We’ll see in the next few months. I edited my comment while you were replying so you probably didn’t see, but a friend of mine just won against Flock in his own county, the sheriff and DA agreed to take them all down. And within the same day his citizen group got information that there is already a local bill in the works from the same politicians who pretended to support them - Democrats - That plans to just switch to new contractors that aren’t Flock. He’s going to keep fighting but it remains to be seen if the outrage here can carry the movement through the inevitable burnout / political exhaustion when people are confronted by the single-minded indifference of the political machine.

Depends where you’re going, likely Nest and Axios are hiring.

In other news, Axios reportedly increasing it’s staff size /jk

Seriously though, the concerted popular pushback against Flock has been been very inspiring (My own friend got almost 300 of them removed from his county) but it’s critical for people to understand that we’re fighting a whole industry and ethos here. Not just a single bad company. The legislation obfuscating this fact is coming, too.

No I mean like suicide encouragement and child porn.

…Why tho? Are people worried about legitimately useful models getting banned? Because this feels to me like an attempt to preserve models that do explicitly unethical things.

Woefully inaccurate, the entire P2P file sharing craze kicked off by Napster all went down before 2007 and there were plenty of online piracy venues before then too like IRC, 90s copper internet was perfectly capable of all that. And I was torrenting movies right alongside my Netflix DVD rentals. Piracy has always been here and has never left.

Short of a complete societal rejection of the global economic regime, there is no way for us to not be. The expensive deals have been inked. The money has been committed. Parties will be in debt to each other for hundreds of billions of dollars. It doesn’t matter if there is a law against taxpayers footing the bill or not, that amount of economic pressure will burst into and flood the larger economy and it will harm us all. It’s going to happen no matter what. We’re not yet angry enough at the severe economic harm that is about to befoul all of us.

Me seeding the entire Ghibli movie collection vs me seeding Future Boy Conan.

Insane how Miyazaki is universally loved and yet so few even know about that show. It’s like people loving David Lynch’s films without ever having heard of Twin Peaks.

That’s always how it works: Target a small group to put a crack in the universality of protections. Use that crack to tear down protections for larger groups. Protecting small minority groups helps us all. Abandoning them hurts us all.

qbittorrent gets it done for me. I used bigly a bit but it sketches me out somewhat. For macos I remember that transmit was really nice.

Oh I don’t hate you at all! I actually agree with you, if the DRM-free software or license isn’t actually in your possession, you really don’t have security of ownership.

My guess after doing some self-reflection as a Steam customer… Because there aren’t really any truly comparable alternatives, so until that becomes the case people with thousands of dollars of game licenses in Steam are paranoid about the idea of needless exodus away from the platform, as they don’t know how secure their purchases would be in the long term under that scenario. Competition risks stability. So they kneejerk downvote criticisms out of that paranoia. I think it’s far more that investment self-interest emotion than say, fanboyism of Valve.

I learned the foss equivalents so that I don’t need to.