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Microsoft’s much-heralded Word app was storing documents as unencrypted DOCX files leaving them viewable by any malware.
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Microsoft’s much-heralded Word app was storing documents as unencrypted DOCX files leaving them viewable by any malware.
“One of the great things about Linux is that everything can be treated as a text file… Hey wait a minute, ChatGPT is using fucking plaintext files??”
The comment I made on reply to another comment hits here as well
We can think of weird edge cases all day, the fact is companies shouldn’t be able to hoard IP.
For fuck’s sake though, talk about strawman arguments. “Literally every doodle you make” when we’re talking about abandonware. My eyes nearly rolled out of my fucking head reading that. Do I need to start putting disclaimers on every post I make? “I am aware there is more nuance required before a law gets suggested but I sure wish companies couldn’t hoard old media without making it available, please don’t ‘um, actually’ me by suggesting I’m implying everyone must give me copies of their personal shopping lists.”
We can think of weird edge cases all day, the fact is companies shouldn’t be able to hoard IP.
You should be legally required to offer content you have on a copyright or else allow people to “pirate” it. The same way you must defend trademarks. If you don’t actually offer content you have the copyright for them you shouldn’t be allowed to prevent people from distributing it as abandonware.
Because of the momentum behind Blink/Chromium.
grumpy and meaningless bad takes all day every day
You don’t sound grumpy at all though lol
You know, it’s sort of an interesting thought. If China uses my PC as part of some bot net that would suck, but that’s probably the worst that would happen. In the US though, the three letter agencies could “disappear” me. Not that I’m worth disappearing, but… I highly doubt China would send agents after me unless I visited and I don’t really plan on it.
Never heard of it, I’ll check it out
Sorry, should’ve explained I was just responding to the first sentence in particular.
They say they already use it to manage GitHub issues so it’s definitely more than “point 0” right now.
That’s always struck me as odd, but I’m also very much an outsider looking in. A “gecko electron” does sound intriguing though.
The red numbers show it chronologically. Twitter has replies and quote retweets. This began with the purple quote retweet. To which Lake Superior responded. Then in green I think this is a quote retweet (or more likely a screenshot) of the exchange. (I don’t think you can quote multiple posts so I think it’s a screenshot.)
I see ads pretty much everyday in Windows. They’re not as attention grabbing as traditional ads and I think this is part of why some people don’t see them.
Just because it might be legal to violate copyrights in other countries doesn’t make the code considered open source though lol.
You’re being obtuse. I get the point you’re trying to make – you’ve been heard. I’m just saying those aren’t the terms you should be using to make it. Open source has a very distinct definition and it has to do with the licenses covering the code. It has nothing to do with whether different countries have differing laws. Code cannot be open source in one country and not open source in another because the definition has nothing to do with countries. In fact, that would specifically not be open source because it gives rights to some and not others.
If someone infringes on a copyright that doesn’t mean the work isn’t copyrighted. You can’t just say things that are source available are open source. Even if someone is infringing on the rights holders they’re still only source available.
Open source doesn’t mean source available. You simply aren’t using the term correctly.
Or just have that book available in libraries.