Stephen Judge 🇮🇪🇪🇺After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn't block open source implementations, Google says it won't support open source implementations
https://boingboing.net/2019/04/03/i-hate-being-right-2.html
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:| this is my surprised face
:| this is my surprised face
Alice@StephenJudge Give them an inch, they take a mile. Never yield to tech companies. There's never even a reason to. They get enough extra capital beyond the alienated labor of their employees, the nonconsensual selling of data, the black deals as government security contractors for the US and China, and the endless government subsidies, tax havens, and finally open source code they use freely just like everyone else to give them a SINGLE request on shit like DRM.
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🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣@StephenJudge Cool, then "open source" should stop caring about proprietary crap support… The problem with "open source" is that devs are constantly supporting proprietary crap and centralized silos to "attract new users and gain market-share", instead of caring about how to prevent the software/DRM/copyright industry from doing more damage…
alcinnz@devnull @StephenJudge The way I handle it in Odysseus is I do feel the need to make my software work with the mainstream silos (exception made for "streaming" sites), but I take care care to avoid some of the dynamics I see leading to them. And I say "hey! Check these alternatives out".
Yes I like complaining about the bloat involved in working with the mainstream web, but thankfully I don't have to touch it directly.
[Moved] Polychrome@StephenJudge I am shocked 
Aral Balkan@StephenJudge Oh me so shocked! Why factory farm act so bad? Factory farm our friend, no? Factory farm love us.
Doodles! Doodles! Doodles!
solar-powered artificial scarcity@StephenJudge wait let me put on my shocked face hold on-
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oh. no never mind. I don't have one oops.