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Inside: The AI fatfinger economy has come for my receipts app; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/04/genius-scan-is-neither/
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I just jumped from LineageOS to GrapheneOS and was just about to re-install Genius Scanner which I also use a lot when I read the Pluralistic article about it. I will go and fish the old app from my old phone and go my merry way with the non-enshittified version I think - or is there a "latest non crap" APK version we can keep to archive?
I did a round up of ALL the scanner apps on f-droid when camscanner jumped the shark years ago, and they were all rubbish. So I went to Genius scanner. Have things got better since then??
I just tried fairscan and it worked well first go (unlike any of the ones I tried on f-droid years ago) and produced an OK PDF - the old Genius Scan v7.15.1 apk I fished off my old phone may be slightly better but they are close enough it doesn't matter. cool.
The AI fatfinger economy has come for my receipts app: Every heretofore useful button now summons a useless AI genie.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117558006008197927
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Hey look at this
* Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/google-search-schools-restrict-ai.html
* Private Credit's State Backstop: How Private Equity Socializes Risk Through Insurers https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7152239
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#20yrsago Army Times: Rumsfeld must go! https://web.archive.org/web/20061107220242/http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110406Z.shtml
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#15yrsago Judge whose daughter released video of him beating her suspended from bench during judicial investigation https://web.archive.org/web/20111105234141/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_VIDEOTAPED_BEATING_TEXAS
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@pluralistic
"Last week, I got a painful reminder of the progress of the fatfinger economy outside of Graphene's utopian pocket-universe. I make extensive use of an app called "Genius Scanner..."
No, please.
Just use F-droid to download FairScan or something like this!