Here’s the wikipedia definition

Plagiarism is the representation of another person’s language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one’s own original work.

So, I’m afraid that my definition is closer to consensus than yours.

If word gets out that you used a ghostwriter, you’re gonna get in trouble for plagiarism. That’s the thing they’ll accuse you of.

While consent is a part of why plagiarism is shitty, it’s not what makes something plagiarism. You can check it the other way around: if I’m legitimately quoting someone, do I need explicit consent, or is it implied (if it’s published work)?

About the BSD stuff: yeah, it might not be illegal and consential, but both of these things aren’t necessary for plagiarism.

What are you talking about? I’ve given you several examples of plagiarism outside of a legal concept, which means that there are non-legalistic definitions.

Here’s another one: copying someone’s homework is plagiarism. It’s not illegal, though.

I’d argue that most acts of plagiarism are actually legal, but can result in getting your title revoked. That’s not because of an IP law violation, since you don’t have ownership of an argument in an academic text.

Letting a ghostwriter write an academic paper is plagiarism, too, btw. How would that make sense in an IP law context, if the ghost writer not obtaining the IP is the whole point?

I think your legalistic view of the world is quite limiting.

It’s not illegal to rephrase what someone wrote in a book and pass it off as your own work. You can’t “own” a cultural analysis. It’s still plagiarism.

There’s more than a legal definition of plagiarism.

Plagiarism is when you sell the work of others as your own without attribution. There are bucketloads of examples of legal plagiarism.

I’m pretty sure that everything H. Bomberguy discussed in his plagiarism video was legal, for example.

Ok, then call it “plagiarising”.

This is literally an argument uttered by Hitler. The only thing that’s missing is the “we need a selfless leader to set things right” part.

If vanilla Wireguard is too complicated to set up for you: try tailscale.

If you don’t trust the central tailscale server: rent a vps and set up headscale on that.

If you’re asking yourself, too and don’t feel like going to the reddit post: the molecule is estrogen.

Obligatory :3

Violence of any kind will not be tolerated.

Cringe

“Push propaganda” [citation needed]

But not the PR.

You claimed the PR was merged.

No, it wasn’t. You might say that the issue was sidestepped, because it says “it”, rather than “they”, now.

I guess it was an overreaction by mastodon, though. Even if I understand the initial criticism.

Not really an example for transphobia, but rejecting gender-neutral language in documentation is a red flag.