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Comment on Tildes, what is your take on current terms of copyright? in ~talk
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Comment on Tildes, what is your take on current terms of copyright? in ~talk
word Link ParentGood. I think we should keep it that way. This means that everyone could create knock-offs but only the original creator could make "certified as the real thing" products for a longer time.Good. I think we should keep it that way. This means that everyone could create knock-offs but only the original creator could make "certified as the real thing" products for a longer time.
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Comment on Tildes, what is your take on current terms of copyright? in ~talk
word LinkGreat question. Thanks to Disney, copyright terms are wayyyyy too long nowadays. Copyright should make sure that an inventor/creator can profit off of their work for a reasonable amount of time....Great question. Thanks to Disney, copyright terms are wayyyyy too long nowadays. Copyright should make sure that an inventor/creator can profit off of their work for a reasonable amount of time. Death + 70 years is not reasonable, it's absurd. Something like 10-15 years after release would be more like it. I'm thinking of things like films, btw. After 10-15 years everyone should be free to copy films, games, software, photographs,... without repercussions. Things like brand names should stay in copyright for longer. So everyone would be able to copy Star Wars films, but not every studio would be able to make new films called Star Wars. Everyone could copy Windows XP but not everyone would be allowed to call their OS Windows. However, everyone would be allowed to use the same code for their original creations, and every film studio would be allowed to use shots from Star Wars. Beyond that, I think trademarked things like "lightsabers" should leave copyright sooner than later.
I realize that I have no idea what I'm talking about and it probably opens some hilarious loopholes, like what if Disney just makes a very low budget PRODUCT called lightsaber, would it become illegal for other film makers to use lightsabers until this longer period of brand copyright runs out? Who even knows! But I think you get the gist of where I stand.
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Comment on Crazy idea to help stop the spreading of untruthful news in ~tildes
word LinkEvery news source will get things wrong occasionally. Three strikes sounds like a bad metric. Your idea isn't very new either. A group which checks content against certain criteria and blocks it...Every news source will get things wrong occasionally. Three strikes sounds like a bad metric. Your idea isn't very new either. A group which checks content against certain criteria and blocks it accordingly is how any censorship works. Who watches the watchers?
But you are right, give it some time and I don't see how tildes won't suffer from the exact same problems as reddit. I personally would like a system where users must provide a source for every single claim to a fact. Likewise, if an article you submit makes such a claim without providing a source, you must find it and post it with the submission. I'm sick of internet forums being all rhetoric and people pretending to know more than they do, and the hivemind judging by if what they say sounds about right, and if there's a second opinion now that one must be right, ha, OP just got busted, that's how busting works, right, when there's an opposed, SECOND opinion that sounds about right, right? PWNED. I am the hivemind and I am very smart.
If you have a set of rules where people must source their claims, of course Socrates trolls would rule that forum by asking suggestive questions, never having to go through the process of checking anything they say because that's how questions work. So you would need an additional rule along the lines of "If you can look up the answer to your question yourself, do that and share your findings instead of asking the question". So a scenario like "This company did something evil. (source)" -"How does that make them different from any other company in the business?" could never happen.
With rules like this, submitters would already notice some articles being deceptive before they even post it, since they have to verify its claims. Of course, often times articles will link to older stories from the same publisher whenever they postulate something, and some articles are made up from A to Z while claiming to be exclusive, like an interview that never happened. So here you can think about an extra rule that sources must be independent from the claimant. The community should probably also keep track of news stories which later turn out to be complete fabrications, meaning that there was intent to deceive, which is different from all the errors you would catch if you just check for truthfulness as you suggested.
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Comment on What are your thoughts on the New Zealand government censoring the possession and distribution of the Christchurch shooter's manifesto? in ~talk
word LinkI think it's the best thing they can do. The shooter had a million ways to share his (excuses for) ideas prior to the shooting. What he and other shooters try to get is attention and press from...I think it's the best thing they can do. The shooter had a million ways to share his (excuses for) ideas prior to the shooting. What he and other shooters try to get is attention and press from their killing sprees which acts as a sort of marketing tool to spread their world views. It's all about exposure. So to block that as much as we can and thereby discourage potential future shooters is a pretty good idea.
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Comment on What does the word 'civilized' mean to you? Can it be used to compare and contrast societies and cultures? in ~talk
word Link ParentWhat do you mean by that and how is it a stronger argument than criticizing the lack of absolute objectivity in any other soft science?moreover, there is literally no objective basis by which you can measure what "civilized" and "uncivilized" describe
What do you mean by that and how is it a stronger argument than criticizing the lack of absolute objectivity in any other soft science?
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Comment on Google is rolling out AMP for Gmail to let you shop and fill out forms without leaving your inbox in ~tech
word Link ParentSo I tried to sign up a few times now and it really gives me the option to complete a captcha occasionally. So it doesn't look like it's a user error since none of my browser settings changed....So I tried to sign up a few times now and it really gives me the option to complete a captcha occasionally. So it doesn't look like it's a user error since none of my browser settings changed. What's bad is that you have to fill out the sign up form again for another chance to get a captcha. Worth it for a service that Swiss and foreign authorities take such great interest in?
