Venia Silente

I like your logic.

A chain with an iron ball would be far cheaper tbh.

In the US system at least it matters not if your claim is legitimate, the mere fact that you can file it poses a severe risk.

Patent system needs fixing from the foundations up. Or even better, full abolition.

In the meantime, what’s the better actually open codec to reencode to?

But all of those are VPs are patent encumbered, right?

We all knew this was going to happen one day or another.

Where’s Theora these days, byw? Wasn’t it the encoding blessed by the license druids?

My understanding is we have the Dutch to blame for that as they named him “Sante” and Spanish-speaking countries adapted the sound into “a” for whatever reason. Basically it’s “whole” proper name derived from elsewhere.

Yeah, “Santo” is the better example. I’m actually not sure if there’s any particular distinction for why sme place names are “San” and other are “Santo”, perhaps it comes from historical baggage from whichever branches of explorers / conquerers founded each town.

It’s because nouns in Spanish carry gender! Which is crazy but it works.

“San Francisco” → Francisco is a male name.

“Santa Bárbara” → Baŕbara is a female name.

Well, the entire procedure requires you to first trust the snail mail chain in the first place, so it’s a different category of trust that “trust a CC provider”. Snail mail used to be sacred, but it’s been known not-to for a long while now. And at the point that you can expect the acabs are willing to inkdust and laser your mail for biological traces, that means you are facing a nation-state adversary with nation-state power, so you should be looking into nation-state level defenses instead.

I’m not sure entering the ponzi scheme that is cryptocurrencies would have helped in this case.

Furthermore, you can pay with bitcoin or even cash (sent to their HQ by mail). That way they’d have even less on you.

With the caveat that in some of their procedures they (seem to?) require to append account information in the mail, so if the postage can be traced back to you that’s an issue.

And that’s why I only use Proton’s free tiers. If they are going to openly support Dementia Don and openly hand out their users to fascist governments like Spain or the US, then I can at least do my part by being a financial burden to them.

When was that? They took in the Nazi gold.

Well my eyes are also boiling…

H–How???

To be fair, getting into share is more like two cheat codes: in the path to achieve it, you also build up discipline.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

This world is full of evil, we have to be willing to take in what little good we can get for what it is until people start doing really better. If Operation Epstein kills 150 schoolgirls and Trump, I of course won’t be celebrating that 150 schoolgirls are dead, but also I’m not going to lie or omit that Trump dying is the only good thing coming out of that. What, you want me to lament that Trump is dead?

That’s the point, under capitalism.

I would celebrate Trump death but not the 150 children. Gotta learn to compartimentalize and all that, in a complex world.