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alectoperdita · 6 months

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it's never a good sign or professional if i respond to a slack message with an eye rolling reaction

so i'm doing it here, i'm rolling my eyes until they fall out of their fucking sockets

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#personal bullshit #i refuse to believe that us working around the third party vendor's bug is ever a legitimate approach #third party needs to fix their broken ass shit if we're paying for it #i need someone of position to actually fight for sane processes on this fucking team instead of us bending over for everyone

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ladybugsimblr · 2 years

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the big night was finally here and farrah invited every sim she knew to her house party. she had all the essentials- food, drink, music and good company. everyone had a blast and the party was a huge success!

farrah was all set to ask ethren to officially be her boo that night, but at the last minute had a change of heart. she decided a serious relationship was too much too soon, and it would be better to just continue dating and enjoying each other without a commitment (i’m sure her decision had nothing to do with the new romance bar that appeared with vendor bae by the end of the party.)

#ladybug gameplay #new in town scenario #the party was really lit #look at the beach babes!#i love her little crew #i'm sure ethren will still be coming around #their friendship and romance bars are basically at 100 #vendor bae didn't give a damn about an ethren #he gave her suggestive looks #and was chatting her up all night #good times!

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precurememes · 1 year

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Its been two years...two years since the coof and I was glad to be back at an Anime Con for so long. Now to make up grounds for next year.

#animenyc #precure #anime cons #vendors #masks #mandates suck #japanese music #80s music #city pop #hajime isayama #attack on titan #delicious party precure

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rabbiteclair · 2 years

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listen I will admit that Baldur's Gate 2 is not without its faults and one of those faults is definitely "oh, you tried to steal some stuff from this lich's tower? you fool. you absolute buffoon. now you must kill him within 24 hours or we're gonna make you fight an entire city'

#if you're gonna do this at least have one of the vendors in the city #selling a Protection from Undead scroll #i used the two i had cheesing the vampire guild as is tradition #anyway my party's kinda underleveled because I wanted Imoen *before* the last two hours of the game #so that fight sucked until I remembered that Keldorn can rip apart lich defenses because that skill's coded weird

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nice-bright-colors · 1 year

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…and another thing…

When I ask you to include a call-in number on your meeting invite, provide the fucking call-in number. People used to do business over the phone without having to be seen on a screen.

Listen Motherfucker, I’m doing 6 different things at the same time as this meeting. I’m often twice if not thrice booked. Others that I work for are even more busy, and may not be able to stop and set up a computer so that everybody can see each other like some Muppet Show finale.

So pretty please, with sugar on top, include the fucking call-in number. Best do as I say, or you’re really not going to like me when it comes time to renovate the entire hotel.

#starting off this relationship on the left foot #because my right boot is going to be in his ass #I’m a 3rd party vendor but I’ve got a lot of clout with these guys #I expected more from this GC #turns out the Chicago office is much more sharp than the Denver office

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magnoliamica · 1 year

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I know objectively the next part of the scene, where Sofia teaches Katya how to each a pomegranate and tells her about the mythology of Persephone and Hades and the pomegranate juice stains Katya’s suit is the more iconic part, and for good reason, but like, especially considering how feral we’ve all gotten about the resurgence of this movie this past week, I couldn’t help but dig up an old copy of the script to emphasize that last line, which I feel like we’ve definitely been skipping over in our discourse.

#goncharov #goncharov 1973 #katya x sophia #katya goncharov #the fruit vendor scene #i first watched this movie in middle school during my greek mythology phase #and let me tell you this scene had me unhinged #like #the story of persephone and hades which is canonically a rape and a loss of innocence #but here sofia is giving katya all the information she needs to make informed consent #and then also with athena looming behind them which evokes the idea of knowledge #or at least wisdom #which in and of itself evokes goncharov and andrey’s apple scene #which is also about forbidden knowledge but handled so differently #(okay but am I too late to the party?)#(did I do it did I goncharov?)

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girderednerve · 2 years

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okay this is void-screaming again sorry but i am so incredibly unhappy that every "no amaz*n, use public library!" post specifically name-drops libby. libby is not some kind of cool nonprofit, it's not synonymous with library services, it's owned by rakuten & it charges your library extortionary prices.

your public library may have libby; it may have cloudlibrary or hoopla; it may not have robust digital services at all. all of these platforms are expensive and libraries have little ability to negotiate because there are only three major vendors in the first place.

you should still get a library card: they're free, libraries do all kinds of cool stuff that you might not know about, and public libraries leverage the number of cardholders when they ask for funding. you can always ask for services you'd like to see, but there are often good reasons that libraries don't offer the latest, shiniest thing

