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(Solved) How Does YouTube Know Where I Left Off On A Video?
  • Oh Jesus. Really?

    Holy crap. That explains nearly everything. The only things that still seem weird are:

    • I'm 99% certain 273s is exactly where I left off watching yesterday, which seems like a weird coincidence.
    • I don't remember it starting anywhere but the beginning when I first started it yesterday, but it's possible I just immediately scrolled it back to the beginning without thinking about.
    • It doesn't start there by default on my phone. Maybe YouTube doesn't do that for mobile devices for some reason?
    • It doesn't start at 273s if you use (at least certain) other search terms. Maybe YouTube decided that the bit that was relevant to my search term was at the 273s mark.
    • Someone else in this thread said they couldn't reproduce the behavior I'm seeing by performing the same steps. It's possible YouTube is A/B testing, though... though you'd think I wouldn't consistently fall into the same "testing out the automatically starting you in the middle of the video feature" group and sometimes I'd get the control group where it didn't give me that feature. Maybe they decide which group your in on the basis of "are you on mobile or not-mobile." And maybe bamboo is on mobile or otherwise is on a machine that will consistently be picked for control group.

    Still, though, the idea that it's not "remembering me" and probably is just giving people that timestamp when they search that term by default even if they've never run across that video before seems like the most likely explanation.

    Oh, and I did take a minute to go try this on (a fairly outdated version of) Firefox on another Arch Linux laptop on which I wasn't logged in and all my cookies/history/form data/etc had all been deleted immediately before. I did get the indicator on that video when searching "gnu taler". Which definitely seems like more validation of this theory.

    Thank you for your input!

  • (Solved) How Does YouTube Know Where I Left Off On A Video?
  • While logged out, https://www.youtube.com/feed/history gives me the following:

    "Watch history isn't available when signed out."

    And it's still showing the indicator on the "gnu taler" search results page.

    I suppose it might be worth closing my browser, opening my browser, going to YouTube, logging in, and checking that page, though. It might at least give some information or something. I'll try that here and see if it lists the video in question. I'll update when I'm done.

    Edit: That video about GNU Taler does not show up in my viewing history while logged in. I tried viewing a random video while logged in and checking my viewing history and that random video shows up. But not the GNU Taler one that still has the indicator. I'm starting to think I'm losing my mind. Lol.

  • (Solved) How Does YouTube Know Where I Left Off On A Video?
  • Yeah, forgot to mention I hadn't logged in or anything. But that's right. I didn't log in during any of that testing. I've edited that detail in.

    Still weird that it could possibly fingerprint even while using TBB, though.

  • (Solved) How Does YouTube Know Where I Left Off On A Video?
  • Not sure I understand what you're getting at here.

    Yes, I linked to the video and didn't think to remove the t=273s bit when I included the link in the OP. And, yes, I understand that having a &t=273s in the url makes it start not right at the beginning. My question is how did it know where to start (and how much red bar to show on the video thumbnail in the search results) given that my cookies had been deleted and, on subsequent tests, I even switched browsers.

    I was purposefully telling my browsers to forget all the information YouTube could use to remember that and it still remembered somehow.

    Now, I am concerned regarding the privacy aspect of how on earth it still persisted in TBB. But even when sites fingerprint you, if you delete your cookies they almost always at least pretend not to know you when you visit. I'd expect YouTube/Google to use fingerprinting to sell my information and do targeted advertising or whatever. But it's weird that they'd even let on to me that they had figured out who I was even though I wasn't sending them any cookies.

  • (Solved) How Does YouTube Know Where I Left Off On A Video?
  • Also, did you return to that video with the same IP address as when you first watched it?

    That's (part of) why I tried Tor Browser Bundle, though. Because it would give me a different IP address. (And when I visited YouTube via TBB, it gave me the little superscript after the YouTube logo indicating a different country than I was in.)

