obsolescencia programada, colegas. Los dispositivos NO son tuyos nunca :(
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Self-help - AKA #AdversarialInteroperability - isn't just a way to override the greedy choices of corporate sadists. It's a way to hold those sadists in check. It's a constraint.
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#AdversarialInteroperability is a reliable way to protect users from predatory corporations. Technologists reverse-engineer products to reconfigure or mod them (interop) in ways its users like, but which their manufacturers objects to (adversarial):
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ALT A screenshot of an early iMessage setup dialog showing that iMessage was a multiprotocol client.
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The whole modern history of digital computers is a tale of #AdversarialInteroperability, where sleazy antifeatures of established companies are banished through reverse-engineering, scraping, bots and other forms of technological guerrilla warfare:
eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/ad…
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III. Create legal safe harbors for scraping. Scraping is a form of #AdversarialInteroperability, self-help measures that technologists use to modify and adapt existing services without their owners' consent. Think of reverse-engineering, bots, etc:
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This practice (#AdversarialInteroperability), greatly benefited Apple in the past, e.g., when Apple reverse-engineered MS Office's file-formats for #iWork, reversing losses due to the poor compatibility between Win Offce and Mac Office.
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#AdversarialInteroperability (AKA #CompetitiveCompatibility or #ComCom) is key tool for building worker power in an era of digital Taylorism:
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In other words, Netfix used #AdversarialInteroperability (AKA #CompetitiveCompatibility or #ComCom) to launch its business:
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Today, Netflix is on the vanguard of the war to
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Antitrust measures are slow and ponderous tools, but for the tech companies, we have faster, more nimble ones. If we want to make it easy to compete with Amazon, we could - for example - use #AdversarialInteroperability to turn it into a dumb pipe:
pluralistic.net/2022/08/01/d… 54/
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Or reverse-engineering guerrilla hackers could accomplish the same thing with bots and scrapers and alternative clients (AKA #AdversarialInteroperability or #CompetitiveCompatbility or #ComCom):
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Pop-up blockers are an early example of #AdversarialInteroperability, AKA #CompetitiveCompatibility (#comcom for short). 42/
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When your tech doesn't serve your needs, you should be able to modify it. That's #interoperability. When a company won't help with interop, that's #AdversarialInteroperability, or as we call it, #CompetitiveCompatibility (#Comcom for short).
eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/tr…
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Back in 2019, I wrote a case-study on ad- and tracker-blocking as part of @EFF's series on #AdversarialInteroperability (AKA #CompetitiveCompatibility or #Comcom).
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ALT An Adafruit ESPHole: an open-source hardware gadget the size of a matchbox with a small screen that reads 'ESPHole/Conn'ing to Aisleds.Net...OK!/IP addr: 192.168.1.33/Checking 7061 domains/283 Nahs!
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Like Para, tuyul apps aren't officially supported - rather, they are example of #AdversarialInteroperability or #ComCom, where toolsmiths reverse-engineer a service in order to modify and improve it.
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But as Para shows, seizing the means of computation is an important strategy for workers seeking a better life. The tactics of #AdversarialInteroperability (AKA #CompetitiveCompatibility or #Comcom) can transfer power from Goliaths to Davids:
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We can do it with reverse-engineering, scraping, bots - a suite of tactics we call #AdversarialInteroperability or #CompetitiveCompatibility (AKA #Comcom):
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Beyond procurement and mandates, there are two other mechanisms for creating interop:
1. Clear the way for #adversarialinteroperability AKA #comcom, for example, by creating a statutory interoperator's defense
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There's a name for this ability: #CompetitiveCompatibility, AKA #ComCom (nee "#AdversarialInteroperability").
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There's no better subject for a tech-law clinic than fighting DMCA1201 abuse - because that's the law that is most often invoked to shut down #CompetitiveCompatibility (AKA #comcom/#adversarialInteroperability).
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