"We know Diamond explains it is making a player, but we understand it to be a recorder. I think it's well established, under international copyright law, that the reproduction that occurs inside the Rio constitutes a recording."
- Some clown from the RIAA
The "reproduction" above referring to transferring mp3's onto the mp3 player or whatever tortured logic they're trying to use there
I know there are way worse and way more evil :porky-happy: that have caused the world infinitely more tangible harm out there but I hate these copyright ghouls so, so much
Blazing fast current-year hardware immediately bogged down by all the new trackers and new slop coding that capitalists add within a year or two.
Phones from 8 years ago should still be fast. Just look at what video game consoles can do when developers actually target specific hardware for 7-10 years.
The web has become such a dumpster fire that I am trying to stay within the confines of archive.org and the gemini protocol for my own sanity. This is while praying that the IA doesn't fuck up their clunky imperfect but predictable design with a js monstrosity with 72pt fonts that searches every-time you press a key. The Gemini protocol is cool but you can only read so many gemlogs about burn out and depression the odd time there is something interesting like this gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-02-07.sabin.gmi