    I’ll just assume you didn’t log in to youtube when watching. :)

    Ha! Should have thought to mention that. But yes, you're right. I didn't log in or anything. (And for that matter, in every test I did, when I first got to the home page, I got the "search to get started" prompt that YouTube gives as of pretty recently when you don't have any cookies on visiting the index page.)

  • (Solved) How Does YouTube Know Where I Left Off On A Video?

    Yesterday, I started watching a video on YouTube but closed out of my browser (Firefox) only a few minutes into the video.

    I've got my Firefox set to delete all cookies, history, form data, etc on every close. (Pretty much everything but bookmarks.) The image on this post is a screenshot of my relevant settings.

    Today, after having exited my browser and fully shut down my computer for a while, I remembered the video and decided to continue watching it.

    In Firefox, I searched for the video (I used the search term "gnu taler" -- something worth looking into especially for folks interested in this particular Lemmy community by the way). In the search results, the video I was searching for showed the red bar at the bottom indicating I'd watched only the first few minutes of it.

    Which seems weird given that I'd cleared all my browser data since I watched the first few minutes.

    So I did some experimentation. I closed my browser completely again and opened it back up, searched in YouTube, and it still had the indicator. I updated to the latest version of Firefox in the Arch package repository. Same indicator. I tried the same in Chromium (which I've also got set to delete all browser data on close). Still the indicator. I installed Tor Browser Bundle (specifically torbrowser-launcher on Arch Linux), changed none of the default settings at all, and searched in YouTube. The indicator is present. In Tor Browser Bundle.

    W

    T

    F

    ?

    Anybody have any idea how that's possible?

    My only guesses are:

    • That search is so niche as to be literally unique (which if true makes me sad -- I really hope GNU Taler takes off and becomes widespread) and YouTube is using that to identify me.
    • YouTube doesn't know where I left off at all. Not even my browser knows (because if it was my browser keeping track, it wouldn't persist between browsers). It's something else on my system that my browsers depend on or tap into.

    The only other pieces of relevant info I can think to share:

    • There's another video (also about GNU Taler) that I watched all the way through the same day that I started the video this post is about. It doesn't show any indicator.
    • I tried searching on my phone's browser. No indicator. But then I'm not sure my phone ever shows indicators. I haven't tried this on any other devices on my network or anything.
    • I still haven't watched the video in question. Heh.

    Thanks in advance for any insight you might have.

    Edit: Sorry for neglecting to mention previously that at no point during any of the above did I log in to YouTube. And the "Sign in" button was visible at the top of the page indicating I wasn't logged in. Since multiple people asked, I figured I should edit my OP with that info.

    Edit2: Two more things to mention. I think some folks are thinking I copied the link and pasted it between browsers during the above test or something? The only reason the timestamp is included in the link I posted above is because when I copied it into this post, I didn't think to remove the timestamp. But I didn't do anything like copying the link from the search results in one browser and then paste the link into TBB or anything. In each separate browser, immediately after opening the browser, I went to YouTube (by typing "youtube.com<enter>" into the address bar) and put "gnu taler" into the search bar and hit enter. And in each browser, YouTube somehow remembered where I'd left off in a whole different browser -- with a different IP address in the case of the switch from Chromium to TBB. And no urls were copied between browsers in any of the above.

    The other thing to mention. Changing my search term to the full title of the video ("Building an Open Source Payment System - Sebastian Javier Marchano, Taler System" sans quotes) gives the relevant video as the top search result, but no "left off" indicator. And I'm in the Firefox in which I first noticed it had remembered.

    Oh, actually, one more thing to mention. After posting this, I continued watching. I'm probably about 3/4 done with it now. But I closed my browser again before completing it, reopened my browser, and searched "gnu taler". It gives the indicator, but the position of the indicator is roughly (possibly exactly) where it was when I first noticed it had remembered. Not where I left off after watching to roughly the 3/4 mark.

