mitxela

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by mitxela 5d ago
If that's the case and they need to, they'll just make it legal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Uni...
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by mitxela 5d ago
They should start making good quality products and charging a price people are willing to pay then. Do you realise piracy is just about the only leverage consumers have here? It's not unprecedented either. Basically every time in his
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by mitxela 5d ago
No, why should they have pride? Having pride is more expensive than not having it, and the ones with pride have been naturally selected out of the market. The people making the movies don't care either, haven't you seen all the co
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by mitxela 5d ago
They don't stop at terms and laws. They stop at what loses money, through customer churn or lawsuits.
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by mitxela 5d ago
This sounds more complicated than the existing processes to recycle the acid and the electrodes separately and make new batteries from the raw materials.
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by mitxela 5d ago
The hardware requirements are already quite restrictive
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by mitxela 5d ago
The system discovered that it's always easier to force someone to give you money than to offer something they want to pay for.
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by mitxela 5d ago
The production crew is getting peanuts anyway. If one out of 100 people donates them some money, they come out ahead. Also maybe it's their job to come up with a business model that everyone doesn't hate. If they'd just syndi
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by mitxela 5d ago
Permanent monopoly, because you'll always be watching what's current today, not 70 years ago
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by mitxela 5d ago
I've worked for one of these companies as it rolled out a new app. Surprisingly, it didn't seem malicious. It was just platform/framework churn + "we need to unify all these apps into one common codebase"
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by mitxela 5d ago
VPNs only help you with Bittorrent piracy. The kind where you buy a set-top box is still most easily caught by a police officer seeing you using the box, or selling you the box, not by anything they can do on the internet.
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by mitxela 5d ago
It's the lack of competition. They know you're not going to stop paying them.
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by mitxela 5d ago
I still don't understand what the comment means.
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by mitxela 5d ago
Individual freedom absolutism is best refered to as "libertarianism" right now. Which, btw, is a label the right appropriated and the left gave up.
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by mitxela 5d ago
Because they didn't have to do an ISP block. If they had to, they would have.
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by mitxela 5d ago
Capitalism
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by mitxela 5d ago
It's not reasonable. Every company uses a similar "consumer safety" excuse for all its locking down. It's why you can't install apps on iPhones. It's why you can't upgrade the RAM on your laptop. It's
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by mitxela 5d ago
Like that time OpenClaw emailed death threats to open source maintainers who called it slop, that mysteriously has now dropped off Google?
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by mitxela 5d ago
Where's your better site?
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by mitxela 5d ago
Sources that.... don't post the things people are trying to read? Besides, if it's free, you're the product.
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by mitxela 5d ago
You're calling murdering Hitler an act of terrorism?
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by mitxela 5d ago
Isn't that accusation, if true, just a case of FAFO?
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by mitxela 5d ago
He speaks like someone who is in possession of a great deal of misinformed beliefs that he knows are misinformed and is not willing to change.
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by mitxela 5d ago
I'm not sure if you're aware but Spain is part of the Schengen free travel area.
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by mitxela 5d ago
We already have. These foreign misinformation actors we're talking about have already convinced a majority of the voting population that democracy is bad, and they have voted to end democracy, and now democracy is in the process of end
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by mitxela 5d ago
We tried that, it didn't work.
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by mitxela 5d ago
the term "net neutrality" doesn't really mean anything anyway
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by mitxela 5d ago
It's escalated to tyranny - blocking half the internet - in an alleged attempt to block petty football piracy. If your country installed cameras everywhere to "deter kidnapping" wouldn't you feel that was tyrannical?
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by mitxela 5d ago
This has resulted in a lot of them blocking VPNs because Russia blocks VPNs at the backbone level.
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by mitxela 5d ago
The US already blocked Polymarket long ago and replaced it with a neutered US version. They know everyone uses VPNs to get around this, so they're trying to force the US version to be the only worldwide version.

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