Realities like this one are forcing entire nations to move to FOSS, more accountable systems, etc., which is a good thing for many of us, but bad for those who are in jurisdictions that they just can’t get enough of Microsoft et al.

A far journey ahead but at least we’re getting there!

I do this with my hair. They all look so stunned when they see me with a new haircut. Wears off after a few weeks though.

Had a similar conversation over in Mastodon recently and yeah, this is a very fair point. The indiscriminate scanning and publication of copyrighted books shouldn’t have happened in the first place, especially when there are existing ecosystems for ethical lending/leasing/borrowing of books already in place, which benefit and are working with authors/publishers already.

I give you that lol

At this point, remove the other s from the start of the name also. It’s just a kittle.

What’s frustrating is that the ones who claimed to have done this are self-proclaimed “hacktivists”. You’re stupid if you think the Internet Archive is the enemy in this day and age.