New story drop! “Terms and Conditions” is live!!
Come for Harvestide, stay for the part where everyone realizes they probably should’ve read page 37...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1voXtGy74ZBHt50_X7YdaPdB2vHx3fmp3YJQ47v8mIRg/edit?usp=sharing

#Noir #CyberSecurity #EULA #PopTarts @sashatheflamingo

The 2000s were also the heyday of noteworthy freeware games and sites such as GameHippo, and buying a copy of a digital work then—often on a CD—actually meant owning it and doing whatever (copyright) law permitted. No streaming disservices or prerequisites. Even pre-Microsoft Minecraft, in retrospect, was a relief from signing expansive EULA agreements and possibly trading off privacy for the product. Those days are worth returning to.

#2000s #DRM #EULA #freeware #gaming #Internet #nostalgia

The end user licensee agreement #EULA of my eight year old #hue light bulb has exploded in length while I was just hanging around in my house..

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There is a silver lining to the whole #python #chardet debacle. If it is legal to throw a pile of code at an LLM, and tell it to write a new version of that code that is not a derivative then that gives us a lot of options too.

GPL compatible #ZFS? no problem! #ReactOS from the leaked NT/2k sources? No problem!

Maybe this is a golden age for the collapse of proprietary software after all. If they can do an end run around the #GPL we can do an end run around the #EULA.

#opensource

Photobucket Is Using Biometrics To Sell Your Photos to train AI and opting you IN by default

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/esQFgTw1uE7Ln5fgb1qY8e

Malware as we know it is obviously detrimental to the user and their computer, but how "malware" is defined is so narrow that it overlooks how willing developers of "legitimate" proprietary software—including video games—are willing to mistreat their customers. Antivirus software has become practically a joke. At least I know #Luanti respects my privacy, unlike Microsoft #Minecraft.

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-games.html

#dataPrivacy #digitalSurveillance #DRM #EULA #malware #proprietary #software #videoGames