Power captures power. Money is a form of power, but there are many forms and the powerful tend to try to grab more power no matter the situation.

I’m not opposed to intellectual property because there’s an argument for providing a limited time monopoly to the creators of works to provide incentive to make works public. Without any such incentive, it’s entirely possible that the monetization structures for different works change, for example locking content behind restrictive systems that don’t allow for personal use at all.

The key is “limited time”. If you can’t make your money back in 15 years, then maybe it’s time to make a new thing? The idea that someone should own a thing you made after you’re dead is stupid – how exactly will that promote you to create new works? If you’re dead, your creating days are over except for creating plant food out of your bones and organs.

I put my money where my mouth is, and the legal page of the graysonian ethic specifically lists that the book is put into the public domain or license after Creative Commons CC0 license after 15 years from the date of first publishing.

On a lark I went to check out if animesuki was still up. I used to use that all the time back in the day.

Nope, dead since 2019.

RIP

I don’t have experience with it, but I’ve heard waydroid runs android apps on Linux.

Not sayin nothin’, but back when I was partaking in that sort of thing, sinvr was pretty amazing. It’s 3d, but it’s also reactive based on your movement rather than just a prerecorded video, so it reacts to you moving your hands around and touching things.

Many ads are malicious. Many try to install software you didn’t ask for on your computer, or they try to trick you into pressing a “download” button on a download site that isn’t for the thing you wanted but for their software, or they fake error messages to trick you into installing malicious software.

Back when I was younger, all those sort of activities would fall under the banner of “cyber-terrorism”. Therefore, installing an ad blocker is an act of counter-terrorism.

It’s decent. I’ve got my own instance, but there are many out there that federate together. Thorium was a really good client.

There’s several subdomain of peertube.biz that have different shows from around the internet, for example review.peertube.biz has review shows.

https://beetoons.tv/ has some interesting cartoons.

What’s happened with invidious suggests it’s already starting in that regard.

Protip: On Peertube (at least for now), you can sync channels really easily so you can get a full archive of a good channel.

The ideological diversity the fediverse allows is one of the coolest parts about it. There are instance admins, but there’s no such thing as a single fediverse admin so everyone can have their little corner of the fediverse and it has its own attributes.

Completely correct.

On the Mastodon part of the fediverse, we’ve seen big instances shut down or defederate. It didn’t really change much because everyone else could still do what they wanted if they weren’t actively on those instances. On Lemmy/ it would hurt a bit more since those communities would have to find new instances to use (but if you’re smart you’re already signed up to a bunch of different communities anyway)

This is.something I saw on a community here and was surprised it works reasonably well.

I mean, the fundamental platform is the fediverse, so there’s that.

For some types of tracker, you can use a free and open source application called gadgetbridge.

I use it with my Amazfit Bip, and it works just fine. Since it’s FOSS, it’s something that can be audited for backdoors

Hey bud, think you got a bit jumpy on the submit button (has happened to me before too)

Mind deleting like 6 of these?

The nice thing about the fediverse is that if you find something else federated that you like, then you can just use it. You move to the new instance running the software you actually like, and resubscribe to the communities you like on the original instances.

There’s already kbin as an alternative (the largest instance of that is at https://kbin.social/), I believe you can subscribe to lemmy and kbin communities using friendica, and I can already see a lot of other options coming down the pipe.

OTOH, I’ve been here for years. I chose to go all-in on the fediverse a couple years ago.

Itt: people pulling an obiwan Kenobi “now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time… A long time…”

I don’t know if it’s still the case, but I remember youtube being a great source.