Oddbean new post about login | logout #10yrsago #DRM standards, the harmonica version https://fleasnobbery.blogspot.com/2013/10/harmonica.html #10yrsago #Firefox bug: “Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM” https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=923590 #10yrsago London School of Economics: #piracy isn’t killing big content; government needs to be skeptical of entertainment industry claims https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-isnt-hurting-the-entertainment-industry-121003/ #5yrsago New Macbooks and Imacs will brick themselves if they think they’re being repaired by an independent technician https://www.vice.com/en/article/yw9qk7/macbook-pro-software-locks-prevent-independent-repair 5/ https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/111/177/544/114/853/157/original/de69553502028fdb.png
#5yrsago Advisor quits Google Toronto’s “#SmartCity” project over privacy concerns https://www.vice.com/en/article/3km74w/google-smart-city-in-toronto-advisor-resigns-data-privacy #5yrsago Tomorrow: come to our University of Chicago seminar on #Renaissance #censorship and #InternetCensorship https://voices.uchicago.edu/censorship/dialogueseries/ #5yrsago America’s cities sue #FCC for handing billions in municipal subsidy to wireless carriers https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/cities-will-sue-fcc-to-stop-2-billion-giveaway-to-wireless-carriers/ #5yrsago The first #ScienceFiction con was held in 1891 at the Royal Albert Hall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAMAqa4bojM 6/ https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/111/177/545/307/439/979/original/16ff7a55f0c305bb.png
#5yrsago America’s super-concentrated telcoms industry unites to sue California over #NetNeutrality https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/entire-broadband-industry-sues-california-to-stop-net-neutrality-law/ #5yrsago Iowa gun distributor sends free AR-15s to North Dakota schools https://web.archive.org/web/20180929070419/https://www.myndnow.com/news/bismarck-news/iowa-company-donates-ar-15s-to-be-placed-in-bismarck-schools/1483510406 #5yrsago #Ikea locked workers in a room and forced them to watch “scaremongering” #AntiUnion powerpoints https://www.businessinsider.com/ikea-accused-of-anti-union-tactics-2018-10 #5yrsago Report: Chinese spies snuck tiny backdoor chips onto US corporate, gov and military servers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies?srnd=businessweek-v2#xj4y7vzkg 7/ https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/111/177/546/766/406/945/original/4895d80a8f8828b1.png
Yesterday's threads: Google's enshittification memos; and more! https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111171702580250128 8/ https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/111/177/550/335/097/192/original/640c4017d2cc4a05.jpg
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