As long as people get punished for pirating media, corporations need to license their shit just as well.

Good.

Sooooo … You people don’t have signs? Because my car can read those.

I imagine something like this.

It’s not electrons “reaching” a point that does the work, it’s the fact that they move. A generator or a battery just applies the force that makes them move (voltage).

You can in fact picture it like water, just in a circular, perfectly level channel. When you paddle at one point in the channel the water starts to move and can do work at another point. It doesn’t really matter where exactly you are paddling.

How is showing me ads for things I will make a point not to buy because I implicitly hate the products of people showing me ads more profitable than the twenty fucking bucks a month I already give them?

Imagine if all that misallocated marketing budget got used to develop better products instead.

Haha, no you can’t.

I have an nvidia GPU and it worked out of the box.

Of course. You’d just never see this and go “oh, that’s so unique and has a variety of hardware and software requirements”. That’s what I was getting at.

European heating system:

“The rules were you guys weren’t gonna fact check.”

Imagine if Microsoft banned Windows users from installing the software they want on their computer.

Imagine if Microsoft required all software developers to give them 30% of their earning or Microsoft will ban them from Windows

I think that’s exactly what Microsoft is aiming to do in the future.

That’s the point of the post.

Biometrics are not more secure than a good password.

You also would not have access to your password manager when logging into your OS, would you?

Not even the lemmy instance you’re on needs a license to your content, and it is stored there and displayed for the world to see. Why is that? Because storing and displaying your posts is the very thing you want it to do. That is the service it is providing for you, and you declare that you want it to do that by clicking “send”. They would need a license if they wanted to do anything else with your stuff, which doesn’t directly have to do with displaying your posts in the fediverse.

The browser is supposed to take my requests and inputs, carry them to the server that I’m talking to and bring back the answer. The mail doesn’t need a license to my letters. That only changes if they want to open them and do something I originally had not intended.

But you know who claims a license to your content? Meta. Because you’re the product there, not the costumer.

And let’s remember that the last thing Mozilla got heat for was the introduction of a method to anonymize bulk user data for sharing & selling purposes, as opposed in addition to the granular, extremely invasive tracking that 99% of websites are doing these days.

Ftfy. It’s never going to replace more invasive tracking and just constitutes yet another party collecting my data.

I see a company that needs to make a decent amount of money

Mozilla already makes enough money from passive investment income. They don’t need to make any money from Firefox at all (but they do, it’s from google). They also don’t need to pay their CEO 6 Million a year.

Edit: Typo

2%

It’s called inflation.

Then how about putting that in the language? “We don’t sell your data, except if you’re in California, because they consider x, y and z things we might actually do as selling data.”

The browser manufacturer doesn’t need a license to my inputs to process them and give them to the server it’s supposed to give them to. If you type a text in Libre office, does it ask you for a license to the text in order to save it?

I switched to waterfox. Looks pretty much the same, no issues so far.