Software patents usually are shitty like that. And weirdly “state or the art” doesn’t seem to apply to them. Their only purpose is trolling your competition and the consumer is left with fewer and poorer choices and higher prices due to royalty costs.

One of the most infamous examples is Microsoft filing a patent for the mouse double click in 2002, getting it granted in 2004 while the thing was actually developed before the 80s (and not by Microsoft, of course).

I question the usefulness for society of patents in general but software patents especially should be abolished.

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Is it? I wouldn’t know, never checked it out. Then I gave the wrong example. I’m still reading quite regularly that some platforms have general profanity filters - maybe even Reddit nowadays?

That’s what I don’t get about what they said above. If the Windows desktop freezes up, Task Manager won’t open either (happened to me quite some times over the years - less so since they moved to the NT kernel though). What you mentioned always works short of kernel panic.

Probably due to cross-posting to censoring shit-platforms like TikTok.

Not necessarily even that. Piracy can benefit the developer by increasing popularity. Piracy made Bill Gates a billionaire despite his fighting tooth and nails against it.

Oh no, like 80% of the internet and embedded/mobile devices are criminal!

Millennials grew up alongside modern computing (meaning the two matured together). We dealt with everything from BASIC on a C64 to DOS and then through Windows 3 through current. We also grew up alongside Linux

Only the oldest millenials did. When the youngest were born, the internet and Windows 95 were readily available and they were in middle school when the iPhone came out.

Use Noscript. It’s quite surprising how many articles can actually be read without allowing any Javascript and cookie forms won’t show up (it often is annoying though, so I cannot seriously recommend this).

Right from the start there have been adults only guilds in WoW though.

Right? They are angry, physically enduring, strong. Luckily they’re also constantly horny and therefore stupid.

I’ve been using Linux as my main driver for a couple of years now but I didn’t know the list of reserved file name characters is so short.

I didn’t believe ‘*’ is allowed. That alone is so error-prone, it’s insane. Backslash is allowed too - how do you escape that? Sometimes I think they giggled while writing the specs.

It’s actually quite similar. Non-fungible since only OP has the private key but easy to steal by just downloading the image (and cropping the key if you want).

Fuck Chrome, too.

stopped buying bottled beverages

What’s the alternative in your opinion? I don’t think barrels and glasses are viable in every case. Serious question.

Still far better than a proprietary kernel made by a tech corp, carried hardly changed from release to release, even fewer people maintain, and if they do they might well be adding a backdoor themselves for their government agency friends.