sir_reginald

sir_reginald, 5 months ago

We have lost much having to wait for meds patents or other useful technologies.

And even in the entertainment industry we have probably lost so many masterpieces that could have been inspired by copyrighted material. Of course, that we will never know.

sir_reginald, 5 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Both are based on the absurd concept of intellectual property. They are the same cancerous thing that is crippling technological and cultural advancement.

Edit: Seeing your comment history in the piracy community, I don’t understand why you bother commenting. It’s pretty clear that you’re a corpo buttlicker. I’m sure there are communities where youd be better received.

sir_reginald, 5 months ago

and yet they are still loosing money by running ChayGPT 3.5 for free. I guess that in the future they’ll switch to a local small model in the hardware that is capable enough.

sir_reginald, 5 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

because most people are unaware of keybindings and when they inevitable tap on the new dedicated key they’ll probably be shown a subscription screen for Copilot Premium or whatever they call it.

IMO it’s a very disgusting and intrusive way of fishing subscriptions to the AI thing they’ve invested so much money on.

sir_reginald, 5 months ago

As you said, there used to be a gap there. Replacing a gap makes not that much harm and people find it useful even in Linux for keybindings. In more of an Alt kind of guy, but Super is also there for more combinations available.

The Copilot key appears to be going were the right Control or right Alt key are right now, so that’s going to be a bother for a lot of people.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

Mostly CMUS. Clementine on rare occasions.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

Win, f, i, enter

It’s literally the same with most Linux’s DEs. And even in Window Managers when using dmenu or rofi.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

by “RSC” do you mean RCS? en.wikipedia.org/…/Rich_Communication_Services

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

isn’t the id unique? which means that sites can trace every visit you make and what videos you watch every time?

sir_reginald, 6 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

thanks! if implemented correctly, this is a decent way of verifying age. Although I’d rather not have any but it’s definitely better than taking a selfie.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

they are downvoting you, but you’re absolutely right.

they can’t hardly be repaired and it’s impossible to upgrade them at all, even something as basic as swapping the SSD needs desoldering. They are still sold with 8 GB of RAM as the base and they can’t be upgraded.

it isn’t worth it at all.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

there is no chance you would get back to the Intel system and plug it in every 2 hours.

don’t be irrealistic. most laptops in the Macbook price range will have 8 hours of usage in low consumption mode or around 6 or 5 if you need more power.

and at that price point they come with at least 32 GB of RAM which can be upgraded, swappable SSDs with more capacity than the macbook’s, far better keyboard and more ports.

the Macbooks do have some extra performance per battery usage? yeah I guess. But after 2 years that the battery life is gone, you’ll probably be buying the newer model or wishing that you bought a laptop with a replaceable battery.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

My system is 7 years old, it wouldn’t be an appropriate comparison. Maybe others can help

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

not exactly. You can of course still get existing works by pirating them.

But if the Tolkien works entered the public domain, anyone could use them for any creative purposes freely. And yes, a lot of the new material would be trash. But some excellent works would appear to.

A good example of this is Lovecraft’s works and the Cthulhu Mythos, that although not public domain until recent years, Lovecraft encouraged others to use his own creations on their own stories, thus expanding the literary universe of his own creation. Some stories are awful, but there has also been a ton of great works based on Lovecraft’s creations that couldn’t have existed otherwise.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

it depends.

you’ll definitely be loosing security, which can turn into loosing privacy if you get affected by malware.

you’ll also be loosing privacy if installing proprietary apps, since GrapheneOS has features like storage scopes and a better permission system that help minimizing privacy issues.

I think that locking your bootloader in a Pixel is possible regardless of the ROM you install.

Anyway, I think that there’s no real benefit of installing any other custom ROM in a Pixel other than GrapheneOS. You’ll be just loosing out in security and potentially privacy for no real reason.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

what about single player games? how does that anticheat benefit any user?

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

I know that Resident Evil games come with Denuvo, for example.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

in the denuvo product page it is called anticheat by their creators

irdeto.com/denuvo/anti-cheat/

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

being sincere I just searched for denuvo anticheat to see if it was called like that.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

no, do not mistake yourself. they are not proprietary blobs. the whole browser is proprietary. they release a tarball with the chromium code + some changes. but the whole UI which are the main changes are proprietary (after all, like any Chromium browser, it’s mostly a re-skinned Chromium, they don’t make any changes to the engine).

It’s a proprietary browser. They just release a bunch of code for marketing purposes. Don’t believe me? Try compiling it, and tell me if what you get is Vivaldi minus some blobs.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Vivaldi is not private. A good browser? It surely is. But it’s not private.

It’s also proprietary software, which is unacceptable. And yeah, don’t repeat to me their marketing techniques. Yes, they release some partial source code. In practice, that’s the same as releasing nothing. Just a marketing trick.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

it’s more than enough for the very few sites not working in Librewolf.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

didn’t you read my comment? That whole post is marketing excuses for not being free software.

Try compiling the “source code” they release and tell me if you get a usable version of Vivaldi.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

Not all what is proprietary soft is crap

You’re wrong. For privacy, being proprietary is one of the biggest red flags.

nor all FOSS is the panacea

That’s absolutely true tho.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

Which search engine do you use? If FOSS, which engine do it use? VPN?

There’s a relevant difference here. If the proprietary software runs on the server side and everything on the client side it’s free software, that’s very different than running a proprietary web browser on your own machine.

So as long as my search engine does not execute proprietary JavaScript and I can connect to my VPN using the OpenVPN or Wireguard client, it’s okay.

Nonetheless, it’s of course very much preferable that the server side is free software too.

I don’t care if the proprietary software comes from a mega corp or a small startup. It’s still proprietary.