    Edit3: Wow! Ok. I'm 99% sure folks smarter than me have hit upon what's going on here. Thanks in particular to Tony N and Chozo for the right answer. It looks like YouTube has a feature where, depending on your search terms, it may automatically skip you a certain ways into the video. (Like "oh, you searched for 'gnu taler'? Well, in this video result, this bit in the middle is the part that's relevant to your search terms, so we'll just start you such-and-such-many seconds into the video.") The red bar doesn't mean "you've watched this" at all. And YouTube isn't "remembering me" between browsers. It's just consistently (as long as I use the specific search terms "gnu taler") suggesting that I start that video 273 seconds in rather than from the beginning. And anyone who searches that exact search term should get similar results... unless they're on mobile for some weird reason? That paired with the coincidence that I'm pretty sure I just happened to have stopped the video yesterday right about at the same place where YouTube recommends you start had me very confused. Whatever the case, I'm satisfied this must be the right answer. Thanks again, ya'll!

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    AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature
  • So one potentially viable way to destroy AI would be to repeatedly train LLMs and image generators on their own (or rather previous generations') output to get garbage/junk/bad training data and then publish the text/images in places where bots trawling for training data are likely to find them.

    Probably bonus points if the images still look "sensical" to the human eye, so that humans eyeballing the data don't realize it's the digital equivalent of a sabot. (Apparently the story about sabots being thrown into machinery is not true, but you know what I mean.)

  • now put your paws up
  • My reasons for upvoting this post:

    • 33% WTF is this sub even for? No clue, but this seems in line enough with the sidebar description that... it probably fits, maybe. I don't fuckin' know. 🤷
    • 33% Furries probably get more hate than they really deserve.
    • 33% Let's sew some chaos.
  • How can i make myself poisonous to mosquitos?
  • Not a doctor. Really don't do/consume anything on the basis of what you hear on Lemmy.

    But maybe the bacillus thuringiensis toxin? Bacillus thuringiensis is a bacterium that produces a natural pesticide that I've heard (again, not a doctor, don't take anything I say as medical advice) doesn't affect vertibrates. But mosquitos aren't vertibrates. So, (again, not an expert and this may be bullshit) maybe that means it's safe for humans to use.

    But what do I mean by "use"? I'm guessing it might (not a doctor) be safe to use on the skin (if it could be obtained in medical-grade quality -- but I'm not an expert).

    But I kindof doubt (though I could be wrong) that eating bacillus thurengiensis or the actual toxin would work. The toxin is (I believe, just from reading the bacillus thuringiensis Wikipedia page) a protein, and I don't think (ɹoʇɔop ɐ ʇou ɯɐ I) consumed proteins are likely to get into the bloodstream. (And if they did, I suspect (though I am not a doctor) that would cause you some problems, or at least an immune response and some inflamation or some such.)

  • You don't have to fear these things
  • Don't try to understand the mind of a fundie christian.

    I've heard sermons that claimed "psychology" was a religion. Their problem with yoga is similar. (It has connections to hinduism. At least that's part of it.)

    A lot of megachurches have classes/programs that are almost exactly yoga, but by a different name. The name they give it escapes me.

    Hell. There are shops on Amazon that sell yoga stuff (mats, balls, shorts, whatever) without calling it "yoga" balls or "yoga" mats so christians don't feel sinful buying it.

    And yes, they're just retailers buying yoga gear wholesale (or drop-ship or whatever) and listing it without using the word "yoga."

    Edit: Googling to find if there's a common name for the christian version of yoga, I found this god-awful thing.

  • Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy"
  • I do wonder how frequent it is that an individual developer will raise an important issue and be told by management it's not an issue.

    I know of at least one time when that's happened to me. And other times where it's just common knowledge that the central bureaucracy is so viscous that there's no chance of getting such-and-such important thing addressed within the next 15 years is unlikely. And so no one even bothers to raise the issue.

  • (Serious) As a crypto-skeptic who owns some Bitcoin, what should I do with it?

    This post really isn't the usual faire of this community. Sorry about that. If there's a better place for me to put this, definitely feel free to point me there.

