Not trying to be argumentative, but can’t Meta and governments already scrape everyone’s RSS feed in the Fediverse? It’s open; that’s the point.

Maybe if Russia wasn’t in Crimea, they wouldn’t have to worry about getting bombed?

Crazy idea

We have an article by Kaspersky Labs about why Kaspersky Labs’ software is just fine and totally not used as a back door by the Russian government.

Was the Kremlin spokesperson not available?

I hate it when people get up in my grill like that!

*ghoti

The thing is, looking around at these monstrosities - the people driving them are almost never hauling anything. For the most part, they are just carrying the dumbass driver. And they are about 25% of the vehicles on the road.

They let you tickle your girlfriend at the office? That’s pretty progressive!

Right. Do they have a manager assigning them work? And then after a couple of weeks of mouse-juggling, no assignments done.

It sounds like poor management, too, aside from the mouse-jiggling.

Ah, I didn’t understand how the app worked. Thanks!

PeerTube could use some love.

Pixelfed is pretty damn easy.

My car can detect if there’s someone in the passenger seat, and sends an alert if they didn’t fasten their seat belt.

Yes, and if you ask a lawyer, they’ll say “it depends”.

And the thing it usually depends on, is “how much money you got?” 😎

Maybe?

Again, I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve read a lot of EULAs.

However, to challenge that, your have to sue Microsoft, against their team of super-lawyers, the best that Microsoft could buy. And you’d have to do it in the jurisdiction started in the license agreement, which is undoubtedly friendly to Microsoft. And you’d have to have some sort of standing, meaning you have suffered some actual damage from the thing you arguing against, and that you want remedied. So you sue for damages, but it can only be for the amount that you were actually damaged, which is problematic - especially for free Microsoft software. But for paid software, I’m sure there’s a return/refund clause which would make you whole.

And you are paying your own lawyer to Microsoft, right? How long do you plan to sue Microsoft? I guarantee they have deeper pockets than you, and can outlast you in court. And remember if you lose the lawsuit, you will probably be countersued for the cost of their lawyers.

Basically the EULAs are written by Microsoft’s very expensive lawyers. Other corporations cower in fear of Microsoft’s lawyers; I know the ones in my office did. And the rewards you’d get would be a Pyrrhic victory at best. “Do you feel lucky, punk?”

Sorry, this may be unpopular, but software license click-through agreements are enforceable.

Source: I’m not a lawyer, but worked in a software contracts office with lawyers, so some of it ruined off. Essentially your legal options are, use the software according to the license agreement, or don’t use the software.

A third option would be, I guess, use open source software so you don’t deal with that bullshit.

Edit: Part of it is wrapped up in the Uniform Commercial Code, which is a whole bundle of standard laws which is quite complex. Basically you pays your money, and you get a thing, but there are all sports of knobs and levers to handle every contingency. You can nope out of the transaction, but you don’t get the thing.

What if I were to buy back all my own DVDs and watch them? Would I need to voluntarily show myself ads later?

Smedley Butler was right. It is a racket.

I’m four-twenties-ten-nine percent sure that French counting is not confusing

I listened to Sam for a little while, but then he got stuck on Genetics & IQ back in about 2017-18.

I was like - OK, but do you account for any other differences, like poverty and affluence rates? Nope, he could only fathom the two factors: “race in, IQ out - so people of African heritage are dumb”, because his expert said that, he thought it too.

What would you do with the guns? What will they do with the guns?

What is the envisioned game plan here?