dvdkon

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by dvdkon 4d ago
I'm not too concerned about my place of residence, since the state already publishes my full address online. But OSM edit history also shows the various places you visit, with timestamps too. I still haven't decided if I want to d
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by dvdkon 5d ago
If you're making a commercial SaaS, that's probably the way to go. For individual users like me, with a coding harness and some extra BYOK tools, OpenRouter is convenient and the few extra percent don't hurt much. I appreciat
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by dvdkon 7d ago
From my understanding what's keeping us from this kind of dystopia are restrictions on shrinkwrap agreements, general restrictions on one-sided contracts, and the fact that breach of contract "only" creates civil and not crim
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by dvdkon 7d ago
I don't have any numbers on fan art vs original works floating around the web, but even those original works aren't being monetised via copyright. They would be created even if copyright was abolished or significantly weakened.
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by dvdkon 7d ago
> There are murders so why make it illegal..... The downsides of murder clearly outweigh the upsides. The fact that we're debating here shows that's not the case for copyright. > ...somebody having the rights to a cartoon mo
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by dvdkon 7d ago
> You're free to buy or not buy any creative work. You also don't have to rent/buy a place to live, but I wouldn't want to live a life without a roof over my head or access to creative works of my culture. When yo
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by dvdkon 7d ago
You could establish contracts with publishers outside of copyright, which is how NDAs work today. It's probably a reasonable thing to do anyway, otherwise there's nothing stopping a publisher from telling everyone the plot summary
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by dvdkon 7d ago
As others have pointed out, piracy is already easy for anything remotely popular, yet people still buy books. We could assume that it's not because they fear breaking the law, but because they want to support the author and have an &qu
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by dvdkon 7d ago
Most of that art is being created irrespective of copyright, though. Much of it uses exceptions to copyright and some is straight up in violation (most "fan art"/fanfiction). It's either not monetised or monetised throug
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by dvdkon 10d ago
Theoretical aphorisms can't override the facts of recorded history. If the harsh border control and cultural isolation of the East Bloc ran counter to Marxist principles, then you can complain to the dead leaders of the USSR, but that&
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by dvdkon 10d ago
It is strange. I certainly wouldn't think your house, having been isolated from western society over decades by a communist regime and heavily-patrolled borders, would respond to social activism in foreign countries. But maybe there&#x
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by dvdkon 10d ago
I don't remember any LGBTQI+ wars here in the Czech Republic, so "blood free" actually seems like a good characterisation. Sometimes the system just works. See also the Velvet Revolution for a pretty large shift away from tot
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by dvdkon 11d ago
Not always. Consider an SPA that connects via WebSockets and streams in data, adding points to a chart. The JS-less alternative would be refreshing an SVG or even the whole page once a second. The SPA is clearly more efficient here (unless
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by dvdkon 17d ago
Sadly complexity is unavoidable for most real-world usecases. Just see how so many people interested in de-Googled phones balk at the prospect of losing access to banking apps. Telling them to go use an OS that doesn't support Bluetoot
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by dvdkon 22d ago
> pay bureaucrats with your consumer's money Once the consumer has paid, it's your money now. The incentive is clear, less packaging means more money you keep. That only big producers will actually see the per-ton payments as
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by dvdkon 22d ago
The right thing to do is not to sweep him under a rug because "there's only a few such gypsies", but to look at what he's doing and say "yes, this is what we want to ban". Being a in minority is not a shield fr
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by dvdkon 22d ago
What does "positive market incentives" mean for you? My immediate thought is various subsidies, but given how those usually end up (easy money for companies spending more on lawyers than actual productive work), I'd much rath
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by dvdkon 22d ago
Congratulations, you've redefined democracy to mean something very different to the dictionary and colloquial definitions. That's not very useful though, unless your goal is to confuse people.
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by dvdkon 22d ago
Without the EU you wouldn't have a single set of annoying overly-bureaucratic bloc-wide regulation for trade between member states, you'd have a bunch of bilateral agreements between individual countries. You might not be paying a
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by dvdkon 23d ago
I'm tired of being told I don't matter because I'm in a minority. You'd never dare imply a tax making gypsy folk singing unviable is fine because it's a "miniscule minority" of all music played, so why do
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by dvdkon 24d ago
> I was unaware German Impressum applied to a natural person who is not running a business. If that is true, then I agree that is unfair. Then it seems we agree. I thougt you were commenting about both personal and business sites, given
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by dvdkon 24d ago
Yes, I have a business registration and have to include personal details in a bunch of places. But if do things as a natural person, those requirements don't apply (and it's even simpler for people without a business registration)
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by dvdkon 24d ago
I share your frustration, but won't restricting the EU only cause barriers to trade to grow? A surprising amount needs to be unified in order to have fully free trade, and I see unwillingness to lose existing national structures as a b
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by dvdkon 24d ago
> Its just good manners so that your customers/suppliers can know who they are dealing with. That's the (widespread) issue, treating personal websites and online communities like businesses. Some are, but that's not someth
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by dvdkon 27d ago
I mostly deal with the possibility of bricking a device by not caring too much :) That said, I usually start by reverse-engineering the software at one of the ends, so I don't blindly "fuzz" the device. There's still s
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by dvdkon 29d ago
It's a shame Framework don't offer support for component-level repairs, but sadly neither do other laptop manufacturers, if you don't count leaked resources. They could certainly do better, but I wouldn't see it as a rea
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by dvdkon 2mo ago
Maybe it's just familiarity, but I think it would look a lot more comprehensible with some punctuation. Just because a syntax is formally unambiguous doesn't mean it looks that way to humans. func (b: Box[T]).Map[U: any](f:
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by dvdkon 2mo ago
I use Sway and happily manage my terminal windows using its tabs and splits. I can mix other "graphical" apps with the terminals or move them to another screen, all with the same keybindings. I agree, though, that I wouldn't
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by dvdkon 2mo ago
Sorry about your connotations. I just needed a simple term to express "actions that are against the implicit social contract and harm the rest of society". Of course pinning down what exactly this should encompass is hard, which i
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by dvdkon 2mo ago
Our laws only work because of a hidden assumption that trivial or victimless crimes won't be prosecuted. This assumption isn't always upheld, but automatic surveilance would break it pretty much every time. Even if our laws were a

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