Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.Aug 15, 2025Pluralistic: Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause (15 Aug 2025)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/15/dogs-breakfast/
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.Mar 5, 2025Pluralistic: Brother makes a demon-haunted printer (05 Mar 2025)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/05/printers-devil/
One answer to this is #UlyssesPacts: making binding commitments to do right *before* you are tempted. Throw away all your Oreos when you go on a diet and you can't be tempted to eat a whole sleeve of them at 2AM. License your software under the #GPL and your investors *can't* force you to make it proprietary. Set up a #WarrantCanary and the feds *can't* force you to keep their spying secret:
https://locusmag.com/2021/01/cory-doctorow-neofeudalism-and-the-digital-manor/
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Cory Doctorow has some interesting takes on why using a copy left license and the Fediverse at the end of his DEF Con 31 talk. But you don't have to scroll to the end, the rest of the talk is nice to listen to as well 😉
#UlyssesPacts are how wise people protect themselves from themselves
https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f
#FLOSS #CreativeCommons #IrrevocableLicenses #UlyssesWasAHacker
Fool Me Twice We Don't Get Fooled Again: There's a crucial difference between federatable and federated.
https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f
#Bluesky #Threads #Mastodon #Fediverse #Federation #SwitchingCosts #UlyssesPacts
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