Due to lemmy.world blocking pirating communities, I will now be using [email protected]

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Shit, I’m even grateful for when you all tell me off.

    Oh fuck off!

    Just kidding! I haven’t seen any of your posts here (mostly because I sort by all) but yeah the people in this sub are top tier.

    A few weeks ago I came here to ask about building my own computer and which parts to get because it had been years since I’ve done so and everyone was nice about it.







  • I’ve requested confirmation and have only gotten it once or twice.

    What I’ve started doing is actually just sending them their same exact terms via their corporate registered address (regardless of their instructions) with the arbitration clause and jury trial waiver and just about anything I don’t agree to removed. I tell them so long as they continue to provide the services to me, that they implicitly agree to the terms I’m sending them, with any further updates requiring them to send a registered (not certified) letter.

    I intentionally do not provide any way for them to identify my account except for the return address.

    I figured if I ever had to go to court, one of these things would happen:

    • judge finds that the original terms are enforceable, which means I’m no worse off
    • judge finds that my amended terms are enforceable, which means it worked
    • judge finds both terms unenforceable and I can continue to sue them

    So far, no company has ever written me back or turned off my access to the site.

    I suggest everyone do this because these forced arbitration clauses are very anti-consumer and we need to start clawing back our rights.






  • Which, by itself, is fine. But their contributions to open source are very one-handed and pale in comparison to how much they benefit out of it.

    Hell, my company is no different. They allocate one day out of the year as “open source day” where devs can contribute back to open source projects on company time. But it must be something we already use.

    No personal development. No non-essential libraries.

    We make literally millions off of these libraries and we don’t even contribute monetarily.

    If these companies gave even 0.01% of their revenue to these essential libraries, they’d never even have to ask for money.