Personally, I know nobody who has the need to install this type of crappy surveillance shit on their front door in Europe to start with.
You frame it like the only alternative to American surveillance cameras is Chinese surveillance cameras, but no cameras seems to be no option for you.
Who is the one with the paranoid, imaginary reasons?
Edit: Ah btw, here in germany we have of course cameras to see who is in front of the door, it is called Türsprechanlage. It does not record, it does sent to the cloud, it is not smart, and is developed and produced in Germany, for example by Siedle.
I don't understand why all answers make it all about Germany. I say "Europe" and you say "but here in Germany". If you insist on Germany I saw plenty of cheap Chinese IP cameras in Turkish, Arab, and Asian districts of German cities and in tourist hotspots of German cities. Every noodle and kebab place has at least one inside or outside. IP camera, doorbell camera, surveillance camera, call it however you want.
The guillotine remark resonates in today reality because people feel this scam. Tone-policing the symptom while ignoring the cause is naive.
The C15 thread shows exactly why: It beats modern trucks in pure utility. Today we are paying more for less value.
It is exactly the wealth extraction Ray Dalio describes in Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order (Stage 5 of the debt cycle), resulting in internal conflict.
I’d argue that what you're experiencing isn't the Network Effect anymore, but rather Vendor Lock-in.
The Network Effect implies the platform gets better for you as more people join. If they are deleting your content, the network is no longer serving you—it’s just holding you hostage. This is enshitification as it best. (this ironie with a cory doctorow link)
At this stage, it’s just a walled garden. Staying because 'everyone is here' while being silenced is learned helplessness.
You're voluntarily staying in a walled garden that refuses to let you speak.
I agree with you, but perhaps walled garden and network effects are not mutually exclusive. I.e. if I leave the garden, I'm losing value of being able to reach many people I care about.
The author has a point here, collaboration without a driver will lead to a culture of talking instead of doing. To be a driver of a change you need agency. Great example with the PR. If I create a PR at another team, how will they react? "Get off my lawn" or "actually this is not something we had in mind but thanks for the PR, we are putting it behind a feature-flag and will try it out and measure the outcome".
Yeah, right? They really have a great website. Even better, the sourcecode is on github with 200+ open PRs, 10.000+ closed PRs and 133 authors in this repo over the last months.
Please bro, please, fix our bugs bro, just this one bug bro, last one I swear, you and I will make big money, you are the best bro, I love you bro.
-- big tech companies
I'm considering a new reMarkable, but the lack of an official sdk for the cloud API is a major concern.
The community has built amazing tools for remarkable device, but their work is constantly being broken by software updates. This isn't a sustainable situation. For a company that charges for a cloud service, providing a stable, official API should be a priority. It would not only support the community's innovation but also provide a reliable foundation that developers and users can trust for the long term.
As long as a stable, official API isn't provided, I won't be buying a new device from them.
You frame it like the only alternative to American surveillance cameras is Chinese surveillance cameras, but no cameras seems to be no option for you.
Who is the one with the paranoid, imaginary reasons?
Edit: Ah btw, here in germany we have of course cameras to see who is in front of the door, it is called Türsprechanlage. It does not record, it does sent to the cloud, it is not smart, and is developed and produced in Germany, for example by Siedle.