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Unauthorized water

It’s not clear when General Electric started boobytraping appliances with DRM. I first encountered it in January when Shane Morris tweeted about his fridge refusing to accept the $19 generic filter he replaced the GE $55 filter with.

https://twitter.com/IamShaneMorris/status/1220367934947758080

The fridges use an RFID detector to distinguish original GE filters from generic replacements, and engage in lots of anti-owner trickery, like memorizing the IDs of previously used filters and refusing to accept them.

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/unauthorized-charcoal-ge-fridges-wont-dispense-ice-or-water-unless-your-filter-authenticates-as-an-official-55-component/159552/41

Morris isn’t the only one ourtaged that his fridge is plotting against him. One (anonymous) owner was so offended that they created a site dedicated to warning off potential buyers and explaining to other suckers how to bypass GE’s lockouts.

https://gefiltergate.com/

There’s a good reason for the anonymity. Under Sec 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, showing how to bypass an “access control” to a copyrighted work (eg RFID-detecting code in the fridge) is a potential felony, carrying a 5-year prison sentence and a $500k fine.

This is quite the moral hazard. Manufacturers have learned that if they design their products so that any use that hurts their shareholders (like buying third party parts) requires bypassing DRM, it becomes a felony to use your own property to your own advantage.

Which is why we’ve seen DRM creep into all manner of devices, from insulin pumps to tractors to car engines to Iphone screens. “Felony contempt of business model” is the statute that every monopolist has dreamt of, and with DMCA 1201, they have it in their grasp.

Back in 2011, I wrote a short story about this for MIT Tech Review’s first sf anthology, called “The Brave Little Toaster” (in tribute to Tom Disch).

https://craphound.com/news/2011/09/28/the-brave-little-toaster-from-trsf/

The issue only got worse, and so last year I published “Unauthorized Bread” as part of my collection “Radicalized” (it’s being turned into a TV show by Topic):

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/

The metastasis of DRM into every product category shows that when business apologists talk about the sanctity of property, they mean the sanctity of CORPORATE property.

If the manufacturer gets to override your decisions about the things you buy - and felonize any attempt to wrest control back - they property ceases to exist. We become tenants of our devices, not owners.

It’s digital feudalism, in which an elite owns all the property and we get to use it in ways they proscribe. The difference is that today, our aristocracy isn’t even human.

It’s the immortal, remorseless colony organism called the Limited Liability Corporation, to which we are mere inconvenient gut flora.

#reference

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who's gonna tell them that the g1 characters would beat the shit out of them for saying this

#they would MAUL YOU

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was thinking about infighting and like. they all see us the same. from the wildest queerest fagdyke to a cis gay guy. we are the same to them. the weird queers are not like. ruining your precious community. we're a part of it

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That feeling when your body is requesting something but you're not sure what so you just start eating and drinking random stuff to try and figure it out

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peppa don't dim your shine!!

this is sending me

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no one cares but me but I ship bluey and jean-luc and I think that future kid was theirs

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Of course you don’t. Free college might hinder the school-to-prison pipeline your  prison owning donors depend on

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oh I love how the stand is actual scenery and it clips to her leg instead of cradling her crotch area

#monster high

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hey white leftists

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that post about how its impossible to satirize masculinity without thousands of men earnestly idenitifying with it isn't wrong but ive also seen enough women cheer on the most rancid shit as long as its got a veneer of femininity to it so idk i think it might just be a human thing

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Alright, Mattel. I want to see where you're going with this.

... Do not have the current budget to buy it, but I'm still curious.

Source: Official MH Instagram. Will release the 26th.

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I THOUGHT YOU GUYS WERE JOKING ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF THIS IMAGE???? NO WAY.

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somebody get that girl a large sized beverage before she loses it completely

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Georges Chakra |Spring Summer 2024 Haute Couture

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The ancient Egyptians didn't remove the heart as part of the mummification process, as they believed the heart was needed to gain access to the afterlife. My headcanon is that's why Cleo became undead. Her heart was removed, therefore it could not be judged against the feather of Maat, preventing her from entering the afterlife. Egyptian death mythology also involves the ba, somewhat equivalent to a soul. The ba is said to travel between the mummified body and the afterlife, returning to its body each night to maintain the connection. Therefore Cleo's ba is trapped in her body, rendering her undead.

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Each one of the Golden Girls represents one of the seven deadly sins

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I cant do this anymore