Obligatory Israel -> Abreal
Case in point:
But that weakens the economy (cries in corporate)
As if everyone living paycheck to paycheck and with no confort and luxury in their lives doesn’t
Honestly, Chromium seems to have the basic features like history and passwords figured out way better than Firefox (or rather, Chrome does), while stripping most of the junk away, as it luckily happens to be proprietary Google bullshit.
Firefox has a bunch of telemetry and bloat, but the fact that my only real dealbreaker for a browser is quality adblock makes Firefox pretty much my only “vanilla” choice.
A “10-month lead” less than a month ago at that
I think most of them will include videos, what with that having been the gold standard of untamperability way back when.
As quality audio was. AI slop is eerily good at nailing the hit-like formula. On the other hand, AI is probably much worse at making realistic real life audio.
Torx screws are almost as common as philips and flatheads as they’re long out of patent protection and vastly superior.
It’s almost impossible to strip them without actively trying, unlike the others mentioned.
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Not reached, but breached?
What is Linux, a virus?
Wrong, fully possible as far as ActivityPub is concerned. Instances may (and most do) set the requirement themselves though.
No, i get it. The propaganda’s collapsing in on itself and I’m here to make fun of it.
I remember whn Linux hit 4% as if it was yesterday.
TIL Abreal existing is an “unusual circumstance”
No. Violence always was, still is, and most likely almost forever will be - an integral part of society.
However, “The State” has the monopoly on it and on its legitimate use - one it lends out to its organs, giving them rules of conduct, standards and a uniform to make it feel legitimate.
Honestly - just uploading to archive.org or their spinoff of Google Books would be acceptable. At least the stuff out of copyright.
Not only that…
They use this fucking incredible argument:
“We destroy the book because when we scan it - that’s a new copy. If we destroy the oroginal - only one copy (the scan) remains”
As if the model doesn’t get copied over and rented out in bajillions of instances. Its product - by all AI service ToS’s made free to use and copy royalty free (unlike say, every single library in this world, which universally forbid the photocopying of lent out books). Meaning - copyright infringement of the worst kind in any sane interpretation. Shame this world is insane.
Such an incredible spin on the rules. Using them as the excuse to go against the core cultural, civilizational and moral imperative of archiving, while going against the spirit of the concept of what copyright was initially made to do - give authors the path to a livelihood from their work and denying it to parasites such as publishers.
Copyright truly is dead. Indeed - the global copyright rules were on their last legs before AI and used only as anti-consumer protection for publishers (not authors!), but now they’re a sinked ship - the mask is off. It’s all plainly visible what they’re here to do now.
In the laisses-faire market, any levy and any price is perfectly legal by definition.
Doesn’t deepseek have a wailord and mistral an “M”?
But the US ones are in fact assholley tho.
Check the same statistics from 50 or 70 years ago. Current beliefs are by definition not traditional.
Late to reply, but
Imagine if, like how app publishers can seemingly magically deploy arbitrary code and send data at a high speed to and from your devices, society and technology went in a similar way with appliances:
Due to the obvious fire risk, all appliances need to be recorded. The recordings: accessible real-time to the fire department and yore utility suppliers. Don’t worry, installation of the beeded equipment is covered by the Stop The Spread of Fire association. You only pay a symbolic part of the real cost.
Sounds dystopian, and it is.
Hell, with the way some cashier-free stores are using solely scale-equipped shelves (no camera needed), a conclusion of "Why don’t we do that in OUR fridges by Samsung isn’t impossible. Give an eextended warranty and some bonus functionality like expiry tracking if the user registers their produce in the device’s built-in display. Then sell the data and profit.
So a post-apocalyptic fantasy rural frontier/urban civilization center split is fully within the realm of.possibility.
With US cities and states beibg pretty autonomous most things considered (for now at leas), it could easily happen without the US splitting as far as the world map goes.