Post A4cC2E0CmFzRWWYVHs by coyote@lain.sh
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(DIR) Post #A4ZpowjT5Z6stD4Q1A by alcinnz@floss.social
2021-02-23T20:45:17Z
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Like, I'm sure, many of you I hate DRM. The attempts by publishers to prevent the files they distribute online from getting copied. (Though this was also been applied to CDs, DVDs, & even VHS)The way this impacts me personally is through the peer pressure to enjoy popculture, and DRM ensures that peer pressure extends to proprietary software used to play said media which has shown itself to be untrustworthy.The best way I know to fight is by pushing alternative entertainment... You?
(DIR) Post #A4Zpox8dZzF89GqWFU by xerz@fedi.xerz.one
2021-02-23T20:47:28.944555Z
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@alcinnz I just don’t consume it and become socially isolated because I never have topics to talk about :blobcatrainbow:
(DIR) Post #A4Zr3J0VAVaxyvRroO by shapr@recurse.social
2021-02-23T20:54:22Z
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@alcinnz play board games
(DIR) Post #A4Zr3JfGiwCm1MWQM4 by shapr@recurse.social
2021-02-23T20:56:12Z
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@alcinnz I don't want my life to revolve around the creations of others.I want to participate instead of always being a spectator. Movies and TV are only for spectators. I want to participate in building the stories in my life.
(DIR) Post #A4ZtEyFCOG1KyC0rxY by daniel@social.ppmx.org
2021-02-23T21:14:34.528251Z
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@alcinnzBooks and audiobooks can sometimes be bought without DRM or be stripped from it.
(DIR) Post #A4ZtEyjKaE7iTe6vvU by alcinnz@floss.social
2021-02-23T21:18:51Z
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@daniel I tend to go for audioshows! Which are like TV shows without the visuals.And yes, there does seem to be a spectrum between audiobooks & shows rather than a hard distinction...
(DIR) Post #A4ZtEz9D20p7luDbGK by daniel@social.ppmx.org
2021-02-23T21:24:45.841481Z
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@alcinnzI have recently been buying the audiobooks by Cory Doctorow, which he offers without DRM.
(DIR) Post #A4ZtezSQVA1AGJbi1A by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2021-02-23T21:30:31.022150Z
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@alcinnz Well the current state of things I'm in is mostly pirating DRMized content and tend to pay for DRM-free ones and always try pay/donate for ones I liked when possible.I wish I could avoid the DRMized ones but for games and animes it's quite an exception and I already have the limitation that it needs to work on Linux.And for audiobooks I have the issue of getting time for them (most of my games have music in them already or textual content) plus probably some hearing issues.Books are nice, used to read a ton of them as a kid, much less so in the last years.Music is also one where I don't have much issues getting DRM-free content, a lot is available on bandcamp (and GOG tends to put the soundtrack with games).
(DIR) Post #A4ZyBqggWqvIR3CTGy by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2021-02-23T22:21:16.434387Z
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@alcinnz btw this loosely reminded me that I didn't have shows/series in my bookmarks yet. Now it's started: https://hacktivis.me/bookmarks#shows
(DIR) Post #A4ZyGjAZuKHIZDVbnM by Kro@loli.pizza
2021-02-23T21:33:14.093850Z
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@alcinnz > through the peer pressure to enjoy popculture, and DRM ensures that peer pressure extends to proprietary software used to play said media which has shown itself to be untrustworthyNot sure if I'm following. Can you explain what that means?
(DIR) Post #A4ZyGjcEFWObwyRgtU by alcinnz@floss.social
2021-02-23T21:47:59Z
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@Kro I feel expected to know what people are referring to when referencing the latest, say, Marvel movie or Game of Thrones. They want to socialize with me over these... The options to watch those are either via DRM or "piracy", with piracy getting villified.I feel expected to have seen them, and not to have done so via piracy. If I accepted this premise, that would leave me running some DRM or other.
