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by smashah 3y ago
The promises of web 2.0 were stolen from us. Adversarial interop should be a digital human right. Put an API layer in front of UFO and all of a sudden we're one step closer to the unshittification of our digital lives.
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As I said, if the demo opened Whatsapp and sent a message then their lawyers would harass the OSS developer of the tool with C&Ds and they'd consider it a breach of their ToS and block your account. This is not hyperbole, that&#x27
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If anyone else did this then some useless lawyer would be activated from their slumber to send out OSS devs cease & desists based on supposed violations of sacred terms and conditions. This project is the future that we were promised bu
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by smashah 3y ago
Did you all notice that when the video says "like and subscribe", the subscribe button is highlighted with a rainbow border? must be new. Example: https://youtu.be/z815XfakQCE?t=26
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by smashah 3y ago
around the same time, twitter social cards started working. maybe there's a way in there. The promises of Web 2.0 are dead and megacorps are killing them. Adversarial interop is a digital human right and Elon is taking that away from u
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People making returns for YC are now directly funding future startups which will be used to facilitate genocides. Sad day for YC.
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Does no 4. include startups that are developing systems to protect innocent civilians from US weapons and drones used by Israelis to conduct their genocide? I'm certain it will have many sales and be a viable business or do they have t
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by smashah 3y ago
Everyone should be encouraged to exercise their right to interoperability, coders should be praised for these types of projects. Potential risks are that a company might have to use their might against an individual potentially setting the
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by smashah 3y ago
> T&C I don't understand anyone who make this comment who isn't a a billion dollar company. We are humans. T&Cs are fairytales written by lawyers to abuse our digital human right to interoperability. People ought to be
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by smashah 3y ago
Every country should have a GDS. They do great work.
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We are well within a Digital Age and we are now digital human beings. Adversarial Interop is a fundamental Digital Human Right. Louis has been on the frontlines of this unjustly lonely battle against big evil megacorps (META specifically) f
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by smashah 3y ago
(preface, I am pro adversarial interop) I wonder if there are any people on HN that look at this type of project with approval who also derided projects like that iMessage one from Beeper. Regarding ToS, both are on the same boat. Just goes
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There is EU law protecting interoperability projects (2009/24/ec) also Haier should be reported for anticompetitive behavior
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Respectfully, I'm not trying to win people over or proselytize. This is what I believe strongly and I'm not trying to make it digestible. It is what it is.
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That's not the fault, nor responsibility, of developers and API access. API access (interop) is a digital human right. If companies can't be profitable without restricting that then that's a deficiency upon them and their gor
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Let's stop developer (victim) blaming for soulless billion dollar companies restricting API access.
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by smashah 3y ago
You can see "Adversarial Interoperability" on Youtube to see talks on this. This is a good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4
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by smashah 3y ago
Interoperability IS right-to-repair for software. Should Sony decide what you do with your TV? No. Should Haier decide how you control your AC? NO. Should Whatsapp decide how you interact with your own account. NO! Interop devs are the Loui
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by smashah 3y ago
The tech community as a whole is dropping the ball by not advocating loudly and openly for adversarial interoperability. It is a fundamental digital right despite what nonsense-ese is present in any service's egregious terms and condit
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They're doing that right now in Gaza. With full support from the Fourth Reich sitting in the White house.
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by smashah 3y ago
Unabated affirmative action for zionists has been terrible for freedom of speech in the tech industry. You can't even call out a genocide with references and empathy without being fired from the board of a company you founded? Tech&#x2
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by smashah 3y ago
No such response from the Americans for taking potshots and killing 10k+ civilian children with US bombs and Israeli sniper drones. Crazy how that works. Maybe someone should look into that.
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Out of the blue? Religious zealots from all over the world flying in to join a militia to conduct mass killings of men, women and children on behalf of a fascist zionist "religious" ethnostate. Sounds like it's been going on
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by smashah 3y ago
That's for the Yemeni government forces to sort out. Not for hackernews Yemen-flattening enthusiasts to determine.
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No. It's like if teller allowed you to make a boa account as well. As if this one small feature makes it some egregious criminal activity. Many beeper mini users already have apple devices + Eric in his post said he's willing to p
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They're to busy sending legal threats to OSS projects
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This type of project is protected from CFAA by Van Buren. AFAIK the only untested precedent is ToS violation.
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Maybe lack of imagination? There are handsomely VC funded successful startups that do exactly this in banking, for example Teller: https://jobs.lever.co/teller/ebf503af-bb82-49fb-97bd-6d9bcbb...
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They did open source it.
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Setting the ball in motion to set a precedent I'm guessing. Everything that has transpired over the last few weeks strengthens the narrative for an anti trust case and hopefully makes an illustrative case in favour for adversarial inte

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