That doesn’t excuse anything; it only illustrates what cancer the insurance industry is.

We also don’t have control over automatic number plate recognition, surveillance cameras, etc.

I, for one, have consistently avoided publishing photos of myself on the Internet my entire life (and I’ve been online since the '90s, so I was really ahead of the curve on that), and even shy away from being in other people’s photos as much as possible (sometimes you can’t avoid it without consequences, such as if it’s a driver’s license photo, or imposed by your employer, or the news covering an event you’re participating in, or that sort of thing). Even then, I still have very little confidence that I’ve managed to stay out of these sorts of facial recognition databases.

Paid proprietary software will too; the likes of Adobe and VMWare prove that.

Now pipe it through lolcat

The internet is ^{supposed to be} peer-to-peer

FTFY. Megalomaniacal corporations, especially advertisers and the copyright cartel, are Hell-bent on “fixing” that so they can better control and exploit everyone, though.

I was playing D&D (for the first time) and my party were a group of exterminators killing giant spiders on city rooftops. The first thing I did when we got up there was tie myself off to a chimney. Later, we were fighting a really big spider that was right at the edge of the roof:

Me: “I hurl myself at the spider.”

DM: “You mean you try to hit the spider, or try to grapple the spider…?”

Me: “IDK, I just throw all my body weight at it.”

The spider ended up splatted dead on the ground (traumatizing some unfortunate passerby), I ended up dangling off the side of the building, and one of my party members had to make a saving throw to dodge the rope as it swung through his square, LOL!

what use cases do you have in mind that require root access?

Ownership.

Aren’t these guys supposed to be tech geniuses or some shit?

Rich/famous tech people have never been “tech geniuses.” They’re always sociopathic business/marketing types.

I mean, that’s been obvious since Microsoft bought it.

But this is really more about how emulator devs ought to accept that Nintendo is going to try to persecute them and start keeping themselves anonymous to avoid being ruined by lawsuits, even though what they’re doing is neither illegal nor unethical.

Showing off your tattoos is kinda doxxing yourself. A weird choice for a !privacy post…

In the long run, shit like this is theft from the Public Domain.

Another thing, just like the LG TV screensaver ads from the other thread, that would be a felony if a natural person did it.

Why are we tolerating this criminal behavior by corporations?

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LibreCAD is 2D CAD.

LOL, no they won’t. They’ll just make you throw out your nail clippers and water, while routinely missing shit that’s actually dangerous.

On the contrary: that just goes to show what a fucking catastrophe for software freedom “Secure[sic] Boot” is.

And which parts does the AGPL violate? Because that’s what the article is about: it becoming available under the AGPL.

Google is so far off the deep end of “cloud” shit and surveillance capitalism that the people running the Play Store can no longer even conceive of software that’s incapable of spying because it doesn’t connect to the Internet to begin with.

It’s a sliding scale; it isn’t just ‘full privacy’ or ‘no privacy’.

Not only is it a sliding scale, it’s a multidimensional one because it also depends on what your threat model is. “Privacy” from an abusive partner snooping on your phone to discover your escape plan, “privacy” from Target trying to market diapers to you when nobody even knows you’re pregnant yet, “privacy” from Cambridge Analytica trying to psychoanalyze you so they can better target you with right-wing propaganda, and “privacy” from an authoritarian government because you’re a journalist trying to protect whistleblowers are all different goals that may require different strategies to achieve.

Efficient activism will make you a target for law enforcement.

…And privacy – better known as OPSEC, in this context – is a big part of how you defend yourself.

In other words, privacy is important because all those “more important problems” are dependent on it!