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- They drove there in their own vehicle
- They were seen on CCTV cameras going there and back
- They turned off their phones around the time when the tree was cut down
- They filmed it being cut down
- They took a photo of a piece of the tree in the back of their car
- They discussed it over text messages and voice notes as the media coverage picked up
- They pled not guilty 🤣
It ain't made with mematic
honest work
Format-shifting and time-shifting your legally acquired and licensed media is not illegal. If the DRM is preventing someone from doing that then it is within their rights to remove the DRM. Recall that not everyone lives in a country subject to the draconian DMCA law.
I frequently access Lemmy through quite old hardware, and I'd be a bit worried that these PoW scripts would make the site unusably slow for me.
That pretty much sums it up, well said.
I take issue, though, with the repeated misspelling of "vulture capitalist."
Who is "we"?
Does Unraid still use JBOD with a single parity disk or have they moved to a sane drive layout?
Please tell me you're not vibe coding this project.
I will describe how it works and the ethics of such a tool.
Where in this post do you describe the ethics of such a tool?
non-technical users believe that their votes are private, which is far from the truth. This attitude could potentially lead to harassment of Lemmings (yes, that’s what we Lemmy users call ourselves) for upvoting a particular post. Lemvotes makes it clear that votes are not private, which could help bring a more accurate picture of the way votes work on Lemmy to its users.
This is what needs discussion. It is this tool which will lead to harassment due to the way someone votes. And the threat or spectre of harassment will lead to the Chilling Effect, ie. self-censorship (of voting) to avoid harassment.
The chilling effect this causes will make communities even more like echo-chambers, as dissent will be pre-emptively squashed.
Without a tool like this existing, people have to go out of their way to find out this information (setting up their own instance, or finding someone who already does this surreptitiously). By making such a tool available to the lemmy community at large, you make it extremely easy for anyone to do this, and so the chance of harassment occurring is much higher.
You might think you're being clever, or on some kind of crusade to educate the uneducated. But actually your actions are making this (community-built) platform worse. Compare your actions to releasing a 0-day exploit for a security vulnerability instead of responsibly disclosing. It doesn't help, it just causes chaos until the people who do the actual work can figure out a solution.
Think about how your tool existing now changes the dynamic of Lemmy as a whole. Is it better, or worse? How would you actually solve this problem in Lemmy, instead of exploiting it?
paywall :(