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Shout out to Louis Rossmann for doing a ton of work on Right to repair. He started a website called Consumer Rights Wiki to document anti-consumer practices.
by Cider9986 4mo ago
Shout out to Louis Rossmann for doing a ton of work on Right to repair.
He started a website called Consumer Rights Wiki to document anti-consumer practices.
https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page
He's also involved with FULU Foundation which has a bounty of 25k to get Ring cameras working without Amazon's servers.
https://bounties.fulu.org/bounties/ring-video-doorbells https://bounties.fulu.org/bounties/ring-video-doorbells
- aj_icracked 4mo agoI agree with this. Louis has done a ton in the last decade and deserves thanks for sure.
- Papazsazsa 4mo agoThe man is an icon. Reminds me of old internet, when activists we doing it for The User.
- cobbzilla 4mo agoReminds me of a line from Tron, where the other programs ask Flynn in disbelief: > You fight for the users?
- mnadkvlb 4mo agohe is one of the very few people who inspires me today.
- gleenn 4mo agoExtra props for tilting thw windmill that is tech behemoths funneling data to government agencies without oversight. Aiming at Amazon is certainly something not to be taken lightly.
- frogulis 4mo agoYour "tilting at the windmill" phrasing is interesting. I don't get the sense from your tone otherwise that you disapprove of it or think it's pointless.
- ender341341 4mo agoI took it as doing what too many people feels like tilting the windmill. As a society (and frankly in myself on too many issues) I notice way to much "well what can we do" defeatist attitude.
- geekamongus 4mo agoIsn't the phrase "tilting at windmills?" It comes from Don Quixote, as I recall, and suggests a fruitless effort. A waste of time.
- ender341341 3mo agoYeah, def is tiling at windmills, but my point is the same, I took it as them saying the public has taken a defeatist attitude and views it as tilting at windmills but here's a case where it wasn't fruitless effort and we need to view it as inspiration.
- gleenn 4mo ago"Tilting the windmill" is from Don Qixote who famously fights a windmill (which is a bit absurd) so he is courageous but also a bit foolish.
- srejk 4mo agoI appreciate everything he stands for - he's on the right side of just about every issue. I just wish he could make more succinct and effective videos.
- edoceo 4mo agoSometimes the problems are so complex and entangled it's hard to fit solutions into sound bites (vis: taxes, healthcare(USA) and apparently product "ownership". Deere is a long way from the user accessibility of the Model A or B.
- cgyvbunji 4mo agoPersonally I think if he did that people wouldn't pay attention. My experience is that when you complain to people about digital rights they just glaze over unless you walk them through all the ins and outs and the implications.
- dataflow 4mo agoI share his videos here but nobody seems to see them and/or care enough to vote; all I get is crickets. It's baffling to me. Examples: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802162 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395520 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395520 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043208 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043208
- VladVladikoff 4mo agoI clicked on one, he was rambling about wearing sunglasses because of studio lights, seems like pointless drivel, so I stopped watching.
- samplifier 4mo agoHave you tried SponsorBlock? https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock
- de6u99er 4mo agoWouldn't it be easier to build an open hardware/source alternative to Ring cameras.
- thevillagechief 4mo agoThe point is there are already many millions of Ring cameras installed. Most people aren't just going to rip them out for open source ones.
- inigyou 4mo agoWhy would someone buy one? It would be three times as expensive, harder to set up, and require a self-hosted video server.
- letmeinhere 4mo agoDesign and manufacture open hardware for 25k?
- alnwlsn 4mo agoThe other home security camera companies already make cameras in a doorbell form factor. Point is to do what you want with the hardware you supposedly "own".
- maldev 4mo agoI wish he wasn’t such an ass. Had a never meet your heroes moment outside defcon a few years ago. Not a friendly person and went from big fan to disdain when I hear his name.
- Balgair 4mo agoI think it's a trait with these types that makes them what they are to begin with. They don't just turn it on and off for the bad guys, they're like this all the time with everyone. Never meet your heroes is just great advice, same as it ever was.
- ivanmontillam 4mo ago[flagged]
- PatronBernard 4mo agoElon Musk, that talentless neonazi, is your hero?
- neop1x 4mo agoLOL, that's funny
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- qingcharles 4mo agoI've met hundreds of celebs, and 99.9% of them are unbelievably nice and kind. The only two that have ever been gruff were Bill Shatner and Dean Stockwell, and honestly, they could have just been sick/tired/having a bad day. I would say "meet your heroes"; most of them are probably going to be better than your expectations.
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- palata 4mo agoWhat about Cory Doctorow? I heard about this from him, I don't know Rossmann