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SheistyPenguin (sheistypenguin@chudbuds.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 23:46:29 JST 
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@chudbere
Pliskin with those quick mod reflexes ?️
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SheistyPenguin (sheistypenguin@chudbuds.lol)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 04:06:23 JST
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Looking at the text of the bill, my guess is that auto companies will do something basic like track how erratic your steering or braking is. More invasive would be tracking eye movement and pupil dilation.
I would not be surprised if it gets challenged in court and struck down as unconstitutional, if the methods of implementing it are too invasive. What happens if you need to drive someone to the hospital, but your car locks you out because it incorrectly detects that you are "driving impaired?"
Then again, historically courts have ruled that driving is a privilege and not a right, and you have a lowered expectation of privacy while in a vehicle... so tyranny may prevail here regardless.
The question is, what is supposed to happen if it detects these things? Slam on the brakes and cause an accident? Send a notice to local police, where it sits on a pile with other notices for every shitty driver in the area? -
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SheistyPenguin (sheistypenguin@chudbuds.lol)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 04:05:09 JST
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@elftummy
That's wild! Supposedly all charges were dropped because some paperwork wasn't filed on-time. If true, imagine being the investigator that bungled a case that big after months of investigation. https://www.foxnews.com/us/3-extremist-muslim-new-mexico-compound-suspects-released-after-judge-drops-all-charges
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SheistyPenguin (sheistypenguin@chudbuds.lol)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 09:09:02 JST
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@gnu2
So what *should* creators be doing to earn a living, if they aren't a bigCorp or at the top of the popularity pyramid already?
Let's go from the angle of FOSS. Say you release some open-source software under a GPL license. Someone else forks your code, closes the source, and starts selling it for a profit- maybe with some changes that break compatibility with your version. They become wildly popular as the creator of #yourapp- and if you try to assert yourself as the original creator, they will use their earnings to sue you into silence (or maybe nobody cares, because they are all using the closed-source version at this point).
Would you feel motivated to keep plugging away at your original version that nobody cares about anymore? No harm no foul, because nothing of value was lost- right? -
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SheistyPenguin (sheistypenguin@chudbuds.lol)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 08:30:42 JST
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@gnu2
> Besides losing potential profit isn't theft, it doesn't exist yet, that is natural in any market.
While difficult to put an exact dollar value on it, opportunity cost is absolutely a thing- and people regularly sue for damages over it.
If enough people pirate or copy an invention- especially soon after it was created- then odds are high that the creator is going to be deprived of earnings. Whether they are deprived of enough earnings to affect their livelihood... it depends. Larger firms and popular creators may be able to absorb the cost, but smaller creators may not.
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