In the long run, shit like this is theft from the Public Domain.

Nobody should give a flying fuck what “Tendy doesn’t like” because they are not entitled to dictate what people are allowed to do with their own property.

The owner of a copy of a Pokemon game has every right to edit his save file, in exactly the same way that the owner of a paper copy of a novel has every right to cross stuff out and write his own fanfic in the margins. These are fundamental property rights that have been well-established for hundreds of years, that Nintendo and other megalomaniacal copyright tyrants are now trying to destroy.

I don’t care what bullshit justification they try to come up with for it; the bottom line is that it violates computer owners’ property rights.

It is absolutely unconscionable, ass-backwards, Bizarro-world bullshit to privilege temporary fake Imaginary Property (IP) over and above actual property!

In other words, Japan apparently hates property rights.

Needs support for a turbo button.

Also, they should’ve made it a little bigger (micro-ATX) so that they could fit PCI and ISA slots for whatever weird retro hardware somebody might want to use.

Gimp 3 is amazing.

Found the time traveler!

(The stable version of Gimp is 2.10.38, and even the latest dev snapshot – which is what I assume he means by “Gimp 3” – is technically “only” 2.99.18.)

It’s never unethical to pirate Adobe, but it’s always more ethical to use Free Software instead and deny Adobe the mindshare.

If he succeeds in using it as a propaganda platform to force the US into a fascist dictatorship, he will have gotten his money’s worth.

I need you to understand that not only do boycotts not work, suggesting them as some kind of substitute for consumer protection regulation serves corporate interests. What you wrote isn’t “wrong,” per se, but it’s entirely unhelpful.

You know what’s really fucked up? The concept of “corporate personhood” that Citizens United depends upon was invented wholesale by a goddamn clerk! The Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co. decision itself didn’t actually address the issue; the clerk just wrote a headnote “assuming” that the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment applied to corporations for ~reasons~ and subsequent courts treated as if it were gospel.

The annoying thing is that they held us hostage for our free labor, but the results are proprietary for Google’s benefit only.

That training data ought to be forced to be made freely available to the public, since we’re the ones who actually created it.

I mean, If we’re talking about imposing vigilante justice on criminal corporate execs, I guess I’m down with that too.

No it is not the correct answer! The correct answer is to put the CEOs who perpetrate this criminal shit in prison for millions of counts of hacking and stalking!

Merely shrugging and implementing a technological workaround is not an appropriate response to someone perpetrating a felony against you!

These are criminal violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Jail the motherfucking felon CEOs!

None of that is a substitute for government regulation. They must be forced to comply.

On one hand, that’s true. On the other hand, a person should only need exactly one passphrase, which is the one used to unlock their password manager. Every other password should be randomly-generated and would only contain space characters by chance.

NIST generally knows what they’re doing

For now, at least. Could change after Inauguration Day.

Or, make a full collecting and recycling tax to be paid by those uncaring clients.

No, that’s not good enough. “Right to repair” is kind of an unfortunate name, because it really shouldn’t be just about repair. My property rights include a right to modify, too, and letting manufacturers off the hook by doing first-party replacements instead of facilitating work by third-parties is not sufficient to protect that right!

Frankly, if you’ve got untrustworthy software with that level of access and a threat model dangerous enough to throw out the hard drive, you’d probably better throw out the whole computer instead. In addition to the hard drive controller, malicious code could persist in the UEFI firmware, the graphics card firmware, or even in the Intel IME/AMD PSP subsystems.