2026-10-18 08:50 UTC
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@aud@spectre.asta.lgbt 2026-10-18 08:51
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place "but that's just not reasonable", says man with skin in the game for the existing system of governance that has led to this point.
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@MachineLordZero@mastodon.social 2026-10-18 10:48
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place There's a part of me that wants to meet them all of the way, whether they like it or not. With violence.
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@arclight@oldbytes.space 2026-10-18 11:59
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place Sounds great - where and when? I'll buy coffee. #InteriorNarratorJustInformedMeThisWasNotALiteralInvitation
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@khaleer@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-10-18 12:10
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place hear me out, maybe I have no idea how to code, but at least ai can do it for me, for lower pay than a person who knows what is he doing. /s because it's our timeline
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@budududuroiu@hachyderm.io 2026-10-18 12:17
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place counterpoint: people shouldn't need to hoard information and knowledge to make a living, copyright should cease to exist
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@Npars01@mstdn.social 2026-10-18 13:38
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@miniBill@mastodon.uno 2026-10-18 14:02
@RnDanger@infosec.exchange @budududuroiu@hachyderm.io @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place without copyright the GPL wouldn't exist. Without the GPL companies are free to take from the commons without ever giving back. Lineage OS would likely not exist without the GPL
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@miniBill@mastodon.uno 2026-10-18 14:56
@RnDanger@infosec.exchange @budududuroiu@hachyderm.io @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place it's not the taking from the commons that hurts, is the never giving back. Is the asymmetry where corpos have access to the labour of volunteers but those in return get nothing
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@miniBill@mastodon.uno 2026-10-18 15:05
@Newhereish@mastodon.social @RnDanger@infosec.exchange @budududuroiu@hachyderm.io @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place technically true, but I think it misses the imbalance. Jeff Bezos can take software that is freely available and use it to have AWS make him more money. You and I can't take the software that runs AWS because the code will never be visible, regardless of copyright.
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@miniBill@mastodon.uno 2026-10-18 15:19
@RnDanger@infosec.exchange @Newhereish@mastodon.social @budududuroiu@hachyderm.io @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place yupp, shit sucks and I have no clue how to make it suck less. Well, for copyright specifically we should cut the duration by a metric ton, but that's just a patch over a system that has systematically (eh) failed at its purpose. I'm just saying that I'm not convinced that "tear it all down" would be an improvement. It's easy to destroy, harder to rebuild
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@miniBill@mastodon.uno 2026-10-18 15:24
@Newhereish@mastodon.social @RnDanger@infosec.exchange @budududuroiu@hachyderm.io @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place I'm actually pretty convinced we'd be _worse_ off without trademark law? You wouldn't be able to distinguish knockoffs from legit products? Agreement that copyright laws have gone waaaaaaaay to far and are mostly helping corpos tho
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@miniBill@mastodon.uno 2026-10-18 15:26
@RnDanger@infosec.exchange @Newhereish@mastodon.social @budududuroiu@hachyderm.io @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place oh yeah, for sure, the enclosure of the (intellectual) commons is a fucking tragedy (see: scientific journals, the absolute state of mobile software, ...)
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@miniBill@mastodon.uno 2026-10-18 15:17
@Newhereish@mastodon.social @RnDanger@infosec.exchange @budududuroiu@hachyderm.io @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place trademarks don't protect ideas tho. They _are_ abused, but the purpose of trademarks is to prevent Shady Corpo LLD from selling a product with the same name as yours except theirs is made of people and now everyone thinks you're evil.
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@miniBill@mastodon.uno 2026-10-18 15:21
@Newhereish@mastodon.social @RnDanger@infosec.exchange @budududuroiu@hachyderm.io @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place - "words are considered property" - brands more than words. You can't trademark "water", you can trademark "wowtrrrr". And they can get diluted (see: post-it) - "descriptions have owners" - that's patents, not trademarks - "concepts remain locked behind companies" - it _is_ a problem but it's not caused by trademarks
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@miniBill@mastodon.uno 2026-10-18 15:25
@Newhereish@mastodon.social @RnDanger@infosec.exchange @budududuroiu@hachyderm.io @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place I think that would be a bad idea but I support your enthusiasm and I think you should keep fighting for what you believe in 💜
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@miniBill@mastodon.uno 2026-10-18 15:32
@Newhereish@mastodon.social @RnDanger@infosec.exchange @budududuroiu@hachyderm.io @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place trademark law aim is not to prevent you from duplicating the big mac and selling it as such (although it _does_ also do that), it's designed to prevent someone from mixing sawdust and food coloring and selling that as a "Big Mac made by McDonalds", and then you going to the supermarket and having no way to distinguish bad food from literal sawdust
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@miniBill@mastodon.uno 2026-10-18 15:35
@Newhereish@mastodon.social @RnDanger@infosec.exchange @budududuroiu@hachyderm.io @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place and maybe it would be enough! I'm not convinced it would, though. Oh, and to state the obvious I'm mostly playing devil's advocate here, I see a lot of well-intentioned people who are very keen on tearing down unjust systems and try to point at "before destroying an unjust system, it would be great to have an idea on what to use to replace the good things it was doing".
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@witchgirls@woof.tech 2026-10-18 14:03
@RnDanger@infosec.exchange Copyleft.