Duplicated question, I’m closing the topic.

If they count VBa as Visual Basic is not surprise.

You’ll be amazed on the amount of development that’s being made over MOffice in not technology companies.

Do you know which modded games are affected? I was thinking of nuking windows now that gaming on linux seemed like it was viable.

I grew up with XP, vista was worse and windows 7 was ust better. Windows 8 was terrible. Windows 10 better than 8 but worse than 7.

I haven’t even try windows 11.

IP law firms tried to get their cases into my country and they only got a 50% success rate on court so they stopped trying (cost benefit thing I suppose).

Also private trackers in my country do not allow the use of VPN (why do they care IDK, they say it is to have more control on who join), so there’s little point on getting a VPN for piracy here.

I agree with all those points.

I don’t know if adding exceptional cases to de equation adds to the argument or not. But there are many instances where the ones selling the product are not the ones that made it, and the ones that made it will never see a penny of what you paid for. This is true in old games/media, where rights were bought long ago by corporations and creators see nothing. Also true in any big production made by a big corporation with many workers. The workers who actually create the IP were paid by hour, while corporations and investors get to keep milking the product after creators had been paid.

This will invalidate any argument about creators getting compensated for their work. For those cases at least.

For small boilerplate or very common small pieces of code, for instance a famous algorithm implementation. Yes. As they are just probably giving you the top stack overflow answer for a classic question.

Anything that the LLM would need to mix or refactor would be terrible.

Let our motto be:

Anus together strong.

All my homies search for apps first in F-Droid and only use google play if there is no other option.

I sporadically use it. Sometimes it can pin point the specific algorithm I need that I didn’t know about.

AFAIK if you open an instance videos are hosted in your instance, and may be replicated in other instances via Federation.

Also it supposedly can work p2p if mutiple users are watching the same video it distributed the download. In my experience nowadays it always end using http download.

Moderation an everything about ita users fall into the instance host and moderators. I don’t know if you can do an approval system, I would suppose so, but I’m not certain.

Everyone say to use an AdBlock. And while for now they work it’s a lose battle.

Youtube ads vs adblockers does not have the happy ending of adblockers just always prevailing.

As now embedded serverside ads are a pain to deal with. I don’t know if any adblock currently can surpass those.

But next step will be youtube just putting a fence up and not letting you watch content unless you are registered, and thus banning any suspicious activity, or even just becoming a paid service.

The only win here is moving to a open platform like Peertube. That’s the only future we can ensure. Adblocks won’t be able to always win.

Youtube is useless nowadays.

We need more content in PeerTube if we want that kind of website again.

Well, that’s bad then.

Where I live its true that that part of the tax refund is already filled by our IRS equivalent. We have to fill the income that they don’t know about, and our deductions, which can be quite complex.

That’s not entirely true.

Not an US citizen. And in my country tax returns are certainly easier than the US. And our country also have a system in which people below certain money can just go to the tax agency and a government employee will do your tax return for you. But it cannot be fully automated, as the government doesn’t actually know 100% what do you own.

When they send you letters after asking for things is for you to give them paper documentation on why you deducted some things, or because they are inspecting some things a your deduction raised a flag. But it’s not like they just know precisely how much everyone should pay. If it were that easy tax returns would not be a thing as it is in most of the world.

From cuttings.

It’s not even new. We had it from centuries.

What I mean is what is already happening in some countries, that is having laws that makes extra easy for copyright lawers to sue anyone using torrent for sharing their IP.

You use a vpn to other country without that ban. Once enough countries apply that ban. Where are you going to VPN to?

Ask Germany. Torrenting without VPN is almost imposible, you’ll get sued by copyright lawyers.

I do not avoid hoarding.

I’m like a dragon with a media treasure stored in high capacity industrial HDDs.

Someday the age of pirates may come to an end, and I want to be prepared.