To do so, there would need to be a centralized or federated list of all accounts

Why would there be? The app would just search for the domain name first (let’s say “aussie.zone”) and then your username (in your case “hitmyspot”). That’s kinda how email works as well. What centralized database would you need to interrogate a server on login? It’s no different than the current implementation, only that you do not need to remember the website first, just enter the whole username in one go.

SMTube still seems to exist

The military-industrial complexes always have something to gain in wars (provided they manage to adapt in time). But there’s no other alternative industry that can supply the needed hardware to win a war, when an invasion happens. It just seems that’s all what our species can do best: kicking each other, then having a rest for a few dozen years and starting over.

No, I don’t think it will go like that.

But if piracy would go away, then it would mean we live in a great world:

• Software: FOSS/Freeware/Donationware software prevails. People want to use this kind of software, and this is the go-to for any appliance. People would be deeply affected if they could not use free (as both in freedom and/or money, as mentioned before) software - gone will be the days of everyone needing Adobe products or MS Office for their professional work, and the year of the Linux desktop would be in the history books.
• Movies and TV shows: They would be available anywhere, on demand, in any format. Or there would be this website where you would go to and watch whatever you would, without ads. It would kinda be the same with music.
• p0rn: I don’t have enough knowledge in this field, I just go to certain websites when I need. Guess it would be like on the previous point? idk.

As long as those points are not achieved, there will always be a need for piracy, and people will always find new ways to get their content. So far, I do not see us being somewhere even close to that ideal world, so there are plenty of reasons for piracy to exist.

I personally try to pirate things more ethically, for example I try to buy music and games whenever I can, but I know several people that pirate stuff just because they can.

Probably they just want to use the same app they’re using for listening to music. Although I also have them both. And I love AntennaPod more for podcasts, plus there’s no tracking, and it’s just a different experience overall.

So the OPML file does handle the read status as well? isn’t it just a format to export and import feeds inside a reader?

I immediately thought about ChatGPT or some other AI assistant with GPT in its name as an alternative to Copilot, lol.

News articles also in English from:

• Washington Post
• WSJ (Archived link)
• CNN
• The Guardian

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I remember I made a Kurt Cobain reference as a joke, and Facebook said I was breaking the rules against suicide or whatever.

Yeah, the same Facebook that was totally fine with an actual violent video I reported

From my understanding, they were already in debt to Moldova (not sure if I understood correctly).

For Moldova, however, this means that it eliminated a source for blackmailing from Russia. Despite also being state-owned, Transgaz and Romania don’t have a history of manipulating prices and cutting gas at will, just because of geopolitical interests and national politics of their clients.

Pretty much any game made by Valve. I have a bunch of friends that are really fans of them and I gradually started enjoying them as well.

two thirds are still two thirds - whether that’s 3 people out of 4 or 750.000 out of 1.000.000. And given that

A survey published in the journal BMC Psychiatry two months before the Taliban takeover found nearly half the population suffered from psychological distress.

I think the numbers are really worrying.

From what I understood, the gardens were, like, their headquarters. Bombing them would be their Achile’s heel.

Indeed, as @FunderPants said, Metro Last Light should answer some of your questions :D

Pretty cool. Dashy seems pretty much a start.me on steroids.

There’s also a kbin magazine for this (you can also post from Lemmy):

!startpages (https://kbin.social/m/startpages)

(L.E.: It didn’t render the handle as a hyperlink. I guess it was pretty clever for me to paste the link as well. You can copy and paste it in the search bar of beehaw, and you should find it)

It’s all fun and dandies until we upset poor Saudi Arabia 🤡🤡🤡

What a silly argument could someone against climate change activists come up with

With his very own existence

Don’t have kids

I maybe wouldn’t go that far, I would rather have a kid and teach them how to make this fucked world better.

I’m single anyway, tho, so little do I know.