Joe Breuer

Possibly even use Tasker or such to automate waking up to an isolated phone.

Or any of the countless “digital health”/screen time management apps, to block social media in the mornings. (?)

Sounds like bunnie would have got you, but that was half a generation ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumby?wprov=sfla1

It’s not so much about forcing to contribute, but rather keeping companies from selling commercial forks/having checks against profiting from work that happens to be freely available.

Also on that topic, very interesting read:

https://lemmy.world/post/38825320

Isn’t that a question for Steam support/forums?

Which virtualization implementation? QEMU/KVM?

They sure would like that.

Never thought I’d hail the GEMA for what they’re doing…

How is it an “undisclosed [amount of] damages” - aren’t court rulings supposed to be public [records]?

I know stuff like the rulings of me going to court with the driver and insurance companies involved in a car accident certainly was public (in Germany).

Anyone in the know please ELI5 and/or point me at the relevant laws, how/what/in which cases (parts of) rulings can be “undisclosed”.

Looks scammy / requires ‘hoops’ that lead to invalid SSL certificates

Looks scammy / requires ‘hoops’ that lead to invalid SSL certificates

Which adblocker can block Facebook ad posts?

Doctorow’s as usual excellent take also touches on this:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/01/redistribution-vs-predistribution/#elbows-up-eurostack

TL;DR: it’s not so much only the US, it’s corporate (quasi-)monopolies, and those operate in a lot of countries.

Therac always makes me think of this…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25?wprov=sfla1

How old were you when you realized that asking for a reward/recognition doesn’t exactly work out either?