Not if you control the updates.

But to do that you have to have an absolute zero-tolerance policy for proprietary tyrant devices. Only Linux (or other Free Software) PCs. Only Graphene, Lineage, or similar on your phone. No new TVs, no new cars. No “smart” devices unless they’ve been flashed with ESPHome or Tasmota and only connect to Home Assistant. OpenWRT or OpnSense on your router.

Basically, you need to be a skilled IT person and willing to devote time for it all. But it can be done, with difficulty.

That’s the second-best approach. The best approach is for it to be copyleft instead of permissively-licensed to begin with.

so i pictured a netflix show where he lives on twitch 24/7 in a big brother type living room.

You gotta have some mechanism to let low performers go.

That’s called “firing for cause.”

Of course, that actually has accountability attached to it. Misusing layoffs for that purpose is an end-run around that accountability, which is why sociopathic corporations prefer it.

Implementing additional forms of wankery in the “Metaverse”.

I don’t mind it being a rule, but I do mind it being a secret. It needs to be mentioned in the sidebar (probably as an addendum to rule #2).

Does this community not allow videos? I tried posting a link to it directly yesterday, but Automod removed it instantly.

I would argue that even on-hover popups are insufficient, because they normally don’t make it into screenshots and that’s the use-case where you’re most likely to really want to know the absolute timestamp.

Propaganda works, and the tech oligarchs have their entire massive weight on the scales there just like they do everywhere else.

It’s only used for law enforcement purposes.

As if even that is in any way okay, especially considering how fascist the government is becoming!

Even if this was working 100% as the public intended, it would still be evil.

I’ve just had an epiphany (or maybe a half-baked showerthought) reading this thread.

All marketers are trying to sell people stuff, but if you think about it, what’s the one thing in common that they’re all trying to sell, and that they’re presumably best at?

Their own services.

So who knows if this “advertising value” has any relationship with reality, or if it’s just inflated bullshit marketers make up to sell themselves.

Copyright is ass except to the extent that it can be used to enforce copyleft.

That isn’t nearly value-engineered enough for IKEA. Try again, using cardboard this time.

(No offense meant to IKEA, BTW; in fact I’m sitting at a cardboard IKEA desk as I type this.)

I mean, even in an LTS distro, it sure would be nice if the packages were reasonably up-to-date on the day the version was released.

I was really just trying to be funny by mentioning the film Nintendo would like everyone to forget, which also happened to vaguely meet your description, but thank you for telling me the correct one.

They’re not “self-imposed” if they’re illegally imposed by a tyrant.

a b rated movie about some old coots in NY.

What, you mean this?

It’s not “extra” if it’s a legal requirement.

More to the point, I’m not saying it has to be licensed as Free Software or that it has to be made immediately public. I’m saying that a copy needs to be sent to a government archive, regardless of how messy it is, so that the government can make it public later when the company doesn’t care anymore.

LOL, what? You’re the one trying to make a point here, not me. Spit it out. I’m not gonna do your fucking work for you!

It sounds like you’re trying to “hint” at the idea that a bunch of games are using Epic Online Services and/or the Online Subsystem Steam API associated with it, but beyond that I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make.

If you’re trying to obliquely cite that as some kind of counterexample where it’s reasonable for a game’s source code to remain secret just because part of it is that library, then no, it fucking isn’t. I can’t tell whether EOS has the source code available along with the rest of the Unreal engine or not, but if not, it ought to be and IDGAF about any excuses Epic might have for not making it so.