Schooner

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think @[email protected] has already made a good point regarding your example.

I'm not judging you or anything, just that the appreciation could have been shown without comparing it to Sync. It can come off as a bit combative, when you didn't mean it like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I just used a VPN to the EU and refused. Yeah it sucks that governments don't care, but nothing I can do about it right now.

As for Play Services, most people will never run a degoogled phone. So, that's that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I honestly never fancied musical episodes, but this was so well done, I loved it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I mean, a lot of people who watch this probably don't even know what Buffy is. I've never watched Buffy, it's a pretty old show.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

I think it's a little uncharitable to Sync to characterise it like this. Yes, it collects personal data to show ads. However, you have the choice to refuse or pay a one time fee to get rid of it entirely. It's the nonconsensual nature of data collection that robs users of their agency that makes it problematic.

Devs need to eat and donations are not always a realistic revenue scheme. With the one time fee, Sync has signalled it cares about its users and not just value extraction like Big Tech. I will probably pay that and be happy.

I like Liftoff, I also like Sync. I use both atm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think people have already answered your question. Just to add on, think about stuff that happened before the creation of an IP regime. Were people not creating things back then?

I would also like to clarify that I'm not talking about forcing people to reveal their secrets. If you want to keep your thing a secret, you're welcome to. But, there should be no state prosecution if that thing gets made public.

And I do buy things if I enjoyed them and want to reward the creators. When I was a poor kid with no funds, I pirated a lot of videogames. Now that I'm a slightly older kid with some funds, I buy the games that I enjoy and my game piracy has gone down a lot. Without piracy, these future sales from me would have been lost because I probably wouldn't care about videogames. Not a justification, just my feelings.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (13 children)

All piracy is ethical because Intellectual Property is a lie.

I will pirate from megacorps and indies, anyone who sets up a demand based distribution system for products.

The only products I will not pirate are those that have a needs based distribution system and are finite.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Is downloading people human trafficking?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

100% of the crypto hate I see is from citizens of neocolonial states. You lord your control of the financial system over us and when something threatens it, it's always delegitimised for any number of reasons.

Take your pick: scam, destroying the environment, eroding state power etc.

A decentralised system/society will need a value layer to transact. You think Visa should be in control of that?

Just because you don't like it, doesn't make it snake oil. I hope you never find yourself at the mercy of a government that persecutes you and imposes capital control so you can't even run away with your money. If crypto existed when my people were literally being genocided, my parents would not have to end up in a new country with nothing to their name.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Why would I want a nation state to run on anything? The end of the nation state is the communist utopia!

I am for whatever erodes the illegitimate violence exerted by nation states to safeguard their parasitic domain. If it's crypto, it's crypto. If people not eating apples brought about their end, I would be out there burning orchards.

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