quindraco

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[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You understand that "Wokeness" is a term that means whatever the speaker wants it to mean, right? That means the term won't leave public discourse just because we abandon the attitudes leading to any one person's definition of it. What we would need to happen is for the people using the word to give up their culture war, which is unlikely to happen, or to choose new weapons in their war, which may - e.g. if we give them a new scapegoat word.

[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There was no security breach. Did you even read the summary, let alone the article? There wasn't even an attempted breach.

[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You think OP isn't a Windows 10 user? Why?

[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Yes, but also no - and be careful, you're asking this around people who absolutely do hold manufacturers morally responsible for what people do with products bought from them. See e.g. any discussion of gun control on here.

If you want to draw an analogy between traffic and the internet, the ISP is your provider of roads; your PC+router+modem is your car. So this is much, much closer to suing the state for building and maintaining the road the getaway car used.

Also, there's no cleanly analogous crime - "getaway car" sounds like a comparison to robbery, but no-one here was robbed. Sony's argument for damages would have been based on theoretical sales it didn't make, arguing that its government-issued monopoly on its IP automatically implies anyone pirating content would have paid them for it.

So here's an even closer analogy: you sell marijuana in a state with a fixed number of dispensary licenses, and you are the only person in your neighborhood with a license. You set up shop. Someone else shows up in a van and gives away pot for free; your sales go down. You sue the state for providing the road the van used to do this.

[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the tip!

[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

It's 4chan. It's been the worst place on the internet for decades. It just can't be topped.

[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Took a look, it seems useless for manga - none of the extensions worked without challenging me to input a URL I had no basis for knowing.

The significantly more numerous anime extensions seem to include some that work a treat, though.

[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Did you report the CP to the police?

[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Why are there so many news articles that don't understand the basic grammar of the word "from"? This article should have started with the word "starting", although "as of" would also be acceptable.

[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Trump is, somehow, the worst President we've ever had, despite very stiff competition. You have a very sus definition of "goat".

[–] quindraco@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure what you mean by "in a decent way", but too early is how you get called a creep.

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