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fine_sandy_bottom ,

It really is.

I'm just amazed anyone would buy the truck, let alone a $3k tent for it.

Just tattoo idiot on your forehead. At least you'd still have most of your money.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

I think that's a pretty bleak perspective.

Surely one of the main aims of regulation would be to avoid concentrating benefits.

Also, I have a lot of faith in the opensource paradigm, it's worked well thus far.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Who's taking about legislation?

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Really interesting. Thanks for this.

I knew nothing about him 5 minutes ago.

fine_sandy_bottom , (edited )

Become a donation gateway for other opens ourselves projects.

Edit: opensource projects

Tell me about some cool opensource project on my new tab page, optional 1 click donation. Skim a few percent.

This way everyone else will promote firefox.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

No.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Why wouldn't it scale?

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Firstly, that's not a scaling problem, you're talking about poor uptake.

Secondly, the reason so few users donate to open source projects is because these projects are so poorly marketed to potential supporters. That's why a sophisticated organisation like Mozilla is so well placed to sell the stories behind some of these projects.

Thirdly, the percentage of users that click on ads and shopping is also very low. Particularly amongst more technical users.

Fourthly, this plan would actually drive users to Firefox. If Firefox is promoting donations for say, LibreOffice, then they would naturally have an interest in promoting Firefox.

With the advent of enshittification, free-as-in-beer tech is dead. I think people are realising that things need to be paid for. It's very defeatist to just say "no one contributes to open source". Why not try to find the format within which people might contribute?

fine_sandy_bottom ,

this is pure speculation.

Of course it is.

That said, do you think it's unrealistic to suppose that marketing might improve revenue? I do not.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

This. This is the answer.

Directory with markdown files and syncthing.

Use whatever editors on whatever device.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Oh please. This was witty for about 10 seconds 10 years ago.

It's about as clever as answering every comment with "you could find the answer for this on Google".

Make better decisions.

Late Actor Matthew Perry's Twitter Hacked: Fake Charity Plea Targets Fans with Cryptocurrency Scam (www.bitdefender.com)

Scammers hacked the late actor Matthew Perry's Twitter account and posted a fake plea for cryptocurrency donations in the name of his foundation. The foundation confirmed the post was a scam and urged people not to donate....

fine_sandy_bottom ,

It's musk running the scam.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Well yeah, I don't really see the problem with that though.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

There's probably a range of factors.

My own feelings are not indicative of market trends (because I'm a bit weird about things) but a few years ago teslas had some kind of appeal.

I guess I just hadn't realised how much of an ass musk is.

That situation has changed though. I would be legit embarrassed to drive one.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Yeah me neither.

Slower. More expensive. Exploitative.

Nah.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

This is the answer. Kinda surprised this is buried three comments deep TBH. The emails you receive and how you interact with them is a far better source for profiling than browser history.

Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning (nymag.com)

Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning::CEO Bruce Dixon told staffers that Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing stories on the site.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Yeah, I understand that journalism needs to be paid for, but I don't think paywall's are much of a solution.

I don't want to pay a subscription for one publication's news. I don't even really want a subscription for a selection of publication's news. I just want to read whatever I want to read and I'm happy to pay a reasonable amount for that.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

you know that free high-quality print media has never been a thing historically, right?

what gives you the impression that I wouldn't be aware of that. I said in my comment that journalism needs to be paid for.

In a perfect system, you buy some credit with a kind of clearing house, and then pay authors of whatever you wanted to read directly. A few cents a reader would net author's a lot more than they're currently receiving.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Oh my sweet summer child.

Most people would sell their own grandmother into slavery for a few million. I mean they'd feel terrible about it but still.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Is this actually true? I just assumed it was someone's side hustle.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

kagi

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Yeah Google has cleverly re-defined privacy as "give all your data to us and we will protect it from prying eyes".

People love it though. So private and easy and awesome for scrolling.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

This is my experience.

It's fine, but always glitchy niggly things.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

I've known it was there but never used it.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Why do you think everyone switched to non-removable batteries?

Well the purported reasoning is that less shielding is required. Seems plausible but IDK how true. I assume it's partly true.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

No, it's your problem.

The manufacturers correctly surmise that most people prefer a battery that holds it's charge longer over the first year or so, rather than a battery that will last more years.

If your preferences differ from that of most people, then you need to exercise your preferences.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

you continue to spread it so loyally

Whatever mate.

My comment acknowledges that it's a dubious claim. I'd hardly call that spreading nonsense loyally.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Jaded?

