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@@ -92,30 +92,30 @@ Naturally they're trying to excuse this lack of consent by claiming that the con
 
 Just so you understand, this is _bonkers_. Let's go for it step by step.
 
--   \`unrestricted, unlimited\`  Means they can do whatever they want to that data, without any limits or additional licensing necessary. Currently they claim they aren't selling user data to advertisers or using it for training AI. Tomorrow they might, and the user agreed to these terms{{< sidenote >}}Even without being aware of this agreement.{{</sidenote>}}, they won't be in any breach of contract, even if the user trusted them not to while consenting to this{{< sidenote >}}Again, intentionally or not. {{</sidenote>}}.
--   \`irrevocable, perpetual\` Means they have license to use collected user data forever, and users aren't able to ever revoke this license. The data becomes _effectively owned_ by loops.video at this point.
--   \`transferable\` Means they can give further _effective ownership_ of this data to anyone they like or have a whim to.
--   \`royalty-free, fully-paid\` Means users can never ask them to pay up for the use that data, including for commercial purposes.
--   \`worldwide right and license\` Means they can transfer any collected data anywhere in the world, and process it there. The main issue is that they may very well take it outside of jurisdictions where a user's data is protected by say, GDPR, if they're in Europe.
+-   `unrestricted, unlimited`  Means they can do whatever they want to that data, without any limits or additional licensing necessary. Currently they claim they aren't selling user data to advertisers or using it for training AI. Tomorrow they might, and the user agreed to these terms{{< sidenote >}}Even without being aware of this agreement.{{</sidenote>}}, they won't be in any breach of contract, even if the user trusted them not to while consenting to this{{< sidenote >}}Again, intentionally or not. {{</sidenote>}}.
+-   `irrevocable, perpetual` Means they have license to use collected user data forever, and users aren't able to ever revoke this license. The data becomes _effectively owned_ by loops.video at this point.
+-   `transferable` Means they can give further _effective ownership_ of this data to anyone they like or have a whim to.
+-   `royalty-free, fully-paid` Means users can never ask them to pay up for the use that data, including for commercial purposes.
+-   `worldwide right and license` Means they can transfer any collected data anywhere in the world, and process it there. The main issue is that they may very well take it outside of jurisdictions where a user's data is protected by say, GDPR, if they're in Europe.
 
 > to host, use, copy, reproduce, disclose, sell, resell, publish, broadcast, retitle, archive, store, cache, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, transmit, excerpt (in whole or in part), and distribute such Contributions (including, without limitation, your image and voice) for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such Contributions, and grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.
 
 Let's do this again:
 
