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Cory Doctorow's (@pluralistic) blog post for today is a speech he gave last night at the University of Toronto, the annual Ursula Franklin Lecture at Innis College.
It's worth reading:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/
It connects the dots between anti-circumvention copyright laws like the USA's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (and the Canadian copycat legislation) and the enshittification that ensues when Big Tech does ... well, practically anything. There's a specific example he uses that is horrifying. He also shows exactly how Big Tech has escaped what he identifies as the usual four factors for keeping the worst instincts of companies in check.
I agree with him that we should annul the anti-circumvention law on the books, and would go further in saying that we should explicitly enshrine in law the rights to alter, repair, remove etc. any functionality of products and services that we choose to use. I was one of the original 6,000 Canadians who submitted comments warning against the implementation of these restrictions to our government at the time, and my feelings in support of this are stronger than ever.
Give it a read.
Attached image: I think this is probably overdue.
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Yup. I still buy ebooks - but only from places that sell them with zero DRM, in open formats, so I can read them on whatever-the-hell device I'll have in forty years' time.
Publishers (and Amazon/booksellers) destroying the usability of their products with DRM are trying to speedrun the music business's failure to capitalize on new sales channels in the digital age.
Oops, me too. Even when I had Kindles rather than a Kobo, I never used their wireless delivery - I want files I can back up, that can't disappear from my device without my permission.
Thanks for the heads-up!
From #InnerSourcing to #InnerShittification: When org-internal software is being evolved to accommodate the whims of some rare few, instead of the needs of its daily users.
Oh, right! That's already called #EnterpriseSoftware.
Ever since #SoftBank bought #ARM, it was apparent that ARM would follow the same crash dive as every other tech thing that #PrivateEquity buys. You have to squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, to try to achieve the impossible "double-digit growth, every quarter, forever" that investors demand.
It takes a long time to fully destroy a company this way - vendor lockin and switching costs mean a lot of big customers are trapped, grit their teeth, and keep paying the trolls' tolls. But it does happen - "first slowly, then quickly".
Today marks the day for the start of this process with ARM.
https://www.fudzilla.com/news/60388-arm-plans-massive-price-hike
Just leaving it here for the history books. It's a good day for every RISC-V company.
www.fudzilla.comArm plans massive price hikeUp to 300 per centBritish chip technology supplier Arm wants to jack up tits royalty rates by up to 300 per cent and develop its own chips in a move that could place it in direct competition with its largest customers. The plans, originating under SoftBank’s ownership and discussed during a recent t...
M&M Food Market was acquired by Parkland Corporation in 2022. After time to complete paperwork, merge management, and do some company analysis, now would be about the perfect time for changes introduced by new management to be in full swing and reaching the buying public. #Enshittification at work.
They're not a VC firm, but they are a giant conglomerate with fingers in lots of retail areas, so not much better.
I find it helps to just mentally add the "... for now." to the end of every claim a company makes about a proprietary service.
Maybe it's time for t-shirts that say "Stop #e14n"
I learned a new numeronym today: #e14n 
hint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
en.wikipedia.orgEnshittification - Wikipedia
I have used Firefox exclusively since ... well, since Firefox was born out of the ashes of Netscape.
However, they are unfortunately going down the road of #e14n, becoming an #advertising company and adding, well, advertising crap to Firefox, and turning it on by default.
I can see a switch away from Firefox in the not-too-distant-future, if management there doesn't come to its senses soon.
The #e14n of our industry is so painful to watch :(
Every word of this @pluralistic talk.
It took me a couple of hours to watch; I kept having to pause and rewind because had I missed something while shouting amen and pumping my fist in the air.
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I totally forgot the #e14n hashtag.
The #e14n of #Amazon Canada has been well underway for a while, but this is a new low.
Anyone know how to get an actual submit-feedback (to Amazon, about their site, not to a seller) form? I've clicked and searched everything and can't get anything but their stupid, inapplicable "self service" options and FAQs.