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tabular , 8 hours ago (edited 8 hours ago)

If you can’t modify it, sell it or know what the game software is even doing then calling that “ownership” would be rather lacking. I mean in terms of traditional ownership, not the modern definition: “page 69 of the EULA defines “purchasing” (the software) as a limited, non-transferable lease which can stop working at any time due to dependency on a proprietary server code we will never share I fucked your mom”.

tabular , 9 hours ago

Probably the gun industry lobbying for this 🫢

tabular , 15 hours ago

Do you mean out of touch as in unaware or diverging opinions?

tabular , 2 days ago

There’s a mode where you swipe your finger over each letter in order and it auto completes the word. Not sure how often younger people use it (though I wasn’t aware you could do that until I saw someone younger doing it).

tabular , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

There would be less talking over each other due to word definitions if the music industry had not convicted people that murder and stealing on boats was good way to describe unauthorized copying.

tabular , 4 days ago

All words are made down.

tabular , 4 days ago

Ownership implies a device should be controlled by the user. I don’t just mean not playing adverts but how about not recording my voice (or other data) to send it to Google servers for them to keep and exploit? You’re free to believe in this implied agreement but I doubt that’s in your best interests.

tabular , 6 days ago

If it’s MY car why would adverts be in it? What’s next, adverts in my shed?

tabular , 7 days ago

Copyright is the legal method to limit redistribution of easily copied material, not as if there’s anything else people could appeal to.

I ain’t a fan of copyright but make it last 10 years instead of X + infinity and maybe it’s not so bad. I can’t argue against copyright fully as I think copyleft is essential for software.

tabular , 6 days ago

I activate false dichotomy and flip the table.

tabular , 7 days ago

Sometimes you have to fight with the OS to make it work but that should be due to a bug (or my incompetence in using it). When it’s not working because it’s actually working on someone else’s behalf you can probably delete the whole fucking thing mate.

tabular , 8 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Consider a universal basic income as a means to reduced the profit motive when authors create/share media.

tabular , 9 days ago

I ain’t a fan of the corporate tracking device but how people acted before a technology existed says little to how best to act now. Even if it did the past is littered with the corpses of those unaware of incoming danger from natural disasters.

tabular , 9 days ago

I was thinking strong wind, flooding, fire, rockslides, etc

tabular , 9 days ago

Mastodon is a bi replacement for twitter.

tabular , 11 days ago

Not even the taxman?

tabular , 11 days ago

I’ll put 100 on “this user needs their account to do things which in principle need not require an account”, please.

tabular , 11 days ago

Normally I’d say that’s fine (the store hoster should decide what’s there) but it’s my understanding Apple actively opposite the existence of alternative app stores. Can they host it elsewhere now?

Anecdotally Apple make it very hard to even post an app but that’s neither here nor there.

tabular , 11 days ago

“DRM” as in digital restrictions management I assume.

tabular , 12 days ago

Is it actually better than nothing though?

Either these are tolerant folks or someone we might be better off if they stayed on 4twitter.

tabular , 13 days ago

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tabular , 13 days ago

It’s not your car if someone else controls it.

tabular , 14 days ago

If you want to encourage purchasing of storage then contribute to making that an easier task. Charging for overproducing is spiteful and mostly encourages resentment. I wouldn’t blame these people for finding a cheap way to avoid the “charge” (and if there is a law that prevents that, it is disgusting).

tabular , 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

A photograph of the hand puppet “Kermit the frog” inside an office with a smart phone. There is text above the photograph. Kermit is implied to be sitting on a computer chair, casually resting his legs up as if leaning them on a desk. Kermit is holding the phone and looking at it’s screen. The text above reads, “me waiting for my phone to stop ringing as I don’t use it for that”.

tabular , 17 days ago

🐃+🐧 🤓

tabular , 17 days ago

I saw the memes before I actually watched the talks. They explained how my beloved vidya games were becoming more and more hostile to users (Stallman’s talks were never specifically about games, just software in general).

tabular , 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago)

I suspect others are talking about “thinking” only objectively.

B) If a LLM had a subjective experience when given input presumably it has none when all processes are stopped (subjectively, unverifiable).

A) If a LLM has no input then there are no processes going on at all which could be described as thinking (objectively, verifiable: what is the program doing).

tabular , 18 days ago

Why are we comfortable with not owning the things we buy :/

tabular , 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

Update consumer protection laws and actually enforce them. Laws that were written back when tech would come with the schematics.

tabular , 17 days ago

It’s unappealing to have software be hostile. Software that does what I want only if it’s creator doesn’t actively oppose it… that need not be on my computer.

tabular , 17 days ago

I don’t expect a computer to last 2 years due to a battery dying.

tabular , 17 days ago

Who’s expecting a computer to last about 2 years?

tabular , 17 days ago (edited 16 days ago)

The warranty is 2 years. Warranty is the confidence a company has that it will last as long as that. Batteries eventually die, so that is the one part in mobile devices we can guarantee needs to be replaced.

Manufacturers make bigger devices difficult to repair - so it being a small form factor is just an excuse. When they try and it fails then is the time to consider if it’s feasible. Fairphone products are probably average at best but you can at least replace the batteries in a small device like their earbuds (Fairbuds), and assume they will get better at making their repairable devices.

tabular , 17 days ago (edited 16 days ago)

Modularity and accessiblity costs more in research, design and testing but there are many factors to the purchase price. The question is if a lower price is actually cheaper if you would be replacing it over and over again.

Personally I don’t think the industry will change until consumers value more than just the price.

tabular , 19 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

When tech isn’t controlled by the user: then the user is controlled by the dev, and power corrupts.

Some are born selfish and others are molded by our insistence you strive for money to survive.

tabular , 19 days ago

Since Google is making money of everyone how about they partake in funding everyone via a universal basic income. Just a thought.

tabular , 18 days ago

Money that could be used on Google products and services. A positive feedback loop!

tabular , 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

If there were a software that aught to be in control of the user (rather than the developer) then it’s software running inside of you.

When things really matter all we have is conversation or violence. If our understanding of neuroscience gets good enough… this is where violence can/will happen.

tabular , 19 days ago

When talking trade-offs you can’t just compare a combustion engine to an electric engine, you gotta consider electric public transport too. This has the bonus of pissing on Musk.

tabular , 18 days ago

I don’t go out much but if I did an ebike is the way to go, if it wasn’t raining.

tabular , 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago)

Not using a hard paywall is silly, no sympathy there. Some sympathy for when your paywalled content has been crawled for. Though not much - in this age where making copies has never been easier using force is all they can do to impose their wish of artificial scarcity.

tabular , 21 days ago

Presumably the algorithm feed will stagnate or even deteriorate if it sees you ain’t watching what it’s suggesting.

tabular , 21 days ago (edited 20 days ago)

Perhaps not a takeover so much as a betrayal, a backstabbing? Certainly hostile to the community.

tabular , 21 days ago

That strategy repeatedly fails, companies in the same market will see it extracting more profit and start doing it too.

tabular , 21 days ago

If I own the car it’s my hardware to use. If I don’t own that suspension then someone needs to collect their property from my car.

tabular , 21 days ago

Just don’t buy any car if they all do this in the future? People need a better answer, don’t find comfort in “just don’t buy it”.

tabular , 20 days ago

There’s DRM in public trains now. It’s not just cars, it’s every industry with electronic device running software.

tabular , 21 days ago

What suggests to you smaller ones are the most problematic?? When I think of younger people interacting online I think of big places like TikTok, I don’t think of a random mastodon server.

The issue is not that a dog turned up to get a picture of their face, it’s that if I have a picture of your face now I can pretend to be you. Woof.