booty [he/him]

If you write something, you own the copyright, period. There’s no registration process or anything like that. If you made it, it’s yours, legally. And the only process involved to exercise your legal rights would just be proving that you’re actually the one who made it.

Of course, none of that makes it certain that no one will claim it as their own or use it for something you don’t want. As a general rule, just assume that anything you don’t want used in a way you don’t like simply shouldn’t be put out into the public at all, regardless of what kind of license you package with it. If you’re an average person and not a billionaire good luck exercising any kind of legal rights for intangible stuff like written words.

It is generally a good idea to include with anything you put out there some kind of license, which could be as simple as a .txt file that says “Made by [name], free to use for xyz purposes with abc caveats”

For a book stuff like that can go into the first or last couple pages that usually include all sorts of random boring information and publisher credits and whatnot

Just keep in mind that hard drives do not last forever. They’ll last a few years of regular use, maybe up to a decade if you’re lucky. Storing media on a hard drive is not like having a box of books in your basement, your kids aren’t going to be able to use them in 40 years.

It was only a matter of time before Google put their foot down and insisted that you can’t have a good experience on YouTube. Its time is coming.

whereas I’ve configured Firefox on their Linux laptop not to keep any cookies after the browser is closed.

Why? Does this person care about privacy? The average person would much, much rather just have the cookies for exactly this reason.

no you’re getting it confused with the crash can

If you’re going to participate using third-party apps that remove basic lemmy features, you have to accept that people will be confused by your ignorance of those features. Pronouns are not a “unique change” by Hexbear, here’s what my comment looks like via programming.dev without a third party app

it looks like snowe wasn’t being aggressive at all

name-calling is universally considered to be aggressive. “ignorant troll” definitely counts

And getting hate for using “they” is excessive.

it is an extremely common transphobic tactic to de-gender people whose pronouns are easily visible as a plausibly deniable way of attacking them. considering all of us have our pronouns in our names on hexbear, we’re going to assume that anyone 'they’ing us is doing it on purpose, which is an entirely reasonable assumption.

and all this argument started because this admin wanted to defend the latest shovelware trash game by the dev of Cars 3: Driven to Win, which is about putting down the revolt of the race of greedy hook-nosed bankers in a setting written by one of the world’s most open and notorious transphobes

in short: nah this sucks and defederation from queer instances makes sense

dawww, i also like the horrfying mutant elecat

Seems like this person’s main problem is that they went to lemmy.world, which does basically seem like a collection of all the worst redditors.

Many people that download Firefox are doing so to escape google, and if they are not born as cyber security experts they may download Firefox and continue with no real improvement to their privacy.

Uh, if they’re already downloading an entire browser for the purpose of escaping google, they can also do the extremely minimal research required to learn how to actually get decent privacy from doing so. In fact, whoever told them about Firefox being better in this regard probably already explained this stuff to them

I play chess on lichess and go on OGS and I had no idea before opening this thread that they were open source.

Open source software is just better I guess

What if every software became FOSS? Who would put in the free labor to write the software to print a page, or show an image on screen, or create something more complex like a machine learning advanced AI software?

Would it simply be that everyone provides for each other? Everyone pitches in? What about people who have bills to pay? Would their bills be covered?

To your questions in the second quoted paragraph, basically, yes. In a just society, each person’s needs would be accounted for already. The labor you contribute back to the society would be according to your own passions. You would find something fulfilling to do with your time without having to worry about having a bullshit job to avoid homelessness or starvation.

communists not blocked, we win again

fucking incel

all code should be written in one line with absolutely no breaks. it’s the most efficient way