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X11 screen lockers are not secure at all if you can get them to crash in any way, they revert to showing the full desktop unprotected.

What would be the point of a program owning a patent? Is it going to charge you royalties for use? Where does that money go? If it gets it’s own bank account, what happens when you run two instances of the same program? Do you split the account in half and then join it when one exits?

It’s all nonsensical anyway.

Does it seem unlikely? the rise of buy now pay later services for non essential retail shows the average person is fairly financially illiterate and will put present comforts ahead of future finances.

Landlords will be extremely cautious from now on and only selecting tenants that they believe will continue paying through laws like these.

Australia did it better by just providing a regular income to everyone who lost their job. That way everyone keeps paying their bills/rent and things return to normal after.

There are absolutely some % of people who are so poor at financial management that they used the last year as a chance to not pay rent and instead buy luxuries. These people have dug themselves a huge hole.

I feel like the “server test” rule OP talks about doesn’t really matter and shouldn’t. Who cares if the browser downloaded it from Instagram or the site itself. The actual result is the same. It would make sense that embedding is exactly the same as reposting, either allowed or not allowed for both.

A similar situation is that I can listen to music on my phone with Spotify legally but if I plug my phone in to a speaker system and play the music for a large group in public, it’s no longer allowed. But the music actually came from Spotify so how is it different?

Tech people always feel entitled to loopholes in laws like “this file is just a bunch of bits, how can a number be illegal??” But this thinking is not useful for a functional legal system.

Probably more of a pain if you have a large amount of data and a slow internet connection. For me it all fits in the 50GB file and downloads in a few minutes. I guess pulling out 1TB of data on a slow connection would be difficult but I can’t see how google could make it better since downloading and extracting a 1TB zip on its own would be almost impossible.

If a literal terrorist files a complaint then the police department can pick them up. The complaints department only needs to handle local citizen complaints.

Did this for years. Finally gave up last year. It’s so much work, discovery is a huge pain, listening on all devices is a pain. None of it was worth it.

Now I just use Spotify and don’t care. I don’t need the extra work in my life.

That’s fine and valid, but many people make enough money where slumming it for some small savings no longer makes sense.

macOS still offers benefits. If you have an iPhone, everything is synced up for you so your reminders set on your Mac will ping you on your phone. You get the anti loss/theft features of find my, the insanely efficient M1 chip and a load of other things.

The catch is it costs more then an iPhone, gets about 2 hours battery even if the screen is off, and has a cpu slower than a $50 android.

This just proves it’s even harder. Even if by some insane luck you manage to build something that is very good, the general public still doesn’t want it.

And only a tiny fraction of them would care. I’m quite happy with my iPhone and don’t want a random HN freedom phone. I don’t ever even intend to develop something for my phone and if I did, I would want to target android and iOS.