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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Apple fucked us on right to repair (again); and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/

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mike,
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@pluralistic Jobs was always about the walled garden. It's baked into Apple's DNA.

deadbeefmonster,

@mike @pluralistic indeed, always has been.

Personally, I'm just frustrated with the reduced resolution of images and videos with my Android friends as they get translated to SMS.

Apple is always a walled garden where you need to pay to play, or GTFO.

kurtseifried,

@mike @pluralistic walled with sharpshooters if you touch anything wrong https://opensourcesecurity.io/2018/12/17/episode-127-walled-gardens-appstores-and-more/ also 5 years. Damn.

hiramfromthechi,
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@mike @pluralistic I was optimistic about PWAs... 😓

iamlayer8,
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@pluralistic
It’s even worse than I thought

ErisCaffee,
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@pluralistic
Thank you for this. I've often felt at a loss to explain to people why I don't use Apple products, but this is a food introduction to the kind of company they really are.

Purple666,
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@pluralistic This was very interesting. Thank you

Cassandra,

@pluralistic
Isn't that a book burning in that fireplace?

pluralistic,
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Today (September 22), I'm (virtually) presenting at the in , Italy

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Tomorrow night, I'll be in person at 's for the launch of 's "The World Wasn’t Ready for You"

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On September 27, I'll be at Chevalier's Books in with for a joint launch for my new book The Internet Con and his new book, Blood in the Machine:

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Apple fucked us on right to repair (again): "Parts-pairing" is a scam.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111109750709398665

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pluralistic,
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Hey look at this

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pluralistic,
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New are criminally bad https://www.salon.com/2003/09/23/bev_harris/

Your chance to mark up the Wall Street bill https://web.archive.org/web/20080929041702/http://publicmarkup.org/

HankPaulson’s bailout 419 letter https://web.archive.org/web/20080923194140/https://www.thenation.com/blogs/jstreet/363133/bailout_satire

Stanford and Harvard b-school profs vs. https://news.slashdot.org/story/08/09/22/2254228/stanford-teaching-mbas-how-to-fight-open-source

Sexist pigs earn more than normal men https://www.science20.com/news_releases/old_fashioned_men_make_more_money_study

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pluralistic,
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Corrupted Science: the history, cause, effect and state of https://memex.craphound.com/2008/09/22/corrupted-science-the-history-cause-effect-and-state-of-bad-science/

claims it can unlock with fake fingers/cloned fingerprints https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid

Anonymous stock-market manipulators behind $20B+ of “mispricing” can be tracked by their writing styles https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3198384

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pluralistic,
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does a : " is charging Amazon so much money to run the business via Amazon that it has no choice but to take more money from streamers." https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/22/amazon-vs-amazon/#pray-i-dont-alter-it-further

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Yesterday's threads: "Efficiency" left the Big Three vulnerable to smart UAW tactics; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111103725263287723

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