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The problem, in other words, isn’t intermediation — it’s power. The thing that distinguishes a useful intermediary from an enshittified bully is power. Intermediaries gain power when our governments stop enforcing competition law.
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This lets intermediaries buy each other up and corner markets. Once they’ve formed cozy cartels, they can capture their regulators and commit rampant labor, privacy and consumer violations with impunity. That capture also lets them harness governments to punish smaller players that want to free workers, creators, audiences and customers from walled gardens.
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It also hands them a whip-hand over their workers, so that any worker who refuses to aid in these nefarious plans can be easily fired.
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Symfony
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As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
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Highlight -> "This week, development activity focused on fixing bugs, such as adding compatibility with the new yielding feature introduced in Twig 3.9. In addition, we published more details about the talks of the upcoming SymfonyLive Paris 2024 conference."
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This week
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Brian Thiely examines the:
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Eternal Learner shows us how to:
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Part 1 is below in the previous weeks section.
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Nikolay Nikolov explores:
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PIM
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Fronkom examines a new reg impacting PIMs:
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CMSs
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TYPO3 Developer Days says:
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Bleeping Computer reports:
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There's some good stuff here that is (very) slowly improving Drupal.
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The Lullabot Podcast looks at:
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Previous Weeks
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PHP
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This week
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Parthipan Natkunam explains:
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There is a part 1 you will want to read as well.
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Muhammad Raza Bangi looks at:
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More Programming
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Marc van Neerven announces:
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Now this is cool. No React shit, Bootcrap, or Failwind.
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Fighting for Democracy
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The cyber response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery
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Bleeping Computer reports:
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Meta tries to do something good.
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The Evil Empire Strikes Back
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Then Meta allows this mofoery.
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Krebs on Security reports:
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Open Web Advocacy reports:
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On a related note, Ars Technica reports:
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Cybersecurity/Privacy
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This probably safety-washing from Google but hopefully not.
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Bleeping Computer reports:
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The Fediverse
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The Fediverse Report has:
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Mastodon had a spam fiasco this weekend because of some teenage jackassery in Japan and its own lax security and privacy decisions. Plus Discord's shitassery.
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Jan Wildeboer examines the laxness:
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Cats on a Keyboard has the nitty-gritty:
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Everyone knows TOS are for platforms to fuck over their users. Not to prevent their users from fucking over other users. Right SubStack?
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Great news. Those on the Fediverse who want to interact with the Threads dummies get the Facebook old dummies as a bonus. At least it will be via ActivityPub.
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We will let you know when ours are turned on.
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CTAs (aka show us some free love)
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Do you own or work for an organization that would be interested in our promotion opportunities? If so, please get in touch with us. We’re in our infancy, so it’s extra economical. 😉
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More importantly, if you are a Ukrainian company with coding-related products, we can offer free promotion on our Support Ukraine page. Or, if you know of one, get in touch.
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