Really glad I just deleted their app off my phone.

This is so cool! Thank you for sharing!

I have zero interest in being a billionaire. You make a lot of assumptions.

So you have a right over my copy, and you can decide what I do with it. That’s what I said. You are the sole person to have the right to produce copies. There’s a word for that, it’s a monopoly.

To the extent that I can prevent you from distributing copies of it to other people, yes. I can’t stop you from doing anything else with it. I can’t stop you from burning it, eating it, fucking it, shooting it, or using it as a door stop. I only have the power to prevent you from redistributing it.

And since your material can, materially, be copied, copyright only exists as enforced by the state. It’s a state enforced private monopoly. And so are patents.

Sure. You say that like it’s a bad thing, but that’s why inventors can do what they do and survive. I’m an inventor. If I didn’t have my patent, Google could just come and take my idea, build their own version, and undercut me. Isn’t that a worse monopoly? As it stands, if Google wants to sell my product, they have to buy my patent. That’s a great system that protects small inventors like me.

And these didn’t exist until the states introduced them. This is pretty factual.

Correct. The states invented them because of a problem. They fix the problem. Copyrights and patents give power to the little guy to prevent big companies from stealing their intellectual property. I don’t really care what you do with my code because you probably wouldn’t know what to do with it, but if Google starts selling my code and my patented product, you can bet I’m going to sue them.

So you think that at automatic, untraceable term of 90 years if perfectly reasonable?

I’m not sure what “untraceable” in this context means, but yes, I should be able to profit off of my works for my entire life. Arguably, my heirs should be able to benefit from my works too. If I don’t have a fortune to give them, because I’m not a capitalist pig, at least they can benefit from my hard work. And yes, copyright being automatic is necessary to prevent the system from being abused even more. Imagine if I lost out on the revenue from my work because I couldn’t afford to register it, or a thief broke in and stole my draft before I registered it.

You think that the ability by large corporations of amassing and gatekeeping (no derivative work without their permission) 100 years of human culture is just fine? The ability to keep under control works that they are not even distributing, which then means that these can’t even be read, listened or watched… This is all fine?

Like I said, the law can be abused. If the alternative is that the creators of these pieces of culture don’t see a dime, then yes, this system is absolutely better.

You like how the US patent systems grants a patent without any real examination for basically anything that written in English, no matter how ridiculous?

You’ve clearly never been through the patent process. They went over my patent with a fine toothed comb. I went through three rounds of revision and had to take an entire section of claims out (because it might have been too close to an existing patent, which I thought was ridiculous, but whatever). I spoke with the patent examiner who absolutely had read my entire application and understood it very well.

You love the endless cultural slop milking the same damn IPs for nostalgia?

Just because you don’t like Disney doesn’t mean that copyright laws are broken. Yeah, Disney kinda sucks lately. So what? Come up with your own ideas and make something worth watching, like tons of independent creators have recently. I just finished The Amazing Digital Circus. What an awesome example of creativity. I’m very happy that Disney can’t just copy it.

It pleases you that every artist who records a version of “my favourite things” (or any other jazz standards) ends up giving 90% of the proceeds to the heirs of the same two dead white dudes? Or how sampling basically destroys the revenue potential of a new song because the author of the sample is going to eat up the work of new artists?

If you don’t like giving to the creators whose work you are building on, just come up with your own ideas. Tons of artists use their own original content.

You think your viral video wouldn’t have been adequately protected with, say, a 30 year term? You think 5 years in jail for a private copy of a blue ray is good and proportional?

No. I would like to own that video for my entire life. I created it. It wouldn’t exist without me. If someone wants to use it, they can license it from me. Has anyone ever gotten 5 years in jail for privately copying a blu ray?

Apparently it often doesn’t. Courts have already ruled on this. When the billionaires do it, it’s fair use.

And that’s the problem. Our IP laws are not strong enough.

I have a problem with these statements:

it’s a licensed monopoly enforced by the state, which gives the copyright owner power over many many things, present and future, not actually owned by them.

I do own my copyrighted material. You own a copy. You can’t redistribute it (without my permission), because I own the copyright.

But I think we can all agree that the currently landscape of intellectual property legislation is utter nonsense, that it’s gotten completely out of hand, and that it mainly encourages concentration and gatekeeping.

We cannot agree. It’s not gotten out of hand. It needs to be enforced and strengthened, in order to protect creatives from AI companies stealing our IP.

So yes, the model producers have blatantly disregarded copyright, and have gotten away with it in ways which are not available to us peasants.

