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With the state of Javascript being what it is, you probably can chain syllables randomly and have a fair chance of the resulting word being the name of a temporarily-existing framework

These days the GNU rm specifically warns you and asks you to confirm before proceeding

One of the multiple lemmy newcomers that defederated from us; in their admins’ words, because we apparently “deny certain genocides”.

@suspended@lemmy.ml what “genocides” would those be exactly ?

Kraken, also by Mièville, is also somewhat of a match; as well as Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.

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But you’re fine with the dead and tortured sentient beings made to produce your dairy ? how does that work morally ?

Dairy is scary (CW: horror)

Go vegan already

No, I don’t, because I can afford stuff and pirating in this situation would be just pure stealing which I believe is morally wrong

Stealing suggests they don’t have the content anymore; they do. “Copying” is the word you’re looking for.

The whole “stealing” comparison rather breaks down when there is basically no scarcity / no cost to duplicating and distributing what has been produced

Even arguing it’s “stealing” because it deprives the publisher of the cost isn’t exactly true, because it only holds if you’d actually have ponied up were the content not available for free (I know for sure I definitely wouldn’t have played some games or watched some shows if I had had to actually pay for them)

You want to use something that exists thanks to capitalism

Artistic content is, believe it or not, produced outside of capitalism as well. And in capitalist societies it often is produced despite capitalism, not thanks to it, and one could argue capitalism itself is a large part of the reason that content’s quality has taken a dive over the past decades

I think the profit motive isn’t the best at producing good quality artistic content; and I think people would still produce it without such a motive.

Mind you on paper I wouldn’t even be against paying for a good movie, for example. But I want a .mp4 in x265, with subs, that I can store on my NAS and read with whatever open source software I want to use. None of the legal platforms offer that - piracy literally offers a better service, universally

Same goes for video games: I want a native binary that I can install, that does not phone home at all, and does not have DRM or require a launcher. Only a minute minority of games, even on gog, match those

this would result in shit movies being produced that no one likes

I think that has already happened to be honest

Well, my friend, he’s kinda poor he can’t afford some books and some streaming services, so he pirates.

Good on your friend. Poor or not, you should too.

Do you pirate?

Yes

And do you justify pirating? i.e., what is your piracy philosophy?

Justify it ? you seem to suggest it’s wrong or something

Are you talking about perplexity.ai ? because it looks like a shitty LLM answering questions instead of an actual search engine. It looks absolutely atrocious privacy-wise, too.

Crassus invented the fire brigade

Didn’t he routinely order his brigade to do nothing until he managed to acquire the burning property (at increasingly decreased cost as the fire raged) from its owner ?

There is also this one; it’s an actual genuine Windows 95 running on WASM in your browser

This is disturbingly accurate

Ah, makes sense, thanks; I use Jellyfin exclusively for video as well

For the Filelist thing I prefer CLI tools generally (and all the export formats I’ve seen in the features seem perfectly doable through them); but your answer about XNViewMP definitely has merits, thanks ! I’ll take a look at it

I’ve seen entire corporate networks run through a samba machine, though admittedly not often; it can be done

It’s also probably a bad idea (the only upside would be security mind you)

I’ve been incredibly happy with Jellyfin on my NAS. What does Plex offer that it doesn’t, out of curiosity ?

ImageMagick is shit

I love ImageMagick despite its quirks; but then again I do not use it for professional use (well I do as a dev but I’m not a photograph or anything). What does XNViewMP does that ImageMagick doesn’t ?

Because at first glance it seems much worse - it has a graphical UI for one thing which seems inappropriate for the usecases I see ImageMagick being used for.

Also that Filelist Creator thing has existed on unix since the 70s; it’s called “find”, “ls”, and “awk”.

I really recommend it, at least the first one, it’s a classic and it’s awesome; the later two are admittedly lower quality I think, unless you’re really into cyberpunk.

The name is cool but the Tessier-Ashpool were bourgeois pigs