--   \`to host\` Means they store the data. Fine, that's necessary for the stated purpose of the service.
--   \`use, copy, reproduce, disclose\` Means they need to process (e.g. transcode videos) data, create copies in their infrastructure and display it to the end users. All good so far, these are necessary for their service to work. Note here that disclosure here may mean several different things. I'm going to assume good will on this, that they mean disclosure to the people/ groups intended by the user.
--   \`sell, resell\` Wait what? Let me get this straight, [their FAQ says they don't sell the data... but they still ask for consent to sell user data!](https://loops.video/help-center/frequently-asked-questions) Clown world.
--   \`publish, broadcast\` This is fine, that's what the platform is for... unless they mean outside of their stated service, that being the loops.video **online** platform.
--   \`retitle\` Means they can change the ownership of the data/ content as they wish. Yet another red flag, which fundamentally undermines their claim that users preserve ownership of their.
--   \`archive, store, cache\` Fine, necessary for their service.
--   \`publicly perform, publicly display\` Means they get rights to put user content in public; note that this means they can ignore the user's chosen privacy options entirely - users may end up posting something very private to a select group of friends, and find that same video anywhere on the web, and loops.video will _not_ be in breach of contract, as they already gave them full license to do what they please.
--   \`reformat, translate\` This is another red flag. Reformatting means that user content/ data may be used in a different medium, e.g. users give permission to loops.video to use their content not just on their platform, but in print, TV, e-mail (as opposed to the ActivityPub networks), using them on YouTube or other platforms, etc.
--   \`transmit,\` Well yet, to the end users. Hopefully.
--   \`excerpt (in whole or in part)\` The only way I can see this as legitimate is if they're going to have small excerpts of the video used as thumbnails, like YouTube does. But of course they won't, this ToS is clearly predatory to the bone.
--   \`distribute such Contributions (including, without limitation, your image and voice)\` There you have it. _Zero_ protection for user data. A user interacting{{< sidenote >}}In any way, intentionally or not! {{</sidenote>}} with loops.video surrenders every piece of data (including your name{{< sidenote >}}Yes, 'image' means a person's public image with all the other data. These terms are chock-full of misleading legal jargon.{{</sidenote>}}, e-mail, face, voice, and all the content they post) to loops.video.
--   \`for any purpose, commercial, advertising or otherwise\` More red flags. The only purpose they **need** to operate the platform is to distribute user media to the people of that user's choosing. Personally, I don't want my data used commercially, or to find my writing or person in the hands of advertisers{{< sidenote >}}I have zero expectations that loops.video will have an in-house advertising team. Do you?{{</sidenote>}}. And what's this 'otherwise'? Why isn't the distribution of content to the people of the user's choosing even mentioned{{< sidenote >}}To answer my own question: because loops.video is a data-scraping service, and not a video sharing platform.{{</sidenote>}}?
--   \`and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such Contributions\` Just no? Ignoring the face meaning of this, of using user content for ads or making compilations of videos, _derivative works_ may easily include AI training. _Incorporating into other works_ is also a red flag, since a user may wish to maintain ownership and control over how their content is used. Fair use exists for a reason, and this clause completely bypasses that.
--   \`and grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing\` Means they get to give any kind of license to user data and content to any party of their choosing.
+-   `to host` Means they store the data. Fine, that's necessary for the stated purpose of the service.
+-   `use, copy, reproduce, disclose` Means they need to process (e.g. transcode videos) data, create copies in their infrastructure and display it to the end users. All good so far, these are necessary for their service to work. Note here that disclosure here may mean several different things. I'm going to assume good will on this, that they mean disclosure to the people/ groups intended by the user.
+-   `sell, resell` Wait what? Let me get this straight, [their FAQ says they don't sell the data... but they still ask for consent to sell user data!](https://loops.video/help-center/frequently-asked-questions) Clown world.
+-   `publish, broadcast` This is fine, that's what the platform is for... unless they mean outside of their stated service, that being the loops.video **online** platform.
+-   `retitle` Means they can change the ownership of the data/ content as they wish. Yet another red flag, which fundamentally undermines their claim that users preserve ownership of their.
+-   `archive, store, cache` Fine, necessary for their service.
+-   `publicly perform, publicly display` Means they get rights to put user content in public; note that this means they can ignore the user's chosen privacy options entirely - users may end up posting something very private to a select group of friends, and find that same video anywhere on the web, and loops.video will _not_ be in breach of contract, as they already gave them full license to do what they please.
+-   `reformat, translate` This is another red flag. Reformatting means that user content/ data may be used in a different medium, e.g. users give permission to loops.video to use their content not just on their platform, but in print, TV, e-mail (as opposed to the ActivityPub networks), using them on YouTube or other platforms, etc.
+-   `transmit,` Well yet, to the end users. Hopefully.
+-   `excerpt (in whole or in part)` The only way I can see this as legitimate is if they're going to have small excerpts of the video used as thumbnails, like YouTube does. But of course they won't, this ToS is clearly predatory to the bone.
+-   `distribute such Contributions (including, without limitation, your image and voice)` There you have it. _Zero_ protection for user data. A user interacting{{< sidenote >}}In any way, intentionally or not! {{</sidenote>}} with loops.video surrenders every piece of data (including your name{{< sidenote >}}Yes, 'image' means a person's public image with all the other data. These terms are chock-full of misleading legal jargon.{{</sidenote>}}, e-mail, face, voice, and all the content they post) to loops.video.
+-   `for any purpose, commercial, advertising or otherwise` More red flags. The only purpose they **need** to operate the platform is to distribute user media to the people of that user's choosing. Personally, I don't want my data used commercially, or to find my writing or person in the hands of advertisers{{< sidenote >}}I have zero expectations that loops.video will have an in-house advertising team. Do you?{{</sidenote>}}. And what's this 'otherwise'? Why isn't the distribution of content to the people of the user's choosing even mentioned{{< sidenote >}}To answer my own question: because loops.video is a data-scraping service, and not a video sharing platform.{{</sidenote>}}?
+-   `and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such Contributions` Just no? Ignoring the face meaning of this, of using user content for ads or making compilations of videos, _derivative works_ may easily include AI training. _Incorporating into other works_ is also a red flag, since a user may wish to maintain ownership and control over how their content is used. Fair use exists for a reason, and this clause completely bypasses that.
+-   `and grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing` Means they get to give any kind of license to user data and content to any party of their choosing.
 -
 
