Streisand effect too: hadn’t heard of this until now. Git downloads immediately get flagged as Trojans tho

Just use I2P? Can you access public trackers via I2P or do you have to use the crap internal ones?

Thanks. I literally slept on it and woke up thinking this :)

Tor Browser would probably be the easiest if least performant way.

No, IP should absolutely have some protections. Invent a hot new thing and giant-corp immediately out markets and produces you into oblivion. With zero protections innovation would be completely stamped out. Totally gone, not just harmed. No more new things because it would be immediately stolen so why bother.

That said, current IP laws are absolute BS and need to be cut back tenfold. None of this century of protection BS. For the lifetime of the creator, non-transferable. You can sell rights to use it but you cannot relinquish your ownership and creator status. Those are my hills but I’m not willing to die on them either.

No, just no. If you want strangers to take what you say seriously then you should show the simplest respect by supporting your claims with the reason(s) you have them. Laziness is flapping your mouth off and expecting to not have to back it up.

They aren’t ‘Tweets’ anymore. They are Xcretes.

The og article was already posted in !technology@lemmy.world at least and I was honestly disturbed by the amount of people in that community that were okay with this level of scientific ignorance from writers in a technology-centred blog. It’s like people WANT to be lied to and misinformed.

!degoogle@lemmy.ml

Proton.me

Yes, we’ve established that’s what you’re trying to do, for the 2nd pitiful time now.

No no, that’s what YOU sound like. Not me.

Do you also think the husband isn’t being abusive because the battered wife let the food get cold? ‘It is not abusive because he gets a hot meal out of it’. That’s what you sound like.

Service is still paid for with user’s data, including the datapoint: is intolerant of ads.

I don’t see how YouTube can be abusive

Do you also not see how a Tyrant boss that screams and belittles their employees is being abusive? The employees are free to quit and find work elsewhere right? Oh wait, freedom to avoid abusive behaviour doesn’t make that behaviour non-abusive!

I’ll also add that Youtube’s ads aren’t the only way you ‘pay’ for the service. They gobble up all the data they can glean from your interactions with them. So much data most people don’t even really understand how much they’re giving away. This data is sold sure, but it is also used to inform the algorithm on how to make the service more addictive to the users. That is to say, some of the abuse is insidious. Are drug dealers paragons of virtue when they offer free samples?

No other service advertises as obtrusively as Youtube does. Twitch comes close. The reasons they get away with this are:

• the service is designed to be addictive, and

• they have an effective monopoly. No other free service (and paid for that matter) comes close.

Both easily defined as abusive.

Oh, oh. Is it too late to put 'unfunny and old 10 years ago attempts at recycled wit by people not smart enough to come up with their own unique sentence" on the list?

The culture of misspelling lose with loose, excusing it and down-voting to oblivion anyone that dares point out the mistake. “Sorry, is that wrong? English is my second means of communicating with other Homo Sapiens and it was an honest typographical error on my part. Please accept my sincerest apologies.” (original comment remains unedited to fix the typo)

No, your missing the difference between can and should. We’re in the fledgling stages of this Federation and already there are duplicate communities. How are these anything but an aggravation and hassle to newcomers trying to figure out what is where? You see freedom, I see obfuscation and dilution possibly to the point of absurdity.

You know what would help? If the instance list (and perhaps even the community lists) actually displayed a description of its purpose and intended content.

Duplicate communities should have been prohibited, or at least regulated, from the start. To me the problem is Why TF are people making a 2nd knitting community when one already exists? Instance theme isn’t appropriate for the original community? Migrate it.