(DIR) Post #A4ZyGk4aY555MviL68 by alcinnz@floss.social
2021-02-23T22:01:21Z
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@Kro As for the allegation that DRM has shown itself to be untrustworthy, allow me to present exhibit A: The Sony BMG(?) scandal.In 2008 I think it was Sony installed a rootkit (a term they objected to, despite how perfectly it fits) on the CD-ROM track of their music CDs to be autorun when inserted onto a Windows machine. This opened vulnerabilities widely exploited by other malware, leading to public backlash.Also: in the name of protecting copyright they infringed on the GPL...
(DIR) Post #A4ZyTMzLgh8PXQHi8e by toast@toast.cafe
2021-02-23T22:24:26.874760Z
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@lanodan @alcinnz> no abyss link
(DIR) Post #A4ZzER5cG1yLrrev1k by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2021-02-23T22:32:56.827979Z
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@toast @alcinnz There is a karnal now right?
(DIR) Post #A4ZzKXvRkq26o4oeIK by toast@toast.cafe
2021-02-23T22:34:03.502595Z
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@lanodan @alcinnz we technically have 5.10.10 but whether it works or not is an open question
(DIR) Post #A4ZzY3LcEtIS1cUrmy by alcinnz@floss.social
2021-02-23T22:33:49Z
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@lanodan Oh, that reminds me. I didn't fit my link in at the top-of-thread: https://adrian.geek.nz/moviesAs of recently it now includes a webfeed & a little teaser...
(DIR) Post #A4a05cDPcgEDinfCPw by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2021-02-23T22:42:33.552836Z
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@toast @alcinnz Added.
(DIR) Post #A4a0KKXTcqAlF846JE by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2021-02-23T22:45:13.093896Z
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@alcinnz Very interesting teaser.Hopefully I'll have times where software will be less horribly complicated to listen to your stared ones. ^^
(DIR) Post #A4aDA2ES8MM2yQaVvs by Alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe
2021-02-24T00:58:31Z
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@alcinnzI've started to see it not as a battle between corporate, heavily advertised, slick tools that benefit from network effect vs scrappy open source tools and rather see it as something deeper.Trying to advocate for foss at moments of adoption is a battle fought at the moment of convergence of forces, and just like literal battles, little can be done to win said battles on they day they happen. One can only lose an otherwise winnable battle, rarely the opposite.
(DIR) Post #A4aDA2jIHh1aW5190K by Alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe
2021-02-24T01:01:55Z
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@alcinnzThe broader strategic forces at play are a war against the local and the individual. The overwhelming push to use zoom is the same movement as the overwhelming tide of chain stores tearing apart the fabric of local communities and of the commodification of people's identities through instagramming the sellable parts of people's lives.
(DIR) Post #A4aDA34D1vkrYwnqbY by Alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe
2021-02-24T01:04:37Z
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@alcinnzWe can never win if we try to resist on the terms of these forces. On terms of slickness, network affect and viral growth.What we have to do is begin conversations about how FOSS is inherently political, and how using it (when the communities around it are good and not toxic *pissed off stare at lots of FOSS communities*) can be an inherently political act of resistance.
(DIR) Post #A4aiqCSDcFirPzc2Pg by kzimmermann@fosstodon.org
2021-02-24T07:03:56Z
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@alcinnz same here.You can find alternative ways to obtain said media (youtube-dl, mpv, decrypting, etc), but that only adds more fire to the ongoing fight.The actual solution is to boycott those media silos and create independent content that by design and philosophy respects user #freedom and #privacy That's why I have a #peertube channel, doing my tiny part to contribute.
(DIR) Post #A4aizn1B2ed9QQXLN2 by be@fosstodon.org
2021-02-23T21:10:15Z
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@alcinnz I just continue wishing DRM was as cool as this rapper https://archive.org/details/DontCopyThatFloppy_201511
(DIR) Post #A4aiznSTPASsn5J8uu by kzimmermann@fosstodon.org
2021-02-24T07:04:58Z
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@be *please* copy that floppy.@alcinnz
(DIR) Post #A4ajNdDh7eqRzFlD4y by alcinnz@floss.social
2021-02-24T07:09:22Z
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@kzimmermann That's my attitude! I'm doing my bit by serving as a reviewer: https://adrian.geek.nz/moviesRecently I added a webfeed & teaser!Also, I do download the YouTube channels I particularly like...
