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   meso (meso@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:28:03 JST meso
   i use nothing but corporate spyware and consumerist services and subscriptions when i have the choice not to but im a communist TRUST ME BRO
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     Iska (iska@catposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:27:51 JST Iska

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     @meso@new.asbestos.cafe @yomiel@new.asbestos.cafe @sally@freesoftwareextremist.com when did torrent stop being "normal" again? My big brother taught me when I was like 6 or 7

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     meso (meso@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:27:52 JST meso

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     • Yomiel
     @yomiel @sally hold on bro let me enter my password to my Hulu service hold on bro i havent paid it let me pay for my Netflix bro wait its not on Netflix i cant find the movie it must be on Paramount+ hold on okay wait i dont have paramount+ let me buy it wait hold on a second
     
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     Let me go to the store that sells blurays and has the exact masterpiece of a movie we want to watch (no one does that)
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     meso (meso@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:27:52 JST meso

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     • Yomiel
     @yomiel @sally Torrenting is the most convenient, least retarded and cumbersome way of acquiring media. if not for the ethical reason, this is why people should use it
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     Yomiel (yomiel@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:27:53 JST Yomiel

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     @meso @sally
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     meso (meso@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:27:54 JST meso

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     • Yomiel
     @yomiel @sally id look like lain when people came over to watch a movie if i wasnt jewish about showing them my movie list (it contains like 15 movies about men making out)
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     Yomiel (yomiel@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:27:55 JST Yomiel

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     @meso @sally
     CD's are good for cars. Blu-ray's are good for not looking like a stingy Jew when people come round to watch a movie.
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     meso (meso@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:27:56 JST meso

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     • Yomiel
     @yomiel @sally false nvke. I love CDs and I usually record to them and play them on my deck even doe I can just play music files. music files aren't as fun though
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     meso (meso@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:27:57 JST meso

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     • Yomiel
     @sally @yomiel or buying a CD of a song. it's an old antiquated way of doing things but it's fun it's got symbolism
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     Yomiel (yomiel@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:27:57 JST Yomiel

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     @meso @sally
     This is the most negroidic, zoomer thing you've ever said, unironically, kill yourself.
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     meso (meso@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:27:58 JST meso

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     • Yomiel
     @sally @yomiel buying games is a vanity thing, it's kinda like buying movie on BluRay or something
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     meso (meso@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:28:00 JST meso

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     • Yomiel
     @yomiel @sally GOG isn't ethical consumption, pirating games is
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     meso (meso@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:28:00 JST meso

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     • Yomiel
     @yomiel @sally sorry but my ideology is just "I like piracy and I hate corpos"
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     Yomiel (yomiel@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:28:01 JST Yomiel

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     @sally @meso
     In theory, something like GOG is ethical consumption under capitalism given a few more factors (at least according to GPL): Source code bundled with the product and a anonymous payment method. (Mail in cash, crypto, gift cards)
     
     I suppose the main problem is without heavy regulation it seems markets will inevitably become monopolistic and implement these authoritarian restrictions on products. Now it's not just music and games, its cars, consoles, computers, etc that have the evil restrictions.
     
     But it is funny to see communists, especially those who were like 'I'm going to mastodon if Elon buys twitter!' who are still there.
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     𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙 (sally@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:28:02 JST 𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙

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     The worst thing is their excuse is that there's no ethical consumption under capitalism or some shit, something that GNU proved wrong since 1985.
     
     
     Even then they should reject it out of principles and self-respect.
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:28:53 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     • Yomiel
     @yomiel @sally @meso Bonus points if you do it entirely from emacs without term?
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     Yomiel (yomiel@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:28:54 JST Yomiel

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     @sally @meso
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     𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙 (sally@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:28:55 JST 𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙

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     @yomiel @meso
     You used the wrong picture, it's this one.
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     Yomiel (yomiel@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:29:37 JST Yomiel

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     @nyanide @sally @meso
     As the GNU/Lord intended
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     Yomiel (yomiel@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:54:47 JST Yomiel

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     @meso @sally
     I know you're joking, but under any system with money artists must be rewarded with money to keep afloat.
     
