azuth @ freeman @sh.itjust.works

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You presume much about what services I use. There is much to be said about the power private corps have over us, the complications of being unable or unwilling to use their services making you a de facto outsider.

I don't see how these wrongs make another right.

Some of the actions alleged are actual crimes. It is a bad idea to have them handle para-legally. Sure being excluded from visiting bars is a light punishment (for someone actually guilty, completely unfair for an innocent person) but nothing guarantees it will stay there and won't also be used leaked to prospective employers and other people. In fact the first time you get denied you could very well not be alone and have to convince people you are not a rapist or something.

It's exactly the sort of information you not want bartenders and bouncers conjuring and trading in.

Yes totally reasonable some corpos and business get to claim you are a criminal and impose de facto penalties on you.

Exploits don't care if you are actually the NSA or not. The NSA certainly knowns that yet they keep exploits secret at least from the public.

They have argued for key escrow for God's shake.

They are primarily an intelligence agency. If you are not likely to be targeted by the NSA you are also unlikely to be targeted by any of their adversaries. They don't give a shit if you get scammed, they are not the FBI, who also keep secret exploits and are anti-encryption.

Additionally using their "best" exploits on more simple targets still poses a risk to them being discovered and fixed. Therefore it's beneficial to them for everybody's security to be compromised. It also provides deniability.

Do you have any evidence those two people are still committing burglaries? The NSA is not an ex-intelligence agency.

It doesn't matter if they know about security (which they do). A burglar could know about locks and home security systems, would you take his advice?

Their positions on security of others is dismissed on grounds of trust not of competence.

Because settling occupied territories is against the Geneva convention and a way to ethnically cleanse an area.

They bought their own propaganda that America's worldwide military presence is not for it's own benefit but out of a noble desire to protect democracy or whatever.

There is no Europe entity. There's the EU and NATO with Ukraine not being a member in any of them.

I don't have any more special connection to Ukrainians than you have because I am European. They are foreigners to me just as they are to you. This goes for most Europeans except maybe for Slavic people.

The rest support Ukraine for the same reasons the US do. Because Russia is a geopolitical rival. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is immoral but it's not the actual reason for any support of Ukraine. EU countries and the US can live happily with people getting massacred in other countries with Gaza being the most prominent but far from the only example.

So Germany will support Ukraine up to the point its not inconvenient for them. They don't have any special kinship nor any legal obligation to assist more.

If Russia had performed better in the war Germany probably would feel urged to spend more both in Ukraine to win time to rearm itself. As things stand, Russia cannot threaten Germany and whether it occupies parts of Ukraine is not the end of the world (for Germany).

The US won't "stop funding the defense" of EU or Taiwan or any other country. That's the basis of US power. Trump might be compromised, other right wongers might be interested in trading USA's dominance in the world for remaking of according to their fantasies but they are going to meet pushback from the establishment, including right wingers, including the military. Not going to be alright in any sense but the US military won't just withdraw.

If there's momentum for a return to physical media the copyright owners won't start printing DVDs or BluRays for new or republished media.

They will push a new format with new media and players. They will use all they have learned from their previous failures to put more effective technical and legal hurdles to the users.

Perhaps we will break it again but it is not a given. If we don't they will decide how youn can use your media.

Why does FUTO have to shoot itself in the foot?

There is as far as I can tell no new actual license just a payment scheme and some shaming functionality. They even offer you the software if you don't pay. Remember the GPL allows them to require payment to give you the software, they just can't prohibit someone else giving you the software.

However calling unpaid copies unlicensed is incorrect, they are licensed under the GPL (just like paid ones are).

They should remove references to licensing and display something like "This instance of Immich has been paid/not been paid for." Call the key PRODUCT key.

Sure some find the "pay or shame" scheme distasteful but it is not against the GPL which allows commercial use.

He doesn't see that specific allied power interfering with European politics because he is from the US.

How much is the profit? 30% is revenue not profit.

Why is money per employee a useful metric? One would expect most costs of a store like steam to be in hardware and network not in labor.

US companies can fuck off withdraw from the EU.

Also the US is not pro free speech. The first amendment only prevents the government from censoring not private entities such as twitter and other social media. They can in fact and do censor their users so them crying wolf about being censored themselves is ironic. After all they are not even human unlike (well some of) their users.

Glad that you agree.

No DRM digital files downloads is the simple answer. There is no reason to go back to physical media to avoid subscriptions.

Keep in mind that DVDs did have DRM and the corps did try and get at the people who broke it. A new and improved physical media would have DRM and it's possible the corporations will prevent it being defeated this time.

Which means that yoy would only be able to play it on approved hardware. You can have your shiny disc but they will decide if you can play it. Perhaps they can detect how many people are present via a camera or require you do drink that verification can.

But they have ordered the complete destruction of all torrents!!

Which is Canute level of absurdity.

It is practical; Wholely tax funded universities do not charge students.

Why do you think OP is not aware that there are costs to be paid but merely disagrees with using sports as a way to pay for it?

You even used the word Utopian. Well most universities are not financed via sports even non public ones. Far from Utopian.

Paying via taxes is not charging students.

You do not pay taxes based on your use of public education or use of any other public service but based on your income and/or wealth.

If you do not make sufficient income as a student to pay taxes or enough taxes to cover the cost of your education your public education is in fact free to you.

KazeN64 a super mario 64 modder (that run on real hardware) with pretty in depth technical descriptions of how N64 works, how it was misused and how it could be done better.