Pluralistic: Apple fucked us on right to repair (again) (22 Sept 2023)

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Apple fucked us on right to repair (again): "Parts-pairing" is a scam.
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Pluralistic: Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher (15 May 2023)

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Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher: Dublin is a made town.
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Pluralistic: We should ban TikTok('s surveillance) (30 Mar 2023)

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We should ban TikTok('s surveillance): And Google's, Apple's, and Facebook's surveillance, too.
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Pluralistic: When Facebook came for your battery, feudal security failed (05 Feb 2023)

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When Facebook came for your battery, feudal security failed: A tale of whistleblowers, security through obscurity, and binding arbitration.
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Pluralistic: How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store (21 Dec 2022)

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How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store: …and what we should do about it.
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Pluralistic: 14 Nov 2022 Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product

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Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product: Incentives matter, but impunity matters more.
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Pluralistic: 11 Nov 2022 Apple's business model made Chinese oppression inevitable

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Apple's business model made Chinese oppression inevitable: A photon torpedo on the bridge in Act I will go off by Act III.
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Pluralistic: 10 Nov 2022 Amazon and Apple have an illegal price-fixing conspiracy

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Amazon and Apple have an illegal price-fixing conspiracy: The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Pluralistic: 17 Jun 2022

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Facebook's right, Apple is too powerful: And so is Facebook.
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Pluralistic: 30 May 2022

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Podcasting "Apple's Cement Overshoes": Thinking different about right to repair.
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