#irredeemable whining #vocational awe diaries :')#this is because we dropped libby for budget reasons & shifted to CL (much cheaper; has some cool features; more responsive support)#and patrons have been incredibly unrelentingly rude about it #library tech in general is very monopolistic; it's a niche market with very specific needs #all of these third-party vendors raise serious questions about collection stability (see e.g. wiley textbooks) & privacy policies #what i WANT is a PUBLIC OPTION where libraries own the servers & a central consortium negotiates with publishers directly over prices

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xsellerxfakeids · 2 years

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Xsellerx the best in the game no bullshit we make 💯 well scannable id all states with their respective holograms and UV place an order and receive a duplicate for free

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#fake id vendor #fake id cards #fake ids #fakeidreview #buy fake certificate #fake documents #buy drivers license #hellfire club #night club #california #texas school shooting #vegasvacation #vacation #summer #party #danceparty

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proserpine-in-phases · 2 years

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It's been a couple weeks, and I'm a little drunk so I can say it: I'm sad convergence has such a shitty venue now I didnt enjoy the room parties AT ALL or even get a little drunk 😞

#crap #being just a little drunk is kind fun once in a while #and when im at a scifi convention that has a rave i just wanna get a little drunk then go to the rave #the race was on the first floor and all the party rooms were 3rd floor and up how fucking shit is that?#😢 not even a glow stick vendor

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taechnological · 2 years

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stupid question, but does the weverse shop not ship to india? i saw people on twitter talking about it?

not stupid at all! and nope, weverse doesn't ship to many countries and india is one of them

#u can refer to third party vendors for buying from here but i'm not experienced in that so i can't help u there #ask sae #ask taechnological #sparkleslightlyy

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mostlysignssomeportents · 5 months

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“If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”

20 years ago, I got in a (friendly) public spat with Chris Anderson, who was then the editor in chief of Wired. I'd publicly noted my disappointment with glowing Wired reviews of DRM-encumbered digital devices, prompting Anderson to call me unrealistic for expecting the magazine to condemn gadgets for their DRM:

https://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2004/12/is_drm_evil.html

I replied in public, telling him that he'd misunderstood. This wasn't an issue of ideological purity – it was about good reviewing practice. Wired was telling readers to buy a product because it had features x, y and z, but at any time in the future, without warning, without recourse, the vendor could switch off any of those features:

https://memex.craphound.com/2004/12/29/cory-responds-to-wired-editor-on-drm/

I proposed that all Wired endorsements for DRM-encumbered products should come with this disclaimer:

WARNING: THIS DEVICE’S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR INVESTMENT IS CONTINGENT ON THE GOODWILL OF THE WORLD’S MOST PARANOID, TECHNOPHOBIC ENTERTAINMENT EXECS. THIS DEVICE AND DEVICES LIKE IT ARE TYPICALLY USED TO CHARGE YOU FOR THINGS YOU USED TO GET FOR FREE — BE SURE TO FACTOR IN THE PRICE OF BUYING ALL YOUR MEDIA OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AT NO TIME IN HISTORY HAS ANY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY GOTTEN A SWEET DEAL LIKE THIS FROM THE ELECTRONICS PEOPLE, BUT THIS TIME THEY’RE GETTING A TOTAL WALK. HERE, PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH, IT’LL MUFFLE YOUR WHIMPERS.

Wired didn't take me up on this suggestion.

But I was right. The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations. Inkjet printers were always a sleazy business, but once these printers got directly connected to the internet, companies like HP started pushing out "security updates" that modified your printer to make it reject the third-party ink you'd paid for:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer

Now, this scam wouldn't work if you could just put things back the way they were before the "update," which is where the DRM comes in. A thicket of IP laws make reverse-engineering DRM-encumbered products into a felony. Combine always-on network access with indiscriminate criminalization of user modification, and the enshittification will follow, as surely as night follows day.

This is the root of all the right to repair shenanigans. Sure, companies withhold access to diagnostic codes and parts, but codes can be extracted and parts can be cloned. The real teeth in blocking repair comes from the law, not the tech. The company that makes McDonald's wildly unreliable McFlurry machines makes a fortune charging franchisees to fix these eternally broken appliances. When a third party threatened this racket by reverse-engineering the DRM that blocked independent repair, they got buried in legal threats:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/20/euthanize-rentier-enablers/#cold-war

Everybody loves this racket. In Poland, a team of security researchers at the OhMyHack conference just presented their teardown of the anti-repair features in NEWAG Impuls locomotives. NEWAG boobytrapped their trains to try and detect if they've been independently serviced, and to respond to any unauthorized repairs by bricking themselves:

https://mamot.fr/@[email protected]/111528162905209453

Poland is part of the EU, meaning that they are required to uphold the provisions of the 2001 EU Copyright Directive, including Article 6, which bans this kind of reverse-engineering. The researchers are planning to present their work again at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg this month – Germany is also a party to the EUCD. The threat to researchers from presenting this work is real – but so is the threat to conferences that host them:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/researchers-face-legal-threats-over-sdmi-hack/

20 years ago, Chris Anderson told me that it was unrealistic to expect tech companies to refuse demands for DRM from the entertainment companies whose media they hoped to play. My argument – then and now – was that any tech company that sells you a gadget that can have its features revoked is defrauding you. You're paying for x, y and z – and if they are contractually required to remove x and y on demand, they are selling you something that you can't rely on, without making that clear to you.

