• Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Not to mention that Swartz had a JSTOR account, which means he was legally entitled to download the things that he did. The part they didn’t like was that he used scripts to download en-mass, and a bunch of boomer fucks thought he actually committed a crime.

    • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Well in the Social Network movie and chapter 2 of the Accidental Billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg used wget in shell scripts to get copyrighted images for private servers.

      Can we give punish him?

      • sus@programming.devEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Spotify also originally got all its music by pirating it. But later it started printing money for record labels (while fucking over musicians) so all was forgiven.

        • OwlHamster@lemm.eeEnglish
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          4 months ago

          That feels a bit disingenuous. The record labels were already thoroughly fucking over musicians.

  • Detun3d@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    4 months ago

    Important to note Aaron was helping democratize information while companies like Meta, Amazon, Google and Microsoft just centralize, twist and redact information to monetize access to a dumbed down and censored version of it.

    • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      12 days ago

      They’d make better fertilizer (especially with that plastic-eating fungus on hand), so there’s taking a bite outta world hunger in the same stroke. 🤷🏼‍♂️

  • Teamsaxon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Fuck meta and a BIG FUCK OFF to AI and all the companies slurping up ai slop “tech” to implement it in their rubbish software, apps, white goods, appliances… Fuck. It’s just infected every conceivable facet of our lives and no one is objecting it, it’s like everyone suddenly forgot about how many engineers spoke out about the dangers!

      • idegenszavak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Unfortunately I can’t listen to podcasts. If I only listen to something without visual stimulation my mind start to think about unrelated things, and I just can’t follow what they speak about, I loose track after a while.

        Before podcasts there were radio talk shows, I hated them similarly, and I tuned to another station where they were playing music.