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@ AgreeableLandscape @lemmygrad.ml

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He/him. Chinese born, Canadian citizen. University student studying environmental science, hobbyist programmer. Marxist-Leninist.

  • The entire "buying (licensing) digital media" business model is extremely flawed and is detrimental consumers for the primary purpose of making a few gigacorporations even richer, so I'm not going to lose sleep over piracy.

    My biggest concern with game piracy is the malware risk associated with pirating an executable file, not for the sake of the game publisher. Though it's not like you're safe from that with legitimate copies either, remember when Sony literally installed rootkits that damaged their customers' computers as DRM? And got away with it?

    Organizations like the FSF, Linux Foundation, major Linux distros, etc--hell even sponsorless YouTubers on Patreon--have shown us that you can have both open source/open access, and financially sustainable content creation. It just requires your content to actually be high enough quality in and of itself, instead of relying on marketing tricks and hype to convince people to pay for something before they even know if they'll like it.

    In the end, media and software don't have intrinsic bill of materials costs like physical objects do (costs associated with the material required to manufacture an individual unit), nor is the supply of a particular title limited physically, so it makes no logical sense to pay for every copy of it. See "Copying is not Theft."

  • Neither is information and data coming from the US and friends. As has been shown time and time again.

  • Not to mention, there is still Western media that calls bullshit on the popular DPRK narrative. Mostly from smaller left leaning publications. They're acting like those just don't exist.

  • Anyone else think it looks staged? Not saying it definitely was, but that scene looked pretty suspicious just on the surface.

  • World News @lemmy.ml

    Dr. Keanu Sai (Keanu Reeves' cousin) to Deliver Statement on the U.S. Occupation of Hawai‘i to UN Human Rights Council Today

    hawaiiankingdom.org /blog/dr-keanu-sai-to-deliver-statement-on-the-u-s-occupation-of-hawaii-to-un-human-rights-council-on-march-21/
  • Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.ml

    Global Climate Strike on March 25, 2022

    fridaysforfuture.org /march25/
  • They're real goddamn shameless visiting their former colonies.

  • It's important to consider that all the commercial aircraft accidents with fatalities in the last few years involved Boeing planes caused by their negligence in safety.

  • Yeah seriously. People are screeching about REEE CHINESE CORRUPTION AND POOR MANAGEMENT CAUSED THIS, but without knowing anything about this including which plane was involved, my first thought was "I wonder if it was a Boeing plane."

  • Mad respect for China in this whole situation. They recognized that the invasion is ultimately a bad thing, while actually acknowledging WHY Russia did it (something that actually matters because you need to address the source of a problem, not the symptoms, contrary to Western liberal views), while not throwing the Russian PEOPLE under the bus (cough sanctions cough), while actively combating the West's attempts to make the whole thing so much worse for everyone.

  • Left Piracy @lemmygrad.ml

    Good Copy Bad Copy

    vidcommons.org /w/538c5hASo62GeePNkdVPZu
  • Piracy @lemmy.ml

    Good Copy Bad Copy

    vidcommons.org /w/538c5hASo62GeePNkdVPZu
  • Left Piracy @lemmygrad.ml

    Paywall - The Business of Scholarship. A documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science.

    vidcommons.org /w/fxb62h1cAKucFuV9mdy7nG
  • Piracy @lemmy.ml

    Paywall - The Business of Scholarship. A documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science.

    vidcommons.org /w/fxb62h1cAKucFuV9mdy7nG
  • Left Piracy @lemmygrad.ml

    Steal This Film II (2007)

    vidcommons.org /w/8WSc5DBAxzESYzY7ogSCqy
  • Left Piracy @lemmygrad.ml

    Steal This Film - Part One (2006)

    vidcommons.org /w/gs2imsJpRuvZCtcGsnTqP4
  • Left Piracy @lemmygrad.ml

    "The Pirate Bay - Away From Keyboard" Documentary (English Subtitles)

    vidcommons.org /w/eBFrpy17oTz1b3qEdkm1XL
  • Piracy @lemmy.ml

    Steal This Film II (2007)

    vidcommons.org /w/8WSc5DBAxzESYzY7ogSCqy
  • Piracy @lemmy.ml

    Steal This Film - Part One (2006)

    vidcommons.org /w/gs2imsJpRuvZCtcGsnTqP4
  • Piracy @lemmy.ml

    "The Pirate Bay - Away From Keyboard" Documentary (English Subtitles)

    vidcommons.org /w/eBFrpy17oTz1b3qEdkm1XL
  • I think I posted the wrong URL. Fixed.

