I think that funding creators is great if you have the money and the inclination. I just don’t think that it makes you an asshole if you don’t.

There are creators whom I fund because they give me exclusive extra content on their Patreons or sometimes if I just think that their work is important enough and I want to see it continue. If I decide that I need that money for something else, that’s up to me.

So, when you’re licking the boot, do you start at the heel or the toe?

If we were selfish, we wouldn’t be sharing our files in the first place, and the system would fall apart.

It’s the fact that we aren’t selfish that filesharing works at all.

Piracy is. Filesharing isn’t.

When you steal books from a library, you’re preventing others from accessing those books. When you download a digital copy of a book, you aren’t.

Same thing with money. If you stole my money, I’d be upset, but I wouldn’t be upset if I had infinite money.

Why should I?

It was a cost-cutting measure to save money on tapes by reusing the old ones.

Lots of people come have a choice in who their ISP is. I don’t. For my area, there’s one provider. If I want to change that, I have to move.

Define “anonymous”. I use Soulseek, but you need an account for that.

What makes the EU an easy target for copyright lawsuits?

“Intellectual property” is a corpo term, and using it accepts their framing. They’re trying to conflate copyright, trademark, and patent law with property law.

Back when “FOSS” was “Free as in Beer” and fuck that Richard Stallman with his “free as in speech” bullshit

FOSS has always been about “free as in speech”, and Stallman has said that it’s more ethical to illegally download closed-source software than to pay for it.

FOSS vs. proprietary is tangential to the discussion over filesharing, anyway, because it addresses different issues. FOSS isn’t good because it’s zero-cost, it’s good because it respects user freedoms.

According to Wikipedia, the RB stands for “Raffel Brothers” (the two brothers who founded the company).

They’re trolling though. I reckon the vast majority of flat earthers are.

What makes you think so?

Press Ctrl-R, and you can do an incremental search through your command history. Ctrl-R goes forward through the found entries, and Ctrl-Shift-R goes backwards.

Or, if you use fish like me, it does it automatically.

There are lots of different foods made from soybeans, like tofu and tempeh. Edamame is young, whole soybeans cooked in their pods.

Soybeans. You’ve been growing soybeans.

The Nazis used both types.

Right there in the first paragraph, it says

The base specifications for a JPEG container format are defined in Annex B of the JPEG standard, known as JPEG Interchange Format (JIF).

Read the xkcd comic. There are plenty of metric associations you can make in your mind, too.

Metric was designed by a bunch of rich French people

Metric came out of the French Revolution, which was caused by the underclasses rising up and overthrowing “a bunch of rich French people”. And then saying, “Hey, let’s try doing things rationally for a change. Like our systems of measurement.”