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- Comment on No conclusive evidence linking acetaminophen to autism, says Health Canada in rebuke to Trump 1 day ago:
I, for one, believe Canada.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 4 weeks ago:
So does Google.
- Comment on Child sex abuse victim begs Elon Musk to remove links to her images 4 weeks ago:
The BBC found images of Zora while investigating the global trade of child sex abuse material, estimated to be worth billions of dollars by Childlight, the Global Child Safety Institute.
You can tell capitalism is problematic when reporters feel a need to estimate the monetary value of child sexual abuse material.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 4 weeks ago:
Like if an author had a five year old why shouldn’t the kid get royalties if their parents is in an accident?
Like I said, all it does is prioritize the desires of the dead over the needs of the living. It’s not justified.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 4 weeks ago:
That is the BARE MINIMUM of reason.
There’s no reason IN THE WORLD for any kind of idea of “intellectual property” to exist once the creator is dead.
NONE.
It doesn’t benefit the creator in any way to have such a system where people can claim ownership of another’s work after death. All that does is deny the living things that could help them in favor of some ridiculous notion that you’re helping the dead; it’s asinine.
- Comment on Buy HDD on sale now or wait for Black Friday? 1 month ago:
By Black Friday the US Dollar won’t be worth anything.
If you need something, buy it now.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 1 month ago:
I switched to Qobuz about two weeks ago. I’ve been really impressed.
- Comment on Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings 1 month ago:
I call for employees to tell their employers to FTFO.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 1 month ago:
I’m autistic. If I’m not using some kind of a subscription service I will end up listening to the same one song on repeat literally thousands of times until I hate it. I would prefer to not hate songs I used to love. It’s happened too much. I need some kind of service to introduce new music into my rotation.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 1 month ago:
I switched to Deezer because I found reasons why all of the others were unethical. What would you suggest for a streaming service whose services are ethical?
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 month ago:
Lots of ridiculous-looking people in politics today. They could use some haircuts.
- Comment on The challenge of deleting old online accounts | Loudwhisper 1 month ago:
I’ve been doing this. I’ve actually been using Proton Pass and SimpleLogin to anonymize the information.
I also realized the importance of not just using a different (strong) password on each site, but using a different email, and using a different username.
I had quite a few accounts to modify/delete, and I realized if I did 5-10 per day that I could accomplish it in less than 100 days.
Well, good news. I finished last week.
- Comment on America’s drone 9/11 is coming — and just like on 9/11, we aren’t ready 3 months ago:
I am much more concerned about the military itself attacking the U.S. population.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 3 months ago:
I don’t think it matters.
I honestly don’t think it’s a meaningful question.
- Comment on On trees... 3 months ago:
Or maybe the microorganisms and food sources that life forms are exposed to have more of an effect on how the macroorganisms evolve than is currently talked about, which would explain why so many things in similar environments evolve similar traits.
- Comment on China Swoops In to Replace Asian USAID Efforts Axed by Trump 3 months ago:
Even US Citizens can see how China is behaving versus how the US is behaving.
- Comment on A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious. 4 months ago:
Your neighbors pay your salary. The more money in your community the more there will be for your salary.
Sometimes you’re likely to want to get groceries.
Sometimes you’re likely to want to go to restaurants.
Sometimes you’re likely to need to get housewares.
Sometimes you’re likely to need services from plumbers or mechanics or electricians.
If you choose your local community, that money stays in your community, and it’s likely to make it back to you.
So next time you’re buying a burger and fries, check out your local restaurants.
- Comment on Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits 4 months ago:
Google offered Workspace free to individuals. I set that up and used it for my family, and then BAM! After a decade or so of using it, they removed the free plan, once we were using it for logins for a bunch of sites and for our emails. Went from free to $50 per month. It took a LOT of effort to get my family off of that. Never again.
- Comment on Governments continue losing efforts to gain backdoor access to secure communications 4 months ago:
For the entire time I have lived on this planet, I’ve been pretty confident that my daily activities would generally be considered legal, and that the Federal Government had literally zero reason to be interested in me or anything I did.
Now, though, I am aware that the government can disappear me and rendition me to a death camp, without trial and even without habeas corpus.
As far as I can tell, if I’m being arrested I no longer have anything to lose. I am aware of that, and should it come to that, I understand why people are saying to act accordingly.
That is as far as I am going to say in this conversation.
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 4 months ago:
That’s not being fair to the new owners.
It’s the company buyer’s responsibility to make sure they know about and honor existing contracts with the existing company, and it’s the company’s responsibility to provide that information to the buyer.
It is not ANYONE else’s responsibility to make them follow that. If something like this happens, the company(whether before or after the purchase) was in the wrong.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 4 months ago:
It’s actually comments like this which will scare people the hell away from trying Linux.
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 4 months ago:
Frostwire is still available and it actually works better than Limewire ever did.
- Comment on This is real 5 months ago:
The New York Times should publish this as its front page tomorrow, with malicious edits and all, and address it below.
- Comment on El Salvador's Bukele rules out returning US deportee 5 months ago:
Neither has the power to bring him back in the same way that neither has the power to bring back Anne Frank.
- Comment on Genius 5 months ago:
Vagina
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 5 months ago:
What international alternatives exist for YouTube? And I understand RedNote as an alternative for TikTok, but YouTube fills a little bit of a different niche.
- Comment on Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works 6 months ago:
Parrots can mimic humans too, but they don’t understand what we’re saying the way we do.
It’s interesting how humanity thinks that humans are smarter than animals, but that the benchmark it uses for animals’ intelligence is how well they do an imitation of an animal with a different type of brain.
As if humanity succeeds in imitating other animals and communicating in their languages or about the subjects that they find important.