But it's worse than that. When a tech company designs a device for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades, they invite both external and internal parties to demand those downgrades. Like Pavel Chekov says, a phaser on the bridge in Act I is going to go off by Act III. Selling a product that can be remotely, irreversibly, nonconsensually downgraded inevitably results in the worst person at the product-planning meeting proposing to do so. The fact that there are no penalties for doing so makes it impossible for the better people in that meeting to win the ensuing argument, leading to the moral injury of seeing a product you care about reduced to a pile of shit:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/25/moral-injury/#enshittification

But even if everyone at that table is a swell egg who wouldn't dream of enshittifying the product, the existence of a remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrade feature makes the product vulnerable to external actors who will demand that it be used. Back in 2022, Adobe informed its customers that it had lost its deal to include Pantone colors in Photoshop, Illustrator and other "software as a service" packages. As a result, users would now have to start paying a monthly fee to see their own, completed images. Fail to pay the fee and all the Pantone-coded pixels in your artwork would just show up as black:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/#trust-the-process

Adobe blamed this on Pantone, and there was lots of speculation about what had happened. Had Pantone jacked up its price to Adobe, so Adobe passed the price on to its users in the hopes of embarrassing Pantone? Who knows? Who can know? That's the point: you invested in Photoshop, you spent money and time creating images with it, but you have no way to know whether or how you'll be able to access those images in the future. Those terms can change at any time, and if you don't like it, you can go fuck yourself.

These companies are all run by CEOs who got their MBAs at Darth Vader University, where the first lesson is "I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it further." Adobe chose to design its software so it would be vulnerable to this kind of demand, and then its customers paid for that choice. Sure, Pantone are dicks, but this is Adobe's fault. They stuck a KICK ME sign to your back, and Pantone obliged.

This keeps happening and it's gonna keep happening. Last week, Playstation owners who'd bought (or "bought") Warner TV shows got messages telling them that Warner had walked away from its deal to sell videos through the Playstation store, and so all the videos they'd paid for were going to be deleted forever. They wouldn't even get refunds (to be clear, refunds would also be bullshit – when I was a bookseller, I didn't get to break into your house and steal the books I'd sold you, not even if I left some cash on your kitchen table).

Sure, Warner is an unbelievably shitty company run by the single most guillotineable executive in all of Southern California, the loathsome David Zaslav, who oversaw the merger of Warner with Discovery. Zaslav is the creep who figured out that he could make more money cancelling completed movies and TV shows and taking a tax writeoff than he stood to make by releasing them:

https://aftermath.site/there-is-no-piracy-without-ownership

Imagine putting years of your life into making a program – showing up on set at 5AM and leaving your kids to get their own breakfast, performing stunts that could maim or kill you, working 16-hour days during the acute phase of the covid pandemic and driving home in the night, only to have this absolute turd of a man delete the program before anyone could see it, forever, to get a minor tax advantage. Talk about moral injury!

But without Sony's complicity in designing a remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrade feature into the Playstation, Zaslav's war on art and creative workers would be limited to material that hadn't been released yet. Thanks to Sony's awful choices, David Zaslav can break into your house, steal your movies – and he doesn't even have to leave a twenty on your kitchen table.

The point here – the point I made 20 years ago to Chris Anderson – is that this is the foreseeable, inevitable result of designing devices for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades. Anyone who was paying attention should have figured that out in the GW Bush administration. Anyone who does this today? Absolute flaming garbage.

Sure, Zaslav deserves to be staked out over an anthill and slathered in high-fructose corn syrup. But save the next anthill for the Sony exec who shipped a product that would let Zaslav come into your home and rob you. That piece of shit knew what they were doing and they did it anyway. Fuck them. Sideways. With a brick.

Meanwhile, the studios keep making the case for stealing movies rather than paying for them. As Tyler James Hill wrote: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing":

https://bsky.app/profile/tylerjameshill.bsky.social/post/3kflw2lvam42n

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill

Image: Alan Levine (modified) https://pxhere.com/en/photo/218986

CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

#pluralistic #playstation #sony #copyright #copyfight #drm #monopoly #enshittification #batgirl #road runner #financiazation #the end of ownership #ip

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