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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit claims Meta can see WhatsApp chats in breach of privacy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Being proprietary is enough of a reason to refuse it. On top of that, being owned by Facebook is another good reason.

  With proprietary software the developer is in control, and in this case the developer is known evil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an ad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There should be a law that any time someone uses the word slam in a news context it should be about someone literally being slammed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is the works they didn’t pay for. “Copyright infringement” is quite the anodyne term for “theft.”

  Other way around. Copyright infringement is the alleged crime. “Theft” is the entertainment industry’s spin term for it. www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Theft

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for making AI ripoffs of their biggest characters⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Intellectual property is imaginary and making a copy of something isn’t stealing it. I don’t like Midjourney as it’s a proprietary service-as-a-software-substitute, but Disney actually is the greater evil here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord CTO says he’s “constantly bringing up enshittification” during meetings⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pidgin is still around, and you can even use discord with it (no voice, mind you).

  I would like to bring the multi-platform client back.