(DIR) Post #A4akEG4Hvl8dWzSGw4 by kzimmermann@fosstodon.org
2021-02-24T07:19:31Z
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@alcinnz great initiative!I'll watch your content and grab your feed. This is it, yeah?https://adrian.geek.nz/movies.atomGot any other ones, maybe from a blog or something?
(DIR) Post #A4akWccgoKpshEIoYC by alcinnz@floss.social
2021-02-24T07:22:48Z
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@kzimmermann Yes, I've got a few!https://adrian.geek.nz/docs.atomhttps://rhapsode.adrian.geek.nz/blog.atomAnd older: https://odysseus.adrian.geek.nz/feed.atom
(DIR) Post #A4bTHgLHCGNnpBPLUW by kevin@mastodon.1in1.net
2021-02-24T15:22:32Z
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@alcinnz That's why I love Bandcamp, nearly all the music I buy nowadays I buy through there. I know I always get a full choice of un-DRMd audio formats (even uncompressed) and I know the musician gets fair payment, as it's a "pay-what-you-want" kind of system.
(DIR) Post #A4cAZzjS8kjVCdh8XA by Alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe
2021-02-24T01:10:06Z
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@alcinnzThe friction that comes from using a slightly unpolished open source software/network and being an early adopter among a social circle and the fact that this feels kind of weird needs to be reframed as a concrete way someone joining a broader political movement fighting against the larger forces of oppression can begin to adopt the psychology of resistance and uncover what it means to step outside of problematic systems.It is a small but significant growth, the friction is generative
(DIR) Post #A4cAa0F0FRyCmUSKi8 by Alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe
2021-02-24T01:11:24Z
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@alcinnzThis isnt a defense of FOSS being unwilling to meet the needs of less technically knowledgable users, the friction is there even if the FOSS alternative is just as slick (or even slicker) than the corporate alternative as all of us are unfortunately aware.
(DIR) Post #A4cAa0geae5WAFOPoG by Alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe
2021-02-24T01:15:14Z
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@alcinnz^friction from not empathizing with less technically knowledgable people (i.e. confusing hacking diy solutions as something that brings some people joy vs something everyone SHOULD do) is "friction" in the way that brickwalls are friction to objects attempting to move through them.
(DIR) Post #A4cAa1AmmcBtfhUTmC by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2021-02-24T23:31:47Z
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@Alonealastalovedalongthe @alcinnz I suspect this discussion needs to happen in a way that acknowledges something that's not obvious to most: we're in the middle of a (digital) dark age. My case: https://davelane.nz/current-digital-dark-age
(DIR) Post #A4cAa1bNBlST09viDY by Alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe
2021-02-24T23:40:46Z
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@lightweightThanks for sharing!"Today, though there are many among us who similarly foment pockets of digitally informed from among illiterate massed, remarkably few people seem willing to pursue their own digital salvation, to throw off the yoke of their Frightful digital oppressors... "My response to this is, while it is important that a good deal of us live the "user is the developer" ethos, that itself is not the key. See my point about the two aspects to FOSS below.@alcinnz
(DIR) Post #A4cAa1gKtJQbFYFfxA by Alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe
2021-02-24T01:35:36Z
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@alcinnzI wanna expand on this a bit, I think that for people who develop and participate in FOSS there are two experiences1) the emotional experience of learning how to build something yourself that was initially a mysteryi.e. DIY culture2) the emotional experience of doing something with intention that the power structures of society don't want you to doi.e. "be gay do crimes" energy
(DIR) Post #A4cAa21xauj2KcMweu by Alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe
2021-02-24T23:47:41Z
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@lightweight @alcinnzWe need to form communities with people that have learned how to build the software that communities rely on and who are extremely computer illiterate and more broadly pushing for computer literacy is good.However in my opinion that is a detail in the much greater cause of helping each other gain the perspective and confidence to disobey.Using FOSS should be framed as a small way you can practice that disobedience, not as a process of everyone becoming a developer.
(DIR) Post #A4cAa2t8PDGAzXFPXc by Alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe
2021-02-24T01:42:07Z
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@alcinnzThe former is great and learning is essential for the health of individual humans and collective communities but ultimately it is the latter that matters.We should be zeroing in on that experience of doing something that society tells you is "wrong" and being fucking proud of it and I think we sometimes get sidetracked into emphasizing instead that everyone should learn how to build everything themselves, individually.
