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by gigel82 3y ago

WillPostForFood 3y ago
yup, enshittification at work! https://archive.li/wT815 https://archive.li/wT815
- whynotmaybe 3y ago
  If their business model needs me to create an account, I won't "steal" their revenue by using archive, I'll just bypass the article entirely.
  - _aavaa_ 3y ago
    Same article directly on the author's personal site: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-de...
    - WillPostForFood 3y ago
      Awesome how he links it at the bottom of the paywalled article where you can't see it.
kmeisthax 3y ago
Cory Doctorow has a personal site: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/ https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/ Incidentally I follow him on Mastodon and saw this yesterday. Hacker News is really slow to pick up Cory Doctorow's stuff despite ostensibly being full of freedom-loving techies.
- esarbe 3y ago
  I'm not that surprised; HN is techno-utopian libertarianism. Doctorow's egalitarian, syndicalist and somewhat socialist tendencies don't usually play well with that crowd.
  - kmeisthax 3y ago
    The amount of people here trying to tell me that Lina Khan is an incompetent fail-upwards bureaucrat would seem to agree with that. I'm going to continue shouting into the void until the void realizes that independent and distributed ownership is a necessary precondition for libertarian forms of governance. Authoritarianism and monopolies go hand in hand. If you don't understand this, then you aren't a freedom fighter, you're an antipope.
- oska 3y ago
  I wouldn't call having the article posted here only a day later 'slow', let alone 'really slow' as you described it. A day later is absolutely fine, in my opinion. Seems rather silly to think we have to be discussing a new opinion piece, that is not tied to any particular recent event, as soon as it comes out.
- red-iron-pine 3y ago
  > ostensibly being full of freedom-loving techies > ostensibly this is a tech news site in an incubator. they're not here for freedom, they're here to make $$$. a non-trivial number of posters here are, or wish to be, the people that Doctorow is criticizing.
  - kmeisthax 3y ago
    I'm calling various people's bluffs here. I already know there are plenty of people here who are less angry that Tim Apple is the phone pope and more angry that they don't get to be the phone pope.

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WillPostForFood 3y ago

yup, enshittification at work! https://archive.li/wT815 https://archive.li/wT815

whynotmaybe 3y ago
If their business model needs me to create an account, I won't "steal" their revenue by using archive, I'll just bypass the article entirely.
- _aavaa_ 3y ago
  Same article directly on the author's personal site: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-de...
  - WillPostForFood 3y ago
    Awesome how he links it at the bottom of the paywalled article where you can't see it.

kmeisthax 3y ago

Cory Doctorow has a personal site: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/ https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/ Incidentally I follow him on Mastodon and saw this yesterday. Hacker News is really slow to pick up Cory Doctorow's stuff despite ostensibly being full of freedom-loving techies.

esarbe 3y ago
I'm not that surprised; HN is techno-utopian libertarianism. Doctorow's egalitarian, syndicalist and somewhat socialist tendencies don't usually play well with that crowd.
- kmeisthax 3y ago
  The amount of people here trying to tell me that Lina Khan is an incompetent fail-upwards bureaucrat would seem to agree with that. I'm going to continue shouting into the void until the void realizes that independent and distributed ownership is a necessary precondition for libertarian forms of governance. Authoritarianism and monopolies go hand in hand. If you don't understand this, then you aren't a freedom fighter, you're an antipope.
oska 3y ago
I wouldn't call having the article posted here only a day later 'slow', let alone 'really slow' as you described it. A day later is absolutely fine, in my opinion. Seems rather silly to think we have to be discussing a new opinion piece, that is not tied to any particular recent event, as soon as it comes out.
red-iron-pine 3y ago
> ostensibly being full of freedom-loving techies > ostensibly this is a tech news site in an incubator. they're not here for freedom, they're here to make $$$. a non-trivial number of posters here are, or wish to be, the people that Doctorow is criticizing.
- kmeisthax 3y ago
  I'm calling various people's bluffs here. I already know there are plenty of people here who are less angry that Tim Apple is the phone pope and more angry that they don't get to be the phone pope.