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I mean, she should have just complied, I don’t understand why she thought refusing and driving the car into a wall would have had a better result… That being said the cop is absolutely in the wrong, even before the situation escalated he was pointing his gun straight towards the women’s face, which is unacceptable.

If people could be owed profit just for creating things, I could go around town singing my original music to people passing by and then forcing them to pay for listening to it.

The difference being, those people didn’t ask for your music, but you needed that software, otherwise you wouldn’t use it.

and neither does intellectual property, it’s a myth, a fable, a fabrication that is enforced by powerful corpos in order to forcefully extract undeserved profits from a market of artificial scarcity that they created in the first place.

Lol, so basically confirming my last paragraph then, “doesn’t actually exist” because its digital, what a take.

You are absolutely correct, we should not have law enforcement at all, just ask the people to arrest themselves when committing a crime, i’m sure that’ll go tremendously!

I’ll go back to my construction analogy

I think that’s a bad analogy, isp’s and dns providers have the ability to control mass amounts of traffic, enforcing site blocks at isp and dns level would be the most feasible way to do this. They’re also likely much more capable of moderating the internet than small websites which don’t have time to do so.

Digital piracy is not theft. There is nothing stolen.

Out of curiosity, what are you’re thoughts on the below scenarios:

• attempted robbery
  If you go to a bank and attempt to steal the money, but you were unsuccessful in doing so, there wouldn’t be any loss, but you’d still go to jail and it’s widely accepted as wrong.

• getting a service, e.g going to the barbers and running out of the store before paying
  There wouldn’t be a loss again

People only seem to gloss over theft when it’s digital, not taking it seriously, it might not directly cause a loss for the developers, but if you’re in a situation where you can afford the software but choose piracy to save money, you’re leeching off someone else’s time and resources, and taking away money that could have been paid to them, for your own selfish desires.

Who else do you expect to enforce site blocks?

I don’t want my local ISP to be making judgments about whether my neighbor is pirating movies

I mean, piracy is a real crime, you might not be a software or game developer but if people were free to pirate without consequence, those jobs would be crippled. You wouldn’t go into a book store and steal a book, why is software viewed any differently?

I don’t know what fantasy land the eff is living in, but as great as freedom of speech is, there has to be SOME level of censorship involved in the modern internet, otherwise it would be hell. It’s simply not feasible to run the internet unmoderated…

Yeah that one’s impossible lmao, i am 100% certain i am typing the correct thing and it just gives me a new captcha…

You should also try the rockstar games dice add up captcha, i’ve found dozens of posts about people complaining about it over the years, and they still haven’t fixed it. The issue isn’t that people can’t add up either (though it is a pita to do this 5 times), it’s that it’s not humanely feasible to do it in the timespan they require, as soon as you get to the 5th one, it gives you 5 fucking more because you were too slow, and does this infinitely.

In other news: the sky is blue

It’s not just lemmy that’s benefiting from Elon Musk.

Whether its lemmy or mastodon, or kbin that grows, we’re all benefiting. That’s the beauty of federation.

Only a very small set of them though, and their functionality would likely be limited. Hopefully non-webkit browsers will come to ios soon, with proper desktop addons, following the eu pressuring them into allowing sideloading.

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I mean… it already does support desktop addons so I’m not exactly sure what’s new here. It looks like this just fixes android killing background processes due to battery saving, but you can always just disable battery optimisation for firefox, or put it in “never sleeping apps”, though granted even without doing this i’ve never experienced problems.

niagara launcher is great!

Jitsi is unencrypted

Not true, jitsi does have e2ee which you can enable in its settings, but it only works on chromium based browsers or their desktop app. Element call on the other hand has temporarily disabled the e2ee option.

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i don’t get why anyone would use this over just regular money?

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