Hasn't he admitted to changing his opinion after learning about the effects on children? I'm not in the loop about this.
But yeah, you definitely shouldn't treat his words as gospel. A lot of questionable-at-best stuff in there.
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I sometimes like to read his political posts:
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2025-jul-oct.html
And honestly? I mostly agree with them? Like this:
ABC ordered to pay Antoinette Lattouf another $150,000 for unlawful termination over Gaza Instagram post.
But a company faced with enormous threats wielded by fascist officials who demand that certain views be suppressed will treat such penalties as the normal cost of sucking up.
The [Israeli] army says that HAMAS is using apartment buildings for "surveillance", and has bombed some of those buildings to destroy them. Based on this logic, the army might bomb every tall building in Gaza City with the large bombs that the US is providing
He has some questionable beliefs as well, though for unusual reasons. He accepts non-binary people but refuses to use they/them pronouns because he doesn't like the ambiguity of singular/plural pronouns. So he has invented the neopronouns per/pers to refer to singular non-binary persons. I genuinely think no other person on this planet could hold this opinion.
According to the German (I have not found an EU equivalent) office for statistics, you are part of the top 1% of full-time workers if you earn >213,286€ per year:
https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2025/04/PD25_134_621.html
Sure, this doesn't include billionaires who don't work but there just aren't enough of them to matter. It's not like there are hundreds of thousands billionaires in Germany.
Earning 400,000€ in two years makes you part of the 1% though?? Where else would this guy be? Upper middle class?
Do we know this?
I suspect they usually compress videos at most a couple times (for each resolution) and then keep the results cached somewhere. At least for popular videos that combined take up 99% of bandwidth. For 0 views videos I'd imagine they only store the highest resolution and compress it further down on demand.
I'd argue DRMing all those popular videos would take up so much computing power it cannot be offset by ads.
DRM is expensive. Very expensive in fact because it is basically non-trivial encryption.
A website with as much traffic as YouTube cannot afford to DRM every single video stream. There just isn't enough processing power and electricity available.
Netflix et al. have a tiny fraction of YouTube's traffic with more income per user due to subscriptions.
Plus YouTube's storage demands are many orders of magnitude larger. A maximum upper bound for Netflix is 1 PB I'd imagine. Archiveteam alone has selectively downloaded more than 3 PB. YouTube has, I'd imagine, a double digit exabyte amount of data stored + backups.
That's what I'm saying.
The argument:
If you never pay for music, artists won't be able to make new music
is fundamentally flawed. Nearly all artists don't make more than pocket change at best.
Even if we were to abolish all copyright tomorrow and no one would every pay for art again, art would still exist and be published. Because as it turns out, people enjoy making art.
That's not to say they shouldn't be paid. Of course people should make a living by selling art. But OP saying art will cease to exist if there is no money is completely wrong.
Open https://bandcamp.com/discover?s=rand and check how many albums have sold more than 5 copies.
How are those artists able to make music without making money? Because according to you, they can't.
Boo, bad article.
Here's a better one:
https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/iot-malware-gayfemboy-mirai-based-botnet-campaign
Highlights:
Upon execution, the malware displays the string “twinks :3.”
The malware uses the string “meowmeow” as a trigger to activate its backdoor functionality.
The known C2 domains include:
cross-compiling[.]org
i-kiss-boys[.]com
furry-femboys[.]top
twinkfinder[.]nl
3gipcam[.]com
If only you sharted in your pants instead; then you would've been able to partially accomodate OP's request.
Huh, you're right but the umbrella company was still only called "Old Mutual".
Sure, but the same can be said about pretty much anything. If I were to get bone cancer in my left arm, I'd rather have had it amputated when I was a baby than today. Recovery always sucks.