MonkeMischief

Those things happen, and unfortunately the law as it stands is stacked against "the little guy", but I still struggle to understand how "Just let everyone rip each other off and it's not even wrong anymore" while forced to survive a hustle-or-die economy, would be a beneficial development.

Artistry predates the industrial revolution and industrialized commercial artmaking as well...so...? It'll just be a hobby? But only a hobby reserved for the ultra rich because everyone else who would have otherwise done it are to busy working for someone else?

I'm serious here. I'm training really hard as an artist, and being completely unable to pursue ANY recourse against theft seems like it wouldn't improve anyone's lives at all...except maybe the fan communities of particularly-litigious entertainment giants...

If someone just starts mass producing "This thing in MonkeMischief's style", why the heck would anybody bother in the first place? As if alienation, depression, and struggle to find meaningful expression weren't abundant enough these days already...

I've still yet to get a response that explains how it would all get better. Just "lol you're wrong and should feel bad."

I get it, using stuff unrestricted for free is lots of fun, but making profit from it when someone else made that thing feels pretty lame...

Still haven't gotten Plasma 6 on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I know they're making sure it's a quality roll-out but I can't wait!!! :)

Happily an anarchist but also an artist, and I'm wondering why a complete lack of copyright would be a good thing.

Scenario A: I make a cool thing, it catches on, corpos with gajillions of dollars legally make tons of money off of it and leave me unable to pay rent and taking zero credit despite me doing all the actual work.

Scenario B: I make a cool thing, it catches on. It gets ripped off by everyone freely, and I'm left unable to pay rent and taking zero credit despite doing all the hard work. In fact, everyone who feels like it claims it as their own. I have zero recourse. This is all legal.

Scenario C: I'm a scuzzbag, so I copy-paste everyone else's hard work onto various merch without their permission, pirate their software, make lots of money, cheat them out of the fruits of their labor. Except it's all legal woo!

Scenario D: ChatGPT and its ilk have front-loaded all the theft, so now ripping off artists is transparently accessible to anyone who wants to pop in some "prompts" and claim they're so creative. Hard-working artists are mocked as obsolete because their efforts were scraped and stolen. They struggle to pay rent and take no credit.

I hate copyright abuse (i.e Disney) as much as everyone else, but I also feel like the champions of "abolish copyright" want everything for free because they don't make anything themselves, and creative efforts are just that: effort.

Ok Honda, you see it right? 2025 Honda Element would absolutely dust this trash.

Clearly there's been a market segment since 2011 that still wants it so c'mon.

This cybertruck feels like it would be such visual pollution on campgrounds and stuff.

I remember rooting for their upstart little browser and being excited getting an invite to gmail, and thinking their OS was a cool alternative to the big mega-maniacal Apple stuff...

...now I just feel like my younger self had been taken for such a fool.

I got one for you: You're on a tightrope of balancing security and your pocketbook, because a firmware update might also include DRM to brick any aftermarket toners you might have purchased.

Oh, you don't wanna pay out the nose for gEnUiNe HP?? What's your threat model look like?

Ridiculous.

Theoretically anyone at the right point can read all your SMS texts.

A great example being the police "stingray tower" system that masquerades as a cell tower that your phone will happily (and quietly) connect to.

Convince a phone that you're just another authorized relay, have a target in mind, and it's like reading postcards before they hit the mailbox.

This is also why it's an absolute joke for 2FA, but institutions like banks still happily use it because it's easy to understand.

SimpleX looked pretty intriguing...is it basically a better / private / more secure replacement for IRC?

"Offer Ai....for what?"

". . . we're going to offer Ai. To. . .have. . .Ai. . . ."

I know it's probably a case of "who asked"

No, no. You're welcome here too and your experience is really helpful to share, and also helps to dispell this idea that all Linux users are basement geeks pushing a software cult LOL.

I'm the same way, right there with you. I loved classic Windows for decades. My real last straw was when I was helping my sister with a reinstall and discovered firsthand how pushy they were being with forcing a Microsoft Account.

"Oh no problem, you just have to disable WiFi completely via the switch, otherwise it'll complain that you need an internet connection, so then you need to try three times unsuccessfully on purpose and THEN it'll let you make a local account."

"Ok they don't do that anymore, now you need to use a keyboard shortcut to open a CMD prompt, disable a service..."

It's completely blunt anymore how Microsoft feels about customers: They think we're stupid cattle they've been raising since the 90's to "click OK" and make accounts for anything they want. I wish they weren't so right...

Since then, I found terminal stuff to actually be fun and at least Linux feels like it's MY machine, not like I paid $100+ for a license key to rent their software that always begs me for more and rats on me at every turn.

But yeah, "just switch" isn't helping anyone. We need to guide and support more people into it

...that can barely mark up a pdf.

This seems to suggest they can download, locate, possibly extract, and then open one.

I'm genuinely awe struck. Yours are practically self-reliant compared to ours! :(

This. This is the nuanced intelligent discussion points we need to be talking about. Thanks for writing all this up.

It's infuriating, but in the end, business tends to feed into and be run by other business. Microsoft is business. Their software is business.

Business is a slow lumbering behemoth that does funny things like base mission-critical operations on a Windows95 machine because decades ago they committed to the tar-pit of a now-dead vendor, and nothing else can read those files. (I'm told this happens in science fields all the time)

I mean hey, OS/2 and COBOL are still in use, connected to faded beige hardware using parallel ports. In 2024. People don't understand how change-averse businesses are! Lol

We're also up against particularly targeted campaigns from tech giants since the beginning, to put their proprietary software in schools and taught in universities to eventually cement themselves in perpetuity, no matter how crappy they get, as "industry standard."

Thankfully Linux is really big in server world already, but I hope in the future more organizations will be able to take more control over their own infrastructure. I understand why it's not feasible to "just switch" yet.