• I've been wanting to write more about [[adversarial interoperability]] for a while.
• I've now filed it in [[55]] in the [[Flancia pattern language]] (I threw the number to choose).
• In this node I plan to develop a short [[essay]]:

Adversarial Interoperability

Or: [[The Two AIs]] Link: https://anagora/adversarial+interoperability pull

Adversarial must be qualified and quantified immediately: what we set out to achieve is [[Digital Independence]] and increased public benefit, with [[Right Intention]]. If it seems to contradict (maybe temporarily) the alignment of corporations and be against their interests, so be it, because we need to do what is right for the future of [[humanity]] and our [[friends]].

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• [[doing]]:
  • TODO: write the rest :)
  • Maybe after I write to [[Milei]] and [[Musk]]?
  • Or maybe those letters and this one are entangled, as this concept is part of my [[proposal]] to them.

• a [[concept]].
• #go https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability
  • by [[cory doctorow]].
  • "that's when you create a new product or service that plugs into the existing ones without the permission of the companies that make them."
  • See also: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/altinteroperabilityadversarial, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interoperability-reviving-elegant-weapon-more-civilized-age-slay.
  • Related: [[flanbook]].

adversarial interoperability

“That’s when you create a new product or service that plugs into the existing ones without the permission of the companies that make them,” writes [[Cory Doctorow]], special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

– Breaking Tech Open: Why Social Platforms Should Work More Like Email - The Re…

“Think of third-party printer ink, alternative app stores, or independent repair shops that use compatible parts from rival manufacturers to fix your car or your phone or your tractor.”

– Breaking Tech Open: Why Social Platforms Should Work More Like Email - The Re…

Without adversarial interoperability, users have limited [[agency]] and innovation is stifled.

– Breaking Tech Open: Why Social Platforms Should Work More Like Email - The Re…

The writer Cory Doctorow talks about “adversarial interoperability,” which describes a situation where one service communicates with another without the latter’s permission, or perhaps only with grudging permission secured through legislation.

– [[Internet for the People]]

For most of modern history, this kind of guerrilla interoperability, achieved through reverse engineering, bots, scraping and other permissionless tactics, were the norm. But a growing thicket of “IP” laws creates severe legal jeopardy for these time-honored traditions. Just one of these IP rules — the “anti-circumvention” provision in Section 1201 of 1998’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act — provides for a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine for anyone who bypasses “an effective means of access control.” And that’s for a first offense!

– [[Freeing Ourselves From The Clutches Of Big Tech]]

[[Concept]]

[[Language]]

[[Tongue]]

[[Brazilian Portuguese]]

[[Trivia]]

(Warning: I'm using my personal knowledge of my culture. Do not cite me, neither trust in me!)

• [[Dangerous]], [[useful]], [[ingenious]], [[funny]], and [[stupid]] [[workaround]]s can all be called [[gambiarra]]s.
• A few specific things in [[Brazilian culture]] which would probably evoke the idea of a [[gambiarra]] to a [[Brazil]]ian like me:
  • [[Gato]]:
    • a slang for a [[clandestine]] [[electrical connection]].
      • It can be used for other kinds of [[clandestine]] connection, such as [[Internet]] or [[TV]].
        • You can specify: [[gato de luz]]/[[gato de energia elétrica]] ([[electricity]]), [[gato de internet]], [[gato de TV]], etc.
      • It's homonymous with the word we use for a [[male]] [[cat]].
      • It has a relation to [[poverty]], [[marginalization]], and [[favela]]s, in which they are quite common and [[normal]]ized. It also evokes [[improvisation]] and [[haphazardness]].
        • They're [[normal]]ized enough that one can easily find [[video]]s with instructions to make them with [[million]]s of views on [[Youtube]].
        • When they're done directly on [[utility pole]]s, they can get really [[messy]]:
          • -
          • 
  • [[T]]/[[Benjamim]] (and any other kinds of [[plug adapter]]s, [[multi-outlets]], [[extension cable]]s, etc.):
    • [[T]], also known in a few places as a [[benjamim]], is a slang for a very common [[T]]-shaped [[multi-outlet]].
    • [[Self-explanatory]] relationship with [[gambiarra]]:
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Gambiarra

• a notion in Brazil
• a process or a verb
  • act or object that arises when you're dealing with just the resources to hand
• in English could be e.g. a workaround, jerryrigging
• humour comes with it, as well as a sense of liberation

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