    But, to the point of my post, before Bitcoin became a widespread cult, back when all Bitcoin was was a couple of posts on Slashdot, back when mining it was comparatively extremely easy/quick/"profitable", I mined some Bitcoin. About 1/20 of a Bitcoin. Just by, like, leaving my computer on for a month or so. And I still have access to it.

    And Bitcoin is worth can be sold for $62,000 USD per bitcoin right now which makes my little 1/20 of a Bitcoin tradeable for about $3,100 of real money.

    Now I know that blockchain is just straight up a scam. But I've still got this Bitcoin in a wallet on a hard drive in my posession. (I know, the wallet doesn't actually "contain" the Bitcoin. Leave me alone.)

    The obvious thing to do with it would be to sell it now, but that would leave some poor chap(s) holding a $3,100 bag in a way that I wouldn't feel great about.

    I could just sit on it forever. I suppose I could sell it and donate the proceeds to some cause I thought to be worthy or anti-crypto. If there were enough crypto-skeptics had cryptocurrencies and wanted cryptocurrency to die in a fire, they(/we?) could coordinate to use our collective cryptocurrency in a way that most damages the market and hopefully hastens a crash-to-zero. (But the likelihood that there'd be enough cryptocurrency in the hands of crypto-skeptics to pull that off seems low.) Or I could print out my private keys, delete them from my hard drive, and ceremonially burn the papers while chanting "web3 is going great".

    And maybe this post is just me asking like-minded folks to give me permission to just sell it and leave someone holding a bag so I can buy myself a new OLED TV. Heh.

    Whatever the case, I wanted to hear you folks' takes.

    Edit: Thanks for the input, everyone. I'm gonna sell it.

    5

    Washington Post: Leaked documents reveal patient safety issues at Amazon’s One Medical

    I linked to MSN because (at least for me) it wasn't paywalled. The original source for the article can be found on the Washington Post's website here but is paywalled.

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    What's this "where money printer" meme about?

    If I had a nickel for every one I've seen, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much, but it's strange it happened twice.

    And I have no idea what it means.

    A couple of examples:

    One and two.

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    No, Cocomelon, what are you doing!?

    This was on the Netflix login page until pretty recently. I can't be the only one who thought it was unintentionally... suggestive, right?

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    Animutations

    Please tell me I'm not the only one still obsessed with these things.

    Edit: Woah. I am the only one still obsessed with Animutations, aren't I? They're mine! All mine!

    0

    What linguistic constructions do you hate that no one else seems to mind?

    It bugs me when people say "the thing is is that" (if you listen for it, you'll start hearing it... or maybe that's something that people only do in my area.) ("What the thing is is that..." is fine. But "the thing is is that..." bugs me.)

    Also, "just because <blank> doesn't mean <blank>." That sentence structure invites one to take "just because <blank>" as a noun phrase which my brain really doesn't want to do. Just doesn't seem right. But that sentence structure is very common.

    And I'm not saying there's anything objectively wrong with either of these. Language is weird and complex and beautiful. It's just fascinating that some commonly-used linguistic constructions just hit some people wrong sometimes.

    Edit: I thought of another one. "As best as I can." "The best I can" is fine, "as well as I can" is good, and "as best I can" is even fine. But "as best as" hurts.

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    I know nothing about Helldivers. AMA.

    And if you disagree with any of my answers, you're just wrong.

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    Connect A Song @lemmy.world TootSweet @lemmy.world

    Red Dwarf - It's Cold Outside

    "Vindaloo" is a running joke in the series Red Dwarf to which this song is the theme song.

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    Banned From [email protected]

    Apparently I'm banned from [email protected] now. That's a community for posting AI-generated images.

    My feed is set to "all"/"new". So I see every post that comes into the Lemmy servers that lemmy.world federates with. Or at least those that come in while I'm on and browsing.

    I downvote what I don't like. And I don't like AI-generated images. I downvote any that come across my feed. I don't seek out AI-generated images to downvite. (That feels too much like brigading.) So, I wouldn't, say, go to [email protected] and downvote every post there. Just the ones that "organically" come across my feed.

