Post Ar0hzoc5LTrSu8cglc by ErikUden@mastodon.de
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(DIR) Post #AYzXKvlnnDPJnqPgyu by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2023-08-22T14:10:01Z
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Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital “library”.Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this. :trantifa:
(DIR) Post #AYzgF2SYuITiOtgAwi by newt@stereophonic.space
2023-08-22T16:04:01.651867Z
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@ErikUden stop calling everything you don't like capitalism.
(DIR) Post #AYzgKENO1rfIo5jaaG by icedquinn@blob.cat
2023-08-22T16:05:51.042689Z
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@newt @ErikUden it's a pretty standard move of invading empires to delete the local culture. :ablobcatpopcorn: everyone hates archivists.
(DIR) Post #AYzgRdy7H8m8CvRu3k by lain@lain.com
2023-08-22T16:06:27.754131Z
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@newt @ErikUden mfw uber captalist carnegie built 2500 public libraries :pika:
(DIR) Post #AYzgeENbj2d0brNH5E by cinerion@den.raccoon.quest
2023-08-22T16:09:28.329Z
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@icedquinn@blob.cat @newt@stereophonic.space @ErikUden@mastodon.de idk what you talking about but reminded me of this:
(DIR) Post #AYzgzLOapsCYRyu2r2 by failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to
2023-08-22T15:59:18Z
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@ErikUden This seems a bit like the right wing/trump view that leftists are simultaneously an all powerful conspiracy and at the same time helpless people who will be utterly defeated by trump without any effortThe Orwellian all powerful and simutaneously weak enemey
(DIR) Post #AYzhN1hTiLZGJf1r6G by newt@stereophonic.space
2023-08-22T16:11:44.224476Z
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@lain @ErikUden pretty typical behaviour for drug dealers! The first dose is free and after you're hooked up, you'll pay him money for reading books! How is this not fucked up?!!!
(DIR) Post #AYzhdZe5H4U4EFKdFo by echo@stereophonic.space
2023-08-22T16:19:54.244393Z
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@ErikUden Um, sweaty, they just want to delete problematic, toxic content that goes against their community standards. You're not one of those "free speech" supporters, are you?
(DIR) Post #AZ0gvK8TlwggXhPOt6 by JimmyWalnuts@noagendasocial.com
2023-08-23T03:47:16Z
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@ErikUden Big tech has proven they're not apolitical. Avoid them and buy older books and dictionaries. They haven't been woke washed and can't be while kept on your shelf.
(DIR) Post #AZ23YYglzSK97bWUBk by raccoon@den.raccoon.quest
2023-08-23T19:35:34.853Z
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@cinerion @icedquinn@blob.cat @newt@stereophonic.space @ErikUden@mastodon.de That used to be me
(DIR) Post #AZ23ty1D0i9PlGI2m8 by cinerion@den.raccoon.quest
2023-08-23T19:39:27.195Z
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@raccoon @icedquinn@blob.cat @newt@stereophonic.space @ErikUden@mastodon.de It's never late to go back to your roots :necodance_hd:
(DIR) Post #AZ2LJW5jADaXtfAkJE by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2023-08-23T20:30:49Z
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@newt libraries are always free and entirely government funded. Yeah, the essence of capitalism.
(DIR) Post #AZ2LJWxFxCPGZgDUkC by newt@stereophonic.space
2023-08-23T22:53:30.071383Z
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@ErikUden funded by the government with the money it takes from me while threatening me with violence if i refuse. You forgot this one.
(DIR) Post #AZ2LXD4KgZvwxC37VQ by newt@stereophonic.space
2023-08-23T22:54:40.042684Z
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@ErikUden @ErikUden funded by the government with the money it takes from me while threatening me with violence if i refuse. You forgot this one. And if this isn't the definition of exploitation, I don't know what is.
