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Germany has its problems, but it's consistently in the top 15 most democratic nations in the world. Calling a solidly democratic nation "fascist" is a rhetorical reversal straight out of the authoritarian playbook.
Germany does not look "solidly democratic" from the outside.
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The entire point is that it can't be reasonably enforced with any granularity. Rights-holders want it to be like that so a copyright win in a single country means something has to be taken down globally.
Sounds more like we should end copyright worldwide.
disappointing, because alternatives matter too. quad9 and other well known servers are potentially blocked by some countries, so the more lesser known services there are the better.
There is always the option of running your own locally. This is probably service you can host locally with the lowest maintenance and hardware requirements so it isn't even a hassle to do it yourself.
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Most hackers here are not relying on copyright to make their living. Either you work on open source but make your living off services on top of the code, or your code is a trade secret protected via contracts. Not to mention that everyone using coding agents probably aren't even protected by copyright in the first place, at least in the US, since the courts are taking a pretty hard line on human authorship being requ…
Free Software as a concept could not exist without copyright. Copyright is what allows the license to declare the terms under which a copy is permitted, including the provision that the source code ship with the binary form. (This is discussed in the commentary to the GPL.) Despite the SaaS model under which many of us build, there is still a tremendous amount of packaged and distributed software that people use ever…
>We want a public service to be available. Going forward, we will support Quad9 instead of running it ourselves. Running a privacy-focused public DNS service is a highly specialized undertaking, and the Quad9 Foundation is the undisputed leader in the field. Rather than duplicating their efforts to achieve only part of what they do, we're putting those resources toward financially supporting Quad9 instead. Brilliant.
Unfortunately, Quad9 is censoring some domains in Europe (notably in France and Italy) following injunctions issued by rights holders [1]. That was not the case with Mullvad's DNS. [1] https://quad9.net/news/blog/italian-blocking-demands-followi...
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If you're on Android, FF supports add-ons. If you're on an iPhone, uBlock is now supported: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269... There's also Orion browser, but I found it to be a bit more glitchy, especially around sites like YouTube (fuck the app, I'm not watching videos there): https://orionbrowser.com/
Yes, I use Firefox on Android with ublock origin, it works great. But using adblocking DNS on your phone will also block most in-app ads which is a big quality of life improvement. I could also use a VPN to keep my phone always on my home network and thus behind my own ad blocking DNS but Mullvad's adblocking DNS was really nice and convenient.
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Sounds more like we should end copyright worldwide.
There may be a middle ground between the current maximalist copyright regime and ending copyright altogether.
Average of (current maximalist copyright; ending copyright) is what you called middle ground.
Average of a sensible position like (current maximalist copyright; ending copyright divided by 2) still does not yield a sensible world where culture and art - or even human interactions - can thrive.
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Free Software as a concept could not exist without copyright. Copyright is what allows the license to declare the terms under which a copy is permitted, including the provision that the source code ship with the binary form. (This is discussed in the commentary to the GPL.) Despite the SaaS model under which many of us build, there is still a tremendous amount of packaged and distributed software that people use ever…
Copyleft software couldn't exist. But all software would be free by default, because all source would be in the public domain, and all reverse compilation of binaries would produce public domain code.
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CIA is not stupid enough to break into a guarded data center in Switzerland or one of the less America friendly EU countries. They tell the NSA to look for security holes and spread narratives that only criminals use VPN hoping that a politician will notice and try to ban them, like what's happening in the UK. Big tech services are less private than you think but almost every provider who cares about privacy is safer…
Are you sure? Someone broke into a Hetzner data center and a Linode one, physically intercepted the Ethernet cables for jabber.ru, and got certificates signed on their behalf. https://notes.valdikss.org.ru/jabber.ru-mitm/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37961166
Lesson to learn: Let's Encrypt does not protect against MitM by a state-level actor, unless you take precautions. *let's assume network admins won't MitM your server for personal vengeance reasons