j4k3

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say more like 4 years flat if anything. You get a head start, but others have a right to build upon it. The best things humans do are collaborative. When others are inspired to build upon your shoulders, you must be open to collaboration if you want to maintain control beyond a short first to market advantage. The age of tyrannical monolithic giants should end because we all stand on the shoulders of others. There are no truly original ideas born from a vacuum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, this has enormous implications to break the monopolies of many companies and supply chains. Companies like Broadcom and Qualcomm only exist because of their anticompetitive IP nonsense. This is everything anyone could ever dream of for Right to Repair. It stops Nintendo’s nonsense. It kills Shimano’s anti competitive bicycle monopoly.

  Ever frivolous nonsense thing has been patented. Patents are not at all what they were intended to be. They are primary weapons of the super rich to prevent anyone from entering and competing in the market. Patents are given for the most vague nonsense so that any competitive product can be drug through years of legal nonsense just to exist. It is nor about infringement of novel ideas. It is about creating an enormous cost barrier to protect profiteering from stagnation milking every possible penny form the cheapest outdated junk.

  IP is also used for things like criminal professors creating exorbitantly priced textbook scams to extort students.

  All of that goes away if IP is ditched. The idea that some author has a right to profit from something for life is nonsense; the same with art. No one makes a fortune by copying others unless they are simply better artists. Your skills are your protection and those that lack the skills have no right to use their wealth to suppress others. The premise of IP is largely based on an era when access to publishing and production was extremely limited and required large investments. That is not the case any more; that is not the world we live in. Now those IP tools are used for exactly the opposite of their original purpose and suppressing art and innovation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes please

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I’ve never seen anything like this:’ One of China’s most popular apps has the ability to spy on its users, say experts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you heard of smart TV’s – they are listening

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protecting Undersea Internet Cables Is a Tech Nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Edit: Musk colludes with Putin to promote Starlink

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Open source means ownership. Trust means ready to be exploited. Proprietary is always theft of ownership.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An AI-controlled fighter jet took the Air Force leader for a historic ride. What that means for war⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These don’t scare me as much as the little ones do in the grand scheme of things.

  I think we will see a 90% effective kill for $1k within the next decade. Start making your >> /dev/null and random image noise camouflage soon… ‘nobody here but a bad pixel’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europol says mobile roaming tech is hampering crimefighters⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Privacy measures prevent labeling anyone as a criminal. People have always had the ability to speak in person with the same amount of ambiguity to the law. Real police work is required. Sure the scope of communication is larger, but that correlates with the scope of individual activities. There is just as much information to work with as there has always been. The problem is corrupt governments that want to steal autonomy in this disgusting neo feudal dystopia. Any sophist spinning this nonsense about mass surveillance should be feared and loathed. This is the way you create a Kremlin in a police state. This is how you find yourself invading another country for no reason, when you have no desire to kill your neighbors in such sanctioned murder and get yourself a ticket in a mass grave. Autonomy is everything. It is egalitarianism; a cornerstone of democracy; the fulcrum of enslaved servitude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Porn sites and Meta among those tasked with drafting Australia’s online child safety rules⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is never about children. It is about surveillance with a thin vernier to vocalize imbeciles. Trusting government is a time honored tradition of the worst of incompetent humans. Picture a world where Google Meta and Amazon are the Kremlin. Think of the information they have, cameras on every house, every bit of your life history online and in government. All power that can be abused will be abused eventually. The ownership over your digital footprint is direct ownership over you in the end. The only effect this has on the future is the subjugation and theft of these children’s future autonomy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Security footage of Boeing repair before door-plug blowout was overwritten⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nationalize Boeing