(DIR) Post #AZ2M4ZK6xtKBWzKvD6 by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2023-08-23T23:00:26Z
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@newt oh no how horrible the government uses your hard earned money (which you're making through an education provided by the government) to build libraries to educate people and keep information aliveLet's complain about that instead of the 700 billion military budgetThe definition of exploitation is forcing you to work while most of the value you produce is going straight into someone else's pocket. The U.S. government is that, true, because there you're not even getting anything back for your money. Pay as high taxes as in Europe, sometimes even higher, you get no public transport, no good or free (secondary) education, no healthcare.But then it's not just the government exploiting ya but also corporations, awesome country. Truly the land of the free haha
(DIR) Post #AZ2M4ZzwSMmjciuKPY by newt@stereophonic.space
2023-08-23T23:01:42.060267Z
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@ErikUden sorry, my education was provided by my parents. I didn't bother reading your post any further.
(DIR) Post #AZ2MGpRUrOoKzydYEi by newt@stereophonic.space
2023-08-23T23:03:17.613043Z
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@ErikUden also, i'm not a murrican. You should stop being such a shameful disgrace.
(DIR) Post #AZ2Mby7dmgtw02Qhnc by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2023-08-23T23:03:45Z
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@newt oh yeah, very normal country
(DIR) Post #AZ2MbytUulBMOSovOS by newt@stereophonic.space
2023-08-23T23:08:04.618759Z
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@ErikUden if i had a choice between 'murrica and Germany, I'd honestly choose 'murrica any time of the day. Sure, they are fat and uncultured, but at the very least it's not a retirement facility with the median age of 48 that is only considered a country because its neighbors hate it too much to invade.Fortunately for me, I don't have to live in either.
(DIR) Post #AZ2MmaxqE3d3MTugW8 by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2023-08-23T23:05:52Z
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@newt lmao this thread is a trainwreck - still, no matter what country you're from, the money that's going to public libraries is not where you should start complaining about government spending.
(DIR) Post #AZ2MmboJ4zb1zCSaIK by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2023-08-23T23:06:16Z
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@newt also being a libertarian is the most cringe ideology
(DIR) Post #AZ2Mmcba7n0mS1Vw6C by newt@stereophonic.space
2023-08-23T23:09:40.261189Z
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@ErikUden i'm not a libertarian either, so i suppose you are referring to yourself. Nice selfawareness!
(DIR) Post #AZ2OtQKINK0KIvne6a by newt@stereophonic.space
2023-08-23T23:33:50.672647Z
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@ErikUden going back to libraries. Honestly, I'd be ashamed if I shared your position in this argument, for it is both ignorant and extremely hypocritical.The libraries of paper books are inconvenient and cumbersome, as they are irrelevant. If I desired to read a book in paper -- any book at all -- I would simply send a PDF to the nearest printshop and they would deliver the book to me a few days later. Now, here is the fun part which makes you a hypocrite and evokes immeasurable disgust in what I could only call my soul. Your beloved government is the one who would probably try to stop me -- especially in Germany! -- because it is the party that makes running a torrent seedbox and freely sharing knowledge illegal. I mean, I do this anyway, but it's just me and I find this kind of risk more than acceptable.You may go and pat yourself on the back for making apologies for the truly vile and awful people because they maintain a few warehouses with paper in the day and age when paper has long since become a niche fetish, just like vinyl records have, all while these same people actually do the exact opposite of what you claim to support.When I have a son, I can only hope that he grows into someone who doesn't resemble you in any way.
(DIR) Post #AZ2PdQHOsgITTqNbY8 by newt@stereophonic.space
2023-08-23T23:40:19.928944Z
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@joey @lain @ErikUden hey! I bought one of my longboards from Amazon! It doesn’t have any electronics in it tho. Just some wood, metal, rubber, and a barely clothed chick painted on the bottom.
