[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

IPFS seems similar to what you're looking for.

(See: A copy of Wikipedia on IPFS being censorship-resistant, and globally distributed)

[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

I like ArchiveBox, but in my experience, it kept on running into issues saving pages, and stopped functioning after it worked the first few times. I really wish there was a more streamlined application that did a similar thing somewhere out there.

I've been looking at Linkwarden's page archiving solution, but it crashes whenever I try importing any large number of links, so that's a bust too.

[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 31 points 1 day ago

Reminds me of this great street art I saw posted at some point. Can't find the source though.

[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago

And anyone who hurts his feelings, and queer people, and college students, of course.

[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 103 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

To put it very simply, the 'kernel' has significant control over your OS as it essentially runs above everything else in terms of system privileges.

It can (but not always) run at startup, so this means if you install a game with kernel-level anticheat, the moment your system turns on, the game's publisher can have software running on your system that can restrict the installation of a particular driver, stop certain software from running, or, even insidiously spy on your system's activity if they wished to. (and reverse-engineering the code to figure out if they are spying on you is a felony because of DRM-related laws)

It basically means trusting every single game publisher with kernel-level anticheat in their games to have a full view into your system, and the ability to effectively control it, without any legal recourse or transparency, all to try (and usually fail) to stop cheating in games.

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This site is less useful, more... strange.

Anything you never wanted to know about bread bag clips can be found on HORG.

[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 209 points 1 month ago

As Cory Doctorow put it, "An app is just a web-page wrapped in enough IP to make it a felony to add an ad-blocker to it."

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submitted 2 months ago by ArchRecord@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

Sharing because I found this very interesting.

The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has a DIY design for a home lab you can set up to reproduce expensive medication for dirt cheap, producing medication like that used to cure Hepatitis C, along with software they developed that can be used to create chemical compounds out of common household materials.

[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 96 points 2 months ago

The Internet Archive is a library.

Not only are they a member of the Boston Library Consortium, but their entire operation is based around preserving not just webpages, but books, and other forms of media.

They even offer loans of various materials to and from other libraries, and digitize & archive works from the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, the New York Public Library, and more.

To say the Internet Archive isn't an "actual library," and has "stepped out of their fucking lane" is ridiculous.

This ruling doesn't just affect the Internet Archive, it affects every single other library out there that wants to lend ebooks, and digitize their existing physical copies of books for digital lending.

[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 111 points 2 months ago

If OpenAI wants a pass, then just like how piracy services make content freely open and available, they should make their models open.

Give me the weights, publish your datasets, slap on a permissive license.

If you're not willing to contribute back to society with what you used from it, then you shouldn't exist within society until you do so.

[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 95 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

(in response to him selling the family home)

"My family took it well," the 53-year-old told the New York Post. "My wife's super supportive. My kids are probably better for it, if we're keeping it real."

Just another demonstration of how the Hedonic Treadmill effect means becoming a billionaire won't meaningfully improve your life compared to the negative impact you inflict upon all of society by taking millions of dollars of worker's and consumer's value from them!

[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 309 points 2 months ago

For those who don't care to read the full article:

This basically just confines any cookies generated on a page, to just that page.

So, instead of a cookie from, say, Facebook, being stored on site A, then requested for tracking purposes on site B, each individual site would be sent its own separate Facebook cookie, that only gets used on that site, preventing it from tracking you anywhere outside of the specific site you got it from in the first place.

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I'm someone who believes landlording (and investing in property outside of just the one you live in) is immoral, because it makes it harder for other people to afford a home, and takes what should be a human right, and turns it into an investment.

At the same time, It's highly unlikely that I'll ever be able to own a home without investing my money.

And just investing in stocks means I won't have a diversified portfolio that could resist a financial crash as much as real estate can.

If I were to invest fractionally in real estate, say, through REITs, would it not be as immoral as landlording if I were to later sell all my shares of the REIT in order to buy my own home?

I personally think investing in general is usually immoral to some degree, since it relies on the exploitation of other's labour, but at the same time, it feels more like I'm buying back my own lost labour value, rather than solely exploiting others.

I'm curious how any of you might see this as it applies to real estate, so feel free to discuss :)

[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 119 points 2 months ago

The "platform economy" is just another term for digital landlords.

Fuck 'em.

[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 127 points 3 months ago

Adblockers are the largest consumer boycott in history.

Google isn't just disabling an extension, they're attacking a boycott comprised of 200,000,000+ people, all around the globe, standing up to forced manipulation of our beliefs and habits by profit-hungry corporations.

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