Rob T Firefly

Last time some rich fuck started screwing with people’s access to natural sunlight, it didn’t end well for him.

Next tech-sector grift will probably go for our network adapters or some shit…

It’s already functionally an ad for Canva’s premium services.

BRB, typing my PIN number into the ATM machine to get some cash for SCUBA apparatus.

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Or white, let’s not forget that bit.

Many truly obsessive Star Wars fans have been technically pirating for ages in order to have the fan-made 4K restorations of the original films Lucas and Disney refused to release in favor of the CGI-remixed versions.

Imagine actual oligarchs and nazis staying in power because actual oppressed people love stories the oligarchs and nazis control about imaginary oppressed people defeating imaginary oligarchs and nazis too much to stop giving them money.

The fact that the company forced him to stop getting ready to open source it strongly suggests they aren’t interested in it being open sourced.

Turning it on by default (opt-out instead of opt-in) is still a huge concern and needs spreading the word about.

I wanted to stop using my Walkman when I got a Discman, but my main use for portable music was during long walks and commutes and the Discman worked like crap if I was moving around at all. The skippy little expensive bastard got put back on the shelf, and I kept using cassettes until the portable MP3 player era finally hit.

Fitting that it’s ending in (eternal) September.

So I ask everyone again, what business model exists for a software company to make money without ads or charging a monthly subscription.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_models_for_open-source_software

Speaking of WIkipedia, https://wikimediafoundation.org/who-we-are/financial-reports/

I assume you hired that person for being clever.

Add some massive unregulated grifting and hideous environmental consequences to your idea, and you’ve just invented Bitcoin.

Or the terrifyingly-random bullshit that happens when someone chooses to depend on a free service such as Hotmail as their primary mission-critical address. (This article is about the developer getting locked out of their Hotmail, and the generally-broken state of Hotmail’s account recovery process.)

The full post by linked source Taylor Lorenz about this appears here on her Patreon (openly readable, not locked as of now).

She still writes on Substack, though, which ultimately works in support of This Sort of Thing.

Lemmy’s federated structure makes it easy to block the instances which don’t moderate the nazis or tankies or anything else away to your satisfaction, while Substack is a centralized platform which has chosen to not only allow, but actively encourage and reward its nazis.

So, any such problem on Lemmy is “better” because we can all (as individual users, and/or collectively as instances) deal with it as we like instead of bowing to Substack’s decision to be a nazi bar for all its users.

https://slashdot.org/software/p/Substack/alternatives

The linked story has been updated. The headline now reads:

Labour rules out VPN ban in UK but issues warning to UK households

Labour won’t ban the use of Virtual Private Networks

And the story begins:

Labour has ruled out a possible VPN ban after reports thousands of UK households were at risk following the Online Safety Act kicking in under the government. Labour Party Tech Secretary Peter Kyle has revealed that the Government is “not considering a VPN ban” - after reports in Guido Fawkes suggested it was possible.