Exactly. That’s why we need to strengthen copyright protection.

But we’re the copyleft people, we should be pointing at this and shouting that the emperor is finally naked, and that it’s time to curtail all that nonsense legislation once and for all, so that we can all be a little freer from the shackles of corporate monopoly.

That would literally give corporations more power over our creations.

And instead, we (the copyleft guys!) are just sitting here clutching our copyright pearls while muttering “but… But… Copyright! It violates the precious copyright!”.

Because it does violate our copyrights. I didn’t release my code as open source so that it could be copied and stolen without regard to the license I specifically chose to protect it.

The US Copyright Office doesn’t consider it a creative tool in the same way as something like Photoshop, so they would agree with you.

https://www.copyright.gov/ai/ai_policy_guidance.pdf

I completely disagree with you. Copyright law is generally a good thing. For example, I made a video recently that went super viral (like, on international news), and I was able to make money off of it because I own the copyright. If copyright weren’t a thing, all of those news orgs could have just run the video without me seeing any benefit from it, even though I created it.

Copyright law is good for most people, and especially good for creators. It can be abused, just like most laws, but overall, copyright law is good. That’s the main reason I don’t use AI to write code. If the AI wrote the code, I don’t own the copyright (in fact, no one does).

Copyleft also very much depends on copyright law. Without copyright law, the GPL would be completely unenforceable. Anyone could take any open source code and do anything with it without giving anything back to the community.

It’s a tool, like any other.

No. It’s not. It’s a tool unlike any other. It can inadvertently cause you to infringe people’s copyrights. Using it means you don’t get the copyrights to the things it produces. It will literally make you dumber and lazier by using it. It’s the world’s shittiest tool used by the world’s most unimpressive people.

I’m talking about when you update the system. Unless you reboot to do the update, the system can be using outdated binaries until you reboot. Apt will tell you about them, but I don’t know about other package managers.

This is the best solution.

Yeah, a file system snapshot is another way of achieving safe upgrades. There are upsides and downsides of all approaches though.

Rolling back to a btrfs snapshot might be harder than just picking the other ostree image in GRUB. And you still have the problem where old binaries might be running when only the new binaries/libraries exist on disk. But it also saves space on disk compared to an immutable distro, and it’s much easier to make changes to system files. Every approach is a compromise.

It’s cause of the way an immutable system works. In an immutable system, the entire system is an image. Two are stored on disk. One is active, and the other is usually the previous image. When you update, it overwrites the old image. The current image stays untouched. It’s only once the new image is completely written to disk that it’s marked as the current image.

Package managers are working on the currently running system. They write over the only set of system files, and they can only do that one file at a time, so you can rely on the file system’s journal to make sure each file is correctly written, but there’s nothing preventing the system from being only half updated. If a package relies on a package that hasn’t been installed yet, and the update fails before it gets installed, that package is broken.

In a system like Ubuntu or Fedora, that’s mostly ok, because packages are always built for the kernel and library versions available throughout the lifecycle of the release. So a half updated system is probably fine and will continue the update when rebooted. But for rolling releases like Arch, or for a release upgrade like Ubuntu 25.10 to Ubuntu 26.04, a failed update might mean a broken system.

Run an update on a traditional system, and pull the power plug out when it’s half way through. If it recovers when you reboot it, you got pretty lucky.

Now do the same with an immutable system like Bazzite. It will be running the pre-update image when you reboot it. No harm done. It’s essentially impossible for an update (or even a failed update) to brick the system. You can always roll back to the last working image.

Bazzite is awesome. Not surprised it’s so successful. Congrats to the team. :)

Fedora. Better than Ubuntu in pretty much every regard.

AI art in my memes? It’s more likely than you think.

I definitely agree. Lol. But I also totally understand using Discord. I assume the community isn’t meant exclusively for people who currently self host, but also for people interested in starting to. In that regard, Discord will most likely be what those people have and are willing to use.

It’s like _____, but it sucks. But like, in a good way. Like the old Internet. It sucked, but that’s what made it so good.

Even if they weren’t abandoned, you shouldn’t use them.

Do not set up multiple APs. Use a real mesh network designed to be used together.

Multiple APs with the same SSID will not only interfere with each other, they will hold on to clients for way longer than they should, meaning as you walk around the house, you’ll have super weak connections, even if you’re close to the next AP.

Mesh networks talk to each other over a lower band to coordinate both interference and clients, so they work way better.

If you must have a specific router, just use it as a router, and set up the mesh router and satellites in AP mode.