We're going to lose if none of you frickers start vacing.

With all due respect, saying “getting to know her as a human being” is offensive after what she’s done to countless Americans.

I get you want to try and get the interview.

But Kamala Harris should be tried for treason.

She willingly let in millions of illegals to invade our… pic.twitter.com/p6GPry9kna

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) October 29, 2024

With all due respect, saying "getting to know her as a human being" is offensive after what she's done to countless Americans.

I get you want to try and get the interview.

But Kamala Harris should be tried for treason.

She willingly let in millions of illegals to invade our country. Untold numbers of Americans are now de*d as a result.

Towns, cities, and even states are forever changed and ruined now.

It's not hyperbolic to say she's unleashed a war against America. Violent gang members and even known trrrists are among those she let in.

As are convicted mrdrers and r*pists.

And let's not forget the trafficking of children.

Kamala should be spending the rest of her life in jail.

The fact she's the Democrat nominee is absolutely absurd.

She's a vile woman who's committed crimes again humanity.

She is a human being so she has rights.

But we know her already based on what she's done throughout her life and the last four years especially.

And what she's done is unforgivable.

Getting Jocelyn Nungaray brutally k*lled is just one example.

If Biden had finished the wall, and kept Trump's executive actions in place, Jocelyn would still be alive.

Once Kamala was border czar, the blame was on her shoulders.

Both Kamala and Biden are guilty of treason.

Life in prison for both.

RIP Jocelyn.

🙏🏼

This is my first time seeing such food behaviour from righties. I was wondering when they'd catch up and begin claiming genocide.

The Vatican has unveiled the official mascot of the Holy Year 2025: Luce (Italian for Light).

Archbishop Fisichella says the mascot was inspired by the Church's desire "to live even within the pop culture so beloved by our youth." pic.twitter.com/hVU2CmYA3O

— CatholicTV (@CatholicTV) October 28, 2024

What's she gonna do?

Tomorrow is TERF Island's new Labour government's first Budget - this is their opportunity to explain how they're going to spend money, any tax changes and other funding.

Let's see how a random sampling (?) of TERF Islanders feel about their incomes:

Read the article if you want more words.

£33k in benefits (tax free) while not working is outrageous.

Alright, Mr. Conroy had his fun, but now it's time for his roles to be entrusted to those who truly appreciate the craft of voice acting. Give the Dark Knight the honor of being voiced by a Japanese voice actor, not some bum of an English voice actor.https://t.co/59fxoMNDqW

— The Flaming Freezer (@FlamingFreezer) November 11, 2022

Ricardo Nunes, the most generic and bland video game NPC politican, has won the SP election, against Guilherme Boulos, the champagne socialist Lula ripoff, and Pablo Marçal, the full-blown Andrew Tate-esque dating coach griftGOD, every single candidate is a soulless ghoul, one the least worse than the other.

This was also a great victory for the !grillers, because blank and abstinence votes were massive (voting is obligatory by law), probably the biggest in Brapzilian history, a lot of people are getting tired of the "vote for the least worst candidate" schtick for the past 20 years, even the rightoid sub /r/brasilivre fricking hates Nunes, "but at least he is not a commie" is the only thing they will be repeating til the heat death of the sun

Anyway, the leftoid proletarian warrior of the working class won only in the richest districts of the city

/u/ItWillBeBarbarism:

perhaps the gradual worsening of social conditions is the only way forward in the 21st century.

/u/bardo_O

At this point I don't believe it either.

In the 20th century, weren't many of the socialist republics formed after the two great wars? I'm afraid a social rupture as significant as that is necessary for a new rise of the proletariat.

In the meantime, all we can do is organize ourselves and do what we can.

>revolutionary reddi when society collapses, his electricity goes out, his food runs out, his house gets robbed by starving raiders, and most importantly, he no longer has access to HRT and contact with his revolutionary proletarian militant army that he organized on his futa hentai groomercord server

/u/Individual_Back_5344:

No accelerationism, please

/u/Pyotr_09:

this sub has really become a big university student council

keep up with this climate of "there will be a revolution next week if it does not rain", it will be as good as ever

you are a bunch of sick fricking fanatics

/u/Cainku:

After these comments, it is enough /r/brasil for today, it is better for me to stop reading comments here before I find one of my comrades in here, LMAO

/u/ItWillbeBarbarism:

bro, we're not going to get any better, so we only have two speeds, slow or fast, and in my opinion, both approaches have pros and cons.

