merc @ merc @sh.itjust.works

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Why would they care about plausible deniability? You only need that when you might be held responsible for your actions.

Hanlon's razor says just the opposite.

Sure, they're not worried about making mistakes because nobody's holding them to account. But, these people have proven time and time again that they're not competent.

What would the legal basis of the lawsuit be? What relief would she be seeking?

Nah, that's still interacting with Github.

Needs one that's like #4 from January to September, labelled: "Fuck Github and anything else owned my Microsoft".

I always forget how Aussie politics is weird. Your liberal party is Labour but without the 'u', and your mainstream conservatives are the Liberals. Canada doesn't have a "Labour" party, so our Liberals are the left wing (our "Labour" party is spelled NDP). And then there's the UK where they don't really have a "Liberal" party so their extremes are Labour and Conservative.

Unfortunately, revolutions are frequently bloody. I think Europe's more gradual change post WWII has meant the future is arriving more smoothly there, with less disruption.

I suspect that if the US survives, people will look at 1950-2025 as a kind of golden age, despite all the societal problems. The US really had things easy. It was virtually the only advanced economy to come out of WWII intact. Every other country had to rebuild. For the first 20ish years, regulations from the Great Depression lingered, so unions were strong and taxes were high. All of that meant that you had families where a plumber could buy a house for a family with 4 kids even if his wife didn't work.

Since the 70s, a lot of worker protections have vanished. High taxes on the ultra-rich have disappeared. But, the US has still had the benefit of having the Reserve Currency of the world. That has allowed the US to easily run big deficits, which has allowed growth that other countries couldn't match.

I get the impression that the time of the US dollar being the world's reserve currency are coming to an end. In addition, US companies and universities have been places that the best and the brightest wanted to go. That also seems to be coming to an end.

So, when the dust settles, if the US does manage to transition to a more socialist country with a better safety net, it's still going to be rough for people. They're used to 75 years of having benefits that most countries don't get. Probably a better social safety net and a greater equality in wealth will make up for that. But, it could be that people who were alive at this time will look back at a time when the US was the hub of the world and miss that.

That's pretty brave of you. It's a lot of work to fight people's assumptions, and I'm sure it results in harassment.

But, you're right that things will never change if women don't do that. It's a chicken and egg thing. Nobody wants to be the first to do it, because whoever's first gets harassed the most. But, if enough people do it, it won't be abnormal anymore.

Good luck, and thanks for trying to make women on the internet more normal.

It's a different model.

Mastodon, like Twitter, is a person-centered setup. You can use hashtags, but most people don't. You follow people not communities. As a result it's basically microblogs, where most people are just posting into the void. Celebrities are followed more, so they get more replies, so there are more conversations. But, fundamentally it's not really inviting interactions.

Lemmy, like Reddit, is a topic-centered setup. It has a bunch of communities and people post something because they think it might be interesting for people who are also interested in that community. Every post is basically an invitation to have a discussion about something.

I think the friction to posting something on Lemmy is slightly higher, but when you do, it's more likely to generate comments.

Similarly a “good post”, one that gets lots of comments, would be any post that gets more than 13 comments.

By my count, this comment will take your post from one with 12 comments to one with 13 comments, therefore I'm conferring on you the title of "good post". Congratulations!!

However, I'm assuming that you're including your own comments in the comment tally. If you're not, then your 2 comments so far to this post don't count, and you'll only be at 11, and therefore "not good".

If you are counting your own comments on your own post, can you juice the numbers by adding lots of comments? In other words, can you make a post good by interacting with the people who are interacting with the post? Like some kind of um... conversation? Sounds like cheating to me.

I'm saying it is necessary to achieve the aims of the GPL.

Until copyright no longer exists and everything is in the public domain, as I said.

How are you going to enforce the GPL in a world where copyright doesn't exist?

No, the GPL very much requires copyright to work

That's what I said.

Even Carrot Top knew that prop comedy only works if you have a lot of small, light props that you go through quickly. Walking around with a heavy sink might get you as jacked as Carrot Top, but you're not going to get the laughs.

The current US trade war is the perfect opportunity for some other country or countries to "right-size" their IP laws.

Hollywood wanted "lifetime plus 900 years" or whatever. So, whenever the US negotiated a trade deal it said "you only get tariff-free access to our markets if you give Hollywood lifetime plus 900 years in your country too."

With section 1201 of the DMCA this also meant that other countries had to accept that you could only repair your John Deere tractor if you paid Deere for the privilege. Or that HP could prevent you from using any ink but theirs in your printer, allowing them to make printer ink the most expensive liquid on the planet.

If the US is no longer abiding by the terms of their trade agreements, other countries should no longer honor these absurd IP treaties.

That's why the Sistine Chapel has the little (c) 1512 painted in the corner

The GPL is basically trying to make a world without copyright. The GPL basically only has teeth in a world where copyright exists. If copyright didn't exist then everything would be in the public domain and the GPL would be toothless, but that's fine because it would no longer be unnecessary.

I see the value in trademarks because it prevents people from selling knock-offs. In some cases (medicine, machine tools) using a knock-off could be deadly.

For patents, I don't think it should be one-size-fits-all. A modern drug takes a lot longer to develop than some e-commerce thing like one-click ordering. Different categories of thing could get different lengths of patent protection. Also, IMO, the clock should start once something is available in the market. Again, I'm thinking of medicine. Something might be working in the lab so it's patented, but going from lab to store shelves is not quick. If the clock starts immediately, then that mostly benefits huge and rich pharma companies that can move extremely quickly.

I strongly believe that if we have copyrights, they should be short with an optional renewal that's also short. Too much of our culture is locked up by companies like Disney. They shouldn't be able to hold onto it for more than a century. That's absurd. For the most part, media makes the vast majority of its money in months. 14 years gives the creator not only the most lucrative period, but also the vast majority of the tail of the distribution. It would also be good if corporate-owned copyright had a much shorter term than copyrights owned by individuals. And, we also need to have a way for people to get their own creations back, by say cancelling the copyright assignment.

For as much as they are abused, “IP laws” protect small and individual inventors, writers, composers, etc.

Do they? Or do they protect the huge companies that those people have to assign their IP to?

I've never seen anybody put that much effort into a pun.

Puns are never very funny. The best you can normally hope for is a small chuckle. And yet he went with a full, big, heavy prop for a tired pun.

The close allies didn't forget, trust me.