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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 days ago

https://3reality.com

Smart Garage Door Opener

The Verge

Chamberlain blocks smart home integrations with its garage door openers — again

More cause for RATGDO

WIRED

Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs

A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how.

Judge may force Vizio to share source code under GPL

: Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFC’s copyleft enforcement push

gregg r

@grheavyroller@mastodon.social replied · 2 days ago

@pluralistic It's also true that, as @pluralistic and Ed Zitron have said, Micro$oft and the rest of Big Tech are frantically building the world's heaviest airplane using AI balsa wood because they collectively will "need to make $2 trillion in brand new revenue, specifically from AI by 2030", which is simply not possible. (https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/)

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NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?

If you enjoy this free newsletter, why not subscribe to Where's Your Ed At Premium? It's $7 a month or $70 a year, and helps support me putting out these giant free newsletters! At the end of November, NVIDIA put out an internal memo (that was leaked to Barron's reporter

oscarfalcon

@oscarfalcon@mastodon.social replied · 2 days ago

@pluralistic

"and that workers' only real source of power isn't ephemeral scarcity, it's durable solidarity"... excellent point!

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · 2 days ago

I'm and the end of my tour for my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

My last two events are CCC in #Hamburg, Dec 27-30:
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/infos/index.html

and the Tattered Cover in #Denver, Jan 22:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937

I hope you can make it!

Eventbrite

Cory Doctorow Live at Tattered Cover Colfax

Join us for a great event with Cory Doctorow as we hear about his bestselling book: Enshittification.

39th Chaos Communication Congress Infos

Infos, news, links and more

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · 2 days ago

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · 2 days ago

https://3reality.com

Smart Garage Door Opener

The Verge

Chamberlain blocks smart home integrations with its garage door openers — again

More cause for RATGDO

WIRED

Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs

A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how.

Judge may force Vizio to share source code under GPL

: Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFC’s copyleft enforcement push

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · 2 days ago

https://torrentfreak.com

ACS:Law Take Alleged File-Sharers To Court – But Fail On a Grand Scale

Andrew Crossley, owner of the now infamous anti-piracy lawfirm ACS:Law, has always insisted that he has no fear of taking contested file-sharing cases to court. Now it has emerged that he recently tried to get a court to issue default judgments against individuals who offered no defense, but the hearing failed on so many levels its difficult to know where to start. Nevertheless, we'll have a go.

Can you grow cress in a keyboard??

Can you grow cress in a keyboard?

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Abusive New York Camera Store Threatens to Break Customer’s Neck

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · 2 days ago

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FBI's efforts to get John Lennon deported were undercut by Bureau's inability to tell hippies apart

John Lennon's sizable FBI file begins in the midst of his 1972 deportation battle with INS. While Lennon argued in court that the motive behind the deportation was political, the Bureau worked to secure a narcotics charge that would get him out of the country before the Republican National Convention that year.

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» EFF Demands Copyright Troll Pay for Suing Democratic Underground

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is demanding that the newspaper lawsuit factory Righthaven pay the EFF's costs for its successful defense of the

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