    Today, I clicked "downvote" on a post from [email protected] and the down-arrow wouldn't change color to register my downvote. Lemmy's error messaging is lacking, so I had to go to my developer tools to find out for sure, but the server clearly indicated the reason why it wouldn't accept my downvote was because I was banned from [email protected] . (I can downvote posts on other sh.itjust.works communities.)

    So, apparently one of the mods of [email protected] noticed I downvoted some posts from [email protected] and had never upvoted any posts in that community and decided to ban me.

    I'm honestly not really sure whether I or they (or both or neither) am/are in the wrong here. But I was interested to see that just downvoting could get me banned from a community.

    Anyone else been banned from any communities for similar behavior?

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    Is it safe to take a second pill a few hours after the first if the directions say "1 to 2 tablets?"

    Over-the-counter diphenhydramine, for instance, at least in my country, says adults can take "1 to 2 tablets every 4 to 6 hours."

    If you decide "my symptoms aren't so bad; I'll just take one" and then two hours later your symptoms are still bad (or worse), is it safe to take a second tab then? And if you do, should you wait until "4 to 6 hours" after taking the first tablet or the second to take an additional tablet? Does it depend on the drug? (Maybe it's fine for diphenhydramine but not for ibuprophen?)

    I'd imagine blood levels of any particular drug tend to quickly spike and then exponentially decay back to undetectable levels. If you take two tabs, I'd imagine that graph is just twice as tall. If you wait a couple of hours between tabs, it's got two spikes and the second is a little higher than the first (but not as high as the two-tabs-at-the-same-time spike.)

    If the concern is total concentration of drug in the bloodstream at any one point, a second tab a couple hours later is less of a concern than two tabs at the same time. If the concern is total area under the curve, then probably there's no difference between two tabs at the same time and a couple of hours between. If the concern is total time spent with a blood concentration of such-and-such, I could see there being more concern with taking a second tab just a couple of hours after the first.

    And maybe there are other effects that I'm not aware of. Maybe if the blood concentration kicks up to two-tabs-at-once levels, the liver kicks into high gear, clearing the drug out quicker, but if you go a couple of hours between tabs, the liver neve kicks into high gear or some such.

    And maybe this question hasn't even been well studied and maybe there's not really any good answer. But if there is, I'm curious.

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    locusmag.com Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI?

    Of course AI is a bubble. It has all the hallmarks of a classic tech bubble. Pick up a rental car at SFO and drive in either direction on the 101 – north to San Francisco, south to Palo Alto – and …

    Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI?

    This guy's one of the few and the brave actually saying publicly that AI is a bubble. I think most other public figures are scared to be proven wrong and made to look foolish. Doctorow's not committing to the idea that AI will never have any use, but at least he's countering a lot of the ridiculous claims the "AI Industry" is making lately.

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    Test @lemmy.world TootSweet @lemmy.world

    a<b>c</b>

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    Test @lemmy.world TootSweet @lemmy.world
    1

    What are some of the things you haven't eaten in so long they basically don't even register as edible any more?

    I've got a pretty severe sensitivity to -- of all things -- sugar. (I know, "sugar" isn't very precise, but I'm pretty sure it's either glucose, fructose, or sucrose.) I virtually never eat anything with added sugar or anything with any significant amount of natural sugar. And I've eaten that way for like 20 years now. I'm practically blind to half the produce department (any "sweet" fruits like apples, pears, cherries, grapes, oranges, etc) at the grocery store, let alone the candy isle.

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    Revisiting Steamboat Willie and the Public Domain

    First off, I'm not a lawyer, I'm not your lawyer, none of this is legal advice. Go get legal advice from a lawyer.

    A lot of us know by now a little about how Mickey Mouse being in the public domain (at least in the U.S.) works. You can use the version of Mickey from the animations (Steamboat Willie and Plane Crazy) that entered the public domain this year because they were released in 1928. So long as you:

    • Don't use them in ways that would make it seem that your work was made by Disney and
    • Don't use any elements of Mickey from later works which are still under copyright.

