This day in history
2004, 2009, 2019.
I’m coming to Defcon! On Aug 9, I’m emceeing the EFF Poker Tournament (noon at the Horseshoe Poker Room), and appearing on the Bricked and Abandoned panel (5PM, LVCC — L1 — HW1–11–01). On Aug 10, I’m giving a keynote called “Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses’ insatiable horniness for enshittification” (noon, LVCC — L1 — HW1–11–01).
#20yrsago Penguin Putnam’s domain-name intimidation scam https://web.archive.org/web/20040726041959/http://www.katie.com/
#20yrsago Music blogs under the BPI gun https://web.archive.org/web/20040802232645/http://www.snappishproductions.com/blog/archive/000852.html
#20yrsago Film piracy zine from 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20040810095634/http://www.sizemore.co.uk/2004/07/private-screenings-i-just-stumbled.html
#20yrsago Tethered to your hardware: don’t get leashed by your vendor! https://web.archive.org/web/20040812080926/http://features.engadget.com/entry/6314322665586411/
#15yrsago Karl Schroeder on “rewilding” — openness, government, and autonomous nature as an economic actor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb7pkohj6wE
#15yrsago Associated Press DRM diagram demystified (with cuss-words) https://imgur.com/more-accurate-version-of-ap-point-protect-pay-chart-img-r-programming-1469-july-26-2009-DzZdf
#15yrsago Primer on “high frequency trading” — AKA stockbots https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/07/it-sounds-like-something/
#15yrsago Movie/record industry rep says that you shouldn’t expect to be able to play your media for as long as you own it https://memex.craphound.com/2009/07/29/movie-record-industry-rep-says-that-you-shouldnt-expect-to-be-able-to-play-your-media-for-as-long-as-you-own-it/
#5yrsago Literary tattoos of the New York Public Library staff https://www.nypl.org/blog/2019/07/17/literary-tattoos-of-nypl-staff
