Cory Doctorow, "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" (Verso, 2023)
New Books in Critical Theory
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Facebook's Interoperability Mandates
There's no way to guarantee that a program is bug-free something called the halting state program says that any program of more than trivial it's complexity will always have bugs in it. There will always be people who figure out how to exploit those bugs and come after you on facebook. So when facebook detects someone using thatapi to drain its users data we want them to like shut down the api to hit the panic button and and lock it down while they figure out what their problem is.
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