 In short, yes, loops.video does practically take full co-ownership of user content; the only right users keep is author's rights (the right to say they made the original content - but not any derivative works), and the right to grant licenses to the content to other entities aside from loops.video.
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ Fair enough, but then...!
 
 Who are these trusted third parties? There's no way to tell.
 
-But here's the point: these parties 'assist loops.video' in \`conducting their business\`. Wait, what? What business? What even _is_ loops.video's business model? So far, at least from my reading on their website, they don't have any sources of revenue.
+But here's the point: these parties 'assist loops.video' in `conducting their business`. Wait, what? What business? What even _is_ loops.video's business model? So far, at least from my reading on their website, they don't have any sources of revenue.
 
 But here they're saying they **do** sell, trade or otherwise transfer data to 'trusted third parties' who assist them in 'conducting their business' 'so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.'
 

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 title = "A new look: ox-tufte"
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 title = "On Avoidance in Business"
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 title = "Trying out some brain supplements, pt. 2"
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 title = "Brain supplements: A two month summary"
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 title = "Trying out some brain supplements"
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 title = "On the value of calling it a day (and how to get there)"
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 publishDate = 2024-12-07T00:00:00+01:00
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 title = "Efficient computer use"
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 title = "Considerations on FOSS and subscription models"
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 title = "Heaps of fun (Yakuza)"
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 title = "Haxe, heaps, and VSCode (small rant)"
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 title = "Some improvements for my ox-hugo set-up"
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 title = "[Happy Holidays!] On posting lists for self-promotion"
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 title = "loops.video"
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@@ -87,30 +87,30 @@ Naturally they're trying to excuse this lack of consent by claiming that the con
 
 Just so you understand, this is _bonkers_. Let's go for it step by step.
 
--   \`unrestricted, unlimited\`  Means they can do whatever they want to that data, without any limits or additional licensing necessary. Currently they claim they aren't selling user data to advertisers or using it for training AI. Tomorrow they might, and the user agreed to these terms{{< sidenote >}}Even without being aware of this agreement.{{</sidenote>}}, they won't be in any breach of contract, even if the user trusted them not to while consenting to this{{< sidenote >}}Again, intentionally or not. {{</sidenote>}}.
--   \`irrevocable, perpetual\` Means they have license to use collected user data forever, and users aren't able to ever revoke this license. The data becomes _effectively owned_ by loops.video at this point.
--   \`transferable\` Means they can give further _effective ownership_ of this data to anyone they like or have a whim to.
--   \`royalty-free, fully-paid\` Means users can never ask them to pay up for the use that data, including for commercial purposes.
--   \`worldwide right and license\` Means they can transfer any collected data anywhere in the world, and process it there. The main issue is that they may very well take it outside of jurisdictions where a user's data is protected by say, GDPR, if they're in Europe.
+-   `unrestricted, unlimited`  Means they can do whatever they want to that data, without any limits or additional licensing necessary. Currently they claim they aren't selling user data to advertisers or using it for training AI. Tomorrow they might, and the user agreed to these terms{{< sidenote >}}Even without being aware of this agreement.{{</sidenote>}}, they won't be in any breach of contract, even if the user trusted them not to while consenting to this{{< sidenote >}}Again, intentionally or not. {{</sidenote>}}.
+-   `irrevocable, perpetual` Means they have license to use collected user data forever, and users aren't able to ever revoke this license. The data becomes _effectively owned_ by loops.video at this point.
+-   `transferable` Means they can give further _effective ownership_ of this data to anyone they like or have a whim to.
+-   `royalty-free, fully-paid` Means users can never ask them to pay up for the use that data, including for commercial purposes.
+-   `worldwide right and license` Means they can transfer any collected data anywhere in the world, and process it there. The main issue is that they may very well take it outside of jurisdictions where a user's data is protected by say, GDPR, if they're in Europe.
 
