I have already addressed that in my original comment.

Go to a store.

Just because you wanted to inspect people’s creations in a way that suites you better doesn’t make banning piracy fundamentally immoral.

the discussion ends here.

Sounds great. It’s honestly no use arguing with idiots.

“I really don’t understand why people think they have a moral right to other people’s creations.”

That’s a straw man fallacy. That statement removes all the always important context you just alluded to, a statement which was never claimed.

In the articles this is being claimed:

Free dissemination of knowledge that benefits the advancement of mankind should never be illegal. In fact, Z-Library being illegal is immoral.

You say that it’s immoral that Z-Library is illegal. The purpose of Z-Library is arguably to provide people with copyrighted content for free. I.E Other people’s creations.

Please tell me what important context I’m missing. To me it honestly just seems like you want someone else’s stuff for free and are just brining up morally in a misguided way to achieve that. Wanting free shit is great, I support that. Pirate all you want. But it isn’t about morality.

P.S. isn’t bringing up the straw man fallacy a straw man fallacy itself? Some people have started to say that every argument they disagree with is essentially a straw man fallacy.

That’s true but in the context it puts a very bad taste in my mouth.

I really don’t understand why people think they have a moral right to other people’s creations.

Lol

Free dissemination of knowledge that benefits the advancement of mankind should never be illegal. In fact, Z-Library being illegal is immoral. That being said, I simply use Z-Library to inspect books before purchasing them. Translations from different authors are often remarkably different. Sometimes books have horrible layout. So yeah, Z-Library has been indispensable to avoid wasting money. Case in point, part of the first paragraph of Dostoevsky’s House of the Dead, the Dover versus Penguin edition

If z library only contained actual knowledge sure, but it seems to be primarily fiction. But no it’s immoral because the author likes to save money and not go to a physical store.

I like piracy too but saying that banning piracy is immoral and comparing it to apartheid, slavery and ccolonialism is just ridiculous.

Can’t you vote at an embassy or consulate?

Vote in person then 🤷

Here it’s only possible to mail vote from abroad and I have never done it but it doesn’t appear that you get a confirmation here either.

If we are talking about registers of who voted and not for whom. Why does it matter? Who voted isn’t secret at all. So why even bring that up? For the record I voted in the most recent EU and national elections.

Red star OS

Why would the government know your voting history? Isn’t voting anonymous where you live?

No idea what a tax id is but in Sweden everyone’s home address, income, phone number, “personnummer” (a unique ID assigned to every citizen), and some other stuff. And for the most part it works pretty well. I’m usually concerned about privacy but I don’t mind this because it applies to everyone equally (except a few people with protected identity for safety reasons) and it’s just so open and convenient.

I’m not saying that all government documents should be public information but here most documents are.

You can do regular code blocks in Slack? I thought you only could do inline or in snippets.

We luckily use both at work.

Yeah, maybe Parsec.

Teams isn’t intended for streaming video games, it’s for meetings.

Have you used teams for sending code recently?

I tested it last week and it worked pretty well and even featured syntax highlighting. From the very limited one time test I actually prefer the way teams handle code since it doesn’t force you to use some kind of snippet.

Teams is also supposed to get better formatting and chats fairly soon. I will continue to use slack because I prefer it but it’s nice that teams is at least getting better.

There is a setting in slack that is enabled by default so that notifications will only arrive on your computer if you are active on it.

Discord does the same thing. It’s great, I wish teams and outlook did it too.

That’s not really Teams fault though. Sounds more like a team issue than a Teams issue.

I barely notice it.

The SD card slot is pointing down when I use it.

I also have a case which makes it even harder to see.

Yeah, it’s pretty funny considering how absurd it is.

It starts fairly close to the sea but takes an enormous detour to get there.

(Yeah I know that the geography probably doesn’t allow the river to go anywhere else. It’s a joke.)

Except the absolutely valid (I don’t not necessarily agree but it’s fair) criticism about mitm and other similar stuff, cloudflare actually does a lot of good stuff.

In general they stand their ground against companies who try to force them to do stuff like this.

They are also seemingly involved in developing and finding ways to make the internet a more secure place, like with encrypted client hello. And encrypted DNS.

No, pretty much everyone agrees with you. It’s like posting on unpopular opinions: “I think Hitler was a bad person”

No!