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• ⁨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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  🐧

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Korean game unions demand abolition of comprehensive wage system to improve conditions⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  🤢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who are Oracle’s customers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court ruling bars Apple from charging 27% commission on purchases outside the App Store⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tax BigTech to fund a universal basic income (UBI)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open-Source is Just That⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.