Because what he did was not allegal, just inappropriate.

Their distribution of books is completely legal.

Corporations just have more money to warp the laws in their favour.

That’s why the Archive is appealing: they still believe they are right.

If you live in Europe, .eu

…Happy cake day?

I wasn’t aware it was on Lemmy too.

They don’t “work with white supremacists”. They try to self-polish the tremendous power the have, seeking neutrality in most cases.

He doesn’t develop text editors, so he uses what’s popular. That’s what most people do.

Legal threats come from lawyers, while this email comes from an engineer.

Most users can’t name a single reason why their programs should update.

They don’t see risks in running unmaintained software. The developer does. I could get behind your all-subscriptions ideal, but if the user terminates the subscripition, he should be made unable to keep using the software. Hence why this cannot be the norm with Free software.

Because Synapse is already widely used. The Matrix foundation is also building Dendrite, which is in beta and written in Go.

Conduit is another server, in Rust https://gitlab.com/famedly/conduit

All of my international friends use Facebook Messenger.

e-mail is an alternative, yes, but to put obstacles to how can you be contacted is how you lose touch with each other.

Living in western Europe I would have said no one, but in most of central and eastern Europe is strictly necessary to reach anyone.

Your contacts would all need to sign up on Signal as well, while they already have an e-mail address.

Ironic, since companies would like to consider homebrew at the same level as piracy.

Okular lets you add text, highlight, underline, squiggle, strike out, notes, lines, shapes, and digital signatures.

Okular

I guess it’s a joke on the fact that the US have a passion for acronyms: that inappropriate material is referred to as CP, nowadays even as CSAM.

Why should we give up on trying to listen to each other’s point of view?

It’s never too late to learn how to participate in a community.

My bachelor degree includes that I spent months practicing Matlab, but actually I only used Octave until two days before the exam.

I guess you are from Western or Central Europe as I am.

If professors require students to obtain some textbook, they should also be available inside the University campus for consultation.

Otherwise it was always only recommendations.

Aside from comparison of quality, running a streaming platform is very resource intensive, hence requires a lot of money.

The burden of torrent download is instead spread among many peers.