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Bluesky is not a true alternative. Just recently there were news about them banning opposition accounts in Turkey.

So, you’re saying that calling for Netanyahu’s death penalty and stating that Israel has committed crimes is a “bold-faced, already debunked Israeli propaganda”? Yeah, I don’t think there will be a discussion here.

Okay? That has a lot more to do than you think with how Palestinians weren’t all displaced and starving to death, and still had a functioning healthcare system

Mate, if you drop a bomb on that levels a building in region that has over 5000 people per km², you expect at least dozens dead.

Unless you take special precautions to protect human lives - like roof knocking, text messages, and phone calls informing civilians about the attack.

Are you living in the same reality as us? They’ve been bombing hospitals hospitals and aid workers since the goddamn start

I’m sorry, I had this conversation a million times online already and I’m just tired of repeating myself.

I’m just going to list some facts and leave.

1. Hamas uses hospitals as bases/warehouses. Same with schools, churches, libraries, etc.
2. A protected building loses its protected status if used for military purposes.
3. A lot of aid workers were working for Hamas (the entirety of UNWRA was compromised).
4. Propaganda works overtime on both sides so even valid targets were painted as crimes.
5. It’s not - and probably never will be - clear how many of the “war crime civilian casualties” were Hamas fighters in civilian clothes who got stripped of their weapons after they died. Same for aid workers.
6. Hamas is responsible for bringing the war to Gaza, it’s also responsible for at least some of the Israeli attacks on refugee camps, by using them for military purposes (we have videos of them shooting missiles from between white tents in the camps)
7. At least in the beginning, when people were crying “genocide”, there was nothing suggesting actual genocide was taking place. Aid was coming in, vaccines where coming in, USA built a whole port to send food in, Israel was making extreme effort at ensuring target buildings were empty before levelling them.
8. Israel has 100% committed A LOT of crimes, including shooting verified aid workers, reporters or even diplomats.
9. All people responsible for war crimes should be tried and appropriately punished, but we know that won’t happen in the case of Israel because nobody has the balls to touch them.
10. Netanyahu should be put up against the wall and shot. He’s the main reason this whole thing even started.
11. Now that right-wing psychopaths have practically unlimited power in Israel, and the real genocide has begun, nobody gives a shit, because you people have cried wolf over bullshit for so long.

Ah, you’re one of those guys…

In the initial stages of the fight, before the first major ceasefire, Israel was causing a historically low number of casualties. It was around 0.8 dead Palestinians per dropped bomb. That’s not how you do genocide, however you want to look at it.

Food and water was being delivered from Israel, they did a vaccination campaign, etc., etc. There WERE efforts to protect civilians.

Mind you: I’m not saying that no crimes were committed during that time, of course there were. But it was very, very obviously not a genocide.

Unlike now. But now people hear about “genocide” and just roll their eyes.

And nobody gives a shit anymore.

People where screaming “genocide” for so long at things that were decidedly NOT genocide that now, that the real genocide has started, we’re already past the point of attention saturation and not a single person in power will do anything about it. Congratulations, keyboard warriors and weekend protesters!

Nobody tell this guy he’s advocating for DEI, he’ll have a stroke.

Right. And then we see comments like the one that started this thread: “whoa, there was a Pocket integration??”

For this whole spring have I clicked hundeds of times that I’m aware that my trial is ending

This is… not quite related to the topic, no? Trial ending warning is not a “hey, here’s a new feature you might want to try out”.

They also introduced a new feature that they promote on a space that takes literally half the screen

Could you elaborate? I used to use Edge as my daily driver, now it’s my secondary browser. I have no clue what you mean here.

In a world without dark design patterns, there would be a single pop-up when you first install the application, to ask if you want notifications and/or suggestions for new features

This is exactly how it works in things like Office or Edge.

If you click “no”, it should never bother you again unless you go into a menu and opt in

Yup. Or unless a new feature is introduced, in which case a new pop-up appears. That’s precisely how it works.

Ideally, that pop-up wouldn’t even exist. They could just have a collective “don’t bother me again” checkbox on every non-essential notification

Edge, most of the time, just opens a new tab with “Your Edge was updated” and a list of new things.

If your user has already indicated that they are not interested, any further pestering is essentially harassment.

If it was about the same feature that you already dismissed - yeah, I get the sentiment. If it’s about completely new things - it’s a really weird thing to say. How are users supposed to know that something new was introduced? Sift through thousands of lines of changelogs…?

The difference is in convenience.

On the one hand, you can add a page to your bookmarks, after choosing the correct folder, of course.

On the other hand, you can click a button and a page gets automatically saved in your “read later” storage, with a description, summary, and a preview of the content.

On Firefox? I’ve used it for years and this is the first time I hear of Pocket

And then people get all pissy when Google or Microsoft show a pop-up of a new feature…

You’re talking nonsense, is what you’re talking about.

What does a genre drying up have to do with IP or copyright? Like, are you even reading your own words?

Strangling out smaller studios any way possible

Supergiant Games, CDPR, Larian, Sandfall Interactive and every single indie creator out there clearly haven’t been informed of how horrible their situation is. Maybe you should contact them and let them know that the 10/10 games they’ve been making are impossible to make due to copyright and IP protection laws?

