Don't sleep on Small Gods, it's incredibly good.

If those votes are important to him then Biden should earn them by not being complicit in a genocide. Maybe Biden is a Trump supporter by continuing to do so? After all if not voting for Biden is a vote for Trump, Biden doing genocide is also him voting for Trump.

Because odysee platforms them and it shows up in recommended videos, when searching for content and on the front page, along with bigotry. If you want to defend odysee some more do a search for 'jews' on it and see what you get.

The video itself is fine, but linking odysee when it's dominated by nazis, charlatan chiropractors pretending to be medical doctors, and all the rest that youtube won't allow on their platform probably due to racism isn't a good thing. A youtube alternative would be nice but not when it's composed of nazis.

It is never wrong to be a pirate.

My instance can still interact but I do get bad gateways going to their site directly and have to reload so your guess is as good as mine.

They defederated because they didn't want piracy discussions on their instance.

I think you missed the point.

I have had similar thoughts about early posts and upvotes and downvotes making people more unlikely to post even slightly differing opinions for fear of getting a negative number or something silly like that, but this seems like an issue with the platform in general and is only worse because we have a smaller community on Lemmy.

I don't try and push my weird opinions on my wife lmao. She knows how I feel and understands and does what she wants and that's okay. My advice is to communicate and respect each other even if you don't agree and don't be a controlling dork.

As always I am reminded that governments are run by the tech illiterate.

This is what happens you mix moonshine and cousin fucking.

I did not have defending DRM on my bingo card. Transphobia is especially vile though.

I didn't even know about prop hunt, this is a cool little project idea. I hope you're able to improve on the plugin.

I'll admit I took the bait, but I am more embarrassed for the instance that they got to actually defederate.

I'd rather students have more time off for lunch instead of learning why mickey mouse shouldn't be in public domain because of the evils of public domain or some dumb shit like that, defending multi billion dollar corporations. These shill posts are very cringe. Fuck copyright.

Discussions aren't illegal in most places, but maybe Disney will give you your good boy points.

I think you succinctly described the problem the internet is facing. I am not even sure making it illegal to have information is really necessary anyway. Consider Googles Web Environment Integrity, DRM that can effectively control access to websites, a single company controlling the information we are allowed to consume. An economic system based on capital will always work against our interests.

This is why piracy is not only ethical, it is good for humanity to share information as widely as possible.

I worked as a cashier in a supermarket.

Some stores are very strict about coupons and do monitor what a cashier has in their drawer. I doubt most cashiers would even care if you stole from the store as long as it wasn't their problem.

These people are just trying to keep their jobs and the corporation that has its boot on their neck might be the only place that will hire them. Do you really expect them all to stop working and protest when they see their jobs being replaced? Come on, they have rent to pay and kids to feed. Have more empathy towards those suffering from capitalism.

Not all are connected, and I don't think it would be wise to do so in the long run anyway if I keep trying to preserve data like I am. Eventually I'll have a proper backup system and a dedicated NAS.

I keep everything I download as long as it's of sufficient quality on many large HDD's. Most of my media is then served through Jellyfin. Considering the state of the internet recently I think it's important to download what you care about before it becomes unavailable.

I'm not concerned with the 'morality' of copying files. I will because I can.

None. I run Jellyfin locally. No license bullshit or fifty different services. Don't even need internet if it goes down and I can curate my own library.

DRM is anti-user cancer. Denuvo is a good example why it's ethical to crack DRM and to never purchase anything that contains it.

I don't care if Jonah banged your mother or stole your lunch money. Compare privacytools VPN recommendations to privacyguides and then tell me why I should take anything privacytools says seriously.

It would be a shame if people started backing up and archiving their favourite YouTube channels using yt-dlp.

I don't think it really matters in the long run. After that site goes public and they try and appeal to advertisers, that subreddit and NSFW in general will become unpalatable to advertisers for not being 'brand safe' regardless of legality of simple discussions. It might take a few years but migration is inevitable.

That's nice if you want to update I guess, but Koreader is such a better experience that I'd never bother using the stock reader anyway.

I jailbroke my old Kindle paperwhite a while ago and installed Koreader on it and just read Epub through that without having to convert anything. No internet, no amazon and you can get second hand Kindles for cheap.

I think Free Software philosophy is polarising because advocates understand proprietary software mistreats the user and there is too much risk or temptation by developers or their corporate interests for profit. If you follow that train of thought you should be able to see why it would be inappropriate to recommend proprietary software in FOSS spaces.

It would be nice, though I'm sure it's really popular to think it's a joke to care about anything and go with the hivemind (the younger Twitch crowd especially). Also there's a lot of addicts in the RS community and I doubt they're willing to dislodge the boot when it means giving up some of their content.

Looks very good, thanks for this.

Thank you, I appreciate the info.

I feel mentally unready to constantly hear about AI all day everyday.

I wouldn't give them a cent or negotiate at all either, and the public aren't going to give a shit about how they're being tracked.

Some developers don't like their key signing process.

There are legitimate reasons for not wanting to use Fdroid and their builds are apparently reproducible, not sure what you mean about not being fully FOSS either. https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/

How exactly is Signal anti-FOSS? This might have been a problem before (the article is from 2021) but I checked the Github link in the article and the server was updated 18 hours ago with frequent updates this year alone. I also find the source of funding argument to be pretty flimsy. Though I do agree with the conclusion that federated alternatives are better for privacy. For my personal threat model Signal is fine for me.

No hate though, it's an interesting read, I'd like to see more discussions like this.