    So no Donald Duck. No Goofy. No gloves. You can't make his pants red. Etc. Right?

    However, let me present a few movie posters from 1928 which are now in the public domain:

    [!A black and white movie poster for the animation "Steamboat Willie" reading "Disney Cartoons present a Mickey Mouse sound cartoon. 'Steamboat Willie'. A Walt Disney Comic by UB Iwerks. Recorded by Powers Cinephone System". Mickey Mouse is at the helm/wheel of a steam-powered paddleboat and is depicted wearing gloves. Given that the image is in black and white, the gloves are white.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mickey_Mouse_Color_Stock_Poster_(Celebrity_Productions_era,_1928).jpg)

    [!A color movie poster for the animation "Steamboat Willie" reading "Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie." Mickey Mouse is depicted at the helm/wheel of the boat pretty much in the same pose as in the opening scene of the movie wearing a blue hat, red pants with yellow buttons, and yellow shoes. (But no gloves.)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steamboat_Willie.jpg)

    [!A color movie poster reading "Celebrity Productions Inc. presents a Mickey Mouse sound cartoon. A Walt Disney Comic. Drawn By UB Iwerks. The world's funniest cartoon character. A sensation in Sound and Syncrony. Sound Recorded By Powers Cinephone, The Voice of the Movies." Featured on the poster is Mickey Mouse in color with yellow gloves, red pants with white buttons, and brown shoes.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mickey_Mouse_Color_Stock_Poster_(Celebrity_Productions_era,_1928).jpg)

    Yellow gloves! Red pants with both yellow and white buttons! Yellow and brown shoes! And a green hat to boot!

    I'd imagine all of these posters qualify as creative works that would have gained copyright protections as soon as they were made/published. And the copyright on these poster illustrations have all now expired, leaving these posters in the public domain. (Copyright-wise, at least. Trademark is a whole other kettle of worms.)

    So, theoretically, all the elements you see in those posters should be fair game today. Which leads me to believe that theoretically there's no reason why people who use the public domain version of Mickey Mouse in their own works ought to avoid red pants with yellow buttons or yellow shoes. Yellow gloves are probably similar, but the case for white gloves being safe to use is probably weaker given that the only images I could find from 1928 where Mickey's wearing white gloves are black and white illustrations.

    I say "theoretically" because of course law is complex and (again) I'm not a lawyer and who knows what legal arguments Disney's legal department could come up with. But I don't see any reason off the top of my head why using red-pants, yellow-shoes, yellow-gloves Mickey in your own works (so long as you don't include other elements that legitimately didn't become a thing until 1929 or later and didn't infringe on Disney's trademarks) wouldn't be virtually just as safe as avoiding colors when using the Mickey Mouse character.

    All that said, I'm definitely open to being set straight on this. I just hoped to get a little discussion going about this.

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    Is the SFC the Future of the Free Software Movement?

    I've been thinking about this for a while now.

    Richard Stallman has been practically synonymous with Free Software since its inception. And there are good reasons why. It was his idea, and it was his passion that made the movement what it is today.

    I deeply believe in the mission of the Free Software movement. But more and more, it seems that in order to survive, the Free Software movement may need to distance itself from him.

    Richard Stallman has said some really disturbingly reprehensible things on multiple occasions (one and two). (He has said he's changed these opinions, but it seems to me the damage is done.)

    He's asked that people blame him and not the FSF for these statements, but it seems naive to me to expect that to be enough not to tarnish the FSF's reputation in the eyes of most people.

    And Richard Stallman isn't the only problematic figure associated with the Free Software movement.. Eben Moglen (founder, Direct-Council, and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center which is closely associated with the FSF) has been accused of much abusive and anti-LGBTQIA+ behavior over which the Free Software Foundation Europe and Software Freedom Concervancy have cut ties with the SFLC and Moglen (one and two).