And with the worsening, I hope that a sufficient number of motivated people will form, but we'll never have a majority. Most people are just passive, wanting to live their day-to-day lives as best they can

/u/Capivaraazzul (BlueCapybara )

Being right-wing in Brazil is very easy wtf, you don't need to debate or have any plan lol, the guy didn't show up at anything, he put on a "I fricked up" vest in the rains and won LMAO

No mentions of the leftoid candidate being a total r-slur who sang a gender-neutral non-binary version of the national anthem, him being a literal rich butthole from a family of doctors that has zero similarities and familiarity with working class voters, only appealing to social media-addicted middle-upper class university tards that redditors are, and ignoring the failure after failure of leftoid latinx-american governments to do anything other than enrich themselves, frick the economy, cater to dictatorial shitholes, and censor internet grandpas talking shit on twitter

The rest of the comments are a variation of "people who live in São Paulo are r-slurs" (:agreefast:)

!macacos !neolibs

pic.twitter.com/lj1isTlqzS

— eldercactus (@eldercactus) October 29, 2024

‼️Austin TX podcast or let her walk. Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/05N9SHVzEv

— Joe Rogan Podcast (@joeroganhq) October 29, 2024

!nonchuds !khive

McDonald's can now legally fix its own ice cream machines 🍦

Previously only the manufacturer, Taylor, was allowed to fix them pic.twitter.com/Vln2Sxq93k

— Culture Crave 🎃 (@CultureCrave) October 30, 2024

see how he seeks to camouflage himself by hiding as a garbage man

but he is garbage and his supporters are an island of garbage lmao the joke isn't funny but the effect sure is!

Kamala Harris got access to intelligence reports and this is what she did? I feel like this is a parody of a liberal. pic.twitter.com/JaZNu0Gr3l

— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) October 26, 2024

!nonchuds !khive Let's get her in!

org tweet:

“see i build these dashboards so that our executives can have deeper insight into critical business functions. basically, my job is to turn unstructured data into actionable insights. we call it data science” pic.twitter.com/qyYAqcUUBn

— sophie (@netcapgirl) October 29, 2024

Poop War in India pic.twitter.com/bljGFKhgGt

— Crime Reports India (@AsianDigest) October 28, 2024

the media are also mentally preparing people for a stolen election

https://rdrama.net/h/maxn/post/312087/the-media-taylorlorenzcrying-thinks-the-usmarseysaluteusawont

Edit: also here's a post from yesterday that made front page drawing skepticism/scrutiny to the legitimacy of electronic voting

https://rdrama.net/h/maxn/post/311869/fyi-marseymoreyouknow-its-okay-to-be

What used to be a bannable offense is now mainstream on reddit. Reddit admins couldnt be trying to inspire mass doubt through covert propaganda could they?

Instead of sticking by his words watch how without a screen to hide behind he immediately tries to take back what he said and freaks out:

!palestine !seethers

I did not say that, I did not!!!!

I apologize, I apologize, I apologize

I did not say that you should die

Reddit power moderator u/DubTeeDub is working with the Harris Walz campaign on their discord server. pic.twitter.com/fG2hD1NdMI

— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) October 29, 2024

15 years

We all see it happening, all around. Words cannot describe it, science will not explain it.

I have spent a quarter century obsessed with the weirdest corner of the weirdest section of the worst internet law on the US statute books: Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the 1998 law that makes it a felony to help someone change how their own computer works so it serves them, rather than a distant corporation.

