And this is the reason why apple and other companies jump on the trend. Many of these manufacturers also sell Bluetooth headphones and they want people to buy them instead of cheaper wired ones.

Some of them make excuses but this is one of the primary reasons, and some of the excuses are so transparently stupid it isn’t even funny. Like saying they removed it so people can use Bluetooth headphones (as if presence of the headphone jack prevents use of Bluetooth headphones 🙄).

I still have one in my phone, and external SD card storage too. Another thing that they want gone (cloud storage agenda).

I don’t think people understand, big companies don’t want copyright to go away. They want themselves to be untouchable while being able to make strikes against poor people. They probably also want to change it so unlike now where copyright is about coming first they’d rather it be about being rich.

What big tech companies really want is the opposite of copyright abolition. They want control, they’ve always wanted control. Make no mistake, no matter how much they make it seem like it, they aren’t on the side of piracy.

Anyone is free to build it themselves. Someone could even distribute their own build from the same source under a different name completely legally.

You could just as easily in the spirit of this community do it with the same name and code, same way they do it for cracked games. Don’t tell me it’s not done because there are security concerns, you have no way to tell if cracked games contain secret malware in them yet people still distribute and download those.

They bank on users being lazy and then pay for the convenience.

And also pirates to not outright rip them off, which seems to be working for some reason…

They’re banking on your low standards.

Yeah this is unfortunately common, and many people are quick to defend developers like that making excuses.

It is. I mean yes it’ll be replaced by others just as bad or worse, and maybe might come back again anyway, but it’s still a huge win for now.

That actually seems really scary, I’m thankful that the only people I know who were affiliated with 4chan are people I only know online or don’t live anywhere near me.

Does ffmpeg handle DVD decryption through libdvdcss? I don’t think it does, it’s a tool mainly meant for file conversion and encoding of mpeg files. I could be wrong though.

At least it got leaked at all. Hopefully we’ll get another leak in the future.

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It’s not “a bit misleading” for them to call it unlimited and then ban people for using too much data, it’s extremely misleading, almost bordering on scammy. If I were OP I would’ve done a chargeback and switched VPNs instead of begging them for an unban. They deserve it for lying and trying to deceive customers. Vote with your wallet (and chargebacks) if you want companies to stop doing shitty shady like this.

Sure it does, it makes it so newcomers can’t view the chat history, it makes less sense to encrypt a room anyone can join but it doesn’t make no sense at all.

Huh, could’ve sworn when I joined it the first time it was encrypted since it said I can’t see the history of encrptypted messages and I got “can’t decrypt message” errors a few times on my Android client.

Is the Piracy room on Matrix an acceptable place to ask for that kind of stuff? I mean it is End-to-End Encrypted. Even if it isn’t allowed there you could always ask someone else via DM on Matrix, is why I highly recommend people make and link their matrix accounts to their Lemmy profiles. You do have to know who to ask of course but these types of vague posts are great for that.

Note: Can’t use Lemmy’s built-in DMs you need to use Matrix or some other E2EE service, especially if they’re going to share direct links to you. Don’t use a corporate one like Facebook messenger or Whatsapp which is advertised as E2EE, those are a scam and they break their own encryption.

Most rational and sensible Beehaw take I’ve seen yet /s

Well they don’t have to show up as hashtags to users on Lemmy, they can show up as their own designated tags you add to the post on creation of editing. Just some form of post tags to indicate the category of a post (could even be specific to communities like subreddit flairs) but they would show up as hashtags on Mastodon, similar to how Lemmy already embeds a hashtag of the community into posts.

Do you plan to introduce some kind of post tags into Lemmy, preferably something that will behave like Hashtags on Mastodon and other activitypub platforms? I know that Lemmy has been embedding community name as a hashtag for a while now, though having tags that can be populated by users would help discovery greatly.

And the name is derived from an awful slur too. The history of that is really messed up.

Maybe recursive DNS will become much more popular. I’d love to see faith and compliance with ICANN and IANA erode at least a little bit. Centralized DNS is the Achilles heel of the open internet, and yes that extends to activitypub based platforms which federate via domains.

It is? This is the diagram I have laminated and glued on my termination kit never had any issues with it.