#Ownership is a misnomer in #Rust. When you declare a mutable variable x using mut. x hosts the reference of the address of the value that is stored in memory. When you declare another variable y using &mut x, y can be used to change the value stored in that address. x being a mutable variable really does not "own" anything. It is worse than the case of joint ownership in economics. In the case of mutable variables, it is much better to call x a "joint referrer" to a certain address of memory.

I just published a post about owning digital content (music, videos, podcasts and more) without spending money, on Odysee.
https://odysee.com/@fossery-tech:4/take-control-of-your-digital-life:f
(Unfortunately it's too long to post it here on Mastodon, plus it would look like a mess without text formatting But I'll work on an Articles section on FosseryWeb, then I'll share FosseryWeb links instead)

#DigitalSovereignity: "The real power move for #creators is #ownership and control of their work and livelihoods. This freedom is actually closer for more people than ever before! Learn from two #fediverse futurists [@molly0xfff & @mike] how #decentralizedsocialmedia facilitates #betterpublishing, #community, and #businessmodels.
Speakers will cover where creators should focus their energies, and how they might thrive with or without #walledgarden social platforms."
https://schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/PP147154

Without YOU none of this is possible!

You are the source of my inspiration, you guide me and support me through this journey of discovery in music!

You are part of my music

You ARE my music!

When you listen those sounds literally resonate through you!

https://kelaudio.bandcamp.com/album/qoniwar

When you buy my music, you make it possible for me to make more music, you are my life blood!

#bandcamp
#BandcampFriday
#Marketing101
#Envy
#Ownership

Today I learned from Clare O'Dea's book "The Naked Swiss" that Swiss homeowners have to pay tax on the rental value of their property, as if they were actually earning that rent.
#home #house #ownership #rent #Switzerland

I FUCKING HATE #DENUVO

FUCK YOU, LET ME PLAY MY $70 GAME I PAID FOR!!!

(I last played this game last night, it hasn't even been 24 hours)

Today is the Data Privacy (Protection) Day! So let us remind you that in #LabPlot, an open-source data analysis and visualization software, Your Data is Yours!

@labplot@lemmy.kde.social @opensource @libre_software @privacy

Boosts appreciated!

#Fedizens #Fediverse
Friends! I've made an effort to become platform independent and take control of my #content. I'm tired of finding out that I've wasted my time building a platform for my content only to find the platform or audience changing.

To that end, I've decided to walk the talk and reclaim #ownership on my own platform. I invite you to stop by and if you feel so inclined, let's break out those #RSS aggregators and start supporting directly!
#Creators

https://utc.kielenking.com

It’s about teaching students not just how to use technology, but how to understand and apply new technologies to solve complex issues. #ownership #tech #maakonderwijs https://medium.com/@rexwinkel/maker-education-in-the-age-of-ai-087a3d738953

Trump proposes 50% US ownership of TikTok: President-elect Donald Trump has suggested that the United States should acquire a 50 percent stake in TikTok. This proposal came less than 24 hours before his inauguration as the 47th President of the US and shortly after the ban on TikTok went into effect in the country. The Supreme Court in the US had recently […] https://creebhills.com/2025/01/trump-proposes-50-us-ownership-of-tiktok?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Trump #TikTok #Ownership #SocialMedia #USPolitics

The roaming cats of Bellingen are one of the biggest threats to wildlife

"The average pet cat kills 110 native animals each year, roughly 320 million across Australia, and that doesn’t even include frogs or insects. The species is directly responsible for the third highest number of extinctions in Australia, after humans and chytrid fungus."

Victoria has " effective legislation that’s empowering local government to take action on the issue of roaming pet cats."
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/calls-for-major-rule-change-as-big-threat-roams-free-in-aussie-state-054425641.html

Local councils are tightening cat ownership laws to help protect wildlife and keep your pet safe
https://biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/cat-ownership-laws-ABC-Radio-Interview

xkcd: Peer Review

"Economics Journal Submission.

'We have received your manuscript "The bizarre economics of academic publishing: Why volunteer peer reviewers should rise up and demand payment from for-profit journals."
We have elected not to send it out for review."

https://xkcd.com/2025/

Pro tip: your local Savers, Goodwill, whatever thrift store you have probably has a big pile of DVDs and Blu-Rays for $1-3 a piece. Some of these had never even been opened. Useful when you suddenly have to be maintaining a movie collection in 2 places at once. #Movies #Film #Cinema #Ownership

Your regular public service announcement: If your item can be remotely disabled by a 3rd party, it was never yours to begin with.
Doesn't matter whether it's a game, a watch, a car, a fridge or a computer.
#DigitalFreedom #Ownership #RightToRepair

"The #law is the most powerful engine through which ideologies can become self-replicating engines. John Locke’s theory of property as the endowed right of white men to use and to produce worked like witchcraft—the natural world, which had sustained societies for thousands of years, could suddenly be taken by force, enclosed, and tilled for the sole profit of one man, with trespassers punished. The conversion of land into one person’s permanent property was not permissible under the indigenous populations who had long occupied it, nor was such a thing permissible anywhere in the world except Europe—and even there, only after the enclosure movements of the 1600s."

Mehrsa #Baradaran in her book: "The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America"

@economics