According to some sources, calling the second-in-command/executive/first officer “number one” might have historically been a thing in the British Navy, but i don’t see a reliable source for that after a minute of searching so I’m not sure.
Do not curse me with this knowledge. I rebuke thee!
update: karma was actually removed from the API even before I posted about it here, but the change wasn’t released yet then. Servers running lemmy >=0.19 no longer expose it.
I don’t agree with all of your conclusions here, but I think it is important to note another problem:
Mammoth’s AGPL 3.0 license is currently incompatible with Apple’s AppStore because Apple imposes restrictions which are explicitly forbidden by GPLv3 (specifically, the paragraphs in the license about “installation information”).
So, while the source code is released under this license, the binaries that Mammoth distributes via Apple are not under a free software license at all. Recipients of the source code are allowed to distribute it (and their own modified versions) under GPLv3 only, which means not on Apple’s App Store (which is the only place most iOS users get software).
This may be an oversight, or may be intentional. Other projects like Signal messenger have for years been using the GPLv3-iOS incompatibility to appear to be free software while actually maintaining a monopoly on the right to distribute binaries to iPhone users.
See NextCloud’s COPYING.iOS for an example of how to release an iOS app under GPLv3 in a way that does not restrict that right to a single entity.
if you use tor browser you can click the .onion available button in the location bar on any nyt url and it will replace the domain with their onion address and then there is no more paywall.
The enforcement of copyright law is really simple.
If you were a kid who used Napster in the early 2000s to download the latest album by The Offspring or Destiny's Child, because you couldn't afford the CD, then you need to go to court! And potentially face criminal sanctions or punitive damages to the RIAA for each song you download, because you're an evil pirate! You wouldn't steal a car! Creators must be paid!
If you created educational videos on YouTube in the 2010s, and featured a video or audio clip, then even if it's fair use, and even if it's used to make a legitimate point, you're getting demonetised. That's assuming your videos don't disappear or get shadow banned or your account isn't shut entirely. Oh, and good luck finding your way through YouTube's convoluted DMCA process! All creators are equal in deserving pay, but some are more equal than others!
And if you're a corporation with a market capitalisation of US$1.5 trillion (Google/Alphabet) or US$2.3 billion (Microsoft), then you can freely use everyone's intellectual property to train your generative AI bots. Suddenly creators don't deserve to be paid a cent.
Apparently, an individual downloading a single file is like stealing a car. But a trillion-dollar corporation stealing every car is just good business.