    Even aside from the public image problems, it seems like the FSF and SFLC have been holding back the Free Software movement strategically. Eben Moglan has long been adamant that the GPL shouldn't be interpreted as a contract -- only as a copyright license. What the SFC is doing now with the Visio lawsuit is only possible because the SFC had the courage to abandon that theory.

    I sense there's a rift in the Free Software movement. Especially given that the SFC and FSF Europe explicitly cutting ties with the SFLC and Moglen. And individual supporters of Free Software are going to have to decide which parties in this split are going to speak for and champion the cause of the community as a whole.

    I imagine it's pretty clear by this point that I favor the SFC in this split. I like what I've seen from the SFC in general. Not just the Visio lawsuit. But also the things I've heard said by SFC folks.

    If the Free Software movement needs a single personality to be its face moving forward, I'd love for that face to be Bradley M. Kuhn, executive director of the SFC. He seems to have all of Stallman's and Moglen's assets (passion, dedication, an unwillingness to bend, and experience and knowledge of the legal aspects of Free Software enforcement) perhaps even more so than Stallman and Moglen do. And Kuhn excels in all the areas where Stallman and Moglen perhaps don't so much (social consciousness, likeability, strategy.) I can't say enough good things about Kuhn, really. (And his Wikipedia page doesn't even have a "controversies" section.) (Also, please tell me there aren't any skeletons in his closet.)

    Even if the community does come to a consensus that the movement should distance itself from Stallman and Moglen, it'll be difficult to achieve such a change in public perception and if it's achieved, it may come at a cost. After all, Stallman is the first person everybody pictures when the FSF is mentioned. And acknowledging the problems with the Free Software movement's "old brass" may damage the reputation of Free Software as a whole among those who might not differentiate between the parties in this split. But I feel it may be necessary for the future of the Free Software movement.

    That's my take, anyway. I'll hop down off of my soap box, now. But I wanted to bring this up, hopefully let some folks whose ideals align with those of the Free Software movement about all this if they weren't already aware, and maybe see what folks in general think about the future of the Free Software movement.

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    Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml TootSweet @lemmy.world

    "# More Replies" Option Does Not Work For Me

    Often times, when looking at the comments on a post, some comments are hidden and replaced by a button that (in Lemmy-UI) says "1 more reply ➔" or "2 more replies ➔" (or in Lemuroid says "1 more replies") or some such. I assume the intent of this button is to cause the hidden comment to be shown, but the button never works for me.

    I have similar issues in both Lemmy-UI and in Lemuroid. In Lemmy-UI on Firefox (on a Raspberry Pi 4 running Arch Linux Arm, but I doubt that matters), if I click the button, it turns into a loading graphic which spins forever. If I tap the button in Lemuroid, a loading bar appears at the top of the screen for a little under a second and then disappears, but the "1 more replies" button remains and the hidden comments do not appear.

    Given that this is an issue in both interfaces I use, maybe that means it's a Lemmy issue and not specific to Lemmy-UI or Lemuroid? Not sure.

    Looking in Firefox's Developer Tools, it appears that when I click that button, it does send a request to the server and the response is a 200. There's no output in the "console" tab when I click the button.

    I did go look at the issue trackers for both Lemmy and Lemmy-UI, but haven't found any relevant bugs.

    Actually, I'm not really sure what criteria are used to decide whether a post should be hidden by default. But I do moderate one community and if the hidden posts are the ones that are most downvoted or some such, it's probably important for mods to be able to see those hidden posts.

    Thanks in advance!

    Edit: Well, today it's working in Lemmy-UI but only in some threads. In Lemuroid, the one that did work in Lemmy-UI just shows as expanded without me having to expand it, so I'm not sure about Lemuroid. Weird.

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    Thomas Jefferson on Intellectual Property

    >If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. . . .

    —Thomas Jefferson

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    We now live in a world where Steamboat Willie is no longer under copyright in the U.S.

    Never thought I'd see the day.

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