https://njal.la/

Not the cheapest, but I quite like Njalla.

I’m trying not to waste my time getting all worked up

Too late, you’ve done nothing but rant in this thread. Get over yourself.

He’s a doctor of economics, he has a PhD. He’s not exactly a tech bro by any stretch.

The paper I linked is literally an example of him making something. Unless you somehow erroneously think that research papers aren’t entitled to copyright protection, which, surprise, you’re wrong.

This isn’t even worth replying to. Get your head out of your ass, man. Plenty of people who make things that are copyrightable promote shortening and amending copyright, including author Cory Doctorow, the man who coined the term “enshittification.”

I’ll quote Mark Hosler of the band Negativland, who made a shitload of art. Negativland was also instrumental in designing early Creative Commons licenses.

“If you really want to keep control of your art, keep it in your house, don’t share it with anyone, don’t share it with the world.”

See, I think copyright has value, I think it has just lost sight of its original goals and intentions because corporations (which never die) have vested interest in copyright being as long as possible.

According to the research of Rufus Pollock, optimal copyright term is between 15 and 38 years. This provides a range that the majority of copyright holders will make the majority of their income from copyright on, while also promoting the originals goals of copyright which was to allow artists to support themselves while also promoting creation of new media. The majority of copyrighted works only have a real shelf-life of 15 to 38 years before people aren’t really looking to pay for them, so why should we have copyright that exists beyond that when most will have already made all the profit they will ever make from their works within that timeframe.

I personally think UBI is a pretty weak replacement for copyright. UBI shouldn’t wholesale replace markets but rather be a safety net for people who are struggling and need a basic amount of support to reasonably survive.

https://rufuspollock.com/papers/optimal_copyright_term.pdf

The research has been done, and speaks for itself.

Copyright needs to be shorter for a lot of reasons, but one of the main ones would be that if copyright was a reasonable length (15 to 30 years), this would all be a moot point and everyone could use books from within a recent timeframe for any kind of use, including AI training.

Further, this would make it feel a lot less hypocritical like piracy is okay for giant corporations and their products as long as they make oodles of money but piracy for regular people is still bad. I mean for fucks sake they put the guys from The Pirate Bay in prison for less, under the same argument: that they were profiting off of pirated works, just like AI companies are. Yet somehow it’s totes okay for OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, Meta, and Twitter, and they’re not being sent to prison over it. It really re-enforces the feeling that there’s two justice systems, one for the obscenely rich where as long as they make crazy profit they can do whatever the fuck they want, and one for the poor where they get fucked six ways to Sunday for doing on a small, individual level what giant corporations do at industrial scale.

The solution is to fix copyright and make more works public domain and then nobody is going to prison and nobody is getting a free pass over what’s considered illegal for others.

Sorry my memory wasn’t good here, it was Pasqually’s Pizza.

I thought this was well known? It started really gearing up during COVID.

Chuck E. Cheese was selling pizza under the monicker of “Pagliuchi’s Pizza” or some shit.

I still think it’s funny that he went from working at Valve as their Economist in residence studying digital markets to being the finance minister of Greece. I think the Valve job was more prestigious, especially since the rest of the EU was committed to fucking over Greece at the time.

you’ll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

Yes

Apathy

Beat me to the punch, TBW looks fun as hell!

The no ventilation at all is *chef’s kiss

Also really loving the half-ass hot glue and staple job where there’s no structure beyond “this needs a staple somewhere.”

10/10 junkbox

LibreWolf default settings are kind of annoying for someone who lives alone and no one else has physical access to their desktop. I don’t need to be logged out of everything and have my history wiped every time.

I finally tried LibreWolf today and gave up after about an hour of getting annoyed that my less-secure preferences wouldn’t stick and stay. I don’t know, maybe I’m not the target audience, but was finally thinking of giving a Firefox fork a shot and it mostly just annoyed me because I am not necessarily looking for something so ultra secure that it’s deleting all the history and shit every time the browser closes. I feel like having cookies persist isn’t something I should have to allow on a site-by-site basis when I want to stay logged into like 30 different sites, including local sites on my LAN that I manage personally.

I mean, fair take, but sometimes more thoughtful and forward-looking companies aren’t looking for fast return on investment.

It could be argued similarly for Valve that all their investment in Linux ecosystems and open source in general when Linux desktops account for just over 3% of all desktop installations while Windows sits comfortably at 70% of the desktop market, just isn’t a lucrative investment.

While in the long-term it frees Valve from the restrictions of the Microsoft environment and from the risk that Microsoft would make it more and more difficult for Steam to integrate as they try to make their own game store and Game Pass the premiere gaming experience on Windows, those are future risks that are speculation, even though they are rational speculation.

Investing so deeply in open source isn’t a lucrative thing for Valve to be doing, but they’re looking at long-term goals.

In other words, I could see the goal here being something like protecting the Bitwarden brand and making sure more people are using their official client than unofficial with the goal of making it easy to use and enticing people into the general Bitwarden ecosystem long-term. Ten years from now, people who have been running Bitwarden Lite might have a lot more options for integration and paid services than people simply using Vaultwarden.

Is that lucrative? No, but it’s still pursuing brand-name dominance and keeping people officially within their ecosystem as a way to grow userbase and give users more features (including paid ones) that may not be immediately available or easily integrated with Vaultwarden.

Eat shit, Musk glazer.

This is what most companies seem to be aiming for these days as well, along with business-to-business sales as opposed to business-to-consumer sales.

For a long time now, many companies have stopped trying to increase profits by increasing the customer base, but rather are shrinking the customer base with intent to make up the difference and then some with increased costs.

I did some back of the napkin math on the price increases for Xbox Game Pass the last time around, and the numbers were basically that they could lose about a third of their customers for Game Pass and still break even, so as long as they lost less than a third of their customer base, they were still creating more profit than before. They would need to be pushing losing fully half of all subscribers for it to make a negative dent on their profits.

This is late stage capitalism. This is rent extraction where they are indeed happier to make $0 because their customer base was already so vast that they can afford to have a significant portion of those customers bail and they will still make money.

Oh I didn’t catch that part, that’s even better than how I understood it, thanks so much for clarifying!

This is very cool but all the machines I would use this on are headless with no GUI installed. Womp womp for me.