Yes. One is also a doctor. She got vaccinated earlier than most of us. Same with boosters.

Not to mention long COVID. Personally know at least 2 people who got it (myocarditis or something? Can’t remember).

One risk of the fediverse is that data is cached locally from federated servers. That could put server owners in legal jeopardy for hosting illegal content.

This 100%. And not just piracy-related stuff.

Tbh, there have been some decisions by lemmy.world admins that i didn’t really support, but this one is understandable imo.

I wonder if the lemmy devs are aware of this and what steps can be taken to protect the instance owners from stuff in other instances that can get them in trouble.

I see Empress is still subtle and classy as always.

Valid point (and one I initially did not consider). But I still stand by what I said, although I admit it can be more flexible if you’re contractually bound to write a series. Maybe a few years’ worth of extensions per entry or it starts after a series is over? Certainly not 70 years after an author’s death. We know books depend on popularity to sell, and we’ve seen only a few (relatively) authors get rich on their books alone.

10 years is a long time - I would not stay in a job that doesn’t pay enough for my needs for 10 years no matter how much I enjoy it. My problem is I admittedly am not well-versed in that specific industry (trusted resources are welcome as I’ve tried searching but I don’t recognize many of the websites so idk how reliable they are). But an increase in salary (or advances) and/or royalties may be in order. I think everyone is entitled to that at this point.

Again, this is from my admittedly limited knowledge in that specific industry, so feel free to correct me. It’s just that imho IP rights, as they are today, is kind of ludicrous.

I agree with you both, although imho 15/20 is a bit too long? The only reason being something can be improved better(?) by multiple entities working on it (competitively) than a single entity. Maybe 10 years? I’m thinking if I have an invention (let’s say a new engine), 10 years should be enough for me to earn my share. After that, other companies/individuals can use my base/foundation and build on it. With more people working on that engine and competing with each other, the end product would probably be much better than when I work at it alone.

From what I’ve read (take this with a grain of salt), the person you’re talking about cracks games with a much older version of denuvo. They’re apparently a lot easier to crack than those being done by this psycho.

Been a while since I pirated games so idk just how out of the loop I am, but It looks to me that Denuvo games took longer because not a lot of people work on them. I could be wrong, of course, but Empress seems to crack them quickly.

Lmao. True. I know some people who think 1080p is still bad, and here I am content with 480 on my phone 😂

(don’t kill me, guys)

I’m not going to argue for/against the article. However,

we need laws and policies promoting open access and sharing of knowledge, not maximizing profits through contrived scarcity

As a fan of FOSS (and the Open Source community in general), I completely agree with this. Sharing knowledge can do a lot of good.

Yep. True. I guess it’s just to give the users some semblance of control with their data.

I don’t think so. A lot of people value their IG accounts, so it’s more of a trap. If deleting their Threads account means losing their IG account, they won’t do it.

A lot of the posts say they couldn’t make an account or lemmy is ugly. Well…

• it’s not our problem if your dumbass can’t even handle signing up. If you’re that incompetent to be unable to sign up, good luck with piracy.

• lemmy is ugly? Ok that’s subjective. There’s also kbin which looks great (imho) on desktop. Lemmy-wise, our apps (in fucking alpha) already look better and function better than the official reddit app.

Let them stay there. It’s ironic those “pirates” prefer to support big corpo. Shows what they really are.

Edit: and that breaks my “X number of days without browsing reddit.” Tbf i only looked at that post. Yeah, that’s what I’ll tell myself to feel better. Lmao.

It is. And even if you wanted to localize it to specific devices, there’s also a standalone version. I’m using it on my laptop with Arch and it’s pretty good. Adblocking on the go, or if you don’t want (or can’t) mess with the router for some reason.

I personally don’t want lemmy to end up as a reddit replacement. I’m scared the discussions will get worse like it did in reddit. Nowadays, people in lemmy actually discuss with you and not downvote-bomb or make a snarky comment for karma. I do hope we grow, though.

I hope they do, and bring their subscribers with them.