This is the typical defence for copyright. It’s also innacurate to the point of being intellectually dishonest. It ignores the reality of capitalism where legal protections only exist for people and corporations that have the money/power to get what they want.

Your Thing™ example would be cloned and sold on Amazon by a broad range of fly-by-night companies, and that’s if you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky, Amazon will clone it themselves, obfuscate your product in its search results, and sell your product under their brand, sometimes even for more than you’re selling it.

If your Thing™ isnt a physical product but rather something creative, then 99 times out of 100, there are only really two paths available to you:

In the lucky case you sell your copyright to a third party that exploits it (and you), offering you a pittance while simultaneously tying your hands, preventing you from creating derivative works or even just giving it away… for the res t of your life, and that of your kids’. In the unlucky case, you can’t afford to promote your product, so you toil for years with little to no reward for your work. Then AI techbros scrape your art and sell it back to you exclusively for their profit.

Copyright has some great marketing, but it offers you little while the rich claim ownership over your art, and our society.

Those rights are yours. They’re only denied to you because of copyright and capitalism.

I’ve been using the FOSS version of Kvaesitso and I quite like it.

I like this alot.

How would you reset the timer whenever input is detected though?

Look kids! He’s relatable! He likes ${SPORT}! Pay no attention to how deeply he’s screwing you!

They don’t need to do either of those things. They just buy the legislation they want.

I’ve had a really hard time figuring out how to get cloud native pg working 'cause I couldn’t get longhorn working for disk space.

So instead I went with a separate Raspberry Pi that isn’t part of the cluster to host a single Postgres instance.

It’s inelegant, but has worked for years. Still, I’d rather host a separate pg instance for each project… I just have to figure the above out first.

I’d settle for not aiding the cause.

Ferengi rule of aquision #285: “No good deed ever goes unpunished”.

As Trudeau once said: “I’ve been called worse things by better people”.

Neat project, but it appears to be using (L)GPL code in a bunch of places while being licensed under MIT. That’s a big no-no.

This reminds me of an excellent video I saw about “AI” the other day: “We are so deeply steeped in bullshit that we have forgotten that there used to be such a thing as ‘truth’”. It’s long, but maybe you’ll like it too.

There’s no grey in the science. We’re burning the world, and attempts to sound enlightened with platitudes doesn’t change that.

Social media is great for kids or adults when compared to the monolithic groupthink alternative. The problem isn’t social media, it’s the companies behind it, driving engagement through hate and outrage.

This is a big reason why nonprofit, fediverse options are healthier spaces for everyone: no one is profiting off of making you hate anyone else.

Yes, if you go looking, you’ll definitely find content that’s unhealthy or even dangerous, but (a) federated systems tend to protect against this with defederation, but critically (b) it’s not pushed into your eyeballs by a third party motivated to do so. In this way, nonprofit social media is a lot like real life: sure you can meet Terrible People, but that’s just existing in society.

We’re not grading on a curve, and simply having reserves doesn’t obligate us to burn them.

You can’t call yourself a “leader” on the climate when you’re routinely winning “Fossil of the Day” awards during international climate talks. That’s not a champion of the climate, it’s a villain.

Being the best of a list of villains (and we’re not even that) doesn’t make you the good guy. We’re burning the world. We’re the bad guys. The only area we’ve been leaders is in obstruction of progress, though we often have to fight for this title with the US.

It’s a lack of education combined with willful ignorance. No one wants to accept that the Canadian way of life: monster trucks connecting suburbs masquerading as cities, massive energy waste combined with fossil fuel underpinning the economy – is in direct contradiction to a habitable planet… so they pretend it’s not a problem.

Source: my whole family lives in the Okanagan. They all think like this, regardless of their political spectrum.

Canada was never a climate leader.

Sure, we had a tiny carbon tax, but any honest assessment of the facts would include the billions spent on fossil infrastructure at the same time.

Carney has merely done away with Trudeau’s pretence of climate responsibility. If we wanted action on climate, we wouldn’t elect Liberals.

#Solarpunk!

I’ve already responded to this once, but I watched a short YouTube series this week that has really helped me understand some of the social barriers to being the person I want to be in the world the way that it is, so I thought I’d share it:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_oyuWOgHUlqcAcDjo1774TxCjo9ZvJ-8

It’s a short series about activism: the different kinds, how they can all be helpful, how to engage and grow in your own role as antagonist to the status quo. It’s really quite excellent. I think you’ll appreciate it.