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Inside: A sexy, skinny defeat device for your HP ink cartridge; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/30/life-finds-a-way/
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"In the world championships of effortlessly authentic fuckery, no one can lay a glove on the sociopathic monsters of HP."
"In the world championships of effortlessly authentic fuckery, no one can lay a glove on the sociopathic monsters of HP."
But, Cory, how do you really feel about HP?
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Tor Books has just published two new, free "Little Brother" stories: "Vigilant," about creepy surveillance in distance education:
https://reactormag.com/spill-cory-doctorow/
And "Spill," about oil pipelines and indigenous landback:
https://reactormag.com/vigilant-cory-doctorow/
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A sexy, skinny defeat device for your HP ink cartridge: A machine in the middle that's too cheap to meter.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113227835883820830
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@pluralistic amazing!!! I knew HP went to great lengths to make their inkjet customers’ lives miserable, but WOW!!! Gonna hold onto my non-networked laser jet for the rest of my life, lol.
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Hey look at this
* Guided by Vices https://pxlnv.com/blog/guided-by-vices/ (h/t @waxy)
* FOOLISH MORTALS: A Haunted Mansion Burlesque Cabaret https://www.foolishmortalsburlesque.com/about (h/t @ridetheory)
* The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-memory-wayback-machine-lawsuits/
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#20yrsago Asimov’s magazine on ebooks https://web.archive.org/web/20041010190341/https://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0408/onthenet2.shtml
#20yrsago Can suing customers save the record companies? https://web.archive.org/web/20041012170814/http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1095434496352
#20yrsago ACLU and @eff strike down part of PATRIOT Act https://web.archive.org/web/20040927082258/https://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_09.php#001945
#20yrsago Industrial nations to WIPO: less IP, more global well-being https://web.archive.org/web/20041011201242/http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/ip-health/2004-September/006974.html
#20yrsago Court trashes fair use https://web.archive.org/web/20041009211351/https://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_09.php#001962
#20yrsago @eff kicks Diebold’s ass https://web.archive.org/web/20041009211351/https://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_09.php#001961
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#20yrsago MSFT’s FAT shakedown suspended by Patent Office https://web.archive.org/web/20041009202717/http://www.pubpat.org/Microsoft_517_Rejected.htm
#20yrsago Sony ditches DRM CDs https://web.archive.org/web/20041010063144/http://www.engadget.com/entry/3586262161659249/
#20yrsago Canadian @creativecommons licenses launched https://web.archive.org/web/20041011105249/http://www.cippic.ca/en/projects-cases/icommons-canada/
#15yrsago Bank of America demands thumbprint from man with no arms https://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE58247Y20090903/
#15yrsago Britain seeks ban on glass pint-glasses to prevent bar-brawl injuries https://www.loweringthebar.net/2009/09/british-government-considers-mandating-plastic-pints.html
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#15yrsago Trotsky: the graphic biography https://memex.craphound.com/2009/09/30/trotsky-the-graphic-biography/
#15yrsago BBC wants to encrypt “free” TV — talking points debunked https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/sep/29/bbc-hd-encryption
#15yrsago UK Border Agency’s pseudoscientific “race-detection” DNA/isotope tests has scientific experts “horrified” https://web.archive.org/web/20091004013349/http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/nationality-tes-1.html
#15yrsago Zork rock anthem https://web.archive.org/web/20131110083129/http://www.elumir.com/music/Walkthrough.mp3
#15yrsago Apple 1984 ad, updated for 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdVzboF2E2Q
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#15yrsago Android developers pledge to make open equivalents to Google’s proprietary apps https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/09/android-community-aims-to-replace-googles-proprietary-bits/
#15yrsago Boneshaker: @cmpriest’s swashbuckling steampunk Seattle story https://memex.craphound.com/2009/09/29/boneshaker-cherie-priests-swashbuckling-steampunk-seattle-story/
#15yrsago Faced with network surveillance, Hong Kong student demonstrators go P2P https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-29411159
#10yrsago Eric Holder’s terrible tech-liberties record https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/holders-disappointing-tech-legacy
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