Rays against the abolition of time

Indeed, sounds like a legitimate win to me.

It’s basically a FOSS Chromebook.

One thing I have definitely observed over the years.

It seems only the left comes up with new ideas and so, even when they don’t have political power, they still move society forward.

And yes, there are backlash and temporary regressions, but overall, no free country seems to be moving towards old, conservative ideas.

For humanity, the only way seems forward. Towards the newer and better ideas.

I don’t think saving money and eating at home are conservative values.

Lots of liberals and progressives do those things, too.

Heck, poor minorities do that to an extreme.

Same here. I got older and richer and became even more left wing than I used to be.

But what is true, is that society is becoming more progressive faster than I am, so by the time I am 70, I’ll probably be a relative relic.

Me neither. Apparently, some schools teach this, but most only learn this in college.

Which is why the culture war so often involves College educated van non-College educated.

I’m on the College side of the culture war, but we must kind of acknowledge the truth that we had extra education that the other side did not.

Some of them might resent us for it, some of us might be snobby about it.

But at root, that’s where the culture disparity stems from.

And when you subscribe to 1 or 2 rotating streaming services and only torrent for personal archiving purposes, you aren’t even depriving the streaming services of any revenue.

We should call it archiving instead of piracy to be honest.

Also, on Reddit when you post a comment that gets even a little bit popular and visible, you always get some asshole who misrepresents your point and wants to pick a virtual fight.

I never know when to engage or ignore.

In any case, it’s never satisfying. Ignore and you feel bad. Engage and you feel bad.

Lemmy is nicer. Way less assholes.

More likely, the MAGA idiot will get himself killed in a pretend civil war.

They really ain’t a bright bunch of people. They thought losing a civil war once was not enough, so they had to add a failed insurrection to the list.

I am genuinely curious what their next genius move is going to be.

The best solution I can think of is to have something like Tor.taxi

Also, they curate the collection so that it doesn’t get filled with low quality garbage.

Part of preserving and sharing knowledge is doing quality control.

This isn’t state level. This is just an individual script kiddie.

State level actors will use LLM’s to generate unique comments that seem to be human.

Eventually, state level actors will infiltrate Lemmy. Taking the technology that works on reddit and YouTube and making it work on Lemmy is not technically difficult.

We need to think about how to avoid such a scenario unfolding.

You are right, but it’s not just poor developed countries and not just windows either.

Back in the 1990s, copy protection in general was weak and companies wishing to expand market share did not prioritize combating piracy.

They always just focused on making the big companies pay through licensing audits and kept prices high to ensure revenue.

The whole industry just accepted that students, researchers and tinkerers would pirate their software.

Photoshop, Office, Visual Studio and even enterprise software like Oracle had this dual strategy: let piracy help spread market share among those who can’t or won’t pay, while maintaining high prices and security audits to drive revenue from companies.

Many companies still follow this strategy.

Indeed.

Torrenting over I2P is the future. No need for VPN and no dependency on donated bandwidth like with Tor.

The technology needs a bit of refinement and it seems they are struggling to attract and maintain good developers.

In my opinion, the fundamental protocols of I2P need a revamp to make torrenting faster and more efficient.

It will take a few years before we solve these problems.

If voting didn’t matter, they wouldn’t work so hard to make it difficult.

The biggest and best changes have always come because the working class made it so.

Prior to universal suffrage, we had to fight and die for every small gain.

Since then, we have the luxury of just voting and protesting.

And when we look back at how much has been achieved, it’s just amazing.

My personal pet peeve is that we haven’t gotten around to getting tough with tax avoiders. Gotta start really heavily fining those advisors and enablers. Some probably should be jailed.

That’s the key to reducing inequality, which will then make the middle class much wealthier and stronger.

This is important.

It will allow the West to hold on to Russian assets until they get a democratically elected government.

What a strange wya of fear mongering.

I the end, you can only have one life path. Choosing to do something always implies choosing to not do other things.

So it’s an illusion to think that all those green paths are possible. Only one of them is possible.

And the Soviets did the same with Armenia and Azerbaijan.

For sure, but population wise they are also just smaller. Not that many British/Irish content creators relative to the Americans.

The USA dominates the anglosphere.