Usenet has splintered into text and piracy. Text is low volume and many servers can peer with yours for free. Piracy is more centralized, gets spammed like half a petabyte every day, we know that because 99% of "the posts" never get downloaded even once, it's commercial because of the huge storage requirements.

Extinguish, fail, extend, embrace, extinguish again!

He can. And if you don't vote for Biden because he's bad, then Trump will win, Palestine will be genocided, Ukraine will be genocided, trans and gay people will be genocided. Biden will have lost nothing, meanwhile. He doesn't really want to be the president again anyway, and he's not Palestinian, Ukrainian, trans or gay.

You'll sit back, sip your martini and be "wow, look at all those genocides! Good thing I didn't vote for Biden!"

The ones that cost money aren't worth using.

I thought Apple didn't support OpenGL at all.

Fascist government

You should when you can.

Do you realize they blocked the road in front of an oil refinery before this?

Civil disobedience is what they just got 6 months in jail for.

It can go both ways since a lot of people discover music through piracy too

The pessimist in me says to look out for a bill authored by Google to make adblocking illegal.

But the optimist in me says “the Internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it.”

They're both right.

You realize that on Apple you can never have these apps at all?