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Questa è una vecchia storia tecnologica: avevo un amico a cui era stato affidato lo streaming live di uno spettacolo di premiazione canadese agli albori del web. Hanno prenotato più linee ISDN da Bell Canada e hanno allestito un’imponente stazione di codifica Mbone sulle quinte del palco. Solo un problema: gli ISDN si sono...

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Police boosters insist that police violence and corruption are the result of "a few bad apples." As the saying goes, "a few bad apples spoil the bushel." If you think there are just a few bad cops on the force, then you should want to get rid of them before they wreck the whole institution. Bodycams could empirically identify...

Here’s the “Privacy First” pitch: whatever is going on with all of the problems of the internet, all of these problems are made worse by commercial surveillance....

Cory Doctorow pisze o DRM-ach i tym, że to nie najważniejsza w uniemożliwianiu napraw nie jest technologia (którą można analizować / badać) tylko prawo, które zabrania tego badania. I ogólnie o tym całym bajzlu zamykania technologii przez producentów, jak to ostatnio widzieliśmy w przypadku wyłączania pociągów....

The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

Not all ads are created equally sleazy. The privacy harms from surveillance ads, though real, are often hard to pin down. But there's another kind of ad – or "ad" that picks your pocket every time you use an ecommerce site....

Last week’s spectacular OpenAI soap-opera hijacked the attention of millions of normal, productive people and nonsensually crammed them full of the fine details of the debate between “Effective Altruism” (doomers) and “Effective Accelerationism” (AKA e/acc), a genuinely absurd debate that was allegedly at the center of...

This is from internet darling and guru Cory Doctorow, so the link will be everywhere, and I try to avoid links like that — but this one’s too good to be missed. Dr Doctorow has ideas for how to replace the shitty ad-driven internet that’s all about money, and remake it as something better.

Cory Doctorow educating us on the facts of Jezebel’s closure.

The idea that a company can do anything to create or perpetuate a monopoly so long as its prices go down and/or its quality goes up is directly to blame for the rise of Big Tech. These companies burned through their investors’ cash for years, selling goods and services below cost, or even giving stuff away for free. Think of...