I actually like this idea. It provides more girth for when I make pro-Google threads on Lemmy, set notifications to vibrate and shove the phone in my asshole.

Shitass touch

I think your question comes from thinking that anybody involved in this grift cares about anything other than short-term results. They would sell both their own kidneys as long as they only had to deliver after the next quarterly earnings report.

Thank you!

Conservative lawmakers don’t know anything about porn, because if they ever recorded themselves fucking and the recording got out, they’d go to jail for statutory rape.

They’re generally very comfortable around Grindr though.

By creating a plaintext dotfile in $HOME, I’d reckon. Minimum effort, gets the job done. Users can lie when setting up the account so protecting the file against tampering is pointless.

But more likely, not a single distro will implement anything by default because it doesn’t make sense to change your internationally-distributed OS because one state in one country passed a stupid law.

I apologize in advance for how pedantic this comment will be but “half the US now requires” obviously refers to half the administrative units (states in this case, could be counties or municipalites etc) while “half the US is required” would refer to the population, so technically the post title is not wrong because of the population distribution.

I’m going to wash my hands now so that my fingers forget they typed this.

Sorry to disappoint lol.

It’s bad enough I acted like a fool without persisting in my folly through pride after realizing it.

You understood my arguments correctly. But I have since had my mind changed by mindbleach@sh.itjust.works so please forgive my ignorance.

You know what? You are right. That Wikipedia article was a fascinating read. I recant my previous statements uniquivocally, sincerely and unironically.

Thank you for the humbling lesson on what it’s like to be on the left side of the Dunning-Krueger curve. I’m an ignorant fuck.

Just because a category is fuzzy doesn’t make it invalid. That’s whynwe have laws to force standardized definitions of various concepts. You arguing against whatever definition I proposed would indict only that definition, and not the broader concept that there is an important line to begin with.

I very much don’t want some corporation to be able to just take a 9 year old’s drawing and slap it on their game because someone thought it wasn’t artsy enough to be awarded protection.

Yours is a completely fair statement to which I have no objections.

That is artwork inspired by the letter “E”, representing the letter E plus additional elements. It’s not correct to say that it is the letter E.

Now open a word processor, choose a font, hold your Shift key and tap the E key. What you’ll see on your screen is not “inspired by” the letter E nor does it represent the letter E. It IS the letter E. Therein lies the difference.

I made exactly zero references to effort. Nice strawman. Yes, I’m sure some fonts take decades of hard, grueling effort to make. Just like I’m sure the nine-year-old’s green Sonic took him a lot of effort too. And no, I’m not implicitly saying it’s about talent either, before you accuse me of that.

Letters belong to humanity. Licensing your version of them because it is “unique” is bullshit because everyone’s writing is unique. Gatekeeping text presentation for money is so dystopic I have a hard time understanding how you support it, though I do admit your arguments seem to make a lot of sense if we ignore the fact that we’re basically discussing a copyright on how to write.

So if a teen shoots up a school even though the gun manufacturor says not to shoot up schools, suddenly we don’t have a gun control problem but a teens don’t read the TOS problem.

Yeah, that sounds right for the USA.

It’s debatably artwork. Every single person has their own handwritten “font” - more than one if you write cursive and block letters. A font doesn’t have a message or a meaning, it is just a means for conveying information through text. I’m sure you can produce several examples of specific fonts that qualify as “artwork” (though it’s just a numbers game since there are literally hundreds of thousands of different fonts on the web, if not more) but that doesn’t prove that every font is automatically “artwork”.

We could also make the claim that every drawing is an artwork depending on how we define the word, but that doesn’t mean that every nine-year-old who draws an “original character” that’s just a green Sonic the Hedgehog should be able to use the legal system to bully other people because he’s an “artist”.

“Font” and “licensing” are not words that belong together.

“Oh, I took the alphabet and made it slightly different - you know, like every single person who ever learned how to write - only I did it on a computer so now you have to pay me forever if you want your computer to write like mine does”.

Same. What do you mean your device was suddenly incapable of performing one of its most basic functions for an hour and it magically got better just before you handed it to me? I don’t have panacea NFC tags embedded in my skin.

This aligns with what I read in an article several months ago as well.

Chupa Bozo