Notices by Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary (pteryx@dice.camp)

@pluralistic "The power to exercise your rights" is an increasingly relevant concept in general. See also the crackdown in the US against protesters the government doesn't like.

@pluralistic I've long worried that this tactic would be used against ordinary citizens too, just with different laws being selectively enforced. Frankly, copyright law as it stands is ideal for this purpose: penalties far, FAR out of proportion to the harms, and widespread flouting of it by ordinary people.

@Optional I'm pretty sure @pluralistic could explain this one more fully and easily than I have the energy to.

I suppose I didn't make an #introduction because there isn't a lot to introduce, in the context of a society that's very much productivity-first.

I'm Pteryx, and also PuzzleSecretary. I've never really fit in anywhere for long. I learned traumatically at a young age that our society is unfair and controlling; therapists are part of that trauma, so never suggest therapy. I'm unemployed out of fear of exploitation and disgust with our society.

I struggle to create anyway. Mainly, I roleplay.

@lamp @doyce You'd think so, but it's very, very commonplace. You see it all the time in EULAs, for example.

And McD's is forcing this bullshit onto merely visiting their website too, so no more looking at their menu either...