beckman466

wow they've done it: they've out-exploited an already monsterably ruthless monopoly!

not a paper but a project: http://libscie.org

Lynn Margulis knows the answer.

yeah, sorry, i understood. i think in my mind i was referring to Bill Gates's letter to hobbyists (which is basically that), thanks for the clarification

it was a joke.

it would be easier if twitter just ported itself to Secure Scuttlebutt or the myriad other p2p/dweb projects.

what about 'Entitlement in Closed Source'?

-4 downvotes lol. the joke is that the Grand Theft Auto video game series is itself absurdism/satire. so my point is that coca cola is made with the same substance as cocaine. in other words: it's a consumer-friendly version of cocaine.

and the fact that you are commenting anonymously on the habits and/or appearance of someone you've never met (Cara Delevingne is a model and actor).

both/and

why don't we just open source everything and use peer-to-peer software for a new type of digital networked resource accounting to replace money and privately-owned resource planning (ERP) software that is used today to produce imperialism.

> (Cara Delevingne) is allegedly a cokehead

can't believe she doesn't like pepsi. smh

> entire populations

do tell us more what you see

or not to be

we need open book peer-to-peer accounting of resources: mikorizal.org

the real question is: why not lend some brain power to an open source project? or write some kick-ass documentation... and always get involved in your local community project /s

> it is worth commenting that there are trivial ways to remove DRM from Audible files.

say i share with a loved one or close friend the de-DRM'd audiobook. now their computer becomes infected with a RAT, and 'my' file/audiobook fingerprinted with the proprietary fingerprint algorithm (to identify me as the unique purchaser, the same techniques are probably applied industry wide) is leaked online as a consequence (or their backup system is compromised or any kind of infosec violation out of the hands of my friend). next, Amazon corp identifies me. their immediate next step: lawsuit on me as an individual because 'my' file is now leaked on p2p filesharing sites and forums without me knowing about it.

capitalist-enforced DRM is cancer because it's artificial scarcity imposed on a non-scarce resource (computer data/audio file). it's the result of trying to work with the limited and violent toolsets of a capitalist economy.

the internet is still young and there are likely so many better options for publishing things.

for example, an author i've followed for a while by the name of Charles Eisenstein has a deal with his publisher, North Atlantic Books, to initially launch his book as paperback only, and then after a six month period, his whole book is available free to read on his website (also of course there's the wonderful Library Genesis).

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible by Charles Eisenstein: https://charleseisenstein.org/books/the-more-beautiful-world... (i love the final story 'A Gathering of the Tribe')

i just wanted to add my two cents after seeing encouraging discussions/debates here on this page. hybrid strategies like Eisenstein's give me signals that ultimately make me feel hopeful for a post-capitalist society which would allow any child to listen to any audiobook (and be infinitely curious in whichever direction feels most natural for them), regardless of whether their parents can afford Audible/Storytel/whatever. i focus on a child's curiosity because they suffer the most from the capitalist commoditization of culture and science and more.

"How does Audio Fingerprinting work": https://emysound.com/blog/open-source/2020/06/12/how-audio-f...

"a set of intellectual property rights [is] explicitly designed to favour corporations. This system — the flip side of globalisation — is propagated by various trade agreements and global institutions at the behest of the nation states who benefit from it the most. It’s no accident that Silicon Valley is a uniquely American phenomenon; not only does it owe its success to the United States’ exceptionally high defence spending — the source of its research funding and foundational technological breakthroughs — that very military might is itself what implicitly secures the intellectual property regime."

> its chief architect always came off like a schizophrenic

do you realize it's our economic system and the perversion of technology to literally criminalize cooperation and the sharing of information (intellectual property regime (read the book Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu for more) for one of two groups of people (workers and owners)?

> Maybe it's just me

normalization of an anti-human economy starts from day -9 months (i.e. health/ill-health of the human organism starts and depends on the health of the mother). what has the 'modern world' got to offer those who don't have clean drinking water due to imperialist systems?

i wish DIY.org (specifically Zack Klein -and team's earlier versions) was available as free/open source software libraries (and not just available for kids). a decommoditized, advertising-free and networked maker space everywhere

this is a great strategy and a patriotic one even, i mean, just imagine if the NSA were to lose their copy of your data and they'd actually need access to it. then they could just use whatever Intel Management Engine type backdoor software you need to access that person's personal devices and voila, you've got yourself a viable new copy of the file. let people collect their own evidence for you!

welcome to techno-feudalism.

welcome! http://scuttlebutt.nz (or http://manyver.se mobile app version)

yeah it’s a just way to covertly (by the videogamer crowd) call other people stupid.

> Login to the Mac in question

right, ok? as Snowden thankfully heroically warned us, the NSA already has root-level access to most devices.

“ Remember the Spectre vulnerability. Now we have more than 7 variants of Spectre. No one guarantees that new, more destructive versions of this vulnerability will not be discovered in the future.”

> If someone can find a way to do this without installing kexts then it becomes way more serious.

right, yeah, you’re onto the right trail now.

> Edit: My discovery of Halliday, Resnick, Walker physics textbook and Feynman lectures also was helpful. It was mostly- the Internet.

thank you for the tips! much appreciated

> I actually started learning Science since 11th grade.

what event caused this? was it specific material or a specific teach or approach?

really? do you maybe have a link? (maybe in your browser history)

@dang, why the flag?

took me a second to get it, nice one! (for anyone else not getting it: literally 'fucked' lol)

whitewashing-as-a-service

wtf? how else are our Silicon Valley overlords supposed to check in on us, how else do they prematurely wear down our gadgets so we have to pay expensive money for their tech team to un-glue and then re-glue a battery inside, or to replace the gadget entirely (with various components still functional, but turned into e-waste due to their fundamental black-box proprietary nature?