Venia Silente @ veniasilente @lemm.ee

Hi I'm a non-AI person, 100% human or at least furry. Also ''venia_sil'' on

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There's a wide gap between "rely on lies" and "be forced to lie".

Youtube vids doesn't use DRM, at least not for the free offerings.

In fact, via yt-dlp you can download Youtube stuff in a variety of free formats.

Cope.

Welcome to language. It evolves.

Or perhaps, from your point of view, it's getting enshittified. Even if you don't like it.

Or we can just drop DRM from the Standard. It's honestly about 15 years past about time.

Some of these people even say that Firefox needs to get rid of Google funding immediately to get rid of Google’s influence.

Which is an importnt factor, because Mozilla is currently being kept alive specifcally to lose.

To be fair, those people (and lots others too) watch everyday some millionaires or billionaires just up and throwing money. Under that premise, it "should be as easy" as just convincing a random capitalist with narcissist complex to fund Mozilla. The problem with that is, people's memory on the internet tends to not be retrospeculative, so they don't notice if Mozilla did that they'd be in just about the same position eg.: Reddit was 5 years before 2023.

Want me to buy your media legally? Oh please, this is tremendously easy to do for a corporation!

• Downloadable files (you have files, right? Otherwise how are you streaming out the stuff)
• ...with open codecs (you are using an open codec right? Otherwise you have to encode your stuff like 10 times for 10 different devices each with its own idiosyncrasy)
• ...without DRM (you have clean copies right? it'd not be smart to base a business model on files you can't open, see the above)
• ...at an aggregate price that's lower than paying for TV cable (you can cash in only a bit, right? It's digital media and your competition is literally over-the-air TV with extra steps, it's not like you have the mother of pearl of cancer cures here)

Hello staff, this post please, how do I upvote thrice?

So wait, basically, the only way you can get a fully legal copy for your personal use is if someone else breaks the DRM instead of you?

We should hold them to those same standards when they say they have acquired a lifetime / 70 years or so copyright or patent.

Stealing this stuff, which is what piracy does (and ai have no issue with for all kinds of reasons), only results in the people who made things you want to watch not getting paid to make that stuff.

Are you saying that if I pirate a movie from 2019, the actors have not been paid for their screentime yet and won't be paid until I buy the movie in, like, 2028?

No it’s not. If you don’t pay for it, you don’t watch it.

A friend bought a movie, invited me and 12 other people to watch it. Are we supposed to be legally required to say no?

To me honestly it's quite simple: like any other personal right, my "freedom of speech" ends where other people's rights begin. If what I'm saying both is patently untrue and deals a net harm for society - be it because of what I'm saying it or because of how I'm saying it, then it can't be protected. It would be backwards for the purpose of a State if it was.

So for your example of misinformation that we should punish people for, it's quite patent-as-untrue stuff that leads to harm, such as "drinking bleach will immunize you from Covid!" (leads people to self-harm), or "it's because of the niggas / gays / asians / anything non-Christian living in your neighbourhood" (leads people to cause harm to others). Something like "Covid doesn't exist", while patently untrue, does not invite harm in any way that I see as proportionally punishable (but for comparison "let's organize to evade vaccinations because Covid doesn't exist" does invite harm to others, so it should be punishable).

Then again this all assumes it's only about government prosecution. XKCD "show the door" applies here for any private party who feels they are given harm by some nutjob announcing that Covid doesn't exist and trying to convince my grandma to drink bleach over Instagram, and there's no "but muh freedom of peach" complain to take about that.

RCS is a 3GPP standard, the infrastructure to run already being paid for by my wireless bill. I would prefer people use it to talk to me.

Doesn't it depend exclusively on Google?

El Guapo

Absolutely fitting!

I think things like taxes are more binary in terms of whether you lied. Either the numbers match or they don’t.

Covid is quite binary too: either it exists and people are sick and dying / already died, or it doesn't and everyone is faking and the "dead" are pulling insurance scams. Sounds quite obvious and testable to me!

Covid misinformation is essentially down to who you think is telling the truth.

It's simple: the one telling the truth is the one we know closest to the truth now. In a decade or two, when history changes, we can adjust on the go. Back in the 50s every doctor said bacon was healthy and eggs were the devil; in the 60s it was the turn of milk and bacon, respectively; then in the 70s, eggs and cheese. And so on. Sometimes you have to just be able to operate legally with information that is patently true and peer-reviewed.

inb4 "buT M0zILlA sHouLd fOCuS oNlY iN ThE brOWsEr!!!1111"

Also:

$8.99, which is effectively $9, which is effectively $10

At that price it better all of it goes to the effort and not of it to the CEO.

On the other, giving any government the power to determine what is and isn’t a lie scares the shit out of me.

Don't governments already have and exercise this power in relevant fields? I certainly can't lie on my taxes, and I certainly can't use any of my internet identities for social security stuff other than the issued by the state, so.

Or you could just set the "mic" to blast some good ol' Rick Astley.

Geocities. Geocities still lives on.

All that post needs to be truly complete is some marquee or blink.

[citation needed] on pulseaudio being among the best technology.