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▲ Cider9986 4 hours ago

Shout out to Louis Rossmann for doing a ton of work on Right to repair.

He started a website called Consumer Rights Wiki to document anti-consumer practices.

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page

He's also involved with FULU Foundation which has a bounty of 25k to get Ring cameras working without Amazon's servers.

https://bounties.fulu.org/bounties/ring-video-doorbells

▲srejk 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I appreciate everything he stands for - he's on the right side of just about every issue. I just wish he could make more succinct and effective videos.

▲cgyvbunji 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Personally I think if he did that people wouldn't pay attention. My experience is that when you complain to people about digital rights they just glaze over unless you walk them through all the ins and outs and the implications.

▲dataflow 35 minutes ago | parent [-]

I share his videos here but nobody seems to see them and/or care enough to vote; all I get is crickets. It's baffling to me. Examples:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802162

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395520

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043208

▲throw2ih020 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

HN audience prefers text to video; videos rarely do well here compared to other sites.

▲TedDoesntTalk 17 minutes ago | parent [-]

Agree. I almost never watch them when posted in comments. Sometimes if it’s a main article I might.

▲VladVladikoff 12 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I clicked on one, he was rambling about wearing sunglasses because of studio lights, seems like pointless drivel, so I stopped watching.

▲edoceo 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sometimes the problems are so complex and entangled it's hard to fit solutions into sound bites (vis: taxes, healthcare(USA) and apparently product "ownership".

Deere is a long way from the user accessibility of the Model A or B.

▲yesimahuman an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I love his videos. He makes you feel like we can actually fight back and win. If he changed his style I think something great would be lost

▲Abishek_Muthian an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

His video style is just fine, him and his cats. I don't mind the expletives as the people/companies he uses it against deserves them but I had instances where I couldn't show his videos to some elderly people because of the expletives.

▲Papazsazsa 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The man is an icon.

Reminds me of old internet, when activists we doing it for The User.

▲gleenn 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Extra props for tilting thw windmill that is tech behemoths funneling data to government agencies without oversight. Aiming at Amazon is certainly something not to be taken lightly.

▲aj_icracked 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I agree with this. Louis has done a ton in the last decade and deserves thanks for sure.

▲mnadkvlb 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

he is one of the very few people who inspires me today.

▲de6u99er 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wouldn't it be easier to build an open hardware/source alternative to Ring cameras.