The “You get what you pay for” excuse doesn’t hold up. My 77-inch LG OLED cost over $3k USD. It’s still full of ads and spies on me unless i neuter it.
Chahk
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1·2 months agoIt’s 7-D chess. He wants to use x-Twitter as a tax wire-off.
24·2 months agoI, for one, thank the German government for introducing me to a new site.
You can’t 3D print a gun, but you can buy one without a background check. Brilliant.
Never stopped them before from still passing half-assed laws.
42·2 months agoLet’s not equate beatings and other child abuse to not having music during school hours.
Without it, she says, she’s struggling to concentrate.
Entire generations of school kids went without music players in the classrooms. Somehow, she will manage.
It is. And don’t call me Shirley.
I would like to see these publishers take on OpenAI, Midjourney and others, who basically said that copyright laws should not apply to them because AI would be “impossible” without them having free access to everything.
you can be certain that these publishers don’t know that you exist
I think it’s better this way.
Not to mention fast.
1·4 months agoLooks like I switched to Immich right on time.
Unfortunately deleting my photos out of Google now is a futile exercise. No matter what Google says, I’m convinced that they just make the photos unavailable to us, but don’t actually delete anything, ever.
Trade-in value, plus $400-500 USD. I generally change my phone once every 2-3 year, so I figure ~$150 per year amortization is fine.
4·4 months agoThey will have to rebrand Paramount+ again. Again.
Easy solution. “The Internet Archive” should rebrand itself to “Archiving the Internet” to confuse everyone who talks about how “AI” should be able to steal books.
Agreed about changing the copyright law.
Until that happens though, they must not be allowed to have it both ways - call us “pirates” when we copy their shit without paying for it, and tell us that paying for shit they copy is “impossible”.
Libraries are still a thing. You can still go there to borrow a book, read it, and return it, so that others can read it.
Public libraries are under assault from every direction.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/book-bans-librarians.html (apologies for nyt link)
https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/5/23711417/republicans-want-to-defund-public-libraries-book-bans
Pretty soon you either won’t find the books, or even the libraries themselves. Piracy is the only way they are leaving to us.
It’s a trap!
Isn’t this getting blocked in 24H2?
Are you kidding me with this shit?! I have no problem with paying $11 straight up for an app, so it’s not about the money. I simply refuse to encourage the garbage “subscription all the things” model.