Yes it is, that’s what I’m getting at - independent output’s share of total output increasing significantly

You don’t need the law to do that, you need a weekend of brushing up on router operation

Responses ITT have focused on legal and technical roadblocks. But if you can imagine a world where cultural production is even slightly less consolidated and corporate, where we start doing more of it for ourselves and our social circles, a cultural roadblock starts to emerge. How do I copy illicitly if the output is specialized and uniquely calibrated to the personal tastes of a hyper-small audience? Another way of asking the question might be: if mass markets don’t mean much anymore and it’s easy to make and propagate things ourselves, does piracy still exist? Or do we recognize that copying is a fundamental mechanism of culture, and there’s no longer any point in encumbering it for the sake of the profit motive?

I think the remarks of Denuvo hardly mattering for Ubisoft titles because they’re shitty games to start with, or jokes about Disney succeeding in making a film that will never get pirated (Snow White), start to get at this question

It wouldn’t surprise me if ‘fatphobia’ turned out to be a psyop, like the corporate-funded research into nutrition whose aim is to plant a particular meme in the public conscience (‘don’t give up soda kids, just exercise to lose all that weight!’)

50 years of high-fructose food ubiquity doesn’t negate millennia of evolutionary conditioning that expects us to be on foot most of the day, consuming high protein diets and covering 10+km distances

The notion that we can out-social engineer physical reality is a doggedly persistent one

What you want is basically a recipe for the web turning into an exclusively corporate wasteland. Lack of installation freedom doesn’t provide security from anything when the A/G app stores are already full of malware. Real security - security for users - lies in our ability to exercise choice - to use a FOSS app, or to pay conventionally via the web instead of having to put up with creepy opaque vendor portals (or worse, an app)

Phones are generic computing devices. We must able to operate and maintain them however we wish.

Hawke is Cloudflared

A gram of convenience for a ton of privacy :(

The year is 2025 where rules like this are brutally effective slop filters.

This comms near-constant links to media coverage of what the Empire is up to. I’d like to see some information about what the Alliance is doing about it, so I can work out who to fund and raise awareness for. How organized is the Euro equivalent of the EFF? The Can/Aus equivalent?

This whole thread is a Reddit-style two minutes’ hate session that gets pissy about the language of his post without addressing the content.

Eich is right to be wary of US Intelligence infiltration of the non-profit sector, and his characterization of the sector’s hiring preferences is probably accurate.

Also the image presented by the glowies concept is hilarious, and demonstrates again why the Right memes better than the Left.

The term to use is filsharing

Tried asking on the comm’s Signal chat?

https://www.snapraid.it/

These articles always get me thinking about filesharing doomsday. That theoretical point in time when our governments go full China and enact their own national firewalls/other scheme of effective P2P connection surveillance; when you need to know for certain that you’ve downloaded enough (and that your storage game is good enough) to last decades of leisure time, perhaps even a lifetime’s worth.

Note the complete 180 in priorities since the Russian’s arrest. It may as well be a FAGMAN product soon.

Send one my way, please

Seconding this. The figures are too rubbery for headlines like this to have any meaning.

The public internet is for P2P exchange as well, no matter how much gov/corp tries to stymie it. I2P has its merits, but it would be sad to see it take off purely because people ceded the former territory for an obscure network layer.

sharing - this one is key. I use a shared shopping list and we both need to add and edit.

https://etherpad.org/

Get jotting with your friends in seconds: https://pad.disroot.org/

The easiest tool is MakeMKV. But you’ll often encounter opportunities for efficiency (eg stereo DTSHD to FLAC) as well as requirements to convert* for hardware compatibility. That’s where ffmpeg and MKVToolNix are good secondary tools for customizing the remux contents.

*Not transcoding. Rather, lossless formet 1 -> lossless format 2.