Or maybe an abbreviated hash of the text of their specifications?

Why are you booing them? They’re right!

It’s not even piracy though. I never saw anyone torrent Windows_XP_Home_Cracked.iso and go “Hey guys, check out this operating system I made!”

Pirating Windows for your own personal, private use, which will never directly make you a single dollar: HIGHLY ILLEGAL

Scraping your creative works so they can make billions by selling automated processes that compete against your work: Perfectly fine and normal!

It’s not that hard.

Fuck the RIAA: The artists should hold the rights to their music, not the publishers.

Fuck AI: The rights-holders (which ought to be the artists) should be able to distribute their work without fear that a bot will be allowed to use it to compete against them.

I just don’t see a healthy creative culture where you don’t push both buttons.

Comments here: “Yeah right, I’ll believe it when they explain how.”

Article: literally has a section explaining how

Edit:

Replies: "Yeah, but that's just a summary. I'll believe it when they explain in full detail."

Article: literally has a link to the detailed explanation

Well yeah. I mean, the big companies hire psychologists to conduct user studies to maximize time on device, and they model their user experience after variable reward schedules from slot machines. Seems obvious that they're nefarious.

I just have no idea how you can effectively regulate big tech.

At every corner, the fundamental dynamic of big tech seems to be: Do the same exploitative, antisocial things that we decided long ago should be illegal... but do it through indirect means that make it difficult or impossible to regulate.

If you change the definition of employment so that gig-work apps like Uber become employers, they'll just change their model to avoid the new definition.

If you change the definition of copyright infringement so that existing AI systems are open to prosecution, they'll just add another level of obfuscation to the training data or something.

I'm glad they're willing to do something, but there has to be a more robust approach than this whack-a-mole game we're playing.

Edit: And to be clear, I am also concerned about the collateral damage that any regulation might cause to the grassroots independent stuff like Lemmy... but I think that's pretty unlikely. The political environment in the US is such that it's way, way more likely that we just do nothing -- or a tiny little token effort -- and we just let Meta/Google/whoever fully colonize our neurons in the end anyway.

If Miyamoto is succeeded by someone with Gabe’s pro-consumer philosophy, Nintendo could dominate.

Sony and Microsoft are too busy doing the private equity playbook.

Silly goose, you don’t own Windows — you license it.

It is kinda brilliant though, the way they set it up.

If you don’t like the joke, you can always fall back to the meta level: this is a 40-something dad recalling how dumb and cringe-worthy he and his friends were in their 20s.

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Are we looking from the perspective of the user or the wall?

Firefox doesn't implement the AudioData API, which is probably necessary for the waveform viewer and cropping tool Discord presents in the soundboard management UI.

Not everything is about Chrome DRM yall.

First, they sent the missionaries. They built communities, facilities for the common good, and spoke of collaboration and mutual prosperity. They got so many of us to buy into their belief system as a result.

Then, they sent the conquistadors. They took what we had built under their guidance, and claimed we "weren't using it" and it was rightfully theirs to begin with.

Removed a legal document BECAUSE OF LOW ENGAGEMENT? I can’t even.

My new favorite game is:

When the news says “high prices”, replace it with “low wages”; “inflation” with “paycuts”.

The whole economy starts to make a lot more sense.

Judges parenting baby Trump:

I’m gonna count to 3!

1…

2…

2 and a half…

2 and three quarters…

almost 3…

seriously really almost 3…

TAKES THE GLOVES OFF and TEARS INTO HIM before SLAMMING HIM

Here's what happens when you spoof a Chrome user-agent.

“Nobody uses hard drives anymore. Have the intern replace all mentions of hard drives with solid state drives.”

I’m not sure how to feel about the level of support shown for Bushnell, when previous self-immolators have been thoroughly ignored.

Part of me is glad that his death is not in vain, and his friends and family can take some solace in that fact.

But part of me is terrified that 20 more people are going to try similar stunts and achieve… less-than-nothing.

There are already too many martyrs. We need agitators. You can’t agitate if you’re dead or otherwise removed.

