Today's links
- Monopolists are winning the repair wars: Again.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: microsoft
Pluralistic: 28 Oct 2020
Today's links
- RIAA's war on youtube-dl: The rise of the resistance.
- Trump abandons supporters to freeze: More death cult shit.
- This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 12 Sep 2020
Today's links
- Bill Gates's monopolistic mask-off moment: "What's a murder?"
- This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 10 Jul 2020
Today's links
- Homebrew dongles let hospitals fix ventilators: You forgot Poland.
- Teddy Ruxpin and the Haunted Mansion: Ken Forsse's miniature Sid and Marty Krofft haunted house.
- Dataminr helped cops spy on protesters with Twitter: And then they split the most idiotic hairs imaginable over it.
- Police militarization has a business-model: The unstoppable force of excess rents and Beltway Bandits.
- How Finspy protects itself from security researchers: Despots' malware, wrapped in spaghetti code and VMs.
- Clamshell currency: Pismo Beach's solution to the bank holiday of 1933.
- Macron demands national database of porn preferences: Comment dit kompromat en Français?
- This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 19 Jun 2020
Today's links
- Trump wants to dismantle the OTF: Replacing open, auditable tech freedom tools with closed, untrustable ones.
- Algonuts: A bottomless, mutated machine learning Peanuts strip.
- Trump's covid "test-tubes" are contaminated miniature soda bottles: The Art of the Deal.
- Avia, c'est mort: France kills a catastrophic "anti-terror" censorship law.
- Austerity in disrepute: Vast majority of Americans favor continued or expanded unemployment benefits.
- Microsoft criticizes Apple's monopolism: They're the experts, after all.
- This day in history: 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading