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Indeed, and as a citizen of the US, that terrifies me.

If you encrypt your device, and dirty cops like these decide they want in, they'll just toss you in the slammer and forget about you until you either cough up the password or die of dehydration. Either way works for them.

Sounds like that “bug” was actually a feature and Naomi just pissed off some government surveillance spooks by breaking their toys. God help her.

By the way, her girlfriend is part of an ethnic group that the Chinese government is currently genociding.

And you thought the USA was a bad place to live…

I have rather serious doubts that this is legit. More likely some joker pretending to be from the Linux Foundation sent Redbubble a takedown request.

False equivalence. Edge isn't FOSS. Systemd is.

Any forks of systemd will have to be renamed to something obviously different from plain “systemd”, but forks already work that way. We are not, for example, using “XFree86” even though the current X Window System is derived from XFree86 code.

Nor must the program files (shell commands, etc) be renamed. OpenSSH still uses the program file name ssh for compatibility, despite “SSH” being a trademark belonging to someone else.

The only dogma systemd has broken is that booting has to be slow, complicated, and unreliable. Good riddance.

Yes, they are local monopolies. They stay out of each other's territory, like gangsters.

Since they've disabled pretty much everything except the password, I imagine they've disabled bridge mode as well…

I have fiber here in my apartment.

There is an optical network terminal with an Ethernet port on it. The optical network terminal does not appear to do any routing, just conversion of the signal between the electrical and optical interfaces. An ordinary PC can be plugged directly into it, use DHCP to get its IP address, and that's it.

I was supplied a router by the ISP as well. It's spent the better part of the last decade gathering dust in a drawer.

This game has so many infinite money glitches.

If the barrier is still floating, there aren't any gang members or ne'er-do-wells even attempting to cross it. If there were, the silly thing would be on the bottom of the river with bullet holes in it.

I agree, but Twitter has nothing to do with free speech.

Twitter positions itself as the Internet's public square, and free speech certainly does apply in an old-fashioned offline public square, so yeah, Twitter kinda does have something to do with free speech. Don't seek power if you don't want the responsibility it comes with.

Those who claim that terms like “Nazi” or “fascist” are being watered down are usually Nazis/fascists themselves, and they're trying to cover it up by convincing everyone that Nazis/fascists don't exist.

Nazis are just German fascists, so that distinction isn't particularly meaningful.

If you’re a “normal” person who rarely needs to scan things just use your phone!

That results in horrible images. I get supremely frustrated every time someone sends me a “scan” that way.

it shouldn’t be up to disgruntled customers to complain to support agents, lawyers, and judges.

It's up to the voting public to elect politicians willing to regulate business. As long as people keep voting for anti-regulation politicians, regulation will keep not happening.

I think that falls under “malice”.

Nope, Brother has been climbing aboard the enshittification train as well.

Don't get too comfortable. This nonsense is coming soon to a government near you.

"sound recordings without authorization, neither Plaintiffs nor their artists see a dime. Not only does this harm Plaintiffs and the artists or their heirs by depriving them of compensation, but it undermines the value of music.”

Heirs? What is this, a medieval royal court? No one should see a dime from selling copies of a work created by someone who isn't even alive. Their “heirs” should have to make their own contributions to society if they want to be rewarded with wealth, just like the rest of us.

Maybe, just maybe, there’s been a chronic lack of new supply for decades?

Then why is this only now, only abruptly, becoming a problem?