distant-future, if management there doesn't come to its senses soon.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ads</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>browser</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mozilla</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a></p>
KrisBuytaert<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/e14n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>e14n</span></a> of our industry is so painful to watch :(</p>
Ben Cox<p>Every word of this <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> talk.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/4EmstuO0Em8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/4EmstuO0Em8</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>It took me a couple of hours to watch; I kept having to pause and rewind because had I missed something while shouting amen and pumping my fist in the air.</p><p><a href="https://pgh.social/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://pgh.social/tags/E14n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>E14n</span></a></p>
Michael Dexter<p>I totally forgot the <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/e14n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>e14n</span></a> hashtag.</p>
C.<p>But that's only the first recent 3 examples that came to mind, and I ran out of space.</p><p>I'm sure users (and engineers!) in the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Fedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fedi</span></a> have all kinds of other examples they could add here...</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/UserHostile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UserHostile</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/e14n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>e14n</span></a></p>
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