  • Piracy @lemmy.ml

    Russia legalizes piracy

  • I mean, if they halted operations, presumably permanently as they seem to imply, it shouldn't matter right? Since they intend to ditch all their assets and exit the market anyway, right?

    Unless this whole thing was a marketing ploy for Western audiences and they plan to start right back up once people stop paying attention. Hmm...

  • I'm definitely an advocate for low level memory safe languages like Rust, over C/C++

  • No, this is worse. With the cURL thing, you know what you're doing because you literally entered the command, and then you have to enter a password, and you can make your own assessment as to whether it's a good idea. Also, assuming you're on an HTTPS connection and trust the source (i.e. reputable software author versus shady pirate site), it's not actually unsafe.

    Whereas with sandbox breaks in Electron, someone can't reasonably know that a feature is vulrnable (hell it can take the people who wrote the damn thing years to realize there's a bug). If you need to open an HTML file in VSCode, are you going to manually audit the previewer implementation? It's much easier to check your terminal commands for insecure pipes than to check an electron app for sandbox violations.

  • Is there a specific reason or example for why we say it has terrible security here?

    From what I've heard, it's trivial to accidentally execute an external webapp with the same privileges as the app itself, so you're one bug away from potentially giving a random website access to your system APIs. For example, an improperly implemented HTML previewer would probably be the easiest way to get pwned in this way, especially since Electron supports the entire Node.js environment and not just browser based JS.

  • I'd be less hateful of Electron if it simply allowed me to use Mozilla Gecko instead of Chromium as the rendering engine.

  • I always liked the saying "just because I have the RAM doesn't mean it's for you!"

  • Privacy wise: It uses Chromium, which has been shown to have plenty of phone homes back to Google. Even though it's open source, even projects specifically intended to "de-Google" it, like the Ungoogled Chromium project, are adamant that they're never sure that they've gotten all of it because it's so pervasive -- and Electron uses the vanilla Chromium code straight from Google.

    Other than that, the other, bigger reason is that Electron is extremely inefficient. @dessalines@lemmy.ml mentioned an Electron chat app using 4GB of RAM, and that's not an exaggeration. You can easily get multi-GB RAM usage on even simple Electron apps. It uses a lot of CPU power too, like when Visual Studio Code used 13% of a CPU just to make the cursor blink.

    Basically, almost anything is a better app platform than Electron. A fully native app in a low-level language is obviously the standard for performance, but even if you don't want to go through the trouble, languages like Java and Kotlin are still way better than Electron. Hell, even other interpreted languages like Python run circles around Electron, see Blender.

  • ah, Western actions that claim to be for the sake of human rights which actually CAUSE massive human rights issues that no one talk about. A tale as old as time.

  • Technology @lemmy.ml

    Facebook breaks its own rules to allow for some calls to violence against Russian invaders

    www.washingtonpost.com /technology/2022/03/10/facebook-violence-russians/
  • Technology @lemmy.ml

    Facebook breaks its own rules to allow for some calls to violence against Russian invaders

    www.washingtonpost.com /technology/2022/03/10/facebook-violence-russians/
  • Ectopic pregnancies are 100% fatal for the mother without abortion. Some pro life they are.

  • World News @lemmy.ml

    Computer, enhance!

  • Libre Culture @lemmy.ml

    History of Women in Computing: GNU Girls #InternationalWomensDay

    www.lpi.org /blog/2022/02/09/history-women-computing-gnu-girls
  • Memes @lemmy.ml

    Truly the darkest timeline

  • Memes @lemmy.ml

    Goddamnit not again

  • Memes @lemmy.ml

    The US does not deserve to talk about this.