xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

Big tech is trying to stop 'right to repair' in Colorado, but it's a terrible solution to lock downs and making things unrepairable or unrepairable by 3rd parties.

I'd normally prefer to let the end-user decide and vote with their dollars, but there is something to be said about intellectual property preventing the free market from functioning properly. As a consequence more often than not we end up with no good options or sometimes few good options.

Unfortunately the best solution I think we could push is getting rid of intellectual property with the exception of trademarks. Trademarks when used appropriately are geared at protecting the consumer from fraud. Intellectual property is utilized to ensure monopolies and duopolies and prevent solid competition from forming. The same thing can be said of regulations.

People often think companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, etc don't want regulation, but this is not true. Often they don't want it initially, but do want it later. Once a market has been established it's in those whom have built that market's interest to stop smaller competitors from entering. Barriers to competition in the market place are then pushed, ie regulation. Often it's claimed to be justified by "safety". It's really just fear mongering pushed by folks with an interest in minimizing competition.

One example is the number video rental stores in the 90s compared to today. That is to say I'd expect brick and mortar video rental stores to have declined and been replaced with thousands of online stores. This didn't happen because intellectual property is legally different from physical property. Anyone can start a brick and mortar rental business, but only those with billions can start an online one.

https://www.wired.com/story/tech-companies-are-trying-to-neuter-colorados-landmark-right-to-repair-law/

Yikes the Mises Institute kicked out Hans Hermann Hoppe.

Bunch of rtards, as they praise Javier Milei, the "most zionist president in the world" according to his own words.

https://hanshoppe.com/2026/04/hoppe-removed-as-mises-institute-senior-distinguished-fellow/

At least one court clearly doesn't understand how DNS works. A DNS provider can't block anything... only an ISP can:

"This argument failed to convince the court, which found that the 'neutral and passive' nature of the DNS resolvers is simply irrelevant to Article L. 333-10. The law isn’t about liability at all. What matters is whether a service can help to block access to pirate sites, which DNS resolvers clearly can."

This is obviously completely wrong. Lets completely eliminate DNS be it from the ISP or a third party for the sake of explaining why. So one can add an IP to ones host file and the domain will resolve/function/work. It doesn't matter whether a DNS resolver stops resolving the domain. The user will still be able to access the site.

If you wanted to stop someone from coming in your house you wouldn't demand your address be removed from the phone book. You'd get a lock for your door. A lock will block an intruder from entering, but removing the address from the phone book will not. At best they can't look up your address via one particular means of obtaining it. There are other sources for obtaining the address of a home owner besides a phone book. Most cities / regions have websites that let users lookup the ownership of properties and this can also be used to locate a persons address independent of a phone book.

Removing an address from a phone book does NOT block someone from entering that address.

Thus there is a very distinct difference between an ISP and a DNS provider even though ISPs typically also provide DNS too.

"French law doesn’t require blocking measures to be perfect, as long as they stop a subset of the visitors to pirate sites"

But does this even actually stop anyone?

https://torrentfreak.com/google-cloudflare-cisco-lose-pirate-site-dns-blocking-appeal-in-france/

I think the Independent Web is held back by the lack of short-form vertical content. So many times I'll visit a beautifully designed personal website and not have any idea where to start.

I really wish my browser would automatically play a full-screen vertical video where the creator helps me get to know the real them with a short introduction and factorio gameplay on the bottom half.

So for those of you who maintain your own websites, please get on this.

@coolboymew @RustyCrab man I wish we could go back to using websites like this. It used to be so much easier to navigate. Now it's stuff hidden in menus with a bunch of images you don't need.
Unified smartphone Ui/Desktop UI has really just made the internet so much worse.

/pol shit like this in a restaurant is always cringe. I don't hate the Orange Pedo any more/less than the Blue Pedo or Black Pedo before him. The owner is pissing off over half of the shop's customer base and only meaningfully appealing to the extreme.

I wouldn't eat there out of principal. If I see a rainbow/woman/black owned flag on Google Maps, I'll also avoid that particular shop. It's just as dumb as veteran owned. The identity of the business owner should mean nothing, only the quality of the product or service.

Really wish North America got a release of the WonderSwan.

We missed out on some classics.

@xianc78 The port of Evolution is supposed to be less bad than the 3D Dreamcast version in some ways, oddly enough, but I haven't played the Neo Geo version personally. SNK Gals is also okay for a handheld fighter.

Drew this with @algoatall for I Hope My Dog Doesn't Bark During The Panel

"Company Hopes to Build Age-Verification Tech into Vape Cartridges (wired.com)"

Talk about big brother and the nanny surveillance state.

