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  • Maybe it’s just me, but the only topic where i see people consistently complaining about paywalls is in publicly-financed research articles behind a paywall, which should definitely not be legal and fuck universities doing that shit. As for general news i haven’t seen so much complaints, but then again, maybe i just wooooshed through them.

    Personally I don’t really care in this context because i can go to the source if I’m that invested and don’t want to pay, their job is to keep track and sometimes summarize what happens in the industry. Seems reasonable to either pay or invest my own time. Adblock is non negociable tho.

















  • Once a software vendor demonstrates theyre untrustworthy, why would I risk using their products?

    How are you using windows then? They’ve had innumerable security breaches, not to talk about how MS demonstrates again and again that the only thing they care about is money. Does “trustworthy” mean “american” or “only sells my data to the USA gov and other US companies” then sure, it is trustworthy as fuck.

    Of course you will invalidate that with some mental gymnastics, but this same thing happens even with freaking usb (charge only, mind me) cables from aliexpress, with people saying they have fucking chips to spy on you. Again, racism.

    And spare us from the sophist personal attack on people you disagree with

    Try to put it however you want, but hating anything that comes from one place just because of that, then adding excuses is fucking racist.

    except there’s no question of there being significant Russian efforts to meddle in the US and other countries.

    And here comes the grand patriotic justification for racism! If you really don’t have shit to say about the actual software, just block me or something and spare me from your presence :)