NateNate60 @ NateNate60 @lemmy.ml

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You weren't supposed to be able to protect the mere idea of something. Software copyright I fully support but patents are revolting. At least the expire after a while whereas copyright lasts way too long.

Not to be confused with the shitshow social media network.

I used Thunderbird for a year but I don't recommend it. Don't get me wrong, it's a competent email client, but I've found that the lack of tray notifications is unbelievably annoying. That means you can't really have it running headless in the background checking for emails. Birdtray is kind of a janky solution that I don't recommend either.

Mailspring I've found has most of the features I'd need from a mail client. It also does have a real background process that can check for mail and notify you when you receive some.

The application with the best integration to your (GNOME) desktop is going to be GNOME Geary. It looks like a native GNOME app (because it is) and it fits in perfectly with your system. But it's very light on features. If you only need a client to read and write simple messages, Geary will work wonderfully.

"IPv6 is not a feature; its absence is a bug"

• Someone on the Flathub repo, I think

I think courts in the US are slowly coming to the consensus that AI-generated content is not eligible for copyright. My opinion is that this solves the problem rather perfectly; companies now have an incentive to use humans, because if they use AI to make content then anyone is free to rip off that content, and I think that's the way it should be.

AI should benefit humanity, and its products should be open and available for everyone, rather than being something for corporations to exploit for their own sole benefit.

Lawsuits are tasty

This should just be something that mobile clients can turn off by default.

Contents:

• 49.5% chance estrogen
• 49.5% chance testosterone
• 1% chance strychnine

This has been the case for every new technology invented since before the Industrial Revolution.

• Cotton gin: further proliferation of chattel slavery in the American south
• Steam engine: coal barons using child labour and Pinkertons to extract basically forced labour
• Oil: oil companies purchasing legislatures with bulk discount, climate change
• Sewing machine: sweatshops
• Airships: lax safety standards, giant inflammable hydrogen ballons
• Electricity: 5,000 cables haphazardly strung on every lightpole in the city
• Telephone: monopolies charging ten zillion dollars for a long-distance call, eavesdropping, &c.
• Computer: mass surveillance
• Internet: spam emails
• Web 2.0: corporate surveillance for advertising purposes
• Web 3.0: NFT scams
• AI: deepfake porn, rubbish AI "books" flooding Amazon

...

• Paper: tax documents

I think everyone more or less was expecting it to all be a lie when they announced they were disbanding the morality police a few months ago.

I guess I should've considered that places that are 100% city would have better averages than 200

Don't pretend that any more than 1% of users would use anywhere near that much bandwidth. Even if you had five devices streaming 4K video all at once, you'd barely saturate a 200 Mb/s connection.

Large file transfers are the exception, not the norm. People don't tend to regularly download or upload several gigabyte files on a daily basis. Maybe 2-3% of people who are either tech enthusiasts or graphics designers/artists/film makers do that but nobody else does, and even then 200-400 Mb/s will still be fine, nowhere near a hair-pullingly slow experience.

Average USA internet speed: 99.3 Mb/s

Average UK internet speed: 50.4 Mb/s

Average EU internet speed: 103.3 Mb/s

Average Japan internet speed: 42.8 Mb/s

Average South Korea internet speed: 110.6 Mb/s

Average Canada internet speed: 99.8 Mb/s

200 Mb/s is far above the average in any country on the planet.

Let's consider a "decent" Internet speed of 200 mb/a. That's 25 MB/s so it'd take 1,600 seconds to download 40,000 MB. That's 26 minutes, so nearly half of your time is gone. Plus there is always time spent doing something like "installing", checking the files, or whatever other stuff needs to be done besides just downloading the raw content.

Also, you don't always get 100% of your advertised Internet speed 100% of the time.

It's not cool, but if you think defederation is censorship then you can switch to a different instance. This is a non-issue.

Second Jeroba tip: often times when it says submitting a comment has failed, it's usually a lie