(DIR) Post #AZ2PnYkWFIjge0pj7o by newt@stereophonic.space
2023-08-23T23:41:41.861441Z
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@ErikUden dammit! This guy blocked me. He must be truly ashamed of himself :akko_wtf:
(DIR) Post #AZ2QtFbmQMWsyI1Vh2 by genmaicha@stereophonic.space
2023-08-23T23:53:46.307253Z
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@ErikUdenFACT #1: American libraries are not always free and government-funded. I'm a member of a public library and also a private library. The private library has better books than the public one, but probably puts less money towards purchasing books since its collection is smaller. Also, many public libraries were created by philanthropic CAPITALISTS like Andrew Carnegie, who wanted to educate people so that they could escape poverty just like he did when he was young. The government wasn't even doing this at the time. Crazy!FACT #2: The current president of the American Library Association self-identifies as a Marxist. I would prefer to have the choice to patronize libraries that aren't part of the ALA, because Marxism is as evil as it is stupid. And no, I'm not suffering from "false consciousness"--I actually used to be a Marxist, but ended up abandoning it after I learned more about history and culture, and after I had the misfortune of observing what Marxists on the internet and in real life are like. Unfortunately, the government would imprison or even kill me if I didn't pay my taxes, so some of the money I earn gets swindled to pay liberals like yourself to talk down to people who just don't want to be bothered. Hopefully that will change someday!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Drabinski@newt
(DIR) Post #AZ2unQPYLONJMZRURc by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-08-24T05:32:01Z
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"Capitalists" are people whose primary goal is to accumulate capital. @ErikUden> Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRMAre they not?@newt> stop calling everything you don't like capitalismWhy? We're using "capitalism" as defined by the person who coined the term (Karl Marx). You can choose to use a non-standard definition that means the opposite if you like, but criticising people for using the original one seems... disingenuous.@ErikUden
(DIR) Post #AZKH0b4LWwFCrTWn2G by Zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com
2023-09-01T14:31:08.237356Z
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@ErikUden Maybe DRM is good after all.blob
(DIR) Post #AZKKQmJQeNmP7il5Ps by masterbr1an@fosstodon.org
2023-08-23T21:43:24Z
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@ErikUden . this is why i have a server to keep libgen alive.
(DIR) Post #AZKKUWtxtAr6UDdXZg by newt@stereophonic.space
2023-09-01T15:09:25.672334Z
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@masterbr1an @ErikUden you are doing God's work, brother. Carry on!
(DIR) Post #AbAhZQGNuUMrqIr9JA by adiz@soc0.outrnat.nl
2023-10-26T19:25:50.592Z
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@ErikUden@mastodon.de Really, any group or movement regardless of ideology or politik could do this. The full digitalization of data and the loss of physical records is a hugely dangerous precedent no matter what. Hell, a solar flare or something could potentially be a future equivalent to the burning of the Library of Alexandria in a completely digital age.
(DIR) Post #AbWqBUO6X3LLxxbr9M by stevenbodzin@thepit.social
2023-11-06T11:36:07Z
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@ErikUden Hardcover books should come with a chip built in that contains the audio and digital versions of the book. I don't care if there is some sort of DRM that requires the book to be nearby for it to work. All I want is to have an included audio version that I own. In the 20 years since digital books have been popular I have probably bought two and maybe 10 audiobooks. I would buy so many more if I could actually own them.
(DIR) Post #AbWqBVJB6qzsoyJR6u by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2023-11-06T11:45:54.109505Z
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@stevenbodzin You want physical books to come with proprietary software built in? Damn.It would really be quite cheap to include a DIP-8 EEPROM chip with digital and audio versions (most books both with fit into 16MiB of space and those are extremely cheap at volume), but the "problem" then would be how the SPI interface isn't really very good for implementing digital handcuffs, as flashrom will soon have support added for all of the broken reading modes.
(DIR) Post #AbWrfXOo05u5wmpV4a by stevenbodzin@thepit.social
2023-11-06T11:55:27Z
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@Suiseiseki there's a difference between "I want" and "I don't care"
(DIR) Post #AbWrfYY3jAtrVmAP8S by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2023-11-06T12:02:31.557611Z
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@stevenbodzin Sure, but entertaining the idea that digital handcuffs are acceptable is arguably wanting it (not caring would probably be not mentioning such unless asked).Don't forget that copyright law already restricts the copying of such creative works, so there is no legal reason for such handcuffs to be implemented for any reason, unless of course it's desired that people can't carry out the limited amounts of legal things that can be done even with proprietary books and audio files.
(DIR) Post #AbXcNtsYNVQaIfpsYq by pesasa@mastodon.social
2023-11-06T20:43:48Z
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@ErikUden Uh... All ebooks I have bought are non-drm ePub files. On my own hard drive and non-Kindle ebook reader. 😸
(DIR) Post #AbXyR8kjjQQoI785lQ by lispi314@udongein.xyz
2023-11-07T00:34:29.740847Z
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@newt @ErikUden Wait, you've got print shops in your country that don't cost several magnitudes more than using libraries?Wow that's really fuckin weird.In my country, most public libraries are linked to a network where you can make the request for a given book they have, it will be delivered *at no cost to you* at the library where you made the request and you can then read the book.This also would be within the span of a few days, so your print shops do not have any sort of advantage.
