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Inside: Cleantech has an enshittification problem; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/26/unplanned-obsolescence/

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@pluralistic Had to explain this to the people doing our battery install planning last week. They were "oh but there's insurance under MCS", except that a major brand collapsing would probably render the whole basis of the UK MCS scheme financially unviable in future as every underwriter ran like crazy after they realised they've basically underwritten "China v Taiwan won't happen" and more.

Did fine one that can run entirely off net, with a nice documented modbus interface - but it's not easy

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Cleantech has an enshittification problem: Who's gonna make a 25-year purchase from a startup with six months' worth of runway?

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112684114542052671

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    • 18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Hey look at this

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    FastCompany’s terrible linking policy https://memex.craphound.com/2004/06/25/fastcompanys-terrible-linking-policy/

    Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen, sequel to CHANGELING, a modern folktale of New York https://memex.craphound.com/2009/06/25/magic-mirror-of-the-mermaid-queen-sequel-to-changeling-a-modern-folktale-of-new-york/

    Illegal e-waste dumped in Ghana includes unencrypted hard drives full of US security secrets https://web.archive.org/web/20090628071458/https://www.itworld.com/security/69758/reporters-find-northrop-grumman-data-ghana-market

    Once there was a show called “The Hat Squad” and it was very, very stupid https://memex.craphound.com/2014/06/25/once-there-was-a-show-called-the-hat-squad-and-it-was-very-very-stupid/

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    UK secretary of state: “There is no surveillance state” https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-28006739

    Cops bust cybercrook who sent heroin to Brian Krebs https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/06/the-fly-has-been-swatted/

    SF city attorney demands shutdown of parking-space-auctioning app https://web.archive.org/web/20140625033523/http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2014/06/23/sf-cracks-down-on-street-parking-cash-apps/

    An 14-year-old’s Internet-of-Things worm is bricking shitty devices by the thousands https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-silex-malware-is-bricking-iot-devices-has-scary-plans/

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    How Metabrainz stood up to a predatory copyright lawsuit and won https://blog.metabrainz.org/2019/06/25/we-were-sued-by-a-copyright-troll-and-we-prevailed/

    “Massive scale” intrusion into mobile carriers’ networks exposed customers’ location, call data for years https://www.cybereason.com/blog/research/operation-soft-cell-a-worldwide-campaign-against-telecommunications-providers

    Independent evaluation of “aggression detection” microphones used in schools and hospitals finds them to be worse than useless https://features.propublica.org/aggression-detector/the-unproven-invasive-surveillance-technology-schools-are-using-to-monitor-students/

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Microsoft employees want to starve its PAC, which keeps giving money to homophobic, racist, climate-denying Republicans https://onezero.medium.com/a-group-of-microsoft-employees-is-fighting-the-companys-political-action-committee-7dae732290e3

    Cult of the Dead Cow: the untold story of the hacktivist group that presaged everything great and terrible about the internet https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/25/cult-of-the-dead-cow-the-untold-story-of-the-hacktivist-group-that-presaged-everything-great-and-terrible-about-the-internet/

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Yesterday's threads: Mirion Malle's "So Long Sad Love"; and more!

    https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112677929396930339

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Both are national bestsellers!

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Today's top sources: Katharine Trendacosta.

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    On July 14, I'm giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth Hackers On Planet Earth, in Queens, NY:

    https://www.hope.net/talks.html

    On July 20, I'm appearing at Chicago's Exile in Bookville:

    https://exileinbookville.com/events/39808

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    Support me this summer on the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!

    https://clarionwriteathon.com/members/profile.php?writerid=293388

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