No, I think you're just another snarky Lemmy commenter that doesn't bother actually readying and understanding anything but trots out the same tired positions in thread after thread.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Very happy how I am thanks, but then it's not me bemoaning being jaded having been rorted by corps my whole life or some such.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Test case.

Like whoever wrote the underlying bot (chatgpt?) Doesn't want a precedent saying bot is liable, so they will invest huge resources into this one case.

They probably settled thousands of cases waiting for this one to come up, thinking this one had the right characteristics.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

First to market.

That's it.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Whether or not this feature is on Samsung phones it will still be accessible. It already is really. You can't hold back the tide.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

That's not how courts work. It's not like there's a list of acceptable evidence that gets updated once in a while.

Prosecutors and defenders will present evidence to jurors in their contemporary context.

Basically, we all need to acknowledge that images do not convey "truth", and really they never did.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Yeah that seems to be how it reads.

Weird that heavier packages are allowed a smaller tolerance ? Like a 198g package can be 28g under, but in the last row anything over 4.5kg needs to vary by less than 1%

fine_sandy_bottom ,

I'm a borg guy. I'd never heard of kopia. This is from their docs though:

Each snapshot is always incremental. This means that all data is uploaded once to the repository based on file content, and a file is only re-uploaded to the repository if the file is modified. Kopia uses file splitting based on rolling hash, which allows efficient handling of changes to very large files: any file that gets modified is efficiently snapshotted by only uploading the changed parts and not the entire file.

So looks like they do append only.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Oooh.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

I love these.

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fine_sandy_bottom ,

In summary, I think the statement is untestable because it's so poorly confined. Basically it's something that grumpy local business owners with poor value-propositions tend to say. One of those things that sounds like it ought to be true but doesn't stand analysis.

For example, there might be a "local" store which doesn't need many employees but sells products manufatured elsewhere. It's a local store but most of your money is going elsewhere.

OTOH there might be a chain store that employs 100s of local people, and buys fresh produce from local farms. Not a local business owner but most of the money is benefiting your local community.

Additionally, local people own just as many shares in large chains as anyone else.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

I've never really understood what prime actually is. They nag me about it on the occasion I might buy something from amazon. weird to think someone perhaps couldn't live without it.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Yeah, I think that saying shopping at Wal-Mart is "beneficial" might be a bit of a stretch, I just mean to say that when someone says "shop at a locally owned store so your money stays local" they're really saying "shop in my store so I get your money". What most people don't realise is that their pension plan (called super in Australia, 401k or something in US?) probably owns a bunch of shares in Wal-Mart, so you may as well shop there if you're a part owner.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Not even rain.

If you sleep outside you'll wake up wet and dewy and gross.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

If a human being gets asked to draw the joker, gets a still from the film, then copies it to the best of their ability. They can’t sell that image. Technically speaking they’ve broken the law already by making a copy.

Is this really true? Breaking the law implies contravening some legislation which in the case of simply drawing a copyrighted character, you wouldn't be in most jurisdictions. It's a civil issue in that if some company has the rights to a character and some artist starts selling images of that character then whoever owns the rights might sue that artist for loss of income or unauthorised use of their intellectual property.

Regardless, all human artists have learned from images of characters which are the intellectual property of some company.

If I hired a human as an employee, and asked them to draw me a picture of the joker from some movie, there's no contravention of any law I'm aware of, and the rights holder wouldn't have much of a claim against me.

As a layperson, who hasn't put much thought into this, the outcome of a claim against these image generators is unclear. IMO, it will come down to whether or not a model's abilities are significantly derived from a specific category of works.

For example, if a model learned to draw super heros exclusively from watching marvel movies then that's probably a copyright infringement. OTOH if it learned to draw super heroes from a wide variety of published works then IMO it's much more difficult to make a case that the model is undermining the right's holder's revenue.

Taylor Swift is living every woman’s AI porn nightmare — Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming. (www.vice.com)

Taylor Swift is living every woman’s AI porn nightmare — Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming.::Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

come to my taylor swift deep fake nude party

sure I'd love to meet new people

fine_sandy_bottom ,

The default assumption will be that a video is fake. In the very near future you will be able to say "voice assistant thing show me a video of that cute girl from the cafe today getting double teamed by robocop and an ewok wearing a tu-tu". It will be so trivial to create this stuff that the question will be "why were you watching a naughty video of me" rather than "omg I can't believe this naughty video of me exists".

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Was this joke ever funny?

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Name calling. Real classy.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Can you name any other non profits, around for as long as mozilla, and as large as mozilla, that have become "something similar" to a Chinese malware producer?

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Is openai similar to a Chinese malware producer?

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