freeman

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[–] freeman 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

So you don't actually love CDs but the fact you can not use them after buying them. You can still buy non DRM music you don't have to subscribe and you could rip or copy streamed music if it wasn't easier to pirate it.

CDs by the way also are subject to licenses and DRM has started to appear on them. The reason they did not try as hard as with DVDs and Blurays is that Music is trivial to copy, people have been ok with taping from the radio after all. If video on physical media was still a thing you would have plenty of DRM, they'd probably make you buy a newer player after 5 years or so.

[–] freeman 2 points 3 months ago

As if Israel would let the US take what it (wrongly) considers theirs.

[–] freeman 1 points 3 months ago

You mentioned the word outcry in your first post. I therefore assume we are not discussing legality but the response of the US public. Which is not as much as you believe it should be.

The explanation is that the American public does not actually care for free speech as a human right that much. Your own dismissal of corporate censorship as not 'actual' censorship reinforces my point. It being illegal on it's own won't necessarily cause an outcry.

Especially when it's done to people that the American public has been propagandized to hate for decades. Ivory tower scientists, 'working' for the government like a commie instead of working for a corporation, like Tesla.

[–] freeman 3 points 3 months ago

Violate UNCLOS obviously.

[–] freeman 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Twitter was absolutely a free speech issue, it's just not a legal issue because despite all the propaganda the US free speech protections are very narrow in scope, only applying to the government.

It also reflects a more general trend in US mindsets where it's only the government that can violate people's rights and not private entities. To an extend it helps this takeover by Musk, they are not "real government" they are outsiders that are taking on the "deep" state.

[–] freeman 12 points 4 months ago

Nobody is asking 'software' companies to support software they didn't write.

We are asking hardware companies to support their hardware and not use different software as an excuse not to replace faulty hardware.

They can reflash their own software to test if needed.

Of course hardware vendors could be legally mandated to adhere to standards to make things easier.

[–] freeman 2 points 4 months ago

Nope, no clue why it auto corrected to that, or that I even managed to mistype has.

[–] freeman 4 points 4 months ago

Sure attacking Denmark is insane (and will not happen) but the US has a long history of meddling in Panama.

In regards to Panama it's more of an issue of Trump saying the quit parts loud than a radical departure from normalcy.

[–] freeman 53 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

He is not even sabotaging his competition. Starship is supposed to be part of the program and despite the spin will not be ready.

So he wants to cancel the program that has real deadlines so he can keep promising he will colonize Mars in the next 5 years, which he has been claiming for some time now.

[–] freeman 11 points 4 months ago

But visudo can use any editor if you set SUDO_EDITOR or EDITOR variables. If you don't want to use vi(m) you should probably set EDITOR in your .bashrc and visudo and probably other programs will use your editor of choice.

[–] freeman 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If the number of phones is small maybe. Though I doubt they can just throw lithium batteries in a landfill in the EU.

There are manufacturer's that produce different phones with the same name and different hardware for different regions but I could not find concrete info if there's actual hardware differences for iphones.

[–] freeman 3 points 4 months ago

As regards digital cameras, the radio equipment concerned is any digital photo and video camera, including action cameras. Digital cameras designed exclusively for the audiovisual sector or the security and surveillance sector should not be required to integrate the harmonised charging solution.

Directive 14

what constitutes exclusive audiovisual sector digital cameras I am not sure. It's probably defined elsewhere.

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