Such a waste. 2025-06-01. Easy. Chronological.

There’s a reason Digital Rights Management techonologies are loved by corpofascists; control over the full communication channel, from file source, to OS kernel (TPM modules, trusted computing, signed OS images via UEFI), to transmission protocol, to physical channel (hdmi) to screen de rendering in the final device.

Once the tooling is laid out and people are forced into not owning their devices, nor being able to copy, nor consume media that hasn’t been cryptographically signed and approved, then it’s all fair game.

There’s ways to ensure digital rights and reduce privacy that don’t need forcing people to not own any part of the communication channel whatsoever (privacy is a UX problem, give people an easy way to consume media and they will pay for it).

It’s also why they are also scared of the “analog hole” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole) that they try for people to self-censor.

Edit: I kept scrolling through Lemmy to find this thread, were Cory Doctorov explains how DMCA enables control from corporations: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1021871/ffeed46818908c91/

Thanks for sharing! This is an incredible comparison.

Exactly. All of that things that Germany has, meanwhile Spain is not even a federation. Yet it has the same level or more of autonomy on its regions than a federation.

By name it is not a federation (define federation…) Yet Spanish autonomies enjoy more autonomy than some federal states.

Spanish regions have their own police. These police forces are autonomous from the central ones. https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policía_autonómica Some even have a specific name: Mossos, Ertzaintza, policia foral, etc…

The Spanish regions have autonomy on both collecting taxes, and assigning their own budgets. They are autonomous in the case of emergencies, healthcare, education (which allows them to set their culture), cultural ministeries, with their own regional bodies that make their own decisions.

All this is more federal than the federal states of Germany.

Being a consitutional monarchy or republic doesn’t have anything to do with federation.

Being a constitutional monarchy instead of a republic just means that they have a predesignated figurehead that represents the country, instead of electing that figurehead. The person is just a figurehead that rubberstamps things, but doesn’t take decisions at all. Be it the king (in a constitutional monarchy like Spain, Norway, UK, Denmark, Sweden, etc) or however you want to call it (in a republic like France, Germany, etc).

The government gets elected.

Spain’s government is more federal than federal governments like the German one. Spain’s Autonomous regions have way more leeway and freedom than regions in federal governments.

USB sticks will lose the data after a couple of years of not being powered

Element. If you are missing something, talk to all those motivated people doing Discord bots or whatever, they can contribute to Element/Matrix. And it’s actually open source, they keep their contributions, contrary to all the work they have done for Discord for free.

Mass strikes. Call your union, other unions, whatever union. Organise a mass strike day. Repeat it every week.

It’s about search engine squatting, if you now search “Russia meatgrinder” you get that, instead of articles about losing the war.

How is this kind of discrimination even legal there?

It’s not only being comfortable. Arguably western democracies are even more comfortable with healthcare, job security and more social climbing.

Is the mix of hyper individualism, zero civic culture, and crab bucket job economy.

They never want to create any new government, or anything. Not that they know how.

They just want to destroy. Russian stooges.

We are losing the class war.

Strikes. The only thing that works and is non violent. The rest is just reminders that the working class can stop working. Or reminders that one can do a Luigi.

Don’t use ChatGPT for answering things.

The masks have come off.

enshitification cycle: First good for customers, then they abuse their customers in favour of their business customers, then they abuse those businesses to claw back everything for themselves.

They are on step 2.