Supermariofan67

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Copying is not theft. Letting only massive and notoriously untransparent corporations control an emerging technology is.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Benzene is used to make a large portion of all chemicals in existence, as it is a basic building block of organic chemistry. That doesn't mean it's in the final product.

This is an asinine headline capitalizing on scientific illiteracy for clickbait. No different than complaining about dihydrogen monoxide in food.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I think there's a bit more to it than that.

It's very unfortunate that this came as a result of a baseless tantrum from Elon. And his arguments are contrary to free speech.

That said... GARM is actually bad, and the world is a better place without it in my opinion. They are frequently involved in censoring legitimate journalism of violent events, anything that's inappropriate from children, etc. You know how so many YouTubers have to carefully tiptoe around mention of controversial topics, even in non-controversial contexts, for fear of getting demonetized? I understand the POV of avoiding advertising near hate, but the fallout has real consequences when legitimate content is inevitably caught up.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/09/jim-jordan-celebrates-successful-speech-suppression-as-a-claimed-win-for-free-speech/

Another way to see it is that GARM is simply a trade organization by advertisers for advertisers, with one single goal: to maximize profits for the advertising industry. No corporation actually cares about ethics; it's just that appearing to be ethical is often profitable, and in this case, advertisers believe that avoiding advertising near controversial content is better for their bottom line. If one believes that advertising is one of the most abusive industries in our modern society, it could be seen that anything to make it a little harder for advertisers to extract more profits is a win.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I won't shed a tear for the advertising industry

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My guess is he's illiterate and thinks that's her real name

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Accessing printers? Resolving hostnames of internal hosts? I can't imagine having a lan without mDNS

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't think it's quite as simple as someone just forking it. Realistically, a browser is an extremely complex piece of software that requires a lot of organizational effort to maintain, deal with security issues, etc. Pretty much every other piece of software on a similar scale I can think of (the kernel, KDE, Blender, Libreoffice) has some sort of organization behind it with at least some amount of officially paid work. All the major forks of Firefox or chromium follow quite closely to upstream for this reason (which is also why I'm skeptical of Brave's ability to maintain manifest v2 long term, despite their probably genuine best efforts to do so).

I do wish that Firefox were developed and funded by an organization specifically dedicated to developing it. This could of course happen if Mozilla dies. But that's going to require someone starting it, which is not at all a small or cheap task.

I could also see a future where Oracle or IBM buys it 😂🤡

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I think this will change. Nvidia hired devs on Nouveau, NVK is coming along, etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Some of it probably comes from other companies that are unable or unwilling to relicense it even if Nvidia wanted to

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Whenever I want to pirate something I just go straight to btdig. And if there's no torrent and I really need to search the web, I've had much better luck with Yandex. I figure they're more resistant to takedowns from western corporations

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