I don’t care if they are fucking, as long it isn’t raping children on Epstein island.

Read at least the entire first sentence before you feel the need to comment, my dude.

And you seem to think that EU politics is a closed court accessible only for political royalty, which it is not.

I have a separate and isolated net for all my IoT and smart home devices but things like the telly, amp, media player etc need to have some network access. Makes me tired that this kind of fiddling is necessary.

After proposals come in, yes. If the only proposals coming in are from lobbyists of various corporations and interest groups, guess which matters are going to be on the table?

I can’t tell if this comment thread is filled with doomer basement dweller defeatists that use their worldview as excuse to not even try or foreign bot farms pushing said agenda.

If I remember correctly, Spotify has a revenue model that benefits bigger acts while said pay per stream. It makes sense when Spotify sees music as nothing but content to be consumed.

Let’s all lie belly up and do nothing and accept that nothing will ever change for the better because nobody else is doing it for us and it is impossible for us to change the world all alone. This is exactly the defeatist mindset that the economic elites want people to have.

You could do something small, like find out your representatives and write a personal mail to them, informing them from your point of view. With enough people doing small things and some doing big things the chances for things like this gaining traction are magnitudes bigger than giving up in advance. It takes a few hours to a few days depending on your dedication and whatever cost coffee is in your area of residence.

Yeah, I know. I have a blocklist for LG and other common brands compiled by someone else on my router DNS adblocker. But considering how sneaky they are with collecting information they should stay the fuck away from, I bet they have mechanisms to get around their common ad domains for the data that matters.

It’s not the politicians job to know everything but to make decisions and legislate based on information from the expertise. It is the people in the know that need to make the proposals for the politicians to bring it up. It’s us, the tech literate, that need to write proposals that are informative with arguments derived from trusted sources to make the politicians aware that these are concerns that need to be addressed.

Qobuz, Deezer, Tidal. All these steaming services pay artists more, do not try to push their AI down your throat and don’t have a CEO that calls music “content without production costs”.

My yahweh promises Israel be brought to the Hague and the illegal settlers have their plot in their prison bunk.

EU really should regulate against this kind of behaviour

Ugh. So blocklists were not enough. Time to isolate my telly on the router.

Good. I hope i can restart my monthly donations soon again.

In Sweden we have plenty of news about young people with parents from all over the world being deported despite being born here and had their education here and have a good job and are paying back in taxes.

Nobody but die hard nationalist and idiots are supporting this shit around here.

No. It’s called love.

I’m sure we all did and that’s why the developer decided to sell to Adobe so they could pay their bills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware Quite a lot of shareware trusted regular users to voluntarily pay for a licence.

Cool Edit Pro was not freeware unless you pirated it.