barryamelton

joined 2 years ago
[–] barryamelton@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 month ago

That stealing copyrighted works would be as illegal for these companies as it is for normal people. Sick and tired of seeing them get away with it.

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Because we are losing the class war

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

It's always this exact article "on the topic" that gets posted in response. I remember his posts on social networks though.

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just compile everything to webassembly and ship that,using your preferred language and libraries.

Which means that we will get blobs to interact with, instead of JavaScript code that can be "reviewed" or monkey patched away.

Fun times. Thanks, monopolistic assholes like Goggle, Microsoft and Apple.

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

They sell emergency car lights that you pop up on top of the car ala secret police (but yellow). They have a modem that when activated automatically notifies the road services of you being there stopped.

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

*in principle, not in principal.

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago (21 children)

Are you Russian?

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We are losing the class war.

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.ml 56 points 3 months ago

Tech is a tool. It can be benefitting the oligarchs and restrictive, or benefitting society and open source.

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.ml 32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

They have been moving things to apps so they can substitute piecemeal the open source OS with their close sources: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/

That article is 12 years old. It has only gotten worse.

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 months ago

How do you opt out for already created content in the past?

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