The House GOP voted down the funding bill the House GOP proposed: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4230386-house-conservatives-tank-gop-short-term-funding-bill/
They may need to make concessions to Democrats that they would otherwise not need to make to get this passed, despite having a majority of the House.
This is pretty much how I feel. We don't send these kinds of assets after normal people. But we send the navy and scramble everything we can over a handful of billionaires.
This kind of ruling would make sense for a $20 bicycle, but I'd expect the bar for mutual agreement to be higher for a shipment of $60,000 worth of flax.
The issue is that by Senate policy, one person can throw a massive wrench in the process and grind things to a halt. Progressives typically want to do things, which cannot be done by one person throwing a hissy fit.
The durability issues of foldables are a real shame because the Pixel Fold is otherwise a very nice device. We'll have a full review up soon.
Dead before the review dropped. Thats gotta be a record.
One nice thing is that because Kbin/Lemmy is federated, they can build an accessible platform and not worry about the powers that be flipping them the bird. There are good accessibility tools in the form of 3rd party apps for Reddit, but those are getting shut down.
A car driven by a human is unlikely to need firefighters to lift the vehicle up to get at the woman pinned by its tire. Even if they're good at general driving they have an unfortunate habit of making emergencies worse.
A place can have a barren atmosphere and aesthtic while also having content to find, even if that content is more sparse or minimal, suited to that lonely environment
That's exactly what they've done.
A "barren" planet still has stuff. In the 5 minutes or so that I did random exploration I found a colonist hut that was razed by pirates with a hidden chest with like 3k credits, and a random vendor who was going a little nuts for being alone so long. Nothing incredible, but enough to make the place not feel dead on a random frozen moon.
Remember, Creative Commons licenses often require attribution if you use the work in a derivative product, and sometimes require ShareAlike. Without these things, there would be basically no protection from a large firm copying a work and calling it their own.
Rolling pack copyright protection in these areas will enable large companies with traditional copyright systems to wholesale take over open source projects, to the detriment of everyone. Closed source software isn't going to be available to AI scrapers, so this only really affects open source projects and open data, exactly the sort of people who should have more protection.
The great thing is that there's no competition between lemmy and kbin. We can use whichever we prefer and still have access to all the same communities.
Solaar seems to work fine. Honestly Linux's third party software often supports hardware better than the Windows first party software.
So I googled around, and found this conviction: https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2008/February/08\_crm\_145.html
Justin Eric King, 27, of Chipley, Fla., has been sentenced to 41 months in prison followed by three years supervised release resulting from his conviction on charges of conspiracy to commit visa fraud, visa fraud and conspiracy to commit alien smuggling, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and United States Attorney Gregory R. Miller of the Northern District of Florida announced today. The defendant and his co-conspirators brought illegal aliens, mostly from Bulgaria and Romania, to work in the hotel industry in and around Destin, Fla. King was sentenced by Senior District Court Judge Lacey A. Collier of Pensacola, Fla.
This isn't usually what we think of as "human trafficking." It seems that the people he smuggled understood what they were doing, and not being forced or coerced it. If that were the case, additional charges of exploitation would have been filed.
When I lived in a city with good transit, biking and then taking the bus was more reliable than driving to work. Driving puts you at the whims of traffic and construction, some of which may or may not be forecastable.
In the example before that, she reported bad behavior to the event organizer, who did basically nothing.
Some people don't want to have to risk their careers in order to enact change. When women speak up, they have a legitimate risk of being labeled as difficult or profiteering The author's hope is that men don't face the same level of criticism or skepticism when calling out other men, and that more voices will make women safer and this whole endeavor more productive.
The suffragettes were repeatedly arrested, they were branded terrorists. Later, their hunger strikes while in prison were broken with force feeding via stomach pump.
Suffragettes also bombed buildings and committed arson and vandalism, even if their means were effective, maybe we shouldn't advocate for their strategies.
In an event like that, I would expect a complete inspection of the piers and any other elements that may have been affected. If the bridge is damaged enough for this kind of collapse to be possible, we should be either closing it or limiting it to light traffic until repairs can be made. Stuff like this shouldn't be left to to chance, and the fact that it seems to be that way so frequently in the US should be terrifying, and entirely unacceptable. We should be demanding better infrastructure with budgets for maintenance baked in.
If I were making a web crawler, I would make it so that if a crawler finds a domain that appears to have changed dramatically or gone offline it will re-crawl the domain and flag already-crawled pages as potentially obsolete.
Trump's PAC is paying his legal fees, not Trump himself. So far the Save America PAC seems to have spent at least 10 million on legal fees for the former president.
From a (US) financial perspective, a phone charger takes about 5 watts of electricity. At $0.010/kWh that's $0.0005/hr (or ¢0.05/hr) of charging. This is utterly negligible.
For reference, a worker at the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr would be paid that much after 0.25 seconds of working. It's not even worth paying an employee to tell you to not plug in, which would probably take at least 15 seconds.
Naturally, some businesses may want to discourage people from loitering, but more often than not, they probably want your business (library, grocery store, coffee shop &c) or understand that reality happens.
