Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

@jones It is true that many governments and corporations are not fully compliant with the law. It is not a myth, it is legally how they are supposed to operate in most of the world. Even the Russian and Chinese governments right now have forms of transparency. And anywhere I've looked, public corporations are required to publish more information about their operations than private ones.

When building software, I believe it is important to work in public. Software can give small groups of developers immense power over lots of people. Like how governments work in public and corporations have to be more public than private company, developers should be transparent not only with their source code, but also the discussions and processes while building it. This can be hard to get used to, but not bad once used to it. Great examples of this are #Debian #GitLab and IMHO #FDroid

@Chapz anyone can just legally make an MP3 file. Or if you have CDs, it is legal to make MP3 copies for personal use. Or if you purchased MP3s from the artist, or from iTunes, Bandcamp, etc.

And now #OpenAI is going full #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism surprise surprise. Yeah, the world really needs AI driven by #engagement driven by #Ads.

https://www.adweek.com/media/openai-chatgpt-ads-job-listing-marketing-platform/

As much as most people do not like how services like #Spotify and #YouTube Music abuse both listeners and artist, they use them because they are easy and friction-free. For alternatives to gain anything but a tiny following, the software behind them also must be easy. That requires a chunk of work, but it is achievable by a small team. There are already options: #subsonic #funkwhale #ampache and more

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/spotify-boycott-artists

#Boycott #AI #DeathToSpotify #music #streaming #FOSS #FreeSoftware

@rene_mobile very interesting, when do you think there will be usable implementations to try?

@tuxicoman that's not how copyright law works. Currently everything is copyrighted once its created, that includes emails. Just because someone forwards someone else email does not mean that they can grant a license for a text that someone else created.

@tuxicoman No, I'm not proposing DMA, just following copyright law and not caving into the AI companies or even changing the laws for them.

@tuxicoman yeah, I think putting legal obligations on AI companies is really something that should happen. It is funny, after all these years of trying to reduce the usage of #copyright, I think it is a good idea that AI companies have to respect copyright. The law clearly has a key role to play here.

@tuxicoman smartcards are slow anyway, so rate limiting is built in, that would be the rock solid version. The app version could just need to implement something like that but people could hack the app.

I'm sure the renting of eID would also be regulated or even just banned, not just a free for all. For example, you're not allowed to "loan" your physical ID to your cousin who looks like you. That would be fraud.

@abacabadabacaba 👍 I'm waiting for beer concentrate 😉

@tuxicoman sounds like a well known problem with known solutions, for example, APIs with rate limiting, tokens, etc.

Ever more websites are using #Cloudflare to block #AI scrapers. Cloudflare is still a man-in-the-middle #MITM attack on the web, but I do think people should have the ability to block the AI crap. So I now have some sympathies for using Cloudflare. What if we had real gov #eID that could be used for captchas? This requires privacy-respecting services that only see the data they need, e.g. "are you a human with an eID? yes/no". There are concerns with eIDs but in implementations not the core idea

Yay for the #EU putting a #deposit on plastic bottles so that good solutions like reusable #glass are less artificially disadvantaged. Of course, #plastic #recycling is total bullshit, that's not the reason why this deposit scheme makes sense.

Now there is now a book about how large corporations used plastic to drive a disposable culture. Nice to see that the author also calls out corporations by name: #CocaCola #Pepsico #Nestle
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/10/1746232/how-plastic-goods-took-over-the-world-creating-a-throwaway-culture