Forgejo is foss fork. Gitea, while being free and open source as well for the time being, is run by a for-profit corporation now.

“Forge-yo” difficult to say?

The trend to shutting out China from the west started with Obama’s “Pivot to Asia.” At this point the only point of contention between US ruling elites is whether China or Russia is the primary threat.

Copyright expires long after unprofitable content has been all but lost forever, something like 100 years after the death of the original creator. It used to be a far shorter period, but US corporations with big profitable IP holdings keep bribing lawmakers to extend it, and force its enforcement outside of the US as well. The concept of being able to sell copyrights is also quite silly if you ask me.

So unfortunate Gutenberg and similar libraries can only have really old stuff as things stand.

Corporations will never offer such archives, as they’re a money losing proposition. In some cases IP and copyright law is even such that content can’t be realistically archived and provided.

A colony returned to its rightful historical people.

A student protest movement coopted by foreign capitalists which led to police being killed.

An island which has always been closely linked to the mainland.

If you’re interested in what empire actually is, please read about imperialism and not the latest western capitalist creation.

Only in the imaginary world of US empire propagandists.

It’s all pretend. The US government already controls TikTok. The targeting of TikTok only serves to further entrench the anti-China narrative pushed by the ruling class to manufacture consent for war.

Thanks for the heads up. Their loss really.

I’m with you. I find it really problematic how involved massive corporations are with software that ostensibly belong to the people. Whether that’s in terms of dictating development paths, charging fees for SWAS or whatever they call it these days, to outright stealing it and charging money for its simple use.

One brand, I think it is Vizio, is specifically known for over the top selling of user data to “subsidize” the consumer facing price of the TV. Of course all of the brands do it but even the ones who are very transparent about it do well enough to stay on the market.

I have a Google TV based “smart” TV and use PiHole. The balance is blocking just the right queries to maintain acceptable privacy and security, while allowing queries which are necessary for desired functionality. The domains often change as well. These can be more efficiently blocked with RegEx queries but those have a higher chance of breaking functionality as well.

You can also deactivate the “smart” features or simply not connect the TV to the network.

A headset should be perfectly happy running on an old USB 1.1 interface though, the bandwidth requirements are very low.