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by nixroot 5y ago
While these people are extremely uninformed and their "solutions" would be absolutely catastrophic, they do have a point. What they're noticing are the effects of corporatism: monopolies and other bad market practices caused
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by nixroot 5y ago
Interesting, I was not aware of that. I did not take termination into account in the second paragraph. I was referring to AGPL being addressed to anyone instead of a specific party. This means that a full revocation of the license would r
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by nixroot 5y ago
This is incorrect. Currently Truth is still internal software not available to the public, AGPL requires distribution of source code alongside the distribution of the program or service. Because Truth is only made available internally, the
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by nixroot 5y ago
I can't help but feel like Bitcoin came full circle. They went from replacing to embracing the broken, corrupt traditional finance system. The fact that the Bitcoin community is loving this with no pushback just shows that everyone who
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by nixroot 5y ago
Steam is pretty DRM free. Games have Steam integration which checks if your account owns the game, but they don't attempt to prevent tampering like true DRM does. If Steam were to disappear you could easily un-steam your games. GOG als
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by nixroot 5y ago
Alternative frontends like Nitter[1] should hopefully continue to work. They could always scrape as an authenticated user if that becomes necessary. [1] https://nitter.net/
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by nixroot 5y ago
They should just target ads to the webpage it's shown on rather than the user.