Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]

High level summary: A bunch of nerds got into a slapfight about who’s project is less secure, or who’s project is run by the feds. Some guys got doxxed or swatted, a few stepped away from their projects and left social media, and that’s about where we are today. It’s largely a bunch of clout-chasing nonsense.

Huh! I had no idea. Thank you!

Could you elaborate on that? I’m not up to date on FOSS / open source licensing.

Since I’m not in Denmark and I’m big fan of Nordic women beauty type, do you have a link?

We have a meticulously curated list over here at our Pirated Pornography Board.

I’d expect medicine to be highly precisely crafted in labs by highly educated professionals and that it’d be difficult and perhaps dangerous to make and take your own medicine. I could be wrong.

You’re not wrong—all of 4TVC’s work is extremely dangerous. Not as dangerous as you’d think, though. And, compared to living a life crushed by debilitating disease or debt, do those risks outweigh the outcome? Probably not.

I have alerted my bro who is married to an Australian.

I’m glad they’re being careful! Whew!

As somebody who once worked at an ISP: they absolutely do that, and it isn’t illegal. In fact, ISP’s host many of Ookla’s speedtest servers. The less infrastructure your test needs to go through, the better the results will be—there’s nothing faster than a network that’s communicating with itself.

Consider the OneLobster009: you don’t have sex, because you’re a weirdo. RIP in pepperonis.

A Linux Wizard does not require a calendar. They simply arrive exactly when they are supposed to.

Meanwhile, I am permanently banned from YouTube for uploading a 45 second clip of an episode of Star Wars Rebels as a private video to share with my kids, after we just (legally) watched it and they thought it was cool.

Such a good system.

I made bootleg tapes for my friends. I remember Little Feat and The Band were pretty popular choices.

Crime rules.

If I can’t type /pizza in EverQuest to get a pizza to wizard itself to my doorstep, I don’t even know what technology is trying to do anymore.

Being defederated by lemmyworld is a badge of honor. Keep up the good work!

If it’s “failed” they can write off the investment as a loss. They get a tax break as a result. Capitalism rewards innovation (in tax avoidance), after all.

Oh my gosh, that’s messed up. And you can’t even turn it off??!?

What? Where? I haven’t seen an ad in Firefox since Carter was president.

Oh my God, that’s disgusting! Illegal streaming services online? Where? Where did they post those?

You can hardly blame Valve for a country’s currency collapsing.

Not to say that Steam doesn’t have some tremendous issues on this front (it does), but I truly wish more companies understood this. If you let me play / listen / watch your thing on whatever device I choose, for a reasonable one-time price, in perpetuity, I will pay that price.

Ten bucks for a Witcher season? Sure. A fiver for the latest season of Glup Shitto’s Starred War Adventure? Yeah, I’m in. I’m not gonna pay $180 a year to five different companies each to watch six or seven new maybe great but probably mid TV shows.

Same goes for games. I’m not paying $80 plus a $40 battle pass every year to play Call of Duty 2: 3: War Crimes Boogaloo, Part 5. I’m just gonna steal your shit. I will not feel bad about it in the slightest.