User:JodyBruchonFan

The corporate bullshit bingo! by JodyBruchonFan CC0 1.0 public domain
"innovation"	"courage"	"trusted"	"sustainability"	"industry leader"
"upgrade"	"confident"	"(cyber)security", "safety", "feel safe"	"we understand..., but..."	"intellectual property"
"our mission", "our commitment"	"streamlined", "seamless"	"protect"	"empower"	"unauthorized"
"we strive"	"unprecedented"	"integrity"	"(re)shape", "refine"	"genuine"
"pushing boundaries"	"community"	"rights"	"redefine", "reinvent", "revolutionize"	"explore"

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One of my favourite songs: Manny the Martyr - Be That Way, also known as the Jody Bruchon theme song! And it is in the public domain!

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DRM = Digital Restrictions Malware.

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Even if the DMCA disappeared today, the damage done in decades under its stranglehold will not be undone anytime soon.

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I honestly used to believe this "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" nonsense. Now I know how wrong I was. Why privacy matters even if you have nothing to hide - The Hated One.

This is a WAR on privacy and YOU are the enemy. - The Hated One

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It's time to cut off Great Britain and Australia from the Internet.

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Of course, nothing we do will change Google's mind about their technofascist developer verification program, but what we can do is make fun of the absurdity of their propaganda.

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  Brick edition
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  Fewer apps
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  Showering you with corporate buzzwords
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  disconnected

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Do not accept the premise of assholes - Louis Rossmann

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Do not rely on Google services for anything long-term.

https://KilledByGoogle.com/

https://gcemetery.co/

"Google is an archive in the same way a supermarket is a food museum." - Jason Scott Sadofsky.

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To download means to own. (Without YouTube Premium's data lock-in!)

The main purpose of YouTube is downloading videos to keep them alive after they are taken down from YouTube and after YouTube inevitably shuts down.

YouTube employee who reads this: **TRIGGERED**

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Android is losing a big feature by SAMTIME

(Original YouTube URL - removed for unspecified violations.)

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The fridge and freezer made externally produced ice nearly obsolete. See "How The Fridge Destroyed One of the World's Largest Monopolies" by Veritasium, at 18 minutes.

If a freezer was invented in today's political environment, the establishment would have labelled it "ice piracy".

When established authorities (like MPAA, RIAA, Disney, ...) meet competition (like Internet file sharing), they simply ban their competition (DMCA).

... and then, before you know it, copyright law was updated to take the Internet into account.

- The Tragic Fall Of µTorrent - NationSquid, 5:48

[Copyright] is a mechanism that by definition smothers true, useful progress -- in a world that advanced technologically so much that it is already possible to freely copy and share information instantly, with zero cost, with anyone anywhere, copyright tries to set up artificial measures to prevent this so as to keep the old ways of allowing only the privileged to copy and publish intellectual works, it is quite literally force sustaining mechanism of Middle Ages.

- Miloslav Číž, Czech philosopher.

See also "food piracy" in "Cream by David Firth" (8:07) (mirrors: Dailymotion, Internet Archive), and Why copyright makes no sense | The case against intellectual property by The Hated One.

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Every website with no decentralized backups will eventually be lost to history.

Issue: No Backup, No Distribution

For reasons and examples stated in this article, any centralized web-based service will go offline some day. Some sooner, some later. Popularity is not even a guarantee that a service gets continued, as you can see with hundreds of (partly) very well known and widely used Google services that were shut down. Nothing will be on the web forever. Most people are not aware of this fact.

- Karl Voit

Whenever I tell people that we need to plan for the day when YouTube goes offline, I mostly receive weird reactions. It seems to be the case that people can't think of YouTube being gone. Unfortunately, I'm convinced that most people will face the day when we lose this enormous library of videos.

- Karl Voit

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Anti-features like Google Chrome's mandatory pull-to-refresh are "helpful" to the user in the same way SpongeBob was "helpful" to Squidward in the episode "The Paper".

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When I hear Google saying they want to "keep Android open" (Android Developer Verification) while blatantly doing the opposite, I am instantly reminded of that scene where Bryant Moreland (EDP445) claimed he was just looking for a cupcake. Similar levels of shamelessness, absurdity, and similar in taking advantage of people with little recourse, even though within different contexts. I am not going to explain the story with Moreland here; you can go look it up if you don't already know.

While what Moreland was trying to do was more serious on a small scale and was easily thwarted, what Google is doing with their developer verification program happens on a much larger scale. It impacts potentially over a hundred million people worldwide.

From the Merriam Webster dictionary:

predator [noun]:

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2 : one who injures or exploits others for personal gain or profit

Businessmen, he believed, were often predators … — Nathan Glick

(souce: Merriam Webster, bolded for emphasis)

Things that make you go hmmmmm....

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Congress is full of eighty-year-olds who can barely use a BlackBerry, but they're making legislation about what you should be able to do with your hardware.

- Jody Bruchon, from OS Age Verification: Millions Of Predators With GPS In Your Kid's Pocket, Required By Law!

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If you think [people in positions of authority] can't do something, you are wrong; unless it is directly violating a law of physics, they can do it. For example you may think "haha they can't start selling air, people would revolt", "hahaaa, they can't make people believe 1 + 1 equals 2000, it's too obvious of a lie" or "hahaaa they can't lie about history when there is a ton of direct evidence for the contrary freely accessible on the Internet, they can't censor something that's all over the Internet and in billions of books" -- yes, they can do all of this.

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You think "hahaha, if we create this super encrypted/decentralized computer network, we can simply communicate and they can do nothing about it, BAZINGA" -- well, no you can't. How can they stop this? They will simply ban computers you idiot, in fact you have only given them the reason to.

You say "hahaha but I can have this calculator in my basement hidden" -- well, how many people will participate in your network if revealing such participation is punished not only by death sentence, but death sentence for you whole family; if even people who know about you participating in the network and not reporting you face the same punishment (already the case in some pseudocommunist countries)?

If in addition people have no free time, if they don't have electricity at home, no will to live and there are also government signal jammers everywhere just in case? Enjoy your guerrilla resistance network with three people armed with calculators.

You say "bbbb...but that cant happen ppl would revolt" -- NO. Have you seen chicken at chicken farm revolt? (Except in that one movie lol). "BBBb...BUT... people are not chicken". NO. People are literally physically chicken (to a stupid argument you get stupid counterargument).

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Admit it, whatever they do you will conform even if you're angry about it because not conforming would cause you discomfort and you like comfort, so here you have it: they can do whatever they want. You want war? Probably not, but if they start it, you will go to war, you will help them make weapons, you will kill. You want to watch ads? Probably not, but if they put them up you will watch them. You want to get up every day at 5 AM and spend your day doing something that has no meaning and which you hate doing? Maybe, but it doesn't even matter if you want, you will do it despite wanting or not.

- from Yes They Can by Miloslav Číž, Czech philosopher. Bolded for emphasis.

"They will simply ban computers" - and if not, they will backdoor everything. Looks like the "tinfoil hat" people weren't so crazy after all.

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If it can be remotely disabled, you don't own it.

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