 > to host, use, copy, reproduce, disclose, sell, resell, publish, broadcast, retitle, archive, store, cache, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, transmit, excerpt (in whole or in part), and distribute such Contributions (including, without limitation, your image and voice) for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such Contributions, and grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.
 
 Let's do this again:
 
--   \`to host\` Means they store the data. Fine, that's necessary for the stated purpose of the service.
--   \`use, copy, reproduce, disclose\` Means they need to process (e.g. transcode videos) data, create copies in their infrastructure and display it to the end users. All good so far, these are necessary for their service to work. Note here that disclosure here may mean several different things. I'm going to assume good will on this, that they mean disclosure to the people/ groups intended by the user.
--   \`sell, resell\` Wait what? Let me get this straight, [their FAQ says they don't sell the data... but they still ask for consent to sell user data!](https://loops.video/help-center/frequently-asked-questions) Clown world.
--   \`publish, broadcast\` This is fine, that's what the platform is for... unless they mean outside of their stated service, that being the loops.video **online** platform.
--   \`retitle\` Means they can change the ownership of the data/ content as they wish. Yet another red flag, which fundamentally undermines their claim that users preserve ownership of their.
--   \`archive, store, cache\` Fine, necessary for their service.
--   \`publicly perform, publicly display\` Means they get rights to put user content in public; note that this means they can ignore the user's chosen privacy options entirely - users may end up posting something very private to a select group of friends, and find that same video anywhere on the web, and loops.video will _not_ be in breach of contract, as they already gave them full license to do what they please.
--   \`reformat, translate\` This is another red flag. Reformatting means that user content/ data may be used in a different medium, e.g. users give permission to loops.video to use their content not just on their platform, but in print, TV, e-mail (as opposed to the ActivityPub networks), using them on YouTube or other platforms, etc.
--   \`transmit,\` Well yet, to the end users. Hopefully.
--   \`excerpt (in whole or in part)\` The only way I can see this as legitimate is if they're going to have small excerpts of the video used as thumbnails, like YouTube does. But of course they won't, this ToS is clearly predatory to the bone.
--   \`distribute such Contributions (including, without limitation, your image and voice)\` There you have it. _Zero_ protection for user data. A user interacting{{< sidenote >}}In any way, intentionally or not! {{</sidenote>}} with loops.video surrenders every piece of data (including your name{{< sidenote >}}Yes, 'image' means a person's public image with all the other data. These terms are chock-full of misleading legal jargon.{{</sidenote>}}, e-mail, face, voice, and all the content they post) to loops.video.
--   \`for any purpose, commercial, advertising or otherwise\` More red flags. The only purpose they **need** to operate the platform is to distribute user media to the people of that user's choosing. Personally, I don't want my data used commercially, or to find my writing or person in the hands of advertisers{{< sidenote >}}I have zero expectations that loops.video will have an in-house advertising team. Do you?{{</sidenote>}}. And what's this 'otherwise'? Why isn't the distribution of content to the people of the user's choosing even mentioned{{< sidenote >}}To answer my own question: because loops.video is a data-scraping service, and not a video sharing platform.{{</sidenote>}}?
--   \`and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such Contributions\` Just no? Ignoring the face meaning of this, of using user content for ads or making compilations of videos, _derivative works_ may easily include AI training. _Incorporating into other works_ is also a red flag, since a user may wish to maintain ownership and control over how their content is used. Fair use exists for a reason, and this clause completely bypasses that.
--   \`and grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing\` Means they get to give any kind of license to user data and content to any party of their choosing.
+-   `to host` Means they store the data. Fine, that's necessary for the stated purpose of the service.
+-   `use, copy, reproduce, disclose` Means they need to process (e.g. transcode videos) data, create copies in their infrastructure and display it to the end users. All good so far, these are necessary for their service to work. Note here that disclosure here may mean several different things. I'm going to assume good will on this, that they mean disclosure to the people/ groups intended by the user.
