@yassie_j I mean I hate #CAPTCHAs as they are #ableist af and don't even work for anything but exclude #blind and #VisionImpaired people.

But since #bots are a problem, I can't just complain about #ValueRemoving #RentSeekers like #CloudFlare without proposing any alternative methods...

@sigmasternchen Both #CloudFlare and #Link11 are #ValueRemoving #RentSeekers and equally bad!

@overcastfm Yeah, #CloudFlare are #ValueRemoving #RentSeekers:

Their whole #MusinessModel is just legalized #Racketeering and should neither exist nor be legal!

@trashheap @Raspberry_Pi The worse part of this is that #scalpers #botting their #distributors are the problem, and people buying from said #ValueRemoving #rentseekers instead of the distributors, when the only winning move is to starve those into insolvency.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ6eM5OZtm0&t=108s

@Annalee I guess where you're going on that take...

Tho can we agree that #CloudFlare are #RentSeekers and that their #Business Model should not exist to begin with?

@skiant Yes and no.

OFC it's what people do to other people, not that they do it in the :fediverse: or anywhere else.

No in that technology is paywalled and thus the systemic issues are being amplified.

This causes a whole ecosystem of #ValueRemoving #Rentseekers like #CloudFlare to even exist in the first place, which at as #ManInTheMiddle and exert #control by being not only able but willing to block @torproject #Tor users...

It's like #AdblockerBlockers: Their business should be illegal!

#TechnoFeudalism #Capitalism #RentSeekers #EVs #RightToRepair
“But capitalism has finally run out of gas. In his forthcoming book, Techno Feudalism: What Killed Capitalism, Yanis Varoufakis proposes that capitalism has died – but it wasn't replaced by socialism. Rather, capitalism has given way to feudalism:…

“Today, we live in a rentier's paradise. People don't aspire to create value – they aspire to capture it. In Survival of the Richest, Doug Rushkoff calls this "going meta": don't provide a service, just figure out a way to interpose yourself between the provider and the customer:…”

From: @PhilippBayer
https://genomic.social/@PhilippBayer/110783150336028259

#TorGuard and #CloudFlare are good indicators of everything that's wrong with #ITsec:

Mainly that the business model is full of #ValueRemoving #Rentseekers that sell #DigitalSnakeoil that'll only impress #TechIlliterates that have no idea what they talk about...

But don't take my word for it:
http://kaizushih5iec2mxohpvbt5uaapqdnbluaasa2cmsrrjtwrbx46cnaid.onion/page.php?q=blog&b=this-some-serious-bullshit-mah-nigga

:boost_ok: #FollowerPower: Does anyone know a #distributor that actually sells @Raspberry_Pi / #RaspberryPi #PiZero v1.3 / #Pi0 1.3 (NOT #Pi0W / #Pi0W2!) at #MSRP or at least not beyond 300% of it?
Cuz all I see are shitty #scammers and #ValueRemoving #rentseekers aka. [unofficial!] "#resellers" that charge 1.000% - >2.000% of the MSRP and they seem to #bot all the shops empty.
Like it's worse than with the #PS5 & #XboxSeriesX, and that's already shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ6eM5OZtm0

@Kurt Also #CloudFlare's business model is not only straight-up #racketeering in Cyberspace, but also very much #ableist and thus also violating essentials like accessing the legally mandatory Info often called "Imprint" [as a bad translation]...

Not to mention it's really bad and that #ValueRemoving #rentseekers like CloudFlare should not exist to begin with.

Archaeologists Discover Early Humans Developed Shelter To Provide Passive Income Stream For Landlords

https://www.theonion.com/archaeologists-discover-early-humans-developed-shelter-1850041985

#TheOnion #RentSeekers

All those #scalpers for #GPU's and #Consoles should be forced to only have machines with an #SM750 "GPU" that has 16MB (!) of VRAM for the rest of their lives...

Just so that they get to feel what's like being shafted by #ValueRemoving #RentSeekers...
https://www.ebay.de/itm/185505062791

@mgray #Copyright only exists for #Rentseekers like the #Copyrightmafia, as CGP Grey has shown in detail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4

@hkrn All #CA's are bad #rentseekers per design and they have too much power and not enough #accountability for that.

RT @AnmreS@twitter.com

@blakandblack@twitter.com . . . then they swoop in and buy the family homes that mortgage and interest rates broke..

more to rent out for the #rentseekers

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AnmreS/status/1600082961923469313

@cy
Trust is good. As long as we are trusting something solid.

So the fiat ppl are trusting a few fat cats who serve #specialInterests (the #fortune500, #rentseekers even if they become supplicants or zombies corporations) which many now are. They are also trusting weapons to defend USD.

The bitcoiners are trusting a network of people that have access to at least some energy, and a **large**, pool of computer scientists who have been quite meticulous in forging it.

The latter will prevail.

@anubis2814
Yes, #speculation is a #fiat issue stemming from corrupt #moneyPrinting + #rentseekers.

Say "#nimbyism" to small towns in #Europe that are still close to their #farmland and still have a defendable #culture. If being a #NIMBY is about a short #farmToPlate distance maybe we need more of it, not less.

Vertical sprawl = delayed #urbanSprawl, just wait a generation.

We don't have democratically elected #leaders, we have a #corporateState.

#stopTheLoop #useBitcoinCore #townHomes

@icedquinn
It seems that people who just want to ensure decent #housing today are, at every opportunity (ie. opportunistically), out-competed by #rentseekers that pile multiple #dwellings on a block with no #restorative, private outdoor space.

Our #Australian govt and #legacyMedia have been active #perpetrators of this #sociopathy

It needs to stop. We thought covid would bring these issues into focus but they are doubling-down on #distraction as they #printMoney for themselves.

We looked up #anarchist in the dictionary.

The definition says "resist #overdevelopment, #corporateState totalitarianism (#fascism), resist #monopoly, are #antiWar, resist deliberately obfiscated #bureaucracy, and other #rentseekers and despise #BigTech including #Cloudflare, who they see as destroying #society and #environment.

Wow – thanks highly detailed dictionary, and #anarchism!

@falgsc
Seeing #China go after #BigTech and big #propertySpeculators is something dreams are made of, also.

We hope #Australia are taking notes.

#rentseekers #tooBigToExist