Ideally we’d eliminate copyright law and replace it with copyleft law
Fair enough, but it would still regulate what people can legally do with creative works. So, it would still be IP law - which a few comments ago you implied couldn’t/shouldn’t exist.
How does resale value “support Google”?
spoken like someone who has copyleft all of my work… fuck copyright laws
You seem to be confusing copyleft with public domain.
They are not the same.
Copyleft licenses entirely rely on copyright law. In the words of the people who invented copyleft:
Copyleft is a way of using the copyright on the program. It doesn’t mean abandoning the copyright; in fact, doing so would make copyleft impossible. The “left” in “copyleft” is not a reference to the verb “to leave”—only to the direction which is the mirror image of “right.”
Public domain, OTOH, which is what you seem to be promoting, is a gift to AI tech bros, who want to behave as the middlemen described in the same article:
[IP] in the public domain, uncopyrighted … allows people to share [it], if they are so minded. But it also allows uncooperative people to convert [it] into proprietary [IP]. They can make changes, many or few, and distribute the result as a proprietary product. People who receive the [latter] do not have the freedom that the original author gave them; the middleman has stripped it away.
If you want GrapheneOS without funding Google, why not get a secondhand Pixel?
Spoken like a plagiarism-happy AI tech bro, repackaging other people’s effort for profit.
In the context of IP, “theft” is an idiomatic way to say “infringement”. It’s bizarre of you to suggest it doesn’t exist: infringement law is quite well settled in most parts of the world.
IP doesn’t refer to “ideas”. It refers to creative works. If you’ve ever spent effortful hours/weeks/years:
then you’ll know why the difference between “an idea” and a creative work is sometimes called “sweat of the brow”.
It’s run by Bambu Labs, a Chinese state-subsidised company that’s notorious for nudging users globally to let Internet-connected 3D printers map their home LANs and upload that info, plus name, address & other billing details, plus all their 3D models, to Chinese “cloud” servers where the CCP can siphon off any models useful for advancing Chinese industry.
They’re also notorious for letting Makerworld users rip off each others’ designs in flagrant violation of the design licenses. Look on Reddit or 3D printing forums and you’ll see tons of people complaining about this.
Bambu Labs also recently egregiously violated the AGPL by threatening a lawsuit against Pavel Jarczak, a hobbyist who found a perfectly legal workaround to reduce BL control over people’s printers. This was a big deal: the Software Freedom Conservancy, Louis Rossmann, and Gamers Nexus all pledged action.
Bambu Labs and Makerworld stand for dictatorship, authoritarianism, and kleptocracy.
If you support FOSS, user rights, and democracy, you really ought to boycott them.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/may/18/bambu-studio-3d-printer-agpl-violation-response/
How ironic that it’s hosted at Makerworld, which is effectively a CCP platform for widespread surveillance and IP theft.
Holy moly, you’re not wrong. 😳
Look at this nonsense from the World Economic Forum.
Thanks! Fediverse FTW!
Found a German store that ships them internationally.
Apparently, Stalux is a sub-brand of a German company called Eulit. AFAICT, Stalux specialises in stainless straps, whereas Eulit-branded straps tend to be other materials and made in Germany.
I haven’t yet found confirmation that Stalux straps specifically are German-made but please post a link if you have one. The product listings for that store say the Stalux straps are made in Germany. Great!
Hopefully I’ll find a UK seller, to avoid the Brexit surcharges.
I fear so, but I hope at least some are made in a democracy. Taiwan, for example.
Thanks. What’s your source for that list? I think you’re right that those measurements are factors in the final “bot score”, but I expect there are many other measurements also factored in.
If you look at my OP, though, you’ll see my browser passed the checks but was still blocked, which Cloudflare said shouldn’t happen.
It pops up on which page?
I can’t see it on either of the pages mentioned in my OP:
I’m getting this issue in Chromium.
Like you, I’ve encountered it especially often in the last 3 weeks or so. Thanks for confirming it’s not just me!
Do you have a link to that feedback form, by any chance?
I eventually managed to find contact details for the webmaster for the site on which I most recently encountered this. Hopefully they’ll fix it in their Cloudflare configuration.
Failing that, I’ll try User-Agent spoofing. Failing that, another ISP, or VPN.
Cloudflare is already wrongly flagging this Linux box as a bot when it connects from an ordinary domestic ISP.
Surely it would be more likely to flag it if it was connecting from a VPN exit node.
No VPN present in this particular case.
The difference is no-one said crypto mining would solve climate change.
Some tech bros are saying AI will solve climate change. As this article shows, they’re wrong.
I’m willing to be corrected if I’m wrong.
However, if you run a high current through a coiled mains extension cord, you create a fire hazard because it heats up due to induction. No ferrous metals involved, just the copper or aluminium conductors in the cable. Don’t induction hobs work on a similar principle?
Or the other issues listed at the site posted by the OP: https://nosystemd.org/