Venia Silente

Wow, media attention! Perhaps they are gonna run a strongly worded letter on the dashreel at the bottom edge of the screen!

Newsflash: the media is in line, and in love, with the war.

In the US system at least it matters not if your claim is legitimate, the mere fact that you can file it poses a severe risk.

Patent system needs fixing from the foundations up. Or even better, full abolition.

In the meantime, what’s the better actually open codec to reencode to?

But all of those are VPs are patent encumbered, right?

We all knew this was going to happen one day or another.

Where’s Theora these days, byw? Wasn’t it the encoding blessed by the license druids?

Exactly. “Being a generational looter” is not a protected class, let alone a race.

“Jail for you! And for you! And for you! No crime of those can remotely compare to Germany’s role in one genocide and the support of another one, and any such suggestion is an attack upon our nation and our glorious, Manifest Destiny!”

— feddit.org mods

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were smalltime. Rookie numbers. Sure, the VFX was awesome but they’ve improved on that one since then, too.

feddit.org mods banning people because that is disrespectful to the grandioseness of Nazi Germany in 3… 2…

What they need is a better goal, like, something actually useful to do. Going about just like “oooh me too is oppressed” currently does not help any much.

May I suggest some work on manufacturing? Some wood, some blades, some ropes. Can lead to interesting artifices that are driven mainly by gravity.

wth does “without intent” mean? Like, ooops my AI accidentally 1.41 TB of books and movies?

That they’ve been lucky so far doesn’t mean it makes sense to keep pushing it. There’s literally 123456DIY better options.

What needs to be done is basically a revolt against current governments and capitalism,

I’m doing my part on that, you are invited to also do yours. But also do realize that “a revolt against current governments and capitalism” is a class action, not something that we can do by ourselves like patching an OS to remove age verification is.

2026

hosting anything piracy-related on Github

Wow, picking choice words only in sections of the laws and proposals. At least try and engage in honest discussion, mate,

Honestly, just go check Ageless Linux’s site. They have a complete rundown on how and where does each law’s expectation come from.

Just one (1) example:

SB 142 — App Store Accountability Act

Requires “commercially reasonable” method. In other words, the powerful agents of the market (the Googles, the Facebooks, the NSAs) get to choose what you have to do to validate. Could even require biometrics.

there’s no alien intelligence or protocol specification in systemd that ensures or says the dob field must be accurate either

That’s because systemd, a well-known Microslop infection into the Linux ecosystem, is using the wayland playbook: specify nothing, leave to other projects the task and legal weight of implementation. All systemd has to do is to ship the field, then other projects are delegated the task of entering in a “legally compliant” way.

…Have you eve been following the news and the law proposals? I’m not sure you are engaging in good faith here.

ISO Standard corpofascism ruse. It’s optional until it’s not / “the first dose is free”.

Found the corporationist bot.

War is about knowing to take a hit to avoid defeat, sometimes.

We have been taking hits since, like, 1965 at the least. Surely by this point it should have been enough?

Real Office '97 (IIRC) hours

Welp my next phone will be a used phone up to 2024 manufacturing. My current phone is already a used one, although one of 2018 manufacturing.

There’s no need to follow an unjust law, nor a law that makes you an unethical person.

“Software not for distribution or use in California” (aka: “offer void in Nebraska”) is a perfectly valid compliance, btw.