@EvilCartyen Great point. That's another thing that's been enshittified on us. You made me think to check. Even though I've fought off all the AI I can on my phone and never update it, they could still sneak it in. But 'Automatic HDR' and 'colour optimising' are still turned off and I can't see any other unwanted 'enhancement' features, so I think I'm ok for now. Thanks for reminding me of this.

@EvilCartyen Same here - hefting a real camera around is too troublesome. The pocketable one sounds good. I'm even lazier than that. I don't even want a light-weight pocket-sized camera. I can't explain it rationally, but I just snap randomly on the fly and if I had an actual camera, it would feel like homework.

@EvilCartyen That is striking. It's decades since I used a proper camera. I like the freedom of quickly fishing 'the camera I have' up from my pocket for a second when something randomly catches my eye. But there is a difference between a snapshot and a real camera photo, definitely.

@EvilCartyen That seems to be the consensus, right enough. I like this explanation because then I don't have to blame my bad posture. Or the tree's.

I know it's rude to brag, but I saw a nice shadow

Is that tree lopsided or am I?

The first 117 days of this week have been uncooperative and unChristmassy, but on the plus side, I saw a nice umlaut.

@svedigtype Tak! Siger jeg, som om jeg var super-månen

Glædelig mandag. The shortest days lie ahead, but so does Christmas. Here's a postcard from ⁨#Aarhus⁩, just to wish you a good week with light & bright spots.

@svedigtype Også mig

An Amazon AI chatbot that sums up the book you are reading while you are reading it. While trampling over the writer’s rights.

“Ask This Book."

“Your expert reading assistant, instantly answering questions about plot details, character relationships, and thematic elements without disrupting your reading flow.”

Enshittification is too polite a word for all this.

#Books #Bookstodon
#Enshittification #AI

https://writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/kindles-new-gen-ai-powered-ask-this-book-feature-raises-rights-concerns/

@malte We can request a title through the library's local website or (if an eReolen non-Danish-language title) by tagging it in Libby. I've also suggested titles by mail and, still my favourite method, just asking the nearest librarian in person when I'm in the library. Like Santy, they register wishes while you wait.

Specifically Enshittification: I requested both the ebook & audiobook in case only one would be chosen. Both editions are now in stock. (Aarhus bibloteks side vist her.)

@malte It does!

32 people in the queue at a Danish library for an English-language non-fiction book about why everything about online technology has got worse and what we can do about it.

Anecdotally, this feels like a sign that our consciousnesses (can that word be a plural?) have been raised. Kudos to Cory Doctorow and to everyone who is trying to do something about it while making ordinary non-tech end-users like me aware of the problem in the first place.

#Enshittification

When I reserved it, I was no. 3 in the queue. Lucky there, I assume, because I got an immediate notification when it was made available as I had put in a purchase request. I need to read it quickly now because the library app shows that there are 32 people in the queue and I don't want to keep my fellow readers waiting.

In September, I put in a purchase request for Enshittification at the library. In October, I was notified that Aarhus library now has it in stock. I reserved the audiobook. I just got a notification that it's ready for me to borrow. In one click, I have borrowed it. The library's simple, free, reader-oriented process is like the opposite of enshittification.

#Books #Libraries
#Enshittification

'Post pending. We’re waiting on the person who wrote the original toot to give their consent.’

This shouldn’t feel so revolutionary, but it does. Slow social media. Considerate social media. Social media conversations by consent. A new feature that actually makes something better. The opposite of enshittification. Kudos to the Mastodon developers.

@EvilCartyen Some of it is ideal for a podcast or audiobook, which is the upside. I haven't decided what to listen to yet, so thanks for the recommendation!

I have a practical householdy thing to do today that is going to take hours. I need to stop procrastitooting. If you see me tooting in here the rest of the day, please tell me to go away and get on with the job. I may slip in the odd Boost on a tea break, though, that's allowed. Here's a picture of a window, just to keep me going.

@randahl @jwcph Yes. That's how I use it too. Perhaps we need to just introduce it into English in direct translation. 'A nearby thought' is clear in context and fills the hole you've discovered in the English language. We can just start using it and dare them to stop us. Like I use the phrase Småtingsafdelingen in English. 'Ah, no matter, that belongs in the Department of Small Things.' It just fits some situations better than English equivalents and everyone knows what I mean.