Under DMCA 1201, giving someone a tool to "bypass an access control for a copyrighted work" is a felony punishable by a 5-year prison sentence and a $500k fine - for a first offense. This law can refer to access controls for traditional copyrighted works, like movies. Under DMCA 1201, if you help someone with photosensitive epilepsy add a plug-in to the Netflix player in their browser that blocks strobing pictures that can trigger seizures, you're a felon:

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-media/2017Jul/0005.html

But software is a copyrighted work, and everything from printer cartridges to car-engine parts have software in them. If the manufacturer puts an "access control" on that software, they can send their customers (and competitors) to prison for passing around cowtools to help them fix their cars or use third-party ink.

Now, even though the DMCA is a copyright law (that's what the "C" in DMCA stands for, after all); and even though blocking video strobes, using third party ink, and fixing your car are not copyright violations, the DMCA can still send you to prison, for a long-butt time for doing these things, provided the manufacturer designs their product so that using it the way that suits you best involves getting around an "access control."

As you might expect, this is quite a tempting proposition for any manufacturer hoping to enshittify their products, because they know you can't legally disenshittify them. These access controls have metasized into every kind of device imaginable.

Garage-door openers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/09/lead-me-not-into-temptation/#chamberlain

Refrigerators:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/12/digital-feudalism/#filtergate

Dishwashers:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/03/cassette-rewinder/#disher-bob

Treadmills:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/22/vapescreen/#jane-get-me-off-this-crazy-thing

Tractors:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/23/reputation-laundry/#deere-john

Cars:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world

Printers:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/07/inky-wretches/#epson-salty

And even printer paper:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/16/unauthorized-paper/#dymo-550

DMCA 1201 is the brainchild of Bruce Lehmann, Bill Clinton's Copyright Czar, who was repeatedly warned that cancerous proliferation this was the foreseeable, inevitable outcome of his pet policy. As a sop to his critics, Lehman added a largely ornamental safety valve to his law, ordering the US Copyright Office to invite submissions every three years petitioning for "use exemptions" to the blanket ban on circumventing access-controls.

I call this "ornamental" because if the Copyright Office thinks that, say, it should be legal for you to bypass an access control to use third-party ink in your printer, or a third-party app store in your phone, all they can do under DMCA 1201 is grant you the right to use a circumvention tool. But they can't give you the right to acquire that tool.

I know that sounds confusing, but that's only because it's very, very stupid. How stupid? Well, in 2001, the US Trade Representative arm-twisted the EU into adopting its own version of this law (Article 6 of the EUCD), and in 2003, Norway added the law to its lawbooks. On the eve of that addition, I traveled to Oslo to debate the minister involved:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/clintons-ghost/#felony-contempt-of-business-model

The minister praised his law, explaining that it gave blind people the right to bypass access controls on ebooks so that they could feed them to screen readers, Braille printers, and other assistive cowtools. OK, I said, but how do they get the software that jailbreaks their ebooks so they can make use of this exemption? Am I allowed to give them that tool?

No, the minister said, you're not allowed to do that, that would be a crime.

Is the Norwegian government allowed to give them that tool? No. How about a blind rights advocacy group? No, not them either. A university computer science department? Nope. A commercial vendor? Certainly not.

No, the minister explained, under his law, a blind person would be expected to personally reverse engineer a program like Adobe E-Reader, in hopes of discovering a defect that they could exploit by writing a program to extract the ebook text.

Oh, I said. But if a blind person did manage to do this, could they supply that tool to other blind people?

Well, no, the minister said. Each and every blind person must personally - without any help from anyone else - figure out how to reverse-engineer the ebook program, and then individually author their own alternative reader program that worked with the text of their ebooks.

That is what is meant by a use exemption without a cowtools exemption. It's useless. A sick joke, even.

The US Copyright Office has been valiantly holding exemptions proceedings every three years since the start of this century, and they've granted many sensible exemptions, including ones to benefit people with disabilities, or to let you jailbreak your phone, or let media professors extract video clips from DVDs, and so on. Tens of thousands of person-hours have been flushed into this pointless exercise, generating a long list of things you are now technically allowed to do, but only if you are a reverse-engineering specialist type of computer programmer who can manage the process from beginning to end in total isolation and secrecy.

But there is one kind of use exception the Copyright Office can grant that is potentially game-changing: an exemption for decoding diagnostic codes.

