Who is there to agree with - the car is my property. All they own is the copyright to distribute copies of the software. Imagine a disclaimer on the front page of your copy of Fifty Shades of Grey.

Their legal claim will be the bullshit 1201 of the DMCA preventing you from breaking a digital lock on your own property to “rip out that first page”.

Losing “don’t be evil” motto wasn’t already tossing out the moral compass?

That sucks. Hopefully something can change that :/

I’m hoping GNU Taler takes off.

Only when standards are not at their highest? If so, that wouldn’t look good.

I was not aware that could be a problem (had a debit card £ as a teen when online buying/downloading games started).

Never liked gift cards. Money you can only use in one place, and you don’t even save any money when buying it.

Does the “following orders” defense work sometimes?

Good luck to him

When you’re in control of the software you can decided what it does: what data should be sent back (if any). Here a server hoster may refuse you if you do not collect data but that’s a much harder sell when all users are in control.

[Even harder when the server code is also freed, and anyone can host it]

Another reason games need to be open source! 🫤

I still care about video games very much but the industry suffers from growing bad incentives. Stop Killing Games is merely the start for me - I want games to catch up with other software and start respecting user’s software freedoms.

Is that Ed from Ed Edd and Eddy?

I treat “AI” as if it isn’t conscious btw, I’m arguing you cannot ever know.

We could create an Android that acts so much like a human we would feel emotionally compelled to not do it harm but remain unaware if it can actually suffer.

You can talk about company “AI” misadventures without a headline claiming to know things you cannot investigate. A sun appears unconscious but only in how unlike it is to humans. Having an experience is knowable to only to the subject having it.

Surveillance by a government used to mean they had a random police officer follow you because it was worth the time. Now it’s on mass surveillence which is automated and fed into faulty AI systems flagging. A random dude with a camera doesn’t compare.

How do you propose to enforce such an idea? Some sort of… birthday testimony? Some sort of… oneness corroboration?

A software respository containing user identifying information - what could go wrong. Let’s install them on all our phones! /s

Looks like unemployment is in my future, fucking fantastic 🙃

I don’t care how good someone thinks they are - eventually they will fall to temptation and fail to resist the bad incentives placed on them by a system.

If a government is elected under a winner-take-all (first-past-the-post) voting system then there is no incentive to change that system to solve gerrymandering (also the spoiler effect and misrepresentation error). I hope it is possible for an newly elected party to quickly implement a representative voting system after winning on an unrepresentative one.

From their perspective voting 3rd party has the same result as not voting at all - that’s an issue which main parties do not offer to solve.

Only a tiny portion of people are actually psychopaths who would knowingly choose the worst option for everyone.