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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Having power over others means there is temptation to use that power for your own gain, and at others’ expense. Resisting that all the time is a lot of effort, best to reduce the amount of power to a more manageable level that if abused would take advanced of less people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully we’ll have more compassion in the future and treat criminals like they’re in need of help… not ideal test subjects for a new torture machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Who are Oracle’s customers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court ruling bars Apple from charging 27% commission on purchases outside the App Store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Device lock-in is a symptom of a wider issue: the users are not in control of their computing. Charging for services is fine but a company deciding what you are allowed to do with your own property is unjust.

  Change their post to say Microsoft’s old phone brand OS instead of desktop Windows and nothing changes. You don’t need to pick an equivalent to highlight a single aspect for comparison when arguing for a position.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Plex is in control of their user’s computing in a way Jellyfin isn’t. You can remove anti-features from Jellyfin software and even redistribute it. So it’s much less likely they would do something like Plex and it even doesn’t matter if they did as you can find others to work on it in a way you want. Plex is proprietary software, Jellyfin is software freedom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC urges courts to ignore 5th Circuit ruling that agency can’t issue fines⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not the FCC people need, which needs to be able to deal with companies taking advantage of consumers (e.g. putting on illegal stickers that say “warranted void if removed”).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a reason to think all the other companies couldn’t start doing it to?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A TV used to be clearly different from a computer monitor. Hopefully monitors resist this for longer but no reason to think this can’t happen there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rather have a TV from 1999. Hope LG goes under.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Talking about “IP” as if it were a single thing confuses any debate. Copyright is not a patent, which is not a trademark - they do different things.

  Software patents actually should be deleted. It is impractical to avoid accidentally infringing there are multiple ways to describe the same system using totally different technical descriptions. Copyright for software was enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU could tax Big Tech if Trump trade talks fail, says von der Leyen⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tax BigTech to fund a universal basic income (UBI)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open-Source is Just That⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With the minimal amount of work added the combined work can now have added restrictions. They’re pushover licenses.

  Devs are free to choose whatever license they want but in the pathfinding problem of interacting with others then “protecting the source” is the wrong target node. Copyleft is a tool to help people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open-Source is Just That⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is what I would mean by “open source” but I can’t blame the uninitiated from thinking it means something else. Consider every-day usage of the word “open” - an open door could be fully open, just have a small gap or even shut but unlocked (“come in, the door is open”). A well-meaning developer could think Unreal engine is open source because they can see the source code (the code is “open” to them). Words don’t have innate definitions, they have usages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open-Source is Just That⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The intent of copyleft is to ensure freedoms for the recipients of derivatives of your works. In software that means the users of forks. Copyleft restricts you to the same license (or a compatible one) to prevent you adding more restrictions. ““More permissive”” software licenses can be redistributed with the same license but often it’s a more restrictive license (e.g. MIT -> proprietary).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open-Source is Just That⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Open source is just that

  “Open” is an unspecific, a range of openness from not redistributable to (libre) free software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  own forever

  Ownership implies control - being able to maintain/repair, modify or even resell.

  To be in control of software you need access to it’s source code, and have the right to share changes with others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Given it’s unrepresentative voting system I think how much is enough to be a democracy. T hot take for people that see democracy. Two parties to choose from is just one more than a clear dictatorship. If neither actually represents you then yeah it’s not healthy .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo says latest legal win against piracy "significant" for "entire games industry"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not my games industry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Vermont, an ultralocal social network is as popular as Facebook⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🫡

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his company is 'out of GPUs' to which I reply 'welcome to the party, pal'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  youtube.com/watch?v=xBZU4PJhVL0

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Installing Countermeasures as People Are Hacking the Cables Off Superchargers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that refers to lithium ion batteries. Some EVs use lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) which can still can catch fire but can be starved of oxygen. Sadly it is heavier but it is made without the immorally sourced cobalt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suffering is Real. AI Consciousness is Not. | TechPolicy.Press⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We may be able to tell with great confidence what you’re thinking or feeling but not how it feels to you. There’s a subjective, 1st person experience. Something that it’s like to be you which is different from me. I can’t tell what it’s like to be someone else, or be another animal, or if it means anything to be a rock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suffering is Real. AI Consciousness is Not. | TechPolicy.Press⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see what you mean. By that definition of engineer then I would agree.

  We could perhaps engineer androids that mimic us so well that to damage them would feel to us like hurting a human. I would feel compelled to take the risk of caring for an unfeeling simulation just in case they were actually able to suffer or flourish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suffering is Real. AI Consciousness is Not. | TechPolicy.Press⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that’s what was ment by privacy of consciousness and agree that’s how it is.

  However, being unable to inspect if something has a consciousness doesn’t mean we can’t create a being which does. We would be unaware if we actually succeeded, or if it was not the goal we wouldn’t know it happened an unintentionally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suffering is Real. AI Consciousness is Not. | TechPolicy.Press⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does privacy of consciousness mean one can’t engineer consciousness by mimicking states of the organ that probably has something to do with it?

  What does phenomenal transparency mean?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not got to try it out properly yet. Waiting on new AMD GPUs, hoping for a low-end encoder or I ma get access to a RX 480.

  What does Jellyfin use .NET for?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can understand separating a new paid-only feature, especially if you don’t much need that part. The new features are reportedly accessible from the GUI of Notepad so I wouldn’t blame anyone else who thought “NOTEPAD” asked them to sign up and pay a subscription to use “NOTEPAD” features.

  I used to rage when reading bad changes to Windows, even after I’d stopped using it. Now I just feel bad that my friends are still in that a bad relationship with their computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if you did want apps the majority only offer it from 1 of the 2 popular repositories (" stores "). It’s a shame they do not have a way to track that lost sale.