You see, DMCA 1201 has been a critical weapon for the corporate anti-repair movement. By scrambling error codes in cars, tractors, appliances, insulin pumps, phones and other devices, manufacturers can wage war on independent repair, depriving third-party technicians of the diagnostic information they need to figure out how to fix your stuff and keep it going.

This is bad enough in normal times, but during the acute phase of the covid pandemic, hospitals found themselves unable to maintain their ventilators because of access controls. Nearly all ventilators come from a single med-tech monopolist, Medtronic, which charges hospitals hundreds of dollars to dispatch their own repair technicians to fix its products. But when covid ended nearly all travel, Medtronic could no longer provide on-site calls. Thankfully, an anonymous hacker started building homemade (illegal) circumvention devices to let hospital technicians fix the ventilators themselves, improvising housings for them from old clock radios, guitar pedals and whatever else was to hand, then mailing them anonymously to hospitals:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/flintstone-delano-roosevelt/#medtronic-again

Once a manufacturer monopolizes repair in this way, they can force you to use their official service depots, charging you as much as they'd like; requiring you to use their official, expensive replacement parts; and dictating when your gadget is "too broken to fix," forcing you to buy a new one. That's bad enough when we're talking about refusing to fix a phone so you buy a new one - but imagine having a spinal injury and relying on a $100,000 exoskeleton to get from place to place and prevent muscle wasting, clots, and other immobility-related conditions, only to have the manufacturer decide that the gadget is too old to fix and refusing to give you the technical assistance to replace a watch battery so that you can get around again:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24255074/former-jockey-michael-straight-exoskeleton-repair-battery

When the US Copyright Office grants a use exemption for extracting diagnostic codes from a busted device, they empower repair advocates to put that gadget up on a workbench and torture it into giving up those codes. The codes can then be integrated into an unofficial diagnostic tool, one that can make sense of the scrambled, obfuscated error codes that a device sends when it breaks - without having to unscramble them. In other words, only the company that makes the diagnostic tool has to bypass an access control, but the people who use that tool later do not violate DMCA 1201.

This is all relevant this month because the US Copyright Office just released the latest batch of 1201 exemptions, and among them is the right to circumvention access controls "allowing for repair of retail-level food preparation equipment":

https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-ifixit-free-the-mcflurry-win-copyright-office-dmca-exemption-for-ice-cream-machines/

While this covers all kinds of food prep gear, the exemption request - filed by Public Knowledge and Ifixit - was inspired by the bizarre war over the tragically fragile McFlurry machine. These machines - which extrude soft-serve frozen desserts - are notoriously failure-prone, with 5-16% of the broken at any given time. Taylor, the giant kitchen tech company that makes the machines, charges franchisees a fortune to repair them, producing a steady stream of profits for the company.

This sleazy business prompted some ice-cream hackers to found a startup called Kytch, a high-powered automation and diagnostic tool that was hugely popular with McDonald's franchisees (the gadget was partially designed by the legendary hardware hacker Andrew "bunnie" Huang!).

In response, Taylor played dirty, making a less-capable clone of the Kytch, trying to buy Kytch out, and teaming up with McDonald's corporate to bombard franchisees with legal scare-stories about the dangers of using a Kytch to keep their soft-serve flowing, thanks to DMCA 1201:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/20/euthanize-rentier-enablers/#cold-war

Kytch isn't the only beneficiary of the new exemption: all kinds of industrial kitchen equipment is covered. In upholding the Right to Repair, the Copyright Office overruled objections of some of its closest historical allies, the Entertainment Software Association, Motion Picture Association, and Recording Industry Association of America, who all sided with Taylor and McDonald's and opposed the exemption:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/us-copyright-office-frees-the-mcflurry-allowing-repair-of-ice-cream-machines/

This is literally the only useful kind of DMCA 1201 exemption the Copyright Office can grant, and the fact that they granted it (along with a similar exemption for medical devices) is a welcome bright spot. But make no mistake, the fact that we finally found a narrow way in which DMCA 1201 can be made slightly less stupid does not redeem this outrageous law. It should still be repealed and condemned to the scrapheap of history.

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