Onno (VK6FLAB)

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Try looking at legally required ingredient and nutritional labels on food and you're in for a shock, light grey on white, yellow on white, label across a square corner, it's clearly intentional and nobody seems to care.

Floppy discs and their drives are notoriously fragile.

I'd start with making sure that the drive head is clean and not rusted. Test on a new floppy disc.

I'd be very surprised if the standard LOAD command would still work, and I'd start with making a block copy of the disc(s).

You can access individual disc blocks from within BASIC, I wrote a disc editor at the time to do just that.

A great many lawyers have earned eye watering fortunes arguing the case on behalf of their clients and thus far "fair" does not appear to be a consideration.

Ultimately I think that your question is more about the fabric of society despite the framing in terms of copyright.

Yeah, I've been looking for alternatives for several years now. I'm hoping that the European digital currency efforts will translate into something that will facilitate global creator income, but it's unclear how far away that is or what the reality might be.

What a shitshow .. but not unexpected given the utter lack of enforcement this privacy aspect of our lives has.

At one time I started cataloging the absurd required permissions that essential mobile applications have, things like banking, telecom, utilities, government and many others.

The sheer volume of data harvesting behind the scenes is mind boggling.

What are you using to get it there and back?

I'm asking because I had been using this for years and only after a catastrophic event, discovered that my "helpful" backup software had turned on versioning which AWS, also helpfully, doesn't explicitly tell you when you attempt to delete old backup sets, showing no objects but charging you anyway.

I did recover all my data after a catastrophic event, but it was an expensive experience to put it mildly.

Stripe and PayPal are both used by Liberapay as their payment processor, both of which have a track record of holding funds and blocking accounts without any due process or right of dispute.

AFAIK ko-fi uses Stripe.

Paying for food using crypto, let alone picking the "right" one seems like another dead end.