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Beej Jorgensen

@ beejjorgensen @lemmy.sdf.org

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Instructor, author, developer. Creator of Beej's Guides.

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  • YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription

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  • I can only speak for myself, but I refuse to give Google a dime because they're unfriendly to consumers.

    I pay way more in Patreon subscriptions than I would pay for YouTube. I don't see ads, and the creators make more money from me. And, importantly, Google sees none of it.

  • [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company

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  • I also need one. Our library will print documents for 5¢ per page. Once my Brother HL-2040 craps out, I guess I'll be going there.

  • The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences

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  • That's fine, but don't mistake being jacked in for action.

  • The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences

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  • And mailing lists!

  • FTC investigates “tech censorship,” says it’s un-American and may be illegal

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  • And by "free speech", we mean you have to publish what we tell you.

  • Borrowing e-books in the EU just became a lot more complicated as libraries move to closed ecosystems

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  • Like Louis Rossman said, when piracy provides the best user experience, your industry has a problem.

  • First Trump DOJ Assembled “Tiger Team” To Rewrite Key Law Protecting Online Speech.

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  • Typically if the news reports something someone else said and that thing is slanderous, the news station is not held responsible.

    Secondly, in general, misinformation is protected speech.

    The second they lose protection, that's the end of that platform. They're going to get sued into oblivion. The second Lemmy loses protection, that's the end of that platform.

    I agree with you that these sites are awful, but if we're legislating an off switch for social media platforms, we're playing with fire.

  • First Trump DOJ Assembled “Tiger Team” To Rewrite Key Law Protecting Online Speech.

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  • So big sites would still be on the hook for content their users post? I'm not sure I understand.

  • First Trump DOJ Assembled “Tiger Team” To Rewrite Key Law Protecting Online Speech.

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  • lemmy.world (and the entire republishing Fediverse) is protected from the commenter on this post saying "FCK YOU, ORANGE CNT" by Section 230. If they lose that protection, there is no way they or anyone else is going to allow any remotely controversial posts. (Except on X, which of course will enjoy special government protections.)

    I don't get a lot of forum posts on my site, but I will absolutely remove the forums entirely if 230 goes away. There's no way I'm taking on the liability of all imaginable interpretations of everything anyone could possibly say.

    Currently companies like Twitter, Meta, Google etc can control what is shown to users and hide behind this protection.

    And this is the way it needs to be. Twitter, Meta, and Google run their own sites in the manner of their choosing. If you don't like it, you can vote with your feet. They have no legal, ethical, or Constitutional requirement to offer their services to all comers. The alternative is some kind of government control of private companies that we really don't need ever, and extra especially not in the next four years.

    Repealing 230 will absolutely damage social media platforms of all kinds (yeah, except X), including the Fediverse. And it will lead to increased restrictions by those platforms, not decreased.

  • In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico

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  • But you couldn't tell, could you. 😂 I'm keeping this joke alive as long as I can, until Trump gets wind of it and actually does it.

  • Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs

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  • You're next, New Mexico!

  • In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico

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  • As an American and long time OSM contributor, I also vote extremely no on Gulf of America.

    Also no on renaming New Mexico.

  • Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month

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  • Bow!

  • Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps

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  • What's that sucking sound?

  • Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?

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  • I should add that I have a hackish python script for that conversion. It basically mirrors the tree of MP3s and FLAC files, converting the FLACs and hard linking everything else. So it doesn't use too much more disk. Then I copy that to my phone. I could put it up somewhere if it would be useful.

    But I don't have as much music as you, either.

  • Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?

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  • No, I don't think you're as asshole at all, and don't doubt you can hear the difference. I just can't, myself. Or at least I've never been able to.

    But I also watch DVDs and didn't really notice the resolution, either. (Old TV shows, that I can notice. 😅)

  • Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?

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  • Except file size. 😁 I convert everything from flac to mp3 before I put it on my phone. I'm lucky in that I can't tell the difference in quality at all.

  • ‘Normalise Indian hate’: DOGE staffer resigns over racial posts

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  • Or maybe now it's more, "Should I rehire that self-proclaimed racist? Well, it won't make me look any worse, so why not?"

  • Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’ – Krebs on Security

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  • I'm also a monthly IA donor. They're being sued by publishers and need to mount a defense to continue to archive the Internet and government data that is being deleted.

    Also, don't buy any books from those litigious publishers.