EnsignWashout

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh, neat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Any politician launching their own media network is a reprehensible piece of shit.

  Prove me wrong.

  Counterpoint?

  Obviously I don’t have any examples here. I’m sorry if I got anyone’s hope’s up I hope this was a brief, fun, moment of mystery for a few of us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  A manufacturer phone pre-installed with LineageOS would be awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Voiding all IP law would cause a huge loss in the creative community.

  I agree. I wouldn’t be in favor of “burn it down” if I thought we could negotiate better terms with our current IP oligarchs.

  If people can no longer pay their bills by creating then they stop creating and work.

  I’ll still be available to do creative work. It wouldn’t change my current work-for-hire efforts.

  Very little valuable IP is held by actual creators, today.

  Why dump years and your heart and soul into a great book just to have it distributed for free and be poor.

  Are you an actual published creator, or a temporarily embarrassed future billionaire? Is there a version of success for you that isn’t just selling to a big IP company to get enough money to retire? That’s what it looks like, to me. The peak of my possible success would be to write something that threatens/tempts the big IP holders enough to force them to buy me out. If I don’t take the buy out, they eventually bury my thing with their advertising power.

  I don’t really disagree with you. I’m actually in favor of keeping and fixing IP laws, if that’s possible.

  But I believe the IP laws we have now only serve our billionaire employers. So, as a creator, I won’t fight to keep our current IP laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Your utopia is every creator’s nightmare.

  I didn’t say “utopia”. We need IP laws. But since we continue to let Disney (and other mega corporations) dictate the entire terms of engagement - we need to bring “burning the whole thing down and starting over” into the list of options under consideration. It’s the only way to bring Disney back to the bargaining table, at minimum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is also very very queer tho JSYK

  That could be our new Lemmy slogan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a couple of them, I think.

  I found this one:

  lemmy.ca/c/witchesvspatriarchy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also doesn’t the GPL use IP law for enforcement of copy left?

  That’s very probably Jack Dorsey’s motive in this. Briefly void all IP law, then restore it in a messy way that leaves everything owned by his lawyers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve created lots of things. The moment I finish creating it, I sign over my IP rights in exchange for money for food, and never have a right to it again.

  Without IP law, the thing I created would at least be in the commons where I can still legally use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  what stops them from replicating my thing with more money and resources?

  That’s what happens today, anyway. Most of us cannot afford the lawyers to make the law work for us.

  In contrast, if we re-use an innovation the billionaires have purchased, we go to jail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am Nicole!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When I put text on an image, I set a string contrasting text border color to make it reabale.

  It would help greatly here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Did I miss something, or is a 12 year old in France now in (indefinite?) police custody for being curious online?