Mastodawn

Propriety models of development, and the entire concept of intellectual property as it currently stands, is holding back human development. It forces people to waste time reinventing the wheel over and over again to no benefit just to satisfy arbitrary legal restrictions, and locks off entire segments of knowledge to a privileged few.

Sprocket The Clown Mar 9

Emm Kaede🐶🍁Mar 8

Happy International Women's Day to ALL the girlies!! 🏳️‍⚧️

Sprocket The Clown Mar 8

nixCraft 🐧Mar 8

it is actually wild that we live in a society where literal criminals are walking around free, but i have to hand over my Gov issued id and age verification docs just to download an os or use social media. it feels like common sense just doesn't exist anymore. please, some org or lawyers drag these thugs to court and stretch things out. i am tired of this bullshit.

Sprocket The Clown Mar 8

dmi 💽 Mar 7

holy shit. Tech Tangents stuck a CAV LaserDisc below a microscope, and with a very specific angle of light, actually managed to see video frames in the refraction. this is nuts

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qZuR-772cks

Microscopes can See Video on a LaserDisc - Andonstar AD246S-P

YouTube

Sprocket The Clown Mar 7

Is there a way I can have hidden text or images or something on my website that punishes any AI model that tries to scrape it by poisoning it?

Sprocket The Clown Mar 7

Anyone who tells you this online ID crap is here to make us safer is either an idiot and doesn't know anything about online safety and security, or is downright lying to you for malicious purposes. Either way they and policy makers need to be kept as far away from each other as possible.

Sprocket The Clown Mar 7

Bungie made the conscious decision to ban Steam Deck and future Steam Machine (i.e GabeCube) users from playing the new Marathon by disabling the Linux support feature in the anti-cheat system they use, so that's a haneous crime that should get them trebucheted directly into the sun.

Sprocket The Clown Mar 7

Why does Crab Rave go so hard with the nostalgia note?

Sprocket The Clown Mar 6

EVHaste Mar 6

As age-verification bullshit becomes more common, I am determined to simply not participate in any service or video game that requires it. The day I see the prompt, is the day I leave.

Maybe the government’s hope is that I stop participating in society, but I assure you that I will not. I’ll find or build alternatives, and refuse to comply with bad law.

I hope you will, too.

And as a silver lining, maybe the weird internet we end up creating as a result will suck less than the current one.

Sprocket The Clown Mar 5

Why did Samsung wallet just give me an advert for a new Samsung doohickey!? That should not be a thing a friggin wallet app is legally allowed to do. Capitalism is out of control.