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mindbleach, to thefarside in 18 January 2024
mindbleach, to askelectronics in Light is light 🤷

Don’t even need to be facing them!

mindbleach, to memes in Hate when it happens
mindbleach, to thefarside in 16 January 2024

Oh, the squeedlyspooch.

mindbleach, to opensource in What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it

Sorry, it just sounds like it was leading to some “ah-HA!” reversal, being so brief and general in response to normative statements about a complex topic.

Removing DRM is generally somewhere between outright illegal and getting attacked by flesh-eating lawyers.

Blizzard killed an independent Warcraft / Starcraft server called BNetD.

Nintendo’s whole attitude toward emulation is infuriating nonsense pushing for digital art to slowly rot.

mindbleach, to opensource in What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it

In some contexts.

Is there a particular goal for this rhetorical poking?

mindbleach, to opensource in What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it

Reverse-engineering. Binary patches. Basically a free-for-all for anyone who owns a legal copy of a thing.

Please be advised I won’t give two shits about any hair-splitting over the word “owns.”

mindbleach, to opensource in What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it

You want examples of software protected by copyrights, trademarks, and/or patents?

mindbleach, to piracy in Film studios demand IP addresses of people who discussed piracy on Reddit

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mindbleach, to memes in add finger guns for max coolness

Dr. Stuart Ashen’s most resilient contribution to internet culture, somehow.

mindbleach, to piracy in Apps that shouldn't be Subscriptions

Products aren’t services.

So much bullshit has come from pretending otherwise.

mindbleach, to piracy in Why are so many people downloading the movie Paul all of a sudden?

Paul versus Baby Driver really illustrates what Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s chemistry bring to a movie versus what Edgar Wright’s directing brings to a movie.

And even in combination, the trio only nailed it two out of three times. The World’s End is just… okay.

mindbleach, to linux in TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism

No dude, you demonstrably said ‘I’m going to repeat your argument so you can think about it.’ Projecting some emotional state onto me is not gonna change how you fucked this up.

This is mockery. I am calling you ignorant.

I am trying to highlight how you joined an explicitly leftist server, whilst remaining aggressively unaware of… genuinely the first things people learn about leftism. So when you try smugly posturing your way out of a pointed question, you’re just revealing you know less than nothing.

To be utterly frank I just lack respect for people who think of themselves as any flavour of anarchist while still dreaming of a system as thoroughly rigid as the artificially created Internet.

Anarchists being naked hippies, of course, not organized laborers. The internet was mostly designed and operated by academics. It runs on half a century of “does this sound right?” collaborative standards. Whatever browser you’re reading this in has its origins in anti-monopolist diehards building better software out of spite.

None of which is even addressing the initial failure. Capital didn’t design your computer. Intel’s founders definitely did, but only because they were workers dissatisfied under Fairchild, who were in turn workers dissatisfied under Shockley. The early history of silicon valley is halfway to semiconductor co-ops.

At no point did shareholders build hardware.

mindbleach, to linux in TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism

Case in point. You think quoting an argument and sneering is a counterargument. Obviously, because you don’t know the first thing about labor theory of value.

Someone asked if you think capitalists or engineers did the engineering, and you revealed you don’t understand the question.

mindbleach, to linux in TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism

And that excuses a total lack of awareness.

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