Privacy as a human right is, indeed, new. The concept and the desire for it is old. Doing things and not wanting to get caught is as old as walking forward. What, you think the idea of cheating a romantic partner is new? That every military in history and prehistory exchanged letters with one another, saying what they were doing? That every important and “important” person always exposed everything they did and thought to everyone?

Also, keep in mind there’s a significant number of serious journalists that need privacy in order to do their job of exposing crimes. I can already see you replying “They wouldn’t need to do that if everything was public”. True, but that would also mean that tyrants and wannabe tyrants would have incredible ease in killing everyone they disliked.

There are people who actually believe that kind of dystopic bullshit, even in the tech sector. I remember a colleague a few years ago, told me he liked targeted ads because “it knew what I wanted”

If I’m not mistaken, Brazilian law allows people to download and make digital copies of copyrighted material, so long as it’s for personal use. I should probably look into that sometime

Printing the externals is doable today, though definitely expensive, simply from the volume of material needed, even if you can outsource or rent a big enough 3D printer (I’d probably print out of nylon powder or something similar)*.

With the exterior printed, just slap an electric motor somewhere and you’re golden (after setting up the whole rest of the car, of course)

*Actually, i’d probably print a neat looking bike frame and maybe some protection, way less material needed

Also, there’s so much “free” content that a lot of young ones don’t even bother or care about learning about piracy and how to do it

In this case, the phrase’s become more popular because people buy digital goods and, due to business shenanigans, they lose access to it, like buying a digital copy of a movie, “owning it”, then no longer being able to access it because Sony couldn’t be arsed to get the rights sorted out.

There’s also the numerous situations where you can’t legally own media, simply because it’s not up for sale, like the vast majority of content on streaming sites. There’s no way to own and consume some media except through the provider. It’s still illegal, it’s still an unauthorized copy, but in this case, it’s the only way to “own” something.

Cable TV 2.0: “Boohoo, pirates are eating my profits!”

i hate googling something and the first 12 results are all blogs that take forever to get to the point and then give a bad answer

That’s because mass-produced/AI generated shit “content” has been winning the Search Engine Optimization cat and mouse game for a while now.

Nice, I’ll get it later today

Yeah, the game can crash a lot, I’m on v0.1.2.0. One even fucked up my save, with the crash happening during the loading screen. Luckily, I’ve managed to restore an earlier save, lost about 10 minutes of progress, so no biggie.

Other crashes I’ve had happened while entering cave dungeons, after sending a pal to battle, activating a special ability, attacking human enemies…

Right now, yes. Some servers are already running 1 version higher, haven’t tried connecting to them yet. You can also play on Community servers, just check the left part of the screen for the button, I’ve had better latency on them.

I thought Brazil was in Buenos Aires?

It would be reasonable if what that app did was anything that actually needed internet servers to work. Why not just pair up the phone with the car, ad-hoc like you could with a PSP, or any sort of peer-to-peer between car-phone, and call it a day? Oh, right, because then you can’t create a service you can charge monthly for.

That people are willing to pay for effectively a remote temperature control and shutdown timer, that does not need to be an internet service to work properly, can and should be dunked on.

Cloning that which was distributed

Time to begin the era of the DYI automobile. Buy a number of ~30v, high amperage batteries, an electric motor, jury rig the thing to a drivetrain and presto!

This is where capitalism is thriving because people are dumb

Fixed. It thrives on human stupidity and laziness

Depends on which old format you mean. The late 90s php-bbs is rare, but you can still find some of them around, I think the forums for the Commander X16 (a new retro computer) uses that style, or something closer to 2004-ish.

So Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia create the household trio of cat, corgi and big dog?

A delicious one, no less

Carebears taking gummy juice in their dialyses