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- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 3 hours ago:
It really doesn’t, though. Unless the company running the website has a presence within the EU – which means it ceases to count as “outside” – there’s fuck-all the EU can do to enforce it.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 9 hours ago:
I’m suddenly wondering if horny multiplayer games for couples is already a thing, or if it’s an untapped market.
- Comment on advertising and headers take up 50% of screen space 1 day ago:
They should add a per-site setting to use reading mode by default.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 1 day ago:
As a civil engineer with only a tiny bit of experience cos I switched to software.
Holy shit, I’m not the only one?!
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 1 day ago:
Not to knock college undergrad core curriculum, but that strong base ought to be acquired before graduating high school.
- Comment on My writing laptop just died 1 day ago:
I’m not a Linux person.
[X] doubt
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 2 days ago:
LOL. LMAO, even.
Get fucked, Imgur!
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 2 days ago:
The fascist US obviously won’t do shit, but Europe ought to outlaw this blatant anti-trust violation.
- Comment on The Fifth Circuit Ruled That the NLRB Is Unconstitutional 5 days ago:
Sounds like somebody needs to be reminded that without the NLRB setting fair rules, “illegal” tactics like wildcat strikes, sympathy strikes, union violence, etc. are back on the menu.
- Comment on AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest idea' 6 days ago:
That’s a future CEO’s problem.
- Comment on Superfan Ben Stiller Has A Star Trek Pitch, Says It’s Important For Franchise To Return To Big Screen 1 week ago:
The Orville isn’t “big screen.” What we need is a sequel to Galaxy Quest.
- Comment on 'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court 1 week ago:
But see, that’s what I’m saying: the court was wrong to consider that 25th box a thing that needed ticking to begin with. There was nothing that needed re-opening because if the computer owner’s property rights were as secure as they’re supposed to be the reason given for sending the case back to the lower court should’ve been considered irrelevant!
- Comment on What would be an inexpensive and reliable way to set up a personal-use VPN tunnel? 1 week ago:
The company’s rule isn’t arbitrary; it’s due to state income taxes being paid based on where the employee actually works, not where the company is located. It’s payroll, not IT, who are going to be coming after your friend, because the state tax collectors are going to be coming after everybody when your friend’s lie causes them to not file the taxes correctly.
- Comment on What are the main differences between GPLv2, GPLv3, AGPL, and LGPL? 1 week ago:
Permissive licenses (MIT, BSD) prioritize programmers’ freedom, letting them do whatever they want with the code including keeping their own changes proprietary.
All variants of GPL are copyleft, which prioritizes end uaers’ freedom to control the software they use.
LGPL is for people who want the subsystem they’re working on to remain free, but don’t mind it being incorporated into proprietary software.
GPLv2 is for people who want to preserve users’ rights to control the whole program.
GPLv3 is resistant to Tivoization, i.e. to preserve users’ rights to actually run the program on the hardware it was intended for.
AGPL is resistant to circumventing users’ rights by using SaaS instead of letting them run it locally.
(BTW, everyone who thinks there’s a good reason to prefer GPLv2 over v3 is shortsighted and wrong.)
- Comment on 'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court 1 week ago:
No, it’s even worse than people realize.
This isn’t just about ad-blocking; it’s about computer owners’ fundamental property rights (or lack thereof). It shouldn’t fucking matter if the ad-blocker modifies the website’s code, because both pieces of software are running on the owner’s machine and he has the right to modify his property in any way he sees fit.
It is no different than a book owner crossing out printed text and writing in the margins: that copy of the book is his modify as he wants, and copyright doesn’t fucking enter into it as all because there’s no copying or distribution happening to begin with.
What the German court gas done here is opened the door to copyright holders trying to colonize shit they don’t own, stealing control from the actual owners.
- Comment on Mississippi Senator tells his constituents to 'get a life' 1 week ago:
You say that, but clearly some Senators don’t fucking get it just from reading the text and need the long-winded explanation.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 week ago:
Fuck off, property-rights-hating shill! You are not only wrong but dangerously so, and there is absolutely nothing you could ever write that could ever change my mind.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 week ago:
What part of “it’s a violation of people’s property rights to try to extract rent for the thing they already own” do you not fucking understand?
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 week ago:
ECU hacks exists since decades ago…
They call it unlock
Yeah, no shit ECU tuning has long been a thing. I’ve got a '99 VW with an ECU tune myself.
The thing is, they’re calling this shit an “unlock” because they’re charging for it, which is obviously the essential difference. They are attempting to colonize your property in order to charge you rent for something you are already entitled to do!
How the fuck are you failing to understand how beyond the pale that is?!
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 week ago:
No, that’s absolute bullshit.
In your example, they absolutely and unequivocally bought all 200 HP, from the beginning, and merely got a good deal on it if VW charged a lower price than the identical car with different number on the label. But it was always their property from the beginning because that’s how property works.
They owe VW nothing after the fact, and always had the capital-r Right to use every bit of horsepower the engine was physically capable of!
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 week ago:
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 week ago:
Okay, but hear me out: the notion that a business model is “cheaper” doesn’t matter if it’s also criminal because it violates their customers’ property rights.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 week ago:
Why shouldn’t I break into your house, change the locks, and then charge you a ransom to get access to it back?
'Cause that’s what VW is doing here.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 week ago:
It’s like they don’t realise they don’t own the car once it’s been sold.
They literally don’t. This is nothing less than a war on property rights.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 week ago:
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 week ago:
Is that subscription for OnStar or Super Cruise? One is a service with legitimate ongoing operating costs; the other is not.
- Comment on 🤝🤝🤝 1 week ago:
Medieval-style bloodletting…
- Comment on How difficult would it be to live in a modern-day developed country without a smartphone? 2 weeks ago:
Does the US count as a “modern-day developed country?” 'Cause if so, it’s apparently still possible because my tech-illiterate Boomer parents manage it.
(Okay, they technically have smartphones, mainly because I’m trying to drag them kicking and screaming into the 21st century, but they basically use them for nothing but phone calls and maybe an occasional text message or email.)
- Comment on how do i make my own limitation free ai? 2 weeks ago:
Do you actually need the webui stuff or can you just use ollama on the command line?
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 2 weeks ago:
When mainstream media starts asking if something is a bubble, it’s not only already been one for quite a while already, but it’s about to pop.
