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yeloboy··on Secure Boot in the Era of the T2
Not if you disable secure boot. Imo they're probably right about Linux not being able to talk to T2. We'll see about that, I guess.
yeloboy··on Exploit vendor drops Tor Browser zero-day on Twitter
Strip the javascript engine out of the Tor browser, it has no reason to be there. It beats the purpose of using Tor if you're gonna allow Javascript to run.

It'd be much easier to just strip it all out, despite breaking site support in the process. Especially since Tor is usually used to access hidden services instead of the clearnet.

yeloboy··on Can Beethoven send takedown requests?
Copyright should only have a term of life (with a minimum duration of 50 years in case the artist dies at 20-30) and that's all. Tell me one reason this shouldn't be the case. By then, the studios will have taken a profit (or been a commercial failure but that's not on us) and so will have the artist.

After the artist dies, there's no reason to "support the artist" anymore and while there is the effect of post-mortem sales spike, a celebration of now freely available music for all to enjoy would be a much better hommage.

As for the family, there really isn't any reason they should obtain that copyright. If they wanna earn money with art, they have to create art on their own. What the current laws create in most cases are lazy rich children who spend the rest of their lives managing the copyright legacy of their parent. That doesn't benefit society in any way. Either they work like normal people or they make their own art but they're not entitled to the copyright of their parents. If the parents don't want to leave them in poverty, they can still leave the money they earned with this copyright over the years for their children.

Also, with the minimum 50 years duration, they could still inherit the copyright if their parent dies at an early age. However, a term of life PLUS a ludicrous amount of years is a really bad idea for the cultural development of our society.

yeloboy··on Significant levels of glyphosate found in popular breakfast cereals
*glyphosate
yeloboy··on Significant levels of glyphosate found in popular breakfast cereals
There's nothing reputable about that site. Deal with it, reputable organisations have classified glyphosphate as a carcinogen.