One of the multiple lemmy newcomers that defederated from us; in their admins’ words, because we apparently “deny certain genocides”.
@suspended@lemmy.ml what “genocides” would those be exactly ?
One of the multiple lemmy newcomers that defederated from us; in their admins’ words, because we apparently “deny certain genocides”.
@suspended@lemmy.ml what “genocides” would those be exactly ?
Kraken, also by Mièville, is also somewhat of a match; as well as Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.
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Ah yeah, drivers are another thing entirely. Especially for what I imagine is very proprietary undocumented hardware. The only thing that can help there is a reverse engineer / kernel module dev.
On that Windows 95 anecdote, by the way, beyond gaming that’s also one of the advantages of wine. Pretty sure their software would run perfectly on Linux with wine.
What you wrote is science fiction, not fact. So are practical quantum computers, thus far.
It also ignores the fact that quantum computing would do shit all against symmetric encryption (though admittedly that’s less relevant for whatsapp, but it’s perfectly relevant if you want to exchange secure messages with someone you met physically prior); as well as the fact quantum-resistant encryption algorithms such as NTRU already exist and are already considered for implementation in free software tools (the only reason they aren’t is they’re far less tested and nobody trusts them yet against conventional attacks).
Governments, if they want, can decrypt any chat
This is not true. Encryption that is not breakable by anyone - including governments - and the tools to use it have been available to everyone for decades now.
It might be broken later (which is why the US stores encrypted messages) but not right now, and is unlikely to be in the foreseeable future.
First step is seizing the ones they already bought, at gunpoint if they resist
As for “the market and the american dream”, lol. lmao, even
Death to America
But you’re fine with the dead and tortured sentient beings made to produce your dairy ? how does that work morally ?
Dairy is scary (CW: horror)
Go vegan already
No, I don’t, because I can afford stuff and pirating in this situation would be just pure stealing which I believe is morally wrong
Stealing suggests they don’t have the content anymore; they do. “Copying” is the word you’re looking for.
The whole “stealing” comparison rather breaks down when there is basically no scarcity / no cost to duplicating and distributing what has been produced
Even arguing it’s “stealing” because it deprives the publisher of the cost isn’t exactly true, because it only holds if you’d actually have ponied up were the content not available for free (I know for sure I definitely wouldn’t have played some games or watched some shows if I had had to actually pay for them)
You want to use something that exists thanks to capitalism
Artistic content is, believe it or not, produced outside of capitalism as well. And in capitalist societies it often is produced despite capitalism, not thanks to it, and one could argue capitalism itself is a large part of the reason that content’s quality has taken a dive over the past decades
I think the profit motive isn’t the best at producing good quality artistic content; and I think people would still produce it without such a motive.
Mind you on paper I wouldn’t even be against paying for a good movie, for example. But I want a .mp4 in x265, with subs, that I can store on my NAS and read with whatever open source software I want to use. None of the legal platforms offer that - piracy literally offers a better service, universally
Same goes for video games: I want a native binary that I can install, that does not phone home at all, and does not have DRM or require a launcher. Only a minute minority of games, even on gog, match those
this would result in shit movies being produced that no one likes
I think that has already happened to be honest
Well, my friend, he’s kinda poor he can’t afford some books and some streaming services, so he pirates.
Good on your friend. Poor or not, you should too.
Do you pirate?
Yes
And do you justify pirating? i.e., what is your piracy philosophy?
Justify it ? you seem to suggest it’s wrong or something
Are you talking about perplexity.ai ? because it looks like a shitty LLM answering questions instead of an actual search engine. It looks absolutely atrocious privacy-wise, too.
Crassus invented the fire brigade
Didn’t he routinely order his brigade to do nothing until he managed to acquire the burning property (at increasingly decreased cost as the fire raged) from its owner ?
lmao, iMessage again ? zero user interaction needed, again ?!
Well done Apple
I don’t even like Star Wars but thus far this is hilarious, thank you !
There is also this one; it’s an actual genuine Windows 95 running on WASM in your browser
Ah, makes sense, thanks; I use Jellyfin exclusively for video as well
For the Filelist thing I prefer CLI tools generally (and all the export formats I’ve seen in the features seem perfectly doable through them); but your answer about XNViewMP definitely has merits, thanks ! I’ll take a look at it
These days the GNU rm specifically warns you and asks you to confirm before proceeding