> The Slow Death of the Power User
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
"We’re losing the adversarial capacity to hold platforms accountable. This is the one that matters most and gets talked about least. The open-source movement, the early security research community, the hacker culture in the original sense — these were not just about building things. They were a check on the power of institutions. When IBM tried to close the PC platform, the clone manufacturers and the DOS ecosystem that emerged from them broke the lock. When phone companies tried to prevent customers from attaching third-party devices to their networks, the hacker community and subsequent regulatory action broke that lock too. When the early internet’s institutional gatekeepers tried to control what protocols could run on it, the end-to-end principle and the culture of routing around obstacles broke those locks."

cc: #permacomputing #openSource #rightToRepair #surveillance
ps.: Hey @EUCommission , there is a paragraph directly addressing y'all's work. The Digital Market's Act is a good first step, but misses the bigger picture.