modern corporatism is a long way from the rights-respecting free trade that was originally meant by capitalism.
After seeing it cited multiple times in Das Kapital, I've recently read "The Condition of the Working Class in England". Read it for yourself to see what "was originally meant by capitalism".
Modern-day corporatism is not the worst form of capitalism (for the USians themselves), due to workers organizing and literally fighting for their rights in the past century.
While it's true that the ideology of liberalism "has its heart in the right place" - by that I mean it does advocate for human rights and development - it also promotes capitalism which is in direct contradiction with those ideals.
So you believe that a dictatorship of capital, wielding the power of state violence to suppress its enemies and plan the economy, is better than a stateless, classless, moneyless society? Basically what you're saying is that USSR was the absolute peak of societal development, and while I do like many faucets of USSR I will disagree here.
Again, if internet censorship in Russia has taught me anything is that people can learn this stuff pretty quickly. My 80+ grandma knows how to set up and use a VPN on her android phone.
Russia has been trying to make a whitelisted internet for over a decade. It's still easy to get around their blocks with obfuscated VPNs etc, even my parents can do it. It's really really difficult to implement this kind of blocks without breaking everything. It's possible to access the outside net even from China if you know what you're doing. Worst-case scenario, your local mesh network nerds will hook more and more people up to the network, eventually the town-local movie sharing groups will come back like in the good old days. And even if they shut all that down, movie swapping groups will pop up in big cities - piracy existed long before the internet, after all.
As for the hardware, well, yes, that's a concern on some level. But then again you can still play DVD-quality movies on 20 year old potatoes with Linux, and DVD-quality is quite watchable if you aren't too snobby about it. There's a lot of old computing hardware around, even if no new computers are produced starting now we will be fine for a while just with second-hand parts and dumpster diving. Perhaps the biggest concern for video content specifically is storage, which has a more limited lifetime and is also getting very difficult to find new, but if you're only aiming at DVD-quality, a few dozen TBs will give you something to watch for the rest of your life.
Most streaming services are nothing like Steam. "Your" stuff can disappear with no notice and no ability to watch it even if you have it "downloaded" due to layers of DRM.
It's hilarious when you neoliberals of lemmy, post on your communist-built platform, raging about communists on our communist instance... just move. I'll send you the URL, reddit is dying for people to move there. You and SatansMaggotyCumFarts both.
I'm not convinced. The edges of laser-cut plywood are not smooth, they still have a rough grainy texture to them, and they're also covered in soot which is probably not conducive to music playback.
I'm really interested in hearing what this sounds like, but I don't expect much.
Yeah, if you've ever tried to polish up wood (without any sort of coating), you know it's almost impossible to make it completely smooth, it always has a certain texture to the touch. And here, where you have to pretty much cut it once and can't polish it at all, it's probably going to retain a lot of that texture in the groove. So I guess it is possible that it might """play""", but it would probably be mostly noise with some music coming through at times.
Fuck I though this was a satirical shitpost but it's real. This seems like the last stop before that patent about yelling the company name to get back to your content...
The constitution prohibits “ex post facto” laws - how can you revoke someone’s documentation when they complied with the laws as they were at the time?
I agree with you generally that this should be illegal, but it probably isn't.
It definitely isn't ex post facto; this is not a law that punishes anyone from a legal perspective, it merely changes the requirements for a certain privilege (the ability to drive a vehicle). If it declared these licenses invalid before the date of the law (which could carry punishments for illegally operating vehicles), then it would be ex post facto.
Another way to put it is that it simply makes a certain action illegal which was previously legal, and laws do that sort of thing all the time. Consider that in the US you didn't need a driver's license in order to drive at all until 1913. The NJ law requiring drivers licenses also "revoked" someone's privilege even though they complied with the laws previously, requiring them to get a permit from then on. But, since it didn't introduce any punishments for not having the permit before it was introduced, it wasn't ex post facto.
Of course the law is also clearly discriminatory, but US's extremely limited anti-discrimination laws are likely not broad enough to be applied here.
The current events should awaken many people to the sad fact that US laws and its entire legal system exists primarily to protect the wealthy and the powerful from everyone else; all other functions are secondary. As such, many horrible, immoral, and unjust things are legal under US laws, and many others will be twisted into being legal by the supreme court.
I think there were some (plenty?) of NFTs that were backed by IPFS.
I think the fundamental problem with them is that the concept of "owning information" is ultimately absurd.