It's a nice sentiment but seriously - the whole "if buying isn't owning then pirating isn't stealing" thing is both overused and has always annoyed me. How are the two related? You can still be stealing regardless of if you have an option to buy or not. You could still steal an item that isn't for sale.

What we really should be focusing on is whether pirating in and of itself is stealing, and whether it should be a crime. This overused phrase is distracting from the issue at hand, imo.

Ethical cheating? Nice. I can get behind that.

That sounds interesting, do wifi cameras show up differently compared to normal networks?

That's awesome, thanks! I use VSCodium too, will search it up later. That'll be super useful.

I'm in the process of learning docker, can you share what that is? That sounds very helpful.

That's a good point too, it shouldn't be held to the standard of a legal document yet. I watched the video and definitely did that - forgetting its initiative nature. I think it could be helpful to specify the scope a little more so it doesn't suffer from scope creep later and get nothing done, as well as bring some focus to the future discussions. But I'm reading some good points in this thread, and I'm curious to see where it goes. Fingers crossed!

Good videos, I enjoyed both of them. The initiative comes from a good place but could use a little more work before being brought to gov't, if that's the best place for it.

The first video does address this idea - time stamped for convenience. Basically it's starting the wrong conversation, without enough nuance to a group of people that may not understand the nuance of the gaming industry. Could end up with more bad than good, as gov't has done by accident before. I recommend a watch of those two videos, I probably haven't summed it up very well and out of context clips aren't necessarily a good representation either. PirateSoftware's a good speaker imo, easy to listen to.

Ooo I haven't heard of Ulefone before, I see some of their phones have a built in thermal camera? That sounds cool. How's the Android/software experience? I'm not familiar with the Chinese phone lines, do they have their own bloat like Samsung?

I've heard good things about Graphene OS, but also deviating from the "stock" experience might make it more difficult to do certain things... like biometrics for banking or something? Not sure myself. Will look into it too, good idea.

Thanks! Just to add a little more detail:

The exact date and time of the astronomical explosion is unknown, but once it happens, Hounsell says the once-in-a-lifetime event is sure to inspire the next generation of skywatchers.

The software bloat is not dissimilar to what I've heard in the past, but I'd forgotten since I haven't gone in depth researching yet. Which phones do we prefer today? Loosely off the top of my head, less bloat/intrusiveness, nice camera, battery life enough for a day, and maybe on the smaller size to fit one hand are probably what I'll be looking in to.

I was considering a new Samsung phone - is that baked into it? (Assuming you're talking Samsung anyway, based on the galaxy name)

I think !reddit just sends you directly to reddit and uses reddit's search engine, which has been infamously bad. Has that changed? It doesn't seem to be quite the same as appending "reddit" to queries to search for reddit posts, but using better search engines.

That's a good point, it's probably way less load and overhead if Reddit and Google just sent info back and forth instead of scraping. Good way for Google to keep their spot as the favoured search engine and beat the competition too, since everything that comes up these days are articles full of SEO nonsense at best, then AI generated nonsense at worst. If nobody else can read the actual human responses, Google has a huge leg up. Also interesting to see that Google's honouring the txt file even when nobody's holding them to it.

I had no idea Twitter's search updated their index immediately after a comment is posted though. That's a lot of updates considering the amount of posts they get daily.

iirc, isn't robots.txt more of a gentlemen's agreement? I vaguely recall bots being able to crawl a site regardless, it's just that most devs respect robots.txt and don't. Could be wrong though, happy to be corrected.

Definitely misread that as Download The Mall and was quite amused by the name until I checked the link to see more lol

I wouldn't jump blindly but I'm gonna think

Nobody is making their own decisions

I was told to warm them up to get the last bits of juice out of them while camping. Wonder which it is?

Tetris with touch controls is not my favourite way to enjoy Tetris though