Imagine killing a human being for possession of a harmless plant. It’s wildly unjust.

“Buuuut I’m riiiiiich!!”

I’m not mad because they go above and beyond to support Linux, which I prefer to use.

None of the other stores do even the bare minimum for Linux users, while Valve has helped make it easier to play almost every game.

Glug glug glug

Tasted like it came out of the wrong hole.

How do you do this?

My server (fedia.io) is running different software from yours (programming.dev), but I believe you click on “Create Community” on the top menu bar of your server.

Its about you init. I am so tired of nothing boogers

I have no clue what this is supposed to mean.

Yes, always.

I’m not sure, since I’m not super interested in that.

But the good news is that you can always make a new community dedicated to “old news” if you’d like to.

I’m not sure the law is as settled as you’re making it out to be here… We’re still watching a lot of these questions slowly trickle up the courts.

In my opinion, the idea that someone can feed a bunch of unlicensed copyrighted material as input into a generative AI meat grinder and produce public domain outputs doesn’t really pass the smell test to me.

For example, could I take use an LLM trained on GPL code to rewrite Linux in a legally distinct way, and then treat it as permissive or proprietary code after minor modifications? Likewise, can you train an LLM on someone else’s proprietary code and rewrite it as a GPL program?

This sort of copyright/license laundering seems like an existential threat to the way that copyleft FOSS has existed for decades. I think it makes a lot of sense to be extremely cautious and skeptical of AI-generated code submissions.

Edit: I also want to point out that the issue of whether or not it can be considered “fair use” to train generative AI models on unlicensed copyrighted works is very much an open question. If it was determined that it isn’t always fair use, then I don’t know what that might mean for many of the existing models that have been trained that way, or the outputs that they produce.

Memory leak 🫠

Workplace theater comes to the shitter.

Remember folks, age verification is personal identity verification.

I’m gonna disagree with you. I think it’s only gotten dumber with things like Robinhood and communities like wallstreetbets.

Not exactly. Trash bags are useful

This stock market is so unbelievably detached from reality it’s not even funny anymore. It’s all “meme stocks”.

At least back in the day there was the thinnest guise of this stuff having some semblance of a connection to the ground-level economics of business. (You know, old fashioned stuff like employing people to make products and selling them for a profit.) My parents generation could at least be forgiven for believing that it was driven by serious people making logical decisions about money…

But today it’s just so clearly based on vibes, algorithms, hype, and an unhealthy dose of total randomness that you might as well get into cryptocurrency or take your paycheck to the casino.

The whole thing stinks. It’s like one giant ponzi scheme fueled by ketamine and hopium.

I get it. Spike definitely comes from that lineage of manga/anime characters like Arsene Lupin III and Ryo Saeba who oscillate between 20th century coolness and total goofiness depending on the needs of the moment. Just like Lupin, things don’t usually go his way, and even when he does a good job he’ll still usually get fucked over.

Still, I think that Bebop is a must watch!

Even when I was earning £8k several years ago I was able to comfortably keep a few thousand in the bank.

That wouldn’t even cover a year’s rent with roommates where I live, never mind food, taxes, hygiene products, utilities, transportation, and all of the other basic needs for a single person to eek out a meager existence.

Now, maybe you weren’t paying for those things because someone else in your life was, and that’s fine… But that’s also a huge privilege–not the kind of support system that everybody has access too. What about the people who have kids or other dependents?

The fact is that a lot of people in the USA are truly living “paycheck to paycheck”, and they have little to no money to dedicate to savings each month.

Why spend money making propaganda when you can make slopaganda on the cheap?

Definitely. This isn’t about physical “cash”, this is about all liquidity across cash, checking and savings accounts. From the survey itself:

Most have little to no cushion. 14% of Americans have no cash savings, including 32% of those earning less than $30,000 a year, 20% of women and 16% of Gen Zers. Additionally, another 32% have some savings but less than $1,000. Almost half (45%) wouldn’t be able to cover more than a month of essentials if their income stopped, while just 21% could cover essentials for more than six months.

Almost half of Americans are a couple paychecks away from homelessness. It’s dire.

Plagiarism and creative exploitation on an unprecedented industrialized scale.