“Enhance users choice”. Even if I assumed good intentions, what the hell is a chatbot going to do??

Hardware alone is not a working computer. If you control the software running on your computer then that software is yours (like it’s your book on your bookshelf even though another person owns the copyright). If someone else controls your computer then that erodes your ownership of it.

May allow

The benevolence! Your own computer can do whatever you want it to… if MS agrees to it.

I’d rather pay more money for a freer system but that option isn’t offered. Either I’m too niche or locking users down is more valuable than raw sales profit (or both).

I’ve not bought a console since they got internet and needed updates. Been Windows-free for a while too.

Usually they only comply by suing them, after nagging them for years…

Everyone is free to edit, compile and use LGPL licensed code however you want on your PC. A DMCA can’t stop that, so it won’t make sense for someone to think that. At the time you share software (as a binary which used that LPGL licensed code, or the code itself) is when you are legally compelled to follow the license (hosting code on github).

How dare users have control of their own hardware!

But sharing code is when a license like LGPL really has an effect in what you must do to comply…

FFmpeg has faced some criticism for this DMCA takedown

Such as?

If someone claims feeling in a mere concept (without a body in a location)… I would find it very difficult to take seriously. But I must admit that’s just my intuition.

I see nothing special in human meat that couldn’t be be significantly replicated by electronics, software, gears, etc. Consciousness is an imergent property.

I fear that non-human, conscious creatures must fight us for those rights.

The important part is that it feels like something subjectively to be a living human. It’s easy to presume animals close to humans are like us to a degree, but all we know is what it’s like to be ourselves moment to moment. There’s no reason to deny an unalive system cannot also feel - we cannot test anything.

Welp, sucks to be a motherboard manufacturer. Always getting dragged along by other component manufacturers.

DDR6 will be about to release by the time RAM prices return to normal…

(Apple) will permit developers to process payments for digital goods and services outside of its own in-app purchase system {in Japan}.

permit

The benevolence!

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“People could fix this but cannot because this law prevents it” is a simple message for law-makers to understand and this program proves the claim. What does being in jail do? Keep in mind that asking others to break the law is legally questionable but moreso it is an unfair risk to ask of others if we want them to aim to win the bounty.

If Deputy Attorney General John Fowler said that tgen he is an asshole. I don’t accept the premiss of assholes.

I wish I could buy hardware without HMDI at all so they got no money from me.

Ya’ll have phones?

Maybe I should not, if it can be taken with no articulable reason given.

Hopefully interoperability of seperate apps as ‘part of a web browser experince’ can be improved to help all users. However, the less technologically inclinded will have to step up and do something if they want to avoid growing frustrations from an endlessly, enshitifying browser experience.

Having a “do one thing” software design doesn’t avoid all issues of anti-competition practices, nor does it prevent anti-features. For that I’d look towards software freedom licenses (as opposed to proprietary software).

We already have software that does some seprate parts of web browsers and comes with the OS; video players, text readers and protocol specific apps. The question is, are advanced users using alternatives like Gemini protocal? Hopefully activity will lead to others entering the new communities.