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  • Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge support and boycotts, Snapmaker donates equipment to embattled de

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  • …oh. The article only mentions a cease and desist, I didn’t think they were using DMCA takedowns. So the issue (according to Bambu Labs) is that they’re using “their” code, not that they’re accessing their cloud?

  • Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge support and boycotts, Snapmaker donates equipment to embattled de

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  • I see. Then wouldn’t suing them over this have worked better than “daring” them to sue for this? Or can they use the AGPL argument to win in court even if the case is related to cloud access?

    EDIT: actually, is the case over cloud access? Another commenter said it’s DMCA takedowns, is that what they’re using?

  • Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge support and boycotts, Snapmaker donates equipment to embattled de

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  • (Premise: I don’t have a 3D Printer, have next to zero experience using one and never heard of this controversy before. I’m just asking out of curiosity)

    I’m in favor of people using open-source software to use better the stuff they bought, but putting aside my bias that seems pretty clearly an illegal thing, can someone ELI5 how could they not lose if they’re sued?

    What I understood is that Bambu Lab sold those printers advertising cloud access to their proprietary servers through their “official means”, but a lot of people used unofficial open-source software to access it, because it worked better. Then at a certain point, the company disabled access to apps that weren’t their proprietary one, but people kept using them. Which prompted the company to sue.

    It’s an ass move to do, but the open-source software wasn’t officially supported even before, right? And now it’s still used to access their company cloud, not a separate one, right?

    From my understanding they didn’t remove any functionality that was officially advertised, and people are now using unauthorized software to access the company’s proprietary cloud, did I misunderstand something?

  • GrapheneOS says Google is making life harder for rival operating systems and devices

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  • Anti-competitive practices are business or government practices that prevent or reduce competition in a market. Antitrust laws ensure businesses do not engage in competitive practices that harm other, usually smaller, businesses or consumers. These laws are formed to promote healthy competition within a free market by limiting the abuse of monopoly power.

    It’s exactly what these words mean.

  • Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

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  • Oh I love personalization. When I am the one doing it and not an algorithm doing what it “thinks” is better for me.

  • GrapheneOS says Google is making life harder for rival operating systems and devices

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  • This is a matter of anti-competitive behavior and market manipulation. And historically, the EU has always been against that (especially if it’s detrimental to them, of course).

    They’re in favor of regulation, but definitely not of individual companies handling it.

  • MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back

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  • Link please? Everything I found on that guy’s profile is this post with the same screenshot of the ToS the article has, nothing about the mail or confirmation that it’s not coming.

  • MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back

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  • Being looking around for a while, no outlet seems to have any screenshot or transcript of it. Starting to think it’s just something Twitter randos hallucinated and a couple outlets fell for it, sadly.

  • MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back

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  • I’m “mad” at the journalists because, as far as my searching goes, there is no proof that this email actually exists and it’s only been cited by some randos on Twitter, not even by the outlets that reportedly paid the deposit.

    The article itself doesn’t even mention anything from the mail, it’s just excerpts from the ToS change. Nothing that would allude to this “confirmation” the title leads to believe. I’d like to see actual screenshots from this supposed mail if you make a title like that, otherwise it’s just more fuel for the MAGAs to claim everything bad we say about Trump is manufactured lies.

  • MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back

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  • That excerpt is from the updated terms.

    The terms say that there is “no binding sale contract”, but there is nothing in the article that “confirms” it’s not being made (it probably isn’t, but there’s still no confirmation).

  • MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back

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  • Well, tbh the article itself lists three outlets that did exactly that (NBC News, 404 Media and Android Authority), so that’s how I would read it before jumping to conclusions.

  • MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back

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  • Yeah, this is just classic clickbait journalism.

    I mean, we all know who are we talking about and that the phone doesn’t and will never exist. But the word “confirm” has a meaning, and those updated terms still don’t “confirm” anything.

  • MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back

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  • Did YOU read it? The excerpt you replied to is talked about in the article right in the section about the April change. And if you click the link in that article for revised terms of service you can read it for yourself as well.

  • ‘Your phone is about to stop being yours': anger brewing among Android fans as major Google app change draws near

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  • Imho a better comparison would be not being allowed to post within the first 24 hours after signing up. Sure it would be annoying once, but not much of a deal in the long term.

    The annoyance for more tech-savvy people is not the point, the issue is that it’s blatant railroading.

    If a casual user needs to use, let’s say, a browser, they’re completely oblivious to the difference between them, and you tell them “you can choose between Edge or Firefox, but for Firefox you’ll have to wait 24h” it’s logical that they’ll pick Edge. Then they’ll get used to it and never switch.

    It’s hindering the competition, basically market manipulation.

  • Shachimu Finally Talks On-Stream Chat:

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  • "Where... where did you say you left the shopping cart...?"

  • Shachimu Finally Talks On-Stream Chat:

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  • Not sure if I got woosh’d, but just in case:

    People know her from her previous job/streaming persona, and she’s also talked in uploaded videos, afaik she just prefers to stream without mic since she has throat issues and doesn’t want to strain her voice too much.

  • ‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’

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  • We overcame feudalism and abolished slavery in the strict sense of the terms, but did we really overcome the whole concepts or did they just shift to a more socially acceptable and insidious version of them? We do have what are commonly called “Technofeudalism” and “Wage Slavery”, and while they’re substantially better than the “original versions” for the “vassals” and “slaves”, the outcome for the ones benefiting from them are relatively the same: corporate giants can still get free money/services just by “renting” stuff they still have ownership on, and billionaires can pretty much “own slaves” from their perspective, since they get labor at a cost that is insignificant in relation to their net worth.

    So, again the pessimist in me says, did we really get rid of those concepts with our own efforts or did most of the elites just “allow” us to do that after realizing it wouldn’t really be a problem for them (Mostly speaking about slavery, as quite a bit of time passed between feudalism and technofeudalism)? Will getting actually rid of those concepts be as “easy” as that? (Not that it was easy to get rid of slavery, but we did manage to do it in the end)

    And most importantly, in the time since we abolished slavery we did gain more ways to organize across a country or across the world, but at the same time the ruling class gained mass media and social networks which are a MUCH more effective way of spreading propaganda than simple newspapers. What if that was the missing piece that ultimately allows them to make sure we can never get meaningful change going?

    When something isn’t going well and we don’t think it’s our fault, the first instinct is to point the finger at someone else, and they know. That’s why the ruling class made sure that we keep pointing our fingers at each other so that the people pointing at them are never enough to consistently organize for change.

  • ‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’

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  • Thank you too! I feel like a lot of times online discussions get derailed by tribal mentality, and that prevents both sides from understanding each other’s points, even when they might actually be similar. I think if we all focused on discussing our ideas without personal attacks or assumptions there would be a lot more intelligent dialogues, and while apparently not everyone agrees, it’s always nice when it does happen.

    I feel that if you can perceive/understand a problem and it’s consequences, you become morally culpable for solving it, however hard that might be.

    This is a valid reasoning, the issue is that mass media does its best to first convince you that there’s no issue, then that there’s an issue but the consequences aren’t that bad, then that the consequences are bad, but we can’t really do anything about it (the fact that Learned Helplessness is a named concept should be enough to tell how prevalent it is).

    And even if someone manages to not fall for that and conceive a plan on how to change things, in a society where you have to work 40+ hours weekly for enough money to get by, how many people have the resources, time and willpower to work towards that plan?

    I admit that my outlook might be too pessimistic, but I really feel like it’s going to be hard to correct course until there’s a very large amount of people in a situation so dire that they have nothing to lose. And while that could theoretically happen over time with the political landscape, I fear that for climate change we don’t have that much time.

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  • I wouldn’t say it’s any generation’s fault, it’s simply that, even in a (supposed) democratic age, the elites still have way too many tools to sway the public consensus in their favor. Most people ultimately get greedy when they have the option to do so, and there can never be enough safeguards to prevent that from happening (or maybe there can be and we just haven’t thought of them yet, who knows).

    Our generation (but mostly, the Silent Generation and Boomers) have in a sense enabled the elites to do so, but can you really say it’s our fault when the game was rigged from the start?

  • News @lemmy.world
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    ‘I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran’: High-ranking US intelligence official resigns | CNN Politics

    edition.cnn.com /2026/03/17/politics/joe-kent-resigns-iran-war
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    W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions)

  • VTubers @sh.itjust.works
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    【3D Cover Performance】 Bulletproof Love - Shachi, Namie, and Nimi (4k)

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan

    www.cryptopolitan.com /artists-dump-x-ai-editing-outrage/
  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting

    gamingbolt.com /rockstar-games-employee-calls-out-studio-for-spreading-disinformation-and-lies-union-busting
  • Europe @feddit.org
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    Hideo Kojima Faces Backlash from Turkish Nationalists Over Photo with ZeroCalcare

    www.resetera.com /threads/hideo-kojima-faces-backlash-from-turkish-nationalists-over-photo-with-zerocalcare.1344145/
  • VTubers @sh.itjust.works
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    Kson Addresses Her Current Situation in VShojo (Clip)

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    Nimi is getting married!

  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Holiday bookings to Japan are down - could a 90s manga comic’s earthquake prediction be to blame?

    www.theguardian.com /world/2025/may/26/japanese-manga-earthquake-prediction-travel-bookings-japan
  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    Buying a pub never goes exactly like you want to

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    Italy's president rebukes Elon Musk for interfering in migration row

    www.euronews.com /my-europe/2024/11/14/italys-president-criticises-elon-musk-for-interfering-in-migration-row
  • VTubers @sh.itjust.works
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    Dooby, the Jerboa Vtuber is debuting on October 25th

  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Italy’s parliament erupts into violence over government bill

    tvpworld.com /78068159/italys-parliament-erupts-into-violence-over-government-bill
  • VTubers @sh.itjust.works
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    It looks like the r/Nijisanji mods nuked the last 2 months' posts

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    “Isekai no Yu” short anime will star VTuber Mikeneko in her first seiyuu role

  • Lemmy.world Support @lemmy.world
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    Getting constantly logged out?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    How does the Modlog actually work?