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Comment on Google is rolling out AMP for Gmail to let you shop and fill out forms without leaving your inbox in ~tech
word Link ParentIt's possible that the captcha option shows up for some people but not for others. It's very strange. There was a reddit thread about that very issue with people like you chiming in and confirming...It's possible that the captcha option shows up for some people but not for others. It's very strange. There was a reddit thread about that very issue with people like you chiming in and confirming that it works for them, and the OP and others attesting that in fact it doesn't work. For me it hasn't given me the option for a long time now. Who knows how protonmail decides who is worthy of captchas and who isn't. I don't like that there are any cases where they don't offer the option to sign up without linking another e-mail, your phone number, or your payment info.
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Comment on Google is rolling out AMP for Gmail to let you shop and fill out forms without leaving your inbox in ~tech
word Link ParentYou mean the privacytools.io experts who also buy into the DuckDuckGo meme? Ok. I mean it's a starting point and an ok overview of services which claim to be privacy friendly, but that's about it.You mean the privacytools.io experts who also buy into the DuckDuckGo meme? Ok. I mean it's a starting point and an ok overview of services which claim to be privacy friendly, but that's about it.
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Comment on Google is rolling out AMP for Gmail to let you shop and fill out forms without leaving your inbox in ~tech
word Link ParentYou're asking me to prove that tutanota is (100%) trustworthy. I can't. Neither can tutanota with any reasonable effort. I don't think that in practice German laws make it so incredibly easy to...You're asking me to prove that tutanota is (100%) trustworthy. I can't. Neither can tutanota with any reasonable effort.
I don't think that in practice German laws make it so incredibly easy to get user data and so incredibly hard for companies like e-mail providers to contest those requests, as tutanota's report shows. So tutanota doesn't have the same red flag as protonmail.
Tutanota has a much better warrant canary than protonmail ever had, so that's another lack of a red flag in comparison.
Tutanota doesn't force you to give up your phone number or "back up" e-mail in the sign up process, which is another red/pink(?) flag less, at least it's one annoyance less and one thing less the service knows about you. Last time I checked, protonmail had all the temp e-mail providers blacklisted for this step. I can understand why you would want to make back up e-mails mandatory for average users. I have no sympathy for blacklisting throwaway options for all those who are clearly uncomfortable with linking their protonmail to a mainstream e-mail account. If you use something like 10minutemail to avoid this linking, you clearly know what you're doing and you clearly care enough to take an extra step for your privacy. I have no sympathy for protonmail patronizing all those people.
Still, can you trust tutanota? Think of it like this. Are there major red flags? Yes -> Get out of there. No -> You may proceed with caution. That's the same reasoning for why I use startpage and Qwant over DuckDuckGo.
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Comment on Google is rolling out AMP for Gmail to let you shop and fill out forms without leaving your inbox in ~tech
word Link ParentTo you as a user it's irrelevant whether the problem lies with the company itself or with the laws of the country it's based in. As a privacy respecting company, protonmail has chosen to be...To you as a user it's irrelevant whether the problem lies with the company itself or with the laws of the country it's based in. As a privacy respecting company, protonmail has chosen to be subject to Swiss legislature where they apparently have little to no means to reject handing over user data. Why, as a privacy respecting company, would they make that choice? Because Switzerland still has a nice ring to it due to its history of being neutral during the World Wars and granting people (rich war criminals) privacy with their banking secret. Being Swiss is simply a means for protonmail to market themselves while disregarding Switzerland's actual privacy laws.
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Comment on Google is rolling out AMP for Gmail to let you shop and fill out forms without leaving your inbox in ~tech
word Link Parenthttps://protonmail.com/blog/transparency-report/ Now compare their compliance rate (99% in 2018, 336/338 requests) to that of tutanota (19%, 24/127 requests)...https://protonmail.com/blog/transparency-report/
Now compare their compliance rate (99% in 2018, 336/338 requests) to that of tutanota (19%, 24/127 requests)
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/transparency-report/
Keep in mind that one request doesn't have to be limited to data about just one user.
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Comment on Google is rolling out AMP for Gmail to let you shop and fill out forms without leaving your inbox in ~tech
word Link ParentFriendly reminder that DuckDuckGo's founder Gabriel Weinberg sold a dead social network he owned (read as user data) to a shady bidder with a high offer, USD 10 million....Friendly reminder that DuckDuckGo's founder Gabriel Weinberg sold a dead social network he owned (read as user data) to a shady bidder with a high offer, USD 10 million.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_Database
DuckDuckGo is also partnered with Yahoo, Bing for advertisement and hosted on Amazon servers.
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Comment on Google is rolling out AMP for Gmail to let you shop and fill out forms without leaving your inbox in ~tech
word Link ParentProtonmail received 2 million funding from the EU and its transparency report doesn't look great either. I used to be a fan of protonmail, but I trust tutanota more now.Protonmail received 2 million funding from the EU and its transparency report doesn't look great either. I used to be a fan of protonmail, but I trust tutanota more now.
In reality it might not be very meaningful, especially when things like smartphone manufacturers are literally the same across competitors. But as a right, I don't see any benefit to society to strip the creator of the brand name, while I do see the benefit to the creator to keep the brand name.
I wonder how /u/Sahasrahla's example would go if G. R. R. Martin would have kept the right to call products Game of Thrones while the story and everything else about it went into public domain... would some film studio have jumped right in to create a knock-off Tame of Groans? Would people care which film makers GRRM finally approves of? I wonder how in general the knock-off industry which would inevitably exist would be viewed. Would it have a "made in China" ring to it?
What do you think about "secondary" trademarks like lightsabers? In many cases, specific elements in it give life to a story like no others could, and if everything about the story except those trademarked elements goes into public domain, how meaningful would that even be?