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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub is Back in France.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We agree, I said “if they can’t”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon: New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume most licenses out there which are irrevocable? They’re certainly a feature of copyleft licenses.

  If someone posts copyrighted material they were not allowed to share then 3rd party servers still need to deal with DMCA takedown requests and false reports, regardless of TOS. An explicit license might help but by how much? It may also push some users away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub is Back in France.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s so many reasons trying to force companies to implement age verification is a bad idea, and “to protect the children” is a nonsense excuse. That said, it’s kinda scary if a government can’t regulate business behaviour when interacting with their citizens (who are inside the country).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If one limits their scope to the nutrients or taste of food on their plate then they wouldn’t consider the well-being of other conscious creatures. Only considering system requirements to complete an activity misses out the freedom of the user(s), apparently.

  It is a given that humans suffer due to the unjust power that proprietary software gives devs over their user’s computing. Even the best dev does not the the willpower to always resist the temptation to use that power at the expense of the users. Many devs are oblivious they are doing anything wrong and many are malicious/anti-consumer.

  There is also the impact it’s use and promotion has on others - money/feedback/promotion given to the non-free projects are boons not given to the freedom-respecting projects. I am better off when others start to move away from proprietary software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure that’s correct. Richard Stallman would be a good example of that, sadly. I do doubt anything noteworthy has been said in this thread, or site. Seems more like people feel attacked when free software advocates point out uncomfortable issues. Like how people get annoyed with vegans talking about animal cruelty (I eat meat, saying that to avoid theonejoke).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To continue the metaphor: a partner can have many alluring qualities (income, hobbies, looks) but what does that matter if the relationship is abusive. Leaving (and dating someone “worse”) can be more difficult that just staying in the relationship, but the priority should be clear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If those in the know on software choose not to use software that’s open source because of comments on some thread… were they intellectually thinking about their own best interests? It’s like no longer enjoying a show because some fans did something cridge - anything popular enough will have weirdos (from someone’s perspective).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A picture of the character Toad from the platform game series Super Mario. The image is cropped to only show Toad’s face. Toad is sweating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s it from?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean a morally “right” solution? 😇

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
  2. Open source has high immunity to devs making changes at the expense of user for their benefit because anti-feature can be removed. Recommendating another proprietary alternative here would be like recommending to leave an abusive partner but then recommend someone with the same red flags they had.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you went somewhere else their competition is winning (directly as another video site and indirectly as anything else you would do with your time).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t mean to suggest that. I consider calling copyright infringement “piracy” to be propaganda started by the music industry to push their monetary interests. A derogatory term that conflates it will immoral stealing (and murder on boats), which way overstates any harms caused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember when stealing on sea was piracy. Always has been.

  Copyright infringement is different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Mostly Source Wikipedia; Google AI Overviews Mostly Source Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wikipedia content is usually copyleft isn’t it? BigAI doing the BigEvil, redistribution without attribution or reaffirming the rights given back from Copyright by copyleft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A “clash of cultures” would not be inaccurate as “culture” includes everything a group says/does. It’s an insufficient term as it often conveys mundane differences but “stigma, discrimination, and violence” is a substantially more moral difference (if Wikipedia is accurate about gender identity and expression in Kenya).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🐧

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Korean game unions demand abolition of comprehensive wage system to improve conditions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If we had a universal basic income (UBI) it working would instead be a choice to improve their standard of living.

  I could agree about liberating work except I assume the AI is trained on artists’ works without compensation and permission. Artists created works already and it’s taken advantage of to create the AI, presumably for the profit of the proprietary software owner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[UK] Live facial recognition cameras may become ‘commonplace’ as police use soars⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps balaclavas will become common place in response, at least in public places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$1.5 Billion AI Company That Reportedly Used No Actual AI Goes Belly Up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A Billion dollars is a worthless amount of money, apparently. Do investors have no loved ones?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🤢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can +1 your whole post if I exclude the start. If we talk about it we may discover we mean the same, or similar, when we say “consciousness”. What other purpose is there for word definitions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What are the chances this won’t be proprietary?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Open question] Why are so many open-source projects, particularly projects written in Rust, MIT licensed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some claim they value their users having the “most” freedom. However, since MIT permits code use within proprietary software then that would exclude downstream users (users of their users, ad infinitum).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Open question] Why are so many open-source projects, particularly projects written in Rust, MIT licensed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a GPL compliance lawsuit going on where they’re suing as a user under contract law, instead of as the copyright holder. Perhaps Perhaps you can say the GPL is as good as anyone’s lawyers, in the near future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X (formerly Twitter) has been experiencing international outages for a second time in a week.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They become shit when doing so makes them more money - eventually temptation wins. There is less temptation when a platform is open source (libre) because someone else can come along and host practically the same platform but minus the anti-features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GNU Taler v1.0 released and is operating in Switzerland⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope GNU Taler does well in Switzerland. One day I would like to accept payments/donations using Taler ❤️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe’s onlyfans performers can’t get justice⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not piracy, it’s unauthorised copying. No boats and murder here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume most companies write somewhere in their terms that “lifetime” means effectively “whenever the fuck we want”.

  If there is a company that uses the word lifetime properly they may be worth a mention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One man’s feature is another man’s anti-feature.