(DIR) Post #A4cAlUMkaJE1OhYZdY by Alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe
2021-02-24T23:50:24Z
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@lightweight @alcinnzI think I would compare developers to authors and printers and bookmakers. It would be great if the knowledge and resources around these things was more distributed (more fairly and humanely too). It is an act of revolution to distribute these in radically different ways.However the point isn't for everyone to become authors nor for everyone to learn how to typeset and bind books.The point is for everyone to read.
(DIR) Post #A4cAr9qfmSibV9FvVY by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
2021-02-24T23:52:38.468079Z
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@alcinnz I just pirate 🏴☠️ 🦜
(DIR) Post #A4cBGNoyy2fS4oUf0i by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
2021-02-24T23:57:11.996436Z
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@alcinnz I do buy a lot of independent stuff. I use to buy tons of CDs at shows in bars, rip them, and when I was leaving the country I mailed the originals to a bunch of friends. When I came back, I mailed the remaining to independent radio/podcasters who have DJ shows to promote said artists as well.I subscribe to some people on Patreon/Locals, so long as their videos or podcasts don't contain ads. I did join Crowder's Mugclub (although I'm not sure how I feel about that since they do run ads) and I do have plans to contribute to NoAgenda and a few others this upcoming year.
(DIR) Post #A4cC2E0CmFzRWWYVHs by coyote@lain.sh
2021-02-25T00:05:48.942414Z
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@djsumdog @alcinnz yeah I don't wanna join mug club or timcast, they support youtube by not doing what Styx did and doing off-youtube exclusives, instead they are behind paywalls now and still on YouTube? If it was all paywalled content I might do it, but their stuff is neutered for youtube, they have to change the way they do their shows to suit it, and if they just up and said "we're moving to some other platform" most people would follow. The halfassery is what bothers me, it's a half measure, they've still got Google's boot on their neck, and now they're fine with it. I wanna see tim cover something without giving 5 disclaimers that it may not be true and a big alternative explanation on why it may not be. I wish he would have more confidence in his ability to ascertain facts from opinions and from falsehoods, and I wish he would let other people talk in his IRL podcast. Crowder, I wish he would put his money where his mouth is and switch to bitchute or rumble or both, hell, styx uploads videos to many different platforms, so it's more than possible.
(DIR) Post #A4cCLYKrP4LK5VQuo4 by coyote@lain.sh
2021-02-25T00:09:20.189883Z
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@djsumdog @alcinnz sorry I'll stop ranting itt
(DIR) Post #A4cCXREzbgYtYjM8Tw by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
2021-02-25T00:11:29.707548Z
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@coyote @alcinnz Viva Frei does crosspost to Rumble. Most of these people don't want to post to their own PeerTube or some other platform without ads because they do depend on that revenue (and it seems Rumble pays a lot less than YouTube to boot).Mugclub is interesting because they do say a lot of interesting stuff in the non-youtube half of the stream, but two hours is a lot to watch in the mornings and I can only do it if I'm ahead on work stuff or I'm doing admin or rolling update stuff that doesn't depend on a lot of direct attention.If you start off not depending on that YouTube revenue from the start (Media Monarchy, Corbet Report, No Agenda), it really doesn't matter what platform you cross post to.I agree totally on the 10 different disclaimers on all the Tim Pool stuff. I'm glad Crowder isn't afraid to cover election stuff. He did get blocked from Twitter for a night. I want to read his Facebook suit once it's filed.
(DIR) Post #A4cDUmTOJF4oUlO5CK by coyote@lain.sh
2021-02-25T00:22:12.421577Z
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@djsumdog @alcinnz Viva Frei is so great :politecat: I just wish these shows weren't *neutered* you know? I wanna see them raw, but not like this, I'll admit I toyed with the idea of supporting both Tim and Steven, but basically went against it because of two reasons... One of them being their shows would still be largely neutered, and I can't watch that much anyway..Crowder's Facebook suit will be a ride for sure, I wait for the Frei video on that case