(DIR) Post #AbXyR9nxoubhYPeBQu by newt@stereophonic.space
2023-11-07T00:52:42.531161Z
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@lispi314 @ErikUden oh god someone dug up this thread. Erik blocked me, btw.Sure, we do have printshops here. Printing a copy of Milton’s “Paradise Lost” did cost me about 15 euro. And unlike with a library, I get to keep it and put notes in it.Then again, printing books isn’t something I often do. Reading from a screen is much more versatile.
(DIR) Post #AbXyRAzhOlaXF694Ma by lispi314@udongein.xyz
2023-11-07T00:48:55.251895Z
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@ErikUden @newt Also, paper remains useful for long-term archival (commercially available digital archival media are still mostly *jokes* in terms of how long it all lasts, how much it costs and how much constant maintenance and attention it requires) and is also usable during power outages or in other low-power conditions.
(DIR) Post #AbYDDheueaNjoCSLke by Pxtl@mastodon.social
2023-11-07T03:36:12Z
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@ErikUden small ebook sellers do sell drm-unencumbered ebooks but they're very rare.It's very frustrating since music and podcasts are on open standards where the buyer's rights are protected, and yet ebooks are still wrapped up in nonsense.
(DIR) Post #AcFIC7nIcfJBUUB5Wa by NonPlayableClown@postnstuffds.lol
2023-11-27T22:27:09.972240Z
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Or... just keep your own personal collection of physical media and pdfs.Who seriously uses a library anymore?
(DIR) Post #Ao8ersBATGQ0BwsRCS by grrrr_shark@supervolcano.angryshark.eu
2024-11-17T16:03:23Z
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@ErikUden this, this, this.I have been cringing about this since otherwise sensible infosec colleagues started to move their entire lives into the cloud in the 2010s. And really, since all photos went digital as well.Make local copies. Crack DRM and save your books that way if you can. Buy DRM-free stuff and print books and physical copies. Print the best of your photos on archival paper if you can afford that.Of course, the information flood makes most of us too busy and overwhelmed to do it, but it is gonna be necessary.
(DIR) Post #Ar0g4k5vNDseQgnllA by KathrinBB@mastodon.social
2025-02-11T13:15:31Z
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@ErikUden Krass, wie sich deine Worte von 2023 im Jahr 2025 bereits bewahrheiten! Auch deshalb:https://linktr.ee/peacefulprotest?fbclid=IwY2xjawIYLK5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHWcnpmZrPrxSskeqW5YLv02sXIsPKxCXBHpPudEWi7hKotFpGDARqJ4TpQ_aem_U3Ud_QIX1veMuQ0evFwjEw
(DIR) Post #Ar0hzoc5LTrSu8cglc by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2025-02-11T13:37:04Z
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@KathrinBB Oh man... Hätte Ich mir nicht gewünscht.
(DIR) Post #Ar0iIoOKOWntibFKs4 by KathrinBB@mastodon.social
2025-02-11T13:40:22Z
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@ErikUden Nee natürlich nicht! Die Rechten vernetzen sich gerade massiv - von Milei über Trump bis Netanjahu, Orban, Melonie oder die AfD!Und die Netzwerke dahinter, flankiert von der Kanälen wie Fox oder Nius!Die Grundfrage (meine ich) ist: wieso haben LINKE nie so viel Geld für Vernetzung, Medien, BESITZ!Das ist die Grundfrage seit über 100 Jahren und mMn der Csuss Cnaxus.
(DIR) Post #ArJuqU6PE3mk5lvPAe by sbfclt@mamot.fr
2025-02-20T20:00:29Z
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@ErikUden "Funnily", I was precisely discussing this topic with colleagues, today, during the lunch. DRMs as a way to make "autodafés" (book burning) obsolete.Could this ultimately lead to a ban of paper and ink ?
(DIR) Post #ArePN5vwR0pNyDHJZo by publixpace@nrw.social
2025-03-02T17:16:47Z
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@ErikUden That warning has not only aged well, but rejuvenated itself in recent days.