Sports are protected by oligarchs that steal wages from their employees so that they can buy sports teams.

School shootings are protected by gun manufacturers who scare people into buying more guns.

Yeah sorry. I saw your comment and edited mine and forgot to add the “edit” reason. My bad.

Forks of Firefox is fine. Only their binary is subject to the TOS. The source code remains under MPL2

Firefox is not a legal entity needing a license. Mozilla is.

Firefox is a product, not a service.

When I write notes in a book, I do not need to give the manufacturer of that book a license for my notes. If I mail that book to a friend, I do not need to give a license for that book to the post office.

The only other software that I can think of that has taken a similar stance on TOS vs an open license is Microsoft and their VS Code product. Precompiled executables are license under a non-free (libre) license while the source code of VS Code remains under the MIT license.

The original license of Firefox MPL2 allow end users to freely use the browser, with no license needed to give to Mozilla. Thousands of open source software who all use GPL, MPL, MIT, et al. allow users to use their software however they want. The proposed TOS does not and you must abide by their Acceptable Use Policies.

Even if they require a license due to some legal reason, there is simply no reason why the license has to be a non-exclusive, perpetual license. If it really as they claim “to help you navigate the internet”, then the terms should explicitly say that, and not make it implicit.

The fact is Mozilla doesn’t need a license for me to operate Firefox locally. Any copyright claim they are making is in bad faith because anything you type into the browser would be covered under fair use. They have yet to convince me why they need a license for me to operate a browser fully locally.

The most likely reason why they are changing the license is because they want to start training AI data based on your browser habits. They may not be doing it now and they may say they have no plans to do it in the future. But the TOS, as currently written, gives them permission to do just that.

To paraphrase an impeached president:

When a corporation does it, it’s not illegal.

Edit: corrected the impeachment status of the president making the quote.

It’s the default included with Ubuntu but they (Ubuntu) haven’t updated it to be the latest released version. You have to add their PPA.

I switched over to qbittorrent for better control over what happens after the files download a few years ago.

That seems really round-about.

Just:

import Money

Money.make('rain')

That’s a trade-off between cloud storage vs manual off site storage. You could do a monthly backup to a HDD and then save that at a safe deposit box, like the old days. Except replace HDD with tape.

Optionally you and a friend could trade HDDs, and you’d only have to spend gas money or postage.

Either way you’re going to have some sort of regular cost.

Oh matey. I literally just went through this and debated putting together a blog post or similar.

I’m not at my computer so I’m typing this from my phone.

The TL;DR: you need to decide whether you’ll pay for the security by paying for restore upfront, or when you need it.

Since I yarr most of if not all my content, I did not worry about backing up my TV shows or movies. I take a directory listing of my jellyfin and back that up weekly. Music is small enough that I do back this up.

Cloud cost is abstract and hard to compare apples to apples. But the biggest thing you’ll need to decide is how likely will you need to do a cloud restore. The more robust your on-prem backups the less likely you’ll need them so I personally went with AWS S3 using rclone. Glacier cold storage is super cheap and for my needs I’m paying roughly $2-3 a month. The catch is if I need a restore, I’ll have to pay for the S3 retrieval and then the egress which can be roughly $60 one time.

For companies like Backblaze, you pay roughly $60 annual for about 2TB of hot storage, which includes egress 3 times.

I prefer to save the $40 difference year over year, and instead put that in a budget for a break-glass situation.

In terms of hardware, some people recommend buying different brands with the same storage size. Others recommend spacing out your hard drive purchases so that they don’t all fail at the same time. I prefer the latter.

Hope that points you in the right direction

I’m curious about codeberg. It looks like they have a CI/CD pipeline. How does it compare to GitHub actions?

I’ve lost count the number of times I’ve taken on a project because something was annoying me.

I had the pocket cast app but never paid for it. The only reason I kept it was due to my listen history. When I moved to antennapod, I exported the file and learned that it did not export listen history, and their website says that it’s not a high priority.

Probably because they want to keep you in their app.

So I manually moved my listen history.

What software are you using? Have you tried vlc?

I wasn’t the mod that locked your previous thread but I’m locking this one.

You are being abrasive and this post itself is off topic.

Locking because of Rule 4.

Many of his early recipes were actually direct copies of recipes from America Test Kitchen. Many word for word.

So it’s even extra shitty that he put his recipes behind a paywall because most of ATK’s recipes are available for free. (But buy their books! They are very good)

IMO, cookbooks are in a different category. While yes their recipes are copyright free, the organization by theme is worth their cost. When I was in college, I bought a Betty Crocker “5 ingredients 30 minutes” cookbook which is awesome for someone who is learning to cook. As I’ve developed skills I’ve gravitated toward cookbooks that teach the fundamentals and science of cooking that help explain what’s happening.

Fun fact about recipes: they are not copyrightable.

So you can’t “pirate” them unless they put them behind a paywall, and even then you can download and reshare them.

I absolutely hate that Basics with Babish put his recipes behind a paywall.

Yeah…this one is sadly on brand

This guy hoards.

The sad thing is that corporations have more rights (quantitatively) than humans.

• Can offset tax liability through complex structures
• While they cannot vote, they can effectively hide their identity behind Super PACs
• Any criminal liability results in fines, never jail time for anyone in charge
• in fact, all corporate executives benefit from liability shield, so long as their actions can be tied back to benefit the company in any way
• Can own just about anything a human can own, with the added benefit that they belong to the company. Digital rights (e.g. books, movies, etc.) legally belong to an entity that cannot die.