Enshittification

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What is enshittification?

The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

The lifecycle of Big Internet

We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.

Embrace, extend and extinguish

We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.

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Google fucked a whole generation with Chromebooks, and now they're fucking the next generation with AI (slrpnk.net)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Is it your genuine belief that your schools would have computer instruction and big easily accessible labs if not for Chromebooks?

I remember "teach kids computers" as an educational panacea during the 80s/90s. It made Micheal Dell very rich, but often at the expense of the biology, chemistry, and physics lab programs. "Nobody knows how to use a blowtorch / dissect an animal / build an engine anymore" was a refrain I heard all the through my high school years.

Has eliminating computer labs brought back the old 70s era Space Race science programs? Or are we still just boiling away ever ounce of the public system that costs money (except athletics, of course)?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I was simply stating why the kids only know Chromebooks. Many poor communities, mine and myself included, have households that don't have computers at home.

The schools give each kid a Chromebook at the beginning of the year. So it's the only computer access these kids get.

There isn't instruction on how PCs work on a base level in my kids middle school, and no computer lab to experiment with. So they only know how to navigate Chromebooks, because that's their access level

And I mean, They got rid of home economics for the computer lab back when I was a kid. I don't understand why you brought up the 70s or whatever, I'm aware times and education instruction changes sure, you don't need to be rude.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The schools give each kid a Chromebook at the beginning of the year. So it’s the only computer access these kids get.

Plenty of kids have access to desktops and laptops through their parents. Libraries also have computer labs with traditional PCs.

There isn’t instruction on how PCs work on a base level in my kids middle school

I've never heard of a school that provided middle school computer education outside of small elective classes, and even those only in wealthier districts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I don't know many of my son's peers, who do have a pc at home.

I had computer instruction in middle school while attending a title 1 rural school. Idk

Maybe both things are true. Wasn't trying to argue or "be proven wrong" just stating why many children may only know Chromebook use, and it's not thier fault