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giving the *gestures* everything, it's getting harder and harder to tell myself that my fondness for retro games and hardware is really nostalgia and not because things were actually better -
Not partnering with trillion-dollar people-farming, human-rights-eroding, and democracy destroying surveillance capitalists like Meta should be the lowest of low bars when it comes to organisations that purport to work on ethical technology but, clearl...@FediThing @hamishcampbell @aral
This is an inversion of the constitutional American principle that inventors should have exclusive rights to their useful inventions only for limited times. After that, anyone can use those inventions. That's why patents expire. A patent insures an inventor's exclusive rights. But, to get a patent, the inventor has to completely explain how to duplicate the invention, and the patent is a public document.