Enshittification Full Ahead

[Davide DB]

1 hour ago, Yannick Willox said:

No the burden is not on me. I am not the one writing endlessly long blog posts full of hearsay “facts” without sources.

You probably didn't waste time reading the various links in the article, but I understand if you hate the person. By the way, the accusations are so serious that if they were false, they could take him to court in an instant, but let's not get into that; it's not my place to defend Cory Doctorow here.

1 hour ago, Yannick Willox said:

I know for a fact Tesla has no subscription that unlocks a bigger battery capacity, so that alone is bullshit.

Indeed, this statement is a bit strong and, said like that, seems absolutely false. But, following the various links to his previous articles, I believe he was referring to his old article:

Tesla sells both 60kWh and 75kWh versions of its Model S and Model X cars; but these cars have identical batteries — the 60kWh version runs software that simply misreports the capacity of the battery to the charging apparatus and the car’s owner.

https://memex.craphound.com/2017/09/10/teslas-demon-haunted-cars-in-irmas-path-get-a-temporary-battery-life-boost/

BTW, you were complaining that all of this has nothing to do with my initial post. It absolutely does. In both cases, there's a distortion of the concept of property.

In the first case, the major music labels do you the favor of letting you listen to "their" music.

In the case Andrew cited, Bloomberg claims to have the copyright even on a POTUS speech.

In the magical world of subscription, you don't own a f*** thing and they can revoke everything at any moment. In all cases, you are only enabled to consume.

Maybe it's too left-wing? And yet the strong concept of private property and possession of a good doesn't come from there.

Ciao

 

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4 hours ago, Yannick Willox said:

I know for a fact Tesla has no subscription that unlocks a bigger battery capacity, so that alone is bullshit.

Really?  Tell me more.  If you wanna mince words about "subscription" vs "upgrade," that's fine, but the one who is bullshit seems to be, in fact, you.  As to the rest, if you want to make a statement that an article is full of easily-disproven facts, it is not even remotely unreasonable that somebody asks you to do just that.  If they're so easy to disprove, it should hardly be a burden at all - barely an inconvenience!

https://electrek.co/2024/07/12/tesla-starts-selling-30-50-miles-of-extra-range-if-you-have-a-recent-model-y-rwd/

3 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

I think more than ever there is a power struggle between the law and corporations, we'd do well to keep an eye on that - since most of the normal rules which keep companies in check like product and competition are becoming less of a factor. We have quite a few duopolies, even monopolies in many markets and in many countries.

Exactly this.  And they have the power to crush any upstart competition like insects.  And in cases where an upstart does give competition, it's only because they're burning VC money to sell at an unmaintainable discount until they've knocked off enough competition to enshittify and raise their prices (the Uber model).