There's only a small handful of cars that have primarily electronic door handles. Teslas are the worst because opening the door without power is very different than opening it with power and sometimes breaks the window. I think it was Mercedes or someone who has a power lock but the manual release is part of the same lever, you just pull it out farther.
It probably wouldn't hold up in court, but it can be used as a bludgeon to dissuade people from filing in the first place. Roku is totally allowed to lie and say "You can't sue, you agreed to mandatory arbitration. // You can't join the class action, you agreed not to. If you do either of these things, we'll sue you."
This could easily dissuade quite a few people from litigating, limiting how much the company needs to pay out.
It's not. When the sub collapsed, it did so with the energy of about 50kg of TNT.
This is why there will be no attempt to recover the bodies either. There just isn't anything left.
Researchers pay for publication, and then the publisher doesn't pay for peer review, then charges the reader to read research that they basically just slapped on a website.
It's the publisher middlemen that need to be ousted from academia, the researchers don't get a dime.
In July and August of 1961, Johnny Cash recorded a batch of songs that became the basis for Blood, Sweat and Tears, a record many regard as merely a concept album about working people. But Blood, Sweat and Tears is a concept album about race in America, about the violent enforcement of racial hierarchies in America. It is the one great record made in support of Black lives by a country music star, even if almost everyone missed its message when it was released.
Copyright is not ownership. You can own something, but not hold the copyright to it.
Personality rights are also not copyright and as the ruling was not about personality rights, it did not affect these rights (where they exist in the US). Disregarding both AI and the recent ruling, if someone takes a photograph of you, you do not hold the copyright to it, the photographer does. If the photographer then does something with that image that harms your reputation you may be able to sue.
And no, it is unlikely that there is a distinction between one's likeness and "AI generated likeness," it usually doesn't matter if you use a photograph or a drawing of an individual, it is the identity that is protected regardless of what tool was used.
nostupidquestions is the de facto OOTL: https://lemmy.world/post/1006532
Or to kbin: https://kbin.social/m/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world/t/134896/Why-is-my-home-feed-nothing-but-beans
Did you read a different headline? What you said doesn't contradict the headline that I read, which is: "It’s official — LCD TVs won’t see any further development."
Obviously there are other TV technologies that will continue to be developed, as the subtitle points out: "OLED and MicroLED are the future."
I can see it being a great stylistic choice given the context. AI is able to nail the lowest point of the uncanny valley, and that makes a lot of sense for the shapeshifting stuff going on in this series.
But from a broader social choice, I think it's in bad taste. I personally think that AI art is copyright infringement on a massive scale. It rubs a lot of artists and people invested in art in the wrong way.
In countries with dictatorial governments where the mainstream media cannot be trusted , twitter (&other SM) are used to organize protests and discussions.
It was good for this, but it is not anymore
Businesses and governments have security cameras. Your bank and credit processor will log every transaction you make, Your phone monitors your location, your cell company monitors it too. You have a good half-dozen firms monitoring you basically 24/7 for a variety of reasons. And it's obviously not any better once you're on the internet.
Twitter is going even harder than Pinterest. They're not even showing a preview of the content, they're just immediately redirecting users to a login page before seeing anything at all.
"If you fail to schedule time for maintenance, the machine will schedule it for you" is a common refrain in manufacturing. I'm consistently amazed that we fail to inspect and maintain our roads and bridges.
Most EVs don't even have CVTs. They often don't even have multi-speed transmissions at all. The type of electric motor used produces maximum torque at 0 RPM, so it no longer needs a transmission to prevent stalling and its torque-RPM curve is so flat that a multi-speed transmission would reduce performance under most driving conditions.
If major companies want to be on the fediverse, they're welcome to make their own kbin/lemmy/mastodon accounts.
Bus rapid transit is a thing, as are bus lanes. It's cool! No flying buses necessary.
I don't always get his humour, but this one is pretty on point for me
I think that's really the idea of using AI art. They want to nail the lowest point in the Uncanny Valley, and some models do that.
Though using AI art in a commercial property makes me very uncomfortable with the broader context in mind.
Then why is there the option of defederating at all?
With 100+ GB games i could see the use of a physical installation medium to avoid downloading that much on a spotty network.
I wonder if any games have shipped on USB sticks, because there's no way you're fitting a whole game on a DVD, and saying "please insert disc 4" would not fly for a modern audience.
Once the raw emails have been fed into their ad targeting system, the content of those emails loses the vast majority of its value. Storage is cheap, but not free and inactive accounts have particularly low value. So of course they'll delete the data.
With the hazard that such a large organization has, and the likely vested interest Meta has in destroying or absorbing the Fediverse, I feel that the default should be defederate, and only if Meta has proven to be acting in good faith, we can federate with them.
And that's exactly what's supposed to happen. Instance wars and eventual defederation and fragmentation are important moderation tools, and will progress the culture and feel of instances and regions of the Fediverse. Many instances will form federated cliques that are highly connected and have similar vibes and cultures, and some will be federated with multiple cliques, showing users a variety of cultures and situations.
If the Fediverse reaches a large enough number of people, it can support multiple independant cliques, and enable users see entire mini-universes with different communities and vibes.