brot

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[–] brot@feddit.org 1 points 45 minutes ago

You don't need a kill switch. If you're flying F35 and the US decides to cut you off, you won't get replacement parts. Some repairs are only available in the US, so your fancy bird won't fly much longer

[–] brot@feddit.org 39 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Reddit is calculating its MAU differently. They seem to be counting even not-logged-in users coming from search engines - without that numbers like "1 billion monthly active users" really don't make any sense and even that is a crazy metric, if you think about it. There is no way that 1/8 of humanity is browsing on Reddit in a month. Lemmy seems to count only users who are doing something (submitting, commenting, upvoting)

[–] brot@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The problem is that many companies can't do that as they can't give you their custom server code. The only solution here would be to change design from the beginning so that devices can work without servers and are also so secure that they don't need security updates

[–] brot@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago

There is a difference between me reading a book and learning from it and one of the biggest companies in the world pirating millions of books for their business. And it really gets bad when normal users are getting sued for tenthousands of dollars when they download a book or a MP3 and Meta is getting defended for doing the same thing, but in a much larger scale.

Yes, we know that copyright is broken. But if it is broken, it has to be broken for all