Eh it’s all just stolen and borrowed code

Got proof? Go and win the easiest lawsuit of your life.

Not how that works

It’s exactly how it works. You can patent the code, the solution, the material, whatever the fuck you want. That’s what a patent IS.

You keep switching between moral and legal arguments. They are not the same.

Oh, do elaborate!

Deflection

Example of a similar thought-process.

Strawman

Huh? That wasn’t an argument, mate, that was an assumption and a question. Are you OK?

I still kinda’ hope I’d get an answer, though.

Literally mirroring your words back at you

Well, not “literally” and not quite “mirroring”. I think you need some rest, mate, you seem tired and unfocused.

Does a patent protect the concept or the specific code?

Depends on the patent.

according to your definition of theft I’m 100% certain that’s the case

It’s not “my definition of theft”, it’s “theft”. If you’re 100% certain, hit Amazon lawyers up, I’m sure they’ll love to talk to you about it - it’s literally free money for them and maybe a big payout for you, right?

Thanks to those, or in spite of? You are focusing on outliers and expecting that to be a convincing argument to describe the typical.

The hilarious thing is that you’re like so many other “revolutionaries” who come in and go: “oh no, the X rules are stifling the market/competition/free exchange of information/whatever” while being completely ignorant on how these rules came to be.

It’s like these capitalists of today saying that OSHA needs to go because they’re losing profits to it, completely oblivious to the fact that it was the capitalists of the XIX century who created them to increase profits (because having to replace skilled labourers became a high cost factor).

You strike me as someone who thinks that copyright and other IP protection laws are something that was set up in XX (maybe XIX) century as a means to protect the wealthy. Am I wrong?

Fair, I was attempting to limit scope with only discussing patents

Right. So when I refused to change the scope, you decided to call me an idiot. How very gentlemanly of you.

Microsoft did copy and paste though: Yammer, Bing and Azure respectively

So, you fully and honestly believe that Microsoft has stolen Google’s and Amazon’s code? As in: you’re 100% certain that’s the case here?

Also worth mentioning the duopoly nature of those 2 specifically.

No. It’s not worth mentioning in a topic that has nothing to do with that fact…

Rather telling that all your examples are Fortune 500 companies?

It amazes me how you see a company NOW being a Fortune 500, and going “waagh, IP protection only serves the massive corpos!!!” without realising how many of those companies became Fortune 500 thanks to those protections.

It equally amazes me how you see the law being used by said companies most of the time (because, you know, they’re larger) and go “we can do without these laws” without blinking an eye, or a single neuron firing towards the thought that… these laws ALSO serve the smaller companies.

We’re not talking copyright laws, we’re talking patent laws

Mate, are you lost or something?

This is what my reply was to:

Copyright and patent laws need to die.

Do I need to put “copyright” in bold here?

Ffinally! It was shameful how Francis was dancing around the subject, trying REALLY HARD to not name russia as the invader.

Do you know why there doesn’t exist automated fencepost painters?

I’m just impressed that you managed to miss the point by so much.

Yes, because you just described what businesses throughout the Western world do to your mythical small business and projected it onto some mythical far east.

Correct. Which is precisely why copyright law was established in the first place and why companies like Facebook, Google or Amazon were able to become what they were without Microsoft or Apple just copy-pasting what they did.

The copyright laws are not perfect, far from it. But they give smaller companies SOME form of defence against the corps.

You do realize that is the point of IP right? To allow legalized theft in this exact manner?

Do you also believe that OSHA was created to control the poor employee into submission by their great corporate overlord?

In the exact article this comment chain is discussing palworld did their due diligence to verify they weren’t violating any of Nintendo’s IP and then Nintendo modified their patent filing so that they were with the express goal of stealing their product.

Yes, like I said: the copyright laws are not perfect. But saying that it would better WITHOUT ANY COPYRIGHT LAWS is insanity.

If it’s a perfect 1:1 copy why does it matter? Can you explain how this isn’t just a stance rooted in xenophobia?

First of all: very often it’s literally a 1:1 copy.

Secondly: imagine you make an innovative product. I don’t know, automatic fence painter, whatever. It sells well, but you don’t have the money to start a large-scale production, you’re doing OK with sales and are looking for investors, but things are fairly slow. In comes a Chinese dude, buys one auto-painter from you, brings it home, dismantles the thing, copies everything (potentially making some changes), and starts a massive-scale production in his factory. Due to the mass-production, worse materials, and lower labour costs, he sells the product at 20% the price of yours. The market is saturated with his knock-off, you’re left with zero money.

Is this xenophobia to you? Or someone stealing your product and killing your business?

The goal of the vast majority is to be acquired

Yeah, I’m not talking about them being acquired. What gave you that idea? I specifically used the words “steals their idea”.

I just wanna know which amazing video game innovations We are protecting here in America

First, I’m not talking specifically about America. Second, I’m not talking about “amazing innovations”. Copyright is also for trademarks, very characteristic gameplay mechanics, etc. For example, Playrix made “Fishdom” which was copy-paste Worms. Team17 won the case and protected their IP.

Are we talking about the failing franchises that have been milking their customers for 15 years?

Umm… No? What does that have to do with copyright or IP protection…?

Have we done anything really innovative recently?

Have you tried looking at titles from other publishers than Ubisoft, EA or Activition?