I thought the government couldn't compel speech, the 1st amendment and all that.
The government compels a Surgeon General's warning on packages of cigarettes and nutrition facts on packaged food.
GeoCities is unarguably worth removing from search indexes.
This claim deserves greater scrutiny in light of the possibility that Microsoft could use its Windows monopoly to promote hosting a website on Azure over hosting it on Neocities.
Microsoft is indeed private sector. However, Microsoft is public in several other ways, which invite regulation in Slashdot's home country:
1. Microsoft is a publicly traded corporation. This is regulated by SEC.
2. Microsoft sells hardware products to the public. This is regulated by CPSC.
3. Microsoft operates websites used by the public. This is regulated by an army of private-sector civil lawyers that enforce ADA.
4. Most importantly in this case, Microsoft has a monopoly on desktop computer operating systems in Slashdot's home country, and the Department of Justice has already prosecuted Microsoft for leveraging that monopoly to unduly promote Internet Explorer (now called Edge) and MSN Search (now called Bing) to its Windows customers. United States of America v. Microsoft Corporation, 253 F.3d 34 (D.C. Cir. 2001). A repeat offense could land Microsoft executives in jail come the next administration.
S.1201 very clearly makes anti-circumvention a crime regardless of fair-use. See DeCSS, Sony's case against George Hotz, etc.
The Supreme Court ruled in Eldred v. Ashcroft (2003) that the fair use defense makes the copyright statute compatible with the First Amendment. If some part of the copyright statute prohibits someone from exercising fair use with respect to a particular work, that's likely to invite more First Amendment scrutiny.
17 USC 1201 explicitly states that light "received through a camera lens" is not circumvention [or at least a specific type of circumvention].
When prices rise and subscribers are pressured to pay for still-more-expensive tiers of service to avoid advertisements, something has gone wrong. The provider is double-dipping. They're making their profit off the price you pay plus whatever the ad industry gives them. It's because they want more profit.
Printed newspapers and magazines have been double-dipping since before the Internet opened to the public. Is there a material difference?
any serious effort to compete with Adobe would be met with large price drops from Adobe until you're out of business
It's hard to compete on price with free software. OpenToonz is 3BSD licensed (allegedly as a loss leader for the Toonz Premium add-ons), and Synfig Studio is GPL2+.
The oldest GIMP gripe I've consistently heard relates to CMYK. If you're rendering things for digital use, that doesn't matter.
In the past year, I've needed CMYK for printing the box, label, and manual of a video game cartridge. (Yes, companies are still making new NES games on cartridge.)
Does Photoshop have features and UI that GIMP lacks? Of course! Do you need them? Can you even name any of them[^1]?
GIMP has been improving so fast that some GNU/Linux distributions haven't been able to keep up. GIMP 3, released in March 2025, added nondestructive adjustment layers like Photoshop. Ubuntu LTS still has GIMP 2 and is expected to get GIMP 3 in third quarter 2026, though that isn't a problem for Flatpak or Windows users.
the product will continue to work, but just stop getting updates on that date.
Maybe I misread, but it sounded like Animate would also stop getting activated on replacement PCs on that date.
while changing software, they also train the whole company on GIMP instead of Photoshop
GIMP is not an alternative to Adobe Animate
I read it as a not-only-but-also construction: "while changing [animation] software [from Adobe Animate to something else], they also train the whole company on GIMP instead of Photoshop." In other words, Adobe's former customers would be using not only Synfig Studio to replace Animate but also GIMP to replace Photoshop.
Even more weird has been how the 2A has not been used to remove the corrupt government you currently have.
Per the four boxes model,[1] more people haven't resorted to the ammo box because they still have something left in the jury box[2] as well as a midterm ballot box in November 2026.
[1] Four boxes of liberty
[2] Litigation tracker: Legal challenges to the Trump administration
The unmaintained cruft just falls off of the Apple App Store over time.
Yet 40-year-old software keeps running on the Nintendo Entertainment System, without any barrier to resale of either hardware or copies of software. People can still experience games published by companies long out of business, which is less bad for art preservation than software having platform-mandated expiration dates.
If ReactOS were to become mature enough to run iTunes well, that'd let you use it to sync music onto an iPhone through a USB cable. The iTunes application uses the Apple Mobile Device Service driver to sync music to the library used by the iPhone's included Music app (formerly called iPod).
Linux users can use libimobiledevice to put files on an iPhone but not edit the library. Players such as VLC can play loose files but not music rented on an Apple Music subscription. The Music app can play the library and rented music but not loose files. So if you want to combine Bandcamp purchases with rented songs in a playlist, you're out of luck unless you have a recent Mac or Windows PC to update the library.
Blame the Clean Water Act. Last I checked, developers in the United States were required by law to put in stormwater detention ponds for new development, and HOAs originally were made to collectively own those ponds.
A significant price increase for semaglutide would drive more doctors to put their patients on Lilly's tirzepatide products: Mounjaro for type II diabetes or Zepbound for obesity. Eli Lilly and Company is an American company headquartered in my home state of Indiana.
The technology is there. Knock out the growth hormone receptor and people end up with Laron syndrome, which causes short stature plus resistance to cancer and type II diabetes.
The law isn't. Countries send people to prison for 3 years for trying this sort of thing on human beings.
Getting the job done is no excuse for not following the rules. Corollary: Following the rules will not get the job done.