Unfortunately there is no hope in stopping this orwellian trend pretty much anywhere. At least not without like-minds that oppose it stepping up to the plate and gathering in regions to oppose it. We need to create a bastion of freedom somewhere.

This is not a new trend and has been ongoing over the past hundred plus years. First (probably not really the "first", but before either of our lifetimes) there was the hand written identification for cars, which turned into the license plate, and then vehicle registration, drivers licenses that were a response to bigotry against motor vehicle operators (NOT safety, there was no driving test written or road in many places even as late as the late 1960s), cameras constantly monitoring everyone and everything, and now tracking via cellular devices/automatic license plate recognition systems/and even now AI.

Not to mention (mandatory) social security, government education, health care (criminalizing and increasingly costly as a consequence), and more.

Much of the "safety" these things propose to ensure are little more than an illusion and often come at greater expense than individuals voluntary participation in similar non-government run programs.

While no state or country has even toyed with the idea of eliminating these things or evaluating their cost benefit ratio people have been flocking to New Hampshire to this end- a state selected by "free staters" who have been winning elections for the past decade plus. There are around 100 reps in New Hampshire in a 400-member house. 5 of 24 in the senate. Each election cycle more people move and in another decade we win.

"As I said in the previous response, the corporate-backed distributions really have no choice in the matter."

Last time I checked Nazi's executing jews didn't get off the hook by saying they were just following orders and neither do you.

Corporations that go along with the bullshit and distributions that follow suit (and developers defending it thereof) are just as worthy of boycotts and ridicule.

"Companies are notoriously risk-adverse, but something like Artix or Devuan? Those are small and independent enough where the individual maintainers may be willing to take on more risk."

Phh give me a break.

I'm the founder and CEO of ThinkPenguin.com THE LEADING supplier of hardware to the GNU/Linux market and I'm telling you this is the biggest pile of shit ever.

I have no problem taking on the "risk". There is no genuine "risk" here. We're going to continue to ship routers with libreCMC which will also be in violation of this to customers wherever they may be.

Is exploitation of children inevitable? Of course it is!

Facebook didn't sexually exploit your kid and only a bunch of dumb fucks and those who ACTUALLY are out to harm you and your kids would think they had anything to do with sexually exploiting children.

I NEVER used facebook cause facebook is and always has been evil, but your even MORE evil than facebook pushing this bullshit.

It's not facebook exploiting anyone. It's a nanny state do gooders who are exploiting everyone through manipulation and deceit. These people don't care about your poor kid either. They're just using it to to manipulate you and everyone else into surrendering their freedom and control so the rest of us can get fucked up the ass by their whims.

There is some pretense that people are listening with their emotions, but I'm convinced the majority in society are largely just plain retarded.

Actor Rob Schneider recently made comments suggesting that the US should reinstate the draft, for men and women, as compulsory for everyone at age 18, for two years. As in, when you turn 18, you are a slave to the government for two years. Even with allowing that time to be spent in-country on civil projects, this is nonsense. "Our freedom comes at a cost". Yes, Rob, that's what taxes are for you fucking retard.

Slavery in all forms must be eradicated, and those who engage in the practice of keeping slaves should be nailed to a cross.

"Spotify and Labels Seek $322 Million Default Judgment Against Anna’s Archive"

ha, good luck with that.

"The proposed order names every registry, registrar, and host that would be bound by the judgment, including Public Interest Registry, Cloudflare, Switch ...

"All would be required to permanently disable access to the named domains ..."

"The labels argue this is justified because Anna’s Archive deliberately ignores U.S. law and bypasses the authority of the court."

The humorous part about this is they're not subject to U.S. law. It's actually the copyright cartels who are doing an end-run-around as US jurisdiction only extends to US territory. Try getting this judgement enforced somewhere that doesn't have a similar law. Ohh right, you can't. Which is why you went after them in the US in the first place.

https://torrentfreak.com/spotify-and-labels-seek-322-million-default-judgment-against-annas-archive/

Copyright cartel had this to say about IPTV users in France:

"'The LFP and LFP Media welcome this strong message to users of piracy services, who mistakenly believe they can act with impunity when in fact they are knowingly contributing to a mafia-like ecosystem that seriously harms the entire sports sector,' the organization writes."

I am not a fan of sportsball, but I want to know where I can sign up to squash that entire industry. They're an evil upon this earth that needs to be exterminated.

They should not just be deprived of revenue through users refusal to pay up for 'legal' services. Those involved should be incarcerated (sorry, against the death penalty here, but these are villains far worse than the worst serial rapist or killer in respective to the total harm caused) as they've taken violent and corrosive/threatening (violent) actions against peaceful people (via the legal system/political system).

https://torrentfreak.com/france-fines-first-batch-of-pirate-iptv-subscribers-following-reseller-bust/