Up until a couple decades ago, basically all religious texts were distributed without getting consent, giving credit or forking over royalties to their original authors. Rhymes and songs, even images, were observed and then repeated or noted down and spread.

By todays definition, that’s piracy. Piracy is exactly the same thing, just in a digital world.

Therefore, if piracy isn’t halal, most religious texts and imagery aren’t halal either.

Now, looking at it the other way around, to confirm that:

Theft is illegal. So the question stands: is piracy theft?

That depends on the definition of theft. The old meaning of theft, so the thing, probably ruled over in religious texts, is: The unlawful taking of the property of another.

Now, can you take something from someone else, without them loosing it? I’d argue: No!

So, piracy isn’t theft. Piracy is copying or repeating.

I will revolt, once this tries to attack my privacy.

I’m fine, as long it complies technical requirements that applications will implement sooner or later, while preserving my privacy by simply defaulting to 1900-01-01 or something.

The systemd change ‘just’ adds a birthday field to the user data, where you could store (or don’t) the users birthday, that then could be used by other applications to request an age bracket.

The Arch-change doesn’t effect real arch Linux. It modifies the archinstall script (so, irrelevant, if you install according to Wiki) to ask the user for their birthday during installation and stores it for systemd.

Unknowingly?

Ingress was quite transparent about the goal of gathering real-world data to allows development of future technologies like self-driving and navigation.

It’s the reason, why I started playing it around 2012.

OK, yes, that obviously makes sense, considering the amount of these Charakters.

I know about it, but didn’t recognize the code. So I assumed, they encoded some text to make it harder to read. So I tried decoding it.

Turns out, if you decode this in UTF-16, it turns into a japanese sentence

契ȑ璝寣䇘앖噣삈

Which means (according to DeepL)

The sound of the wind rustling through the trees

And now I’m confused, why.