After reading Cory Doctorow's piece on enshittification and watching the broligarchs with Trump, I realize that the whole legal intellectual property movement has been part of a very long ongoing move by big corporations to control our culture and our stories (in the Yuval Noah Harari sense).
The problem is that powerful people want more power.
Is it too late to fix this?
Allow copyright to the original creators for a few decades, don't allow copyright to be sold, don't allow copyright to be owned by companies, only humans.
That's not going to happen though.
“Under the new rules, the cost of a 15-minute phone call will drop to $0.90 from as much
as $11.35 in large jails and, in small jails, to $1.35 from $12.10,” the FCC said.
$0.90 or $1.35 for 15 minutes still sounds like an overpriced rip off to me.
every person has the right to use his own name for the purposes of trade.
So it seems to me that far from being restricted, everyone has an inherent trade name albeit with that small restriction, that they can't wield it against someone else of the same name.
Social media businesses get money/views/"karma" for posts/articles that increase outrage. That is one of the drivers of our current problems.
Ultimately it's humans driving this. We like "paying" to be outraged.
Wouldn't be the first time an American company appropriated and then attempted to control a piece of someone else’s culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugg_boots_trademark_dispute
What? No! It never did. Not even close. It had the monopoly power to make its browser the default.
It still has the monopoly on PC operating systems and it still makes its browser the default. But most computers now run Android and use chrome.
Google used to be the best search engine but lately its AIs are too smart, its knowledge of your search history too long, and its search results biased in favor of its own companies and it prefers not to use links to other competing search engines. Also its search results redirect through google so it knows what you clicked on.
https://searx.neocities.org
sends you to randomised opensource searx instances.
It is sometimes slow, sometimes instances get banned by google for doing too many searches, (google doesn't like other servers doing automated searches on google, who knew?) but the results are usually different and interesting.
While I have no sympathy whatsoever for the reddit management/CEO in this fight, and I appreciate the mods do work for free, as do the users, and some mods work quite hard for free, the mod mechanism probably does need some fine tuning.
I kind of like the idea of users voting for mods or voting out mods, not that it probably wouldn't make reddit even more random and chaotic than it is already, if that's possible. Users have no way of getting rid of bad mods nor of appealing mod decisions in a sub.
Mercenaries?
Does that mean those in the defense forces paid by private money are mercenaries?
Why would you limit this to open source projects.
It could just as easily and much more undetectably be added to closed source/proprietary projects.
Windows?
How is Windows allowed?
Is this why so many sites make me identify bicycles?
So many sites now insist I prove I am human by forcing me to do tasks that make me feel like I am a robot.
Culture and stories
After reading Cory Doctorow's piece on enshittification and watching the broligarchs with Trump, I realize that the whole legal intellectual property movement has been part of a very long ongoing move by big corporations to control our culture and our stories (in the Yuval Noah Harari sense). The problem is that powerful people want more power. Is it too late to fix this?
And how much of the USAID money
Actually went to US companies? Like most of the money to Ukraine went to US weapons manufacturers.
Don't allow copyright to be sold
Allow copyright to the original creators for a few decades, don't allow copyright to be sold, don't allow copyright to be owned by companies, only humans. That's not going to happen though.
Doesn't Rowling own the copyright on Harry Potter?
Not Warner Bros.
The Swiss, not being in the EU have it tough.
The Swiss, not being in the EU have it tough. Swiss village Champagne not allowed to mention place name on label
Still a rip off
There's an interesting background video report on this here on mediawatch (Australia).
trade names
Outrage culture
Socialmedia businesses get money/views/"karma" for posts/articles that increase outrage. That is one of the drivers of our current problems. Ultimately it's humans driving this. We like "paying" to be outraged.Wouldn't be the first time
Wouldn't be the first time an American company appropriated and then attempted to control a piece of someone else’s culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugg_boots_trademark_dispute
Windows 70% of the pc market and I expect pc manufacturers still face the Microsoft tax.
Hmmm. Why say it then. Really? That's going a long way back. Internet Explorer was never free, except on Macs.best internet browser?
I use searx randomizer
Google used to be the best search engine but lately its AIs are too smart, its knowledge of your search history too long, and its search results biased in favor of its own companies and it prefers not to use links to other competing search engines. Also its search results redirect through google so it knows what you clicked on. https://searx.neocities.org sends you to randomised opensource searx instances. It is sometimes slow, sometimes instances get banned by google for doing too many searches, (google doesn't like other servers doing automated searches on google, who knew?) but the results are usually different and interesting.
Resignation?
He broke the law, why should him resigning change that or stop him being prosecuted?
reddit mods
While I have no sympathy whatsoever for the reddit management/CEO in this fight, and I appreciate the mods do work for free, as do the users, and some mods work quite hard for free, the mod mechanism probably does need some fine tuning. I kind of like the idea of users voting for mods or voting out mods, not that it probably wouldn't make reddit even more random and chaotic than it is already, if that's possible. Users have no way of getting rid of bad mods nor of appealing mod decisions in a sub.
a sixth cop who wasn't charged was white
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tyre-nichols-death-sixth-memphis-officer-preston-hemphill-administrative-leave/ He was put on administrative leave.