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@Intaglio_Dragon@furry.engineer @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange if verifying id was actually the goal (not to mention a useful or productive goal), perhaps, but it's almost always a means of tracking and controlling populations. offering concessions to that pursuit is ridiculous

@Intaglio_Dragon@furry.engineer @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange there is no technical solution to governments imposing authoritarian policies.

@kauer@aus.social @blogdiva@mastodon.social I'm not advocating for nobody to purchase digital assets or pay the creators, simply that there isn't a world where the piracy of those assets is wrong

@Epic_Null@infosec.exchange @blogdiva@mastodon.social I understand, and I'm saying if there's no material harm in us not upholding our end (that being non-piracy) then we shouldn't be expected to regardless of if they hold up theirs or not. I'm saying the contract was invalid to begin with

@blogdiva@mastodon.social this is funny and cute but I'm ngl it's probably the weakest argument for pirating I've seen lmao.

@lina@vt.social I've been noticing more and more people thinking cynicism and a lack of charitability is a virtuous way to look at things. if you only expect the worst out of people, you'll only get the worst out of them

@sammy@cherrykitten.gay @knowmadd@mastodon.world did you know that it's running regardless and until there is actual laws or something to limit them, your choice to use or not use them has no material effect. your enemy is the corporations making these and the governments allowing them. moral grandstanding to people with no power or authority is useless

@hopeless @jk @kolya leeching implies one party is losing something from the other's consumption. the project already existed whether you used the work or not, to say you're leeching from it simply isn't correct and is putting a weird dynamic between users and maintainers. the work can be infinitely duplicated and already exists. with that said, the post is talking about the real world, where ai patches don't work and aren't easily/well maintained. it also gives free training to ai companies who are actively attempting disrupt and replace the very maintainer attempting to use said ai... and you.. and me. pay walling everything would be more sustainable long term than trusting "ai" to create and maintain.

@astraleureka @BenAveling @tubetime is it thermal? afaik it's just time based on many

@iwein@mas.to @Intaglio_Dragon@furry.engineer @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange they are always predicated on some sense of exclusion or superiority and are intended to be enforced via extremely easily manipulated and corruptible means. tldr reductive and unproductive. a waste of time

@iwein@mas.to @Intaglio_Dragon@furry.engineer @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange on the surface, in a vacuum, I'm not against id verification or adjacent, but seeing as we don't live in a vacuum, I'm always forced to ask "why?" and then the subsequent "how?", neither of which have ever received a satisfactory response.

@lednaBM@stranger.social @joyousjoyness@mastodon.social I'm unsure how you can reconcile atheism and predeterminism. kinda weird especially given the context lmao

@Kestenan@meow.social @roknrol@beige.party @ity@estradiol.city sometimes things are for a particular group of people. this one happens to not be for you

@hopeless @joepie91 @jk @kolya people can choose to not interact or consider bug reports, suggestions, etc. they can do whatever they want and manage/maintain however they want. your argument is nonsensical

@blogdiva@mastodon.social the moment you make a statement like "if buying isn't ownership.." you are implying that there is a world where piracy could be wrong or immoral. digital assets can be freely duplicated therefore they can't be stolen, don't give any concessions

@gabrielesvelto @mhoye while it's all the same functionally, let's not pretend like credit isn't a normal thing, lmao.

@hopeless @joepie91 @jk @kolya believe it not, that doesn't matter. you are presenting choices maintainers make as mandatory, which they are not. people complaining on the internet are just complaints on the internet.

@hopeless @joepie91 @jk @kolya yes they can always quit. they can always ignore. they can always do whatever. this is my entire point. I'm not arguing that so-called entitled users aren't assholes or that their words can't hurt, just that it's largely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

@maaretp you learn from materials but those materials don't teach you. if you didn't have someone walking you through things, you taught yourself 🤷‍♀️

@maaretp precisely why I often oppose higher education. I don't dispute that many people self teach their way to a degree. especially with the rise of ai in schools

@0xabad1dea @whitequark that would be lame of them

@number6 @bremner you can effectively disable Mozilla issues with about:config and/or arkenfox or a fork like librewolf if you trust that they can keep up with security updates fast enough. and while I personally don't like the company ethics, if you need chromium you can always use brave

@kauer@aus.social @blogdiva@mastodon.social somebody bought it to then have it pirated

@ity@estradiol.city tone down what? what I said was genuine edit: the ending bit was strange from me

@ity@estradiol.city sometimes me, you, or another is not the intended audience. and that's okay. support for one is not inherently an attack on another. that's all I meant. misunderstandings happen, though, as do disagreements. all good either way

@theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social @kauer@aus.social @blogdiva@mastodon.social I wouldn't say it necessarily gives less power to google but rather returns more to you, but I'm being pedantic

@jgg@qoto.org @jef@mastodon.social economic crises encourage wars lol