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With the state of Javascript being what it is, you probably can chain syllables randomly and have a fair chance of the resulting word being the name of a temporarily-existing framework

Si, je pense qu’ils vendent les kindle (tous les kindle) à perte; et c’est en tous cas certainement vrai pour les kindle supportés par la pub.

Perso j’achete la liseuse amazon, la version avec pubs; puis je la jailbreak pour installer KOReader et virer toute référence à Amazon, dont les pubs.

Tu as le support de l’epub, un lecteur super, et tu fais perdre de l’argent à Amazon.

These days the GNU rm specifically warns you and asks you to confirm before proceeding

One of the multiple lemmy newcomers that defederated from us; in their admins’ words, because we apparently “deny certain genocides”.

@suspended@lemmy.ml what “genocides” would those be exactly ?

Kraken, also by Mièville, is also somewhat of a match; as well as Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.

Hilarant, merci !

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You’re not addressing their point. You’re the one that equated being virulently anti-israel with being “antisemitic” in your initial comment.

And frankly taking a look at the modlogs the removals I see seem all perfectly justified (mostly the spreading of actual lies, such as bullshit about decapitated babies).

This bacteria eats only one type of plastic (PET), and that’s a minority of the plastic we produce

Related, half of the plastic pollution in the oceans is fishing nets; want less plastic in the environment, stopping fishing would be a better first step (and is required for many other reasons anyway)

But you’re fine with the dead and tortured sentient beings made to produce your dairy ? how does that work morally ?

Dairy is scary (CW: horror)

Go vegan already

No, I don’t, because I can afford stuff and pirating in this situation would be just pure stealing which I believe is morally wrong

Stealing suggests they don’t have the content anymore; they do. “Copying” is the word you’re looking for.

The whole “stealing” comparison rather breaks down when there is basically no scarcity / no cost to duplicating and distributing what has been produced

Even arguing it’s “stealing” because it deprives the publisher of the cost isn’t exactly true, because it only holds if you’d actually have ponied up were the content not available for free (I know for sure I definitely wouldn’t have played some games or watched some shows if I had had to actually pay for them)

You want to use something that exists thanks to capitalism

Artistic content is, believe it or not, produced outside of capitalism as well. And in capitalist societies it often is produced despite capitalism, not thanks to it, and one could argue capitalism itself is a large part of the reason that content’s quality has taken a dive over the past decades

I think the profit motive isn’t the best at producing good quality artistic content; and I think people would still produce it without such a motive.

Mind you on paper I wouldn’t even be against paying for a good movie, for example. But I want a .mp4 in x265, with subs, that I can store on my NAS and read with whatever open source software I want to use. None of the legal platforms offer that - piracy literally offers a better service, universally

Same goes for video games: I want a native binary that I can install, that does not phone home at all, and does not have DRM or require a launcher. Only a minute minority of games, even on gog, match those

this would result in shit movies being produced that no one likes

I think that has already happened to be honest

Well, my friend, he’s kinda poor he can’t afford some books and some streaming services, so he pirates.

Good on your friend. Poor or not, you should too.

Do you pirate?

Yes

And do you justify pirating? i.e., what is your piracy philosophy?

Justify it ? you seem to suggest it’s wrong or something

Are you talking about perplexity.ai ? because it looks like a shitty LLM answering questions instead of an actual search engine. It looks absolutely atrocious privacy-wise, too.

Crassus invented the fire brigade

Didn’t he routinely order his brigade to do nothing until he managed to acquire the burning property (at increasingly decreased cost as the fire raged) from its owner ?

This is not a religious garment (not that it’d matter if it was IMO, it’s hardly obnoxious); this is a cultural one, mostly (even that is pushing it, a lot of them look basically indistinguishable from the basic dress).

Let people wear what they want

literally lmao

Like the school year started three days ago here in and there have now been several examples of “abaya” dresses being stopped despite not “being abayas”; and the reverse as well (and of course there would be; they’re fucking casual dresses, I’m fairly certain you’d get a different answer on whether one is or isn’t even from fucking textile experts or something). Often with the deciding factor being the color of the skin of the person wearing it.

The whole thing is a racist trip; along with a sadly common recurrent theme in french politics to divert the national attention when other shit is going on

I wonder that too

I’m French and actually he’s bang on the money, it’s entirely about racism under the bullshit cover of “secularity”