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- Comment on Google denies reports that it’s discontinuing Fitbit products 2 months ago:
what’s the word for a thing that worms its way into your life, makes you depend on it, then uses that to exploit and damage you?
there’s a word for that.
- Comment on Disenshittify or Die 2 months ago:
basic state logic.
they’re incapable of sucking less. their whole episteme is about centralizing, about reducing thought the farther it gets from the central authority (whether that’s one guy, a class, or a building like the pentagon), but you CAN increase violence, threaten, flatten, disable, basically wherever.
- Comment on YouTube creator sues Nvidia and OpenAI for ‘unjust enrichment’ for using their videos for AI training 2 months ago:
tl;dr: copyright law has always been nonsense designed to protect corporations and fuck over artists+consumers
but now corpo daddy and corpo mommy are fighting, and we need to take sides.
and it’s revealing that copyright law never existed to protect artists, and will continue to not do that, but MUCH more obviously, and all the cucks who whined about free culture violating laws are reaping what they fucking sowed.
- Comment on YouTube creator sues Nvidia and OpenAI for ‘unjust enrichment’ for using their videos for AI training 2 months ago:
agreed, but its an interesting contradiction revealed in the legal frameworks.
- Comment on YouTube creator sues Nvidia and OpenAI for ‘unjust enrichment’ for using their videos for AI training 2 months ago:
turns out, copyright laws have literally never been used to protect artists!
- Comment on Mandalorian 2 months ago:
so, media creators-the writers actors set designers camera people etc, they don’t get money for media. it’s just not a thing. the money you spend on a movie does not go to the people who made it. sometimes books. sometimes book money goes to the people who wrote them, but that’s still pretty rare. like, as long as the most recent contract negotiations with WGA and SAG went on for, their leadership accepted deals that absolutely fuck them.
so I dunno how to help them make a living. I guess the same way I would if I were paying disney; live in hollywood and tip 50%.
I can afford it
so you can afford to have disney fucking murder your loved ones? dude, that’s a level of non-material wealth that I literally cannot comprehend, im fucking jealous.
you don’t discipline power with laws. has never worked, will never work. you discipline power with pitchforks and torches and communism. you discipline power with a guillotine, or in a coal mine. nothing else has ever worked.
- Comment on Mandalorian 2 months ago:
right but it can’t protect the powerful without gaslighting you, because the direct use of violence for control is really really fucking inefficient, and the use of pure terror for control isn’t much better. you need to build the prison in your prisoners’ heads, y’know?
- Comment on California launches electric trains as US lags behind world in rail electrification 2 months ago:
or the oil infrastructure?
- Comment on All Windows users should immediately update their computers. An exploit rated 9.8/10 (CVE-2024-38063) compromises all devices running Windows with an IPv6 address. 2 months ago:
they certainly don’t run windows.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
if its not open source; it doesn’t exist.
- Comment on Mandalorian 2 months ago:
this is why you pirate, so it’s still illegal for them to literally murder your wife.
satire is fucking dead. NEVER consume media legally. not if you have anyone you care about in your life.
- Comment on Mandalorian 2 months ago:
that’s now how it works. the law does not exist to protect you; it exists to make you tolerate your exploitation and feel like it’s fair.
- Comment on Mandalorian 2 months ago:
doing a hell of a lot worse than suing them needs to be normalized.
not just agents and property of corporations who piss you off, but their executives, and any corporate lawyer or judge.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
yeah there are apps I want on my phone, but if anything says ‘there is an app’ I’m instantly averse.
even the things I do want phone apps for, I have to browse on fdroid because default options are all terrible. basic shit like file browsers and media players in commercial OS’s are just, like, vile and do not function. even if I didn’t care about the endoscopes they try to snake up every orifice, they are deliberately nonfunctional.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
see, if it had an API, I could integrate it into an open smart home app, and it would be cool as FUCK.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
you never know for sure until you try though, so if it requires an app, it’s dead to me and I don’t trust anything else the company makes.
if it has an API i get very wet very fast.
- Comment on ISP to Supreme Court: We shouldn’t have to disconnect users accused of piracy 2 months ago:
this is why everyone should pirate literally anything they can, even if they don’t particularly want it.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
explain how the waterproofing+heatproofing on sous DIY sous vide work. I must know.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
I’ve been screaming this at the top of my lungs for 20 years, and oh my god the “I told you so”'s I get to say now feel SO good.
i mean, I don’t have any friends anymore, so mostly im just calling up people who hate me now and saying “I told you so”, but, like I DID, so, worth.
I mean, not, like, ‘worth’ in the sense that anything in my life works or wasn’t torn apart by my adherence to materialism and avoidance of dark patterns, but, like, you know, feels good for a few minutes when they haven’t changed their number.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
water+heat proofing is hard, or I’d suggest a DIY solution.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
if I see something requires an app, no matter how good it is otherwise. the product is dead to me. I know it is, effectively, going to break within a year or two.
- Comment on Amazon Is Investing in AI-Assisted Apartheid in Palestine 2 months ago:
local elections SHOULD matter, but under the thumb of the government anything good you try to do will be banned. BDS stuff, muni broadband, walkable urbanism, whatever, will be banned at a higher level where it’s more cost effective to buy politicians.
- Comment on Amazon Is Investing in AI-Assisted Apartheid in Palestine 3 months ago:
okay but how are you going to pressure them AFTER you vote, because if you’ve got no plan, there’s no point legitimizing their bullshit.
- Comment on Amazon Is Investing in AI-Assisted Apartheid in Palestine 3 months ago:
and our entire ruling class is masturbating to it.
- Comment on WITH ads? Fuckin awesome coupon, thanks! 3 months ago:
not just block video, but ban? wow. its like they want you to pirate.
- Comment on Carebear countdown 3 months ago:
I feel like a brightly colored teddy bear that hides in your kitchen to shoot you with a memory erasure ray to change who you are as a person is the most MKULTRA thing ever.
and trust me, when someone who can’t stop thinking about that shit starts getting optimistic and looking at silver linings, people get, WAY more upset than they do when we just point out how fucked everything is. like seeing the silvery edges of the mushroom cloud is way more disturbing than the death toll.
- Comment on Customers who save on electric bills could be forced to pay Louisiana utility company for lost profits 3 months ago:
only ones that are.
- Comment on Customers who save on electric bills could be forced to pay Louisiana utility company for lost profits 3 months ago:
really its your stuff.
- Comment on Customers who save on electric bills could be forced to pay Louisiana utility company for lost profits 3 months ago:
corporate profits should be made an example of. like, deliberately ruined whenever possible, because if this is what happens when they’re up…
- Comment on Customers who save on electric bills could be forced to pay Louisiana utility company for lost profits 3 months ago:
they won’t. everybody’s been bought by big orphan. cowards.