+-   `sell, resell` Wait what? Let me get this straight, [their FAQ says they don't sell the data... but they still ask for consent to sell user data!](https://loops.video/help-center/frequently-asked-questions) Clown world.
+-   `publish, broadcast` This is fine, that's what the platform is for... unless they mean outside of their stated service, that being the loops.video **online** platform.
+-   `retitle` Means they can change the ownership of the data/ content as they wish. Yet another red flag, which fundamentally undermines their claim that users preserve ownership of their.
+-   `archive, store, cache` Fine, necessary for their service.
+-   `publicly perform, publicly display` Means they get rights to put user content in public; note that this means they can ignore the user's chosen privacy options entirely - users may end up posting something very private to a select group of friends, and find that same video anywhere on the web, and loops.video will _not_ be in breach of contract, as they already gave them full license to do what they please.
+-   `reformat, translate` This is another red flag. Reformatting means that user content/ data may be used in a different medium, e.g. users give permission to loops.video to use their content not just on their platform, but in print, TV, e-mail (as opposed to the ActivityPub networks), using them on YouTube or other platforms, etc.
+-   `transmit,` Well yet, to the end users. Hopefully.
+-   `excerpt (in whole or in part)` The only way I can see this as legitimate is if they're going to have small excerpts of the video used as thumbnails, like YouTube does. But of course they won't, this ToS is clearly predatory to the bone.
+-   `distribute such Contributions (including, without limitation, your image and voice)` There you have it. _Zero_ protection for user data. A user interacting{{< sidenote >}}In any way, intentionally or not! {{</sidenote>}} with loops.video surrenders every piece of data (including your name{{< sidenote >}}Yes, 'image' means a person's public image with all the other data. These terms are chock-full of misleading legal jargon.{{</sidenote>}}, e-mail, face, voice, and all the content they post) to loops.video.
+-   `for any purpose, commercial, advertising or otherwise` More red flags. The only purpose they **need** to operate the platform is to distribute user media to the people of that user's choosing. Personally, I don't want my data used commercially, or to find my writing or person in the hands of advertisers{{< sidenote >}}I have zero expectations that loops.video will have an in-house advertising team. Do you?{{</sidenote>}}. And what's this 'otherwise'? Why isn't the distribution of content to the people of the user's choosing even mentioned{{< sidenote >}}To answer my own question: because loops.video is a data-scraping service, and not a video sharing platform.{{</sidenote>}}?
+-   `and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such Contributions` Just no? Ignoring the face meaning of this, of using user content for ads or making compilations of videos, _derivative works_ may easily include AI training. _Incorporating into other works_ is also a red flag, since a user may wish to maintain ownership and control over how their content is used. Fair use exists for a reason, and this clause completely bypasses that.
+-   `and grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing` Means they get to give any kind of license to user data and content to any party of their choosing.
 -
 
 In short, yes, loops.video does practically take full co-ownership of user content; the only right users keep is author's rights (the right to say they made the original content - but not any derivative works), and the right to grant licenses to the content to other entities aside from loops.video.
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ Fair enough, but then...!
 
 Who are these trusted third parties? There's no way to tell.
 
-But here's the point: these parties 'assist loops.video' in \`conducting their business\`. Wait, what? What business? What even _is_ loops.video's business model? So far, at least from my reading on their website, they don't have any sources of revenue.
+But here's the point: these parties 'assist loops.video' in `conducting their business`. Wait, what? What business? What even _is_ loops.video's business model? So far, at least from my reading on their website, they don't have any sources of revenue.
 
 But here they're saying they **do** sell, trade or otherwise transfer data to 'trusted third parties' who assist them in 'conducting their business' 'so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.'
 

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