Please: If you’re considering Aaron Bushnell an inspiration, be inspired by the fact that he did something unusual, not that he did something self-destructive. Go throw some soup on a Van Gogh instead.

All the people daring the MSM to call them “terrorists”…

Maybe we should just remind the public how bad the word “settler” is: These are state-armed violent militias whose explicit goal is to displace the indigenous occupants of foreign territories.

Terrorists at least tend to emerge in response to (real or perceived) political disposession. That is not the case here. The settlers are the most privileged class in Israel, rewarded for breaking international law.

And we should probably also remember that oppressors always have legitimate grievances to cite when you question what they’re doing. Nobody ever says “We’re invading this land cuz we want it” in the moment.

Languages evolve, but you’re still allowed to have an opinion about how they should evolve.

People call it “political correctness” when you want to change things, or pedantry when you want things to stay the same or revert back.

I think it’s one of those George Carlin scenarios:

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

FTC for the past 60 years: “You lied to us? Great job, kid!”

FTC under Lina Khan: “You lied to us? We’ll see your ass in court.”

We might not win, but golly it’s refreshing to see someone try.

ACAB indeed.

Current Setting: Breed Groot

Setting aside whether soundalikes-hyped-as-the-real-deal is a violation of personal likeness rights…

How do we know what voice(s) they actually used? To my understanding, the process atomizes the input such that you can never actually prove what went into it.

Their whole business seems to be one of selling plausible-deniability engines.

It’s only hacking if it’s in a CVE.

Anything else is just sparkling unauthorized access.

I am become Patreon. Supporter of .worlds.

Who do they think will be using the AI?

AI threatens to harm a lot about programming, but not the existence/necessity of programmers.

Particularly, AI may starve the development of open source libraries. Which, ironically, will probably increase the need for employed programmers as companies accrue giant piles of shoddy in-house code that needs maintaining.

There needs to be prison time.

If you can personally cash in today, and leave the consequences for the company to handle 30 years later, there’s a massive incentive to be reckless.

His son would’ve been his only heir eligible to receive compensation if DC ever made things right, but he died young (from AIDS) and never had any children himself (because he was gay).

Edif: He did have a child! Wow!

Only way to get it in 3D

Damn, did Technology Connections get everybody fired up? I just watched an Unlearning Economics video on the same topic.

Interacting with people whose tone doesn’t match their words may induce anxiety as well.

Have they actually proven this is a good idea, or is this a “so preoccupied with whether or not they could” scenario?

Actually pretty amazing that they are willing to scrap it and keep researching instead of just going with it and saying "We did it! We did the sustainability thing! Now please resume your normal purchasing schedule."

I like the concept of an RTS.

Deciding how to invest my resources, where to expand, when to attack, defend, or retreat, scouting and countering my opponent’s plans…

…but when it comes to the physical act of doing this stuff, it feels so horribly awkward that it’s like I’m fighting the UI more than my opponent.

Clicking and dragging selection boxes as if my troops are always in a rectangle formation? Right-clicking to attack but accidentally moving instead… And ugh, the endless series of tedious build queues.

The actual mechanics feel more like data entry — the kind with real bad RSI — than military leadership.

It blows my mind that anyone can still be undecided in 2024.

But LoSavio had opted out of the arbitration agreement and was given the option of filing an amended complaint.

This is why it’s important to opt out of arbitration!

Also notice the potential for fuckery in the statute of limitations here:

the relevant statutes of limitations range from two to four years, and LoSavio sued over five years after buying the car. Under the delayed discovery rule, the limitations period begins when "the plaintiff has, or should have, inquiry notice of the cause of action."

But when Tesla declined to update his car's cameras in April 2022, "LoSavio allegedly discovered that he had been misled by Tesla's claim that his car had all the hardware needed for full automation."

Without that specific moment to point to, to reset the clock through delayed discovery, Tesla could just say “Yeah, we lied, but you bought the lie for 5 years, so now we’re in the clear!”

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