     GPL permits this, meaning there is technically ethical consumption under capitalism.
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     meso (meso@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 03:42:01 JST meso

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     @sally @yomiel would totally buy blurays to have a collection tho or write my own
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     𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙 (sally@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 03:42:01 JST 𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙

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     @meso @yomiel
     
     In three decades there won't be any device that can play them.
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     Lina Inver?e (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 01:33:28 JST Lina Inver?e

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     @gabi @sally @Cyrillic @meso thats why he eats shit off his foot yeah
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     GNU/Gabi (gabi@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 01:33:30 JST GNU/Gabi

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     @sally @Cyrillic @meso
     I remind you that Richard Stallman is a Jew. While Javier Milei is not.
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     𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙 (sally@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 01:33:31 JST 𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙

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     @gabi @Cyrillic @meso
     
     I stopped reading when you mentioned that kike.
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     GNU/Gabi (gabi@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 01:33:32 JST GNU/Gabi

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     @sally @Cyrillic @meso
     I'm not a devotee of capitalism, but according to what I've learned from my president, Javier Milei, monopoly is not inherently bad — only when the State intervenes. Almost all existing monopolies or oligopolies today result from such intervention, which undermines competition.
     
     In free software, however, competition is genuine (only possible in a laissez-faire system). A clear example is the various GNU distributions, where the State or any central authority does not interfere.
     
     I fully agree with your point about cooperation. Richard Stallman has said that free software combines capitalist, socialist, and anarchist elements, and I completely agree. But claiming that it is inherently communist in nature is a total misunderstanding. I’m also not saying it follows an anarcho-capitalist philosophy. Stallman has been deeply critical of both systems in relation to free software.
     
     https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bill-gates-and-other-communists.html
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     𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙 (sally@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 01:33:33 JST 𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙

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     @gabi @Cyrillic @meso
     
     I agree that there's a certain flavor of competition in free software development but I wouldn't define it as capitalist competition, because capitalists compete for the purpose of destroying competition and building a monopoly to gain control of the economy and society, there's always a winner and a loser side, and ultimately everyone looses when a monopoly hits. Cooperation is also very unusual and the exception rather than the example with capitalism, no such thing with software freedom, mainly because the culture attached to the movement sees cooperation as something essential, else it would be a mess to build things like the GNU system.
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     GNU/Gabi (gabi@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 01:33:34 JST GNU/Gabi

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     @Cyrillic @sally @meso >Freedom >Communism Pick one. Free software, in fact, has capitalist nature, one of the most evident being competition. People that develop proprietary software do everything possible to impose their software as the only option for using a personal computer, creating monopolies and eliminating competition. In reality, the communist software is proprietary, as it seeks to restrict the user's freedom and concentrate control in the hands of a few. Claiming that a philosophy which advocates for controlling a computer program is communist is absolute foolishness. P.S.: Even if most GNU operating system distributions come with a version of Linux that includes binary blobs, there are multiple alternatives that do not, which proves that competition still exists. With proprietary software, on the other hand, you have no real choice: you either accept their terms or you don’t use the software.
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     Protoss (cyrillic@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 01:33:35 JST Protoss

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     @sally @meso I find this especially ironic because free software is inherently communist in nature, but they're not partaking because they majored in humanities and shit rather than real stuff
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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 01:35:47 JST GNU Too

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     @gabi what you on about?
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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 01:37:54 JST GNU Too

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     @gabi what you on about?
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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 01:41:38 JST GNU Too

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     For ideological reasons I prefer to pirate my first viewing. I've always felt any movie worth watching a second time is worth paying for. There is no reason not to make a digital file of your paid for media.
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     GNU/Gabi (gabi@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 02:08:56 JST GNU/Gabi

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     Sally said he would stop reading my post about free software because I mentioned an author who, according to him, is a "kike". This argument is fallacious and ridiculous, but it’s completely nonsensical in a debate on this topic, as the father of free software has that ancestry.