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A many-armed pulp science fiction robot pins a giant finger using its spiked appendages. In the background is an architectural rendering of a grand 16th century city.

2026-11-04 03:57:54

pluralistic@mamot.fr

Today's threads (a thread)

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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2026-11-04 03:58:42

Cory Doctorow

pluralistic@mamot.fr

Long thread/2

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2026-11-04 04:25:48

deny

sposadelvento@mastodon.uno

@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!

2026-11-04 05:53:46

FKA ZOG

zog@jauntygoat.net

@sposadelvento @pluralistic

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??