jray4559 @ jray4559 @lemmy.sdf.org

I like me some tech discussion and freedom.

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Really? We're doing this again?

Haven't we all learned by now that there will always be a part of 4chan that will do something bad purely because they think it's funny? Just ignore these people. If we don't give them attention and doom about them, the five people on the site being little contrarians will get bored in a week, and they'll stop doing their stupid racism garbage.

Simple as.

Alright, Czech guy, are you gonna put your constituents' money where your mouth is and help build up Europe's defense force? Or are you not gonna change a thing because you know the US will continue to act as the world police?

I think you know which one you'll choose.

I mean, if this is the way the executive branch is talking about the judicial branch, both of them should be forced to resign and be replaced with other people.

How that is, I have no clue, but you can't run a country with distrust like this.

Anyone here who comments about how they deserved this fate or how they got what was coming to them needs to grow the fuck up.

There are very, very few people in this world who have done something bad enough to have this kind of condition even be remotely justified. They're gonna either be on the streets or in basic Medicaid nursing homes for the rest of their lives. Many will get beaten and robbed. Many will probably just commit suicide to avoid the nightmarish conditions. And people here are celebrating this?!

Newsflash, the baby boomer generation are also people who also deserve to have someone give a shit about them. You people are sick.

Redditor ahead of his time

Ban weed smoking too.

Things like edibles, sure let 'em have it, but we've only just gotten to the point where life doesn't smell like nicotine anymore, we shouldn't be replacing that with everything smelling like weed.

But will you actually leave?

Money is the only language these people talk.

Do I pirate? Yes.

My philosophy? I don't wanna pay for it.

Honestly, with the exception of abandonware that can't legally be bought anywhere, piracy can't be legitimately excused. If you do it, you do it because you want something that you should pay for, but don't wanna. Which is a choice you can make, I won't hate you for it, but own that instead of pretending that you have a logical moral argument to getting it.

Honestly, the main problem for popularity's sake is the un-diverse userbase.

It's a bunch of techy redditors, the same way that many other services that splinter off from reddit are. Almost all the communities are literal clones of reddit ones. So for someone who wants a similar style of place and doesn't have a hatred of reddit corporate built-in, why would they not go to reddit, which has the same kind of userbase but with 100x the users?

Honestly, other than "Open Source Master Race!!!!111!!!111", there isn't any reason, especially not one that the average person will care about.

Another one, and I fucking HATE saying this, not enough zoomers dragging their friends along. This place feels like a place for the 30-something instead of the 20-something. Which isn't bad, of course, but in terms of network effect power it is, because peer pressure is huge for social media.

But, separate from all that, do we actually want it to be that kind of popular? Maybe we should stay under the radar for the most part. Keep it from becoming stale and condescending like lots of Redditors can be. Keep the advertisers from sinking claws in. Maybe that'll be better for the site as a whole than needing ads to support a service 100x the size.

Well, if you want her to stop being in Congress, you know what to do in the primaries.

I'd hope for that, but there's also probably at least a 50/50 chance that Utah strong-arms the federal government into letting them have water from Wyoming and Montana up north. Or, god forbid, they get a Great Lakes pipeline.

It is bad for the consumer... but the alternative is instant cracks, as seen with a lot of games on r/Crackwatch that don't have the DRM.

Denuvo is the first software in a long time that has been able to successfully stop the supposedly inevitable march to cracking. It's a miracle that more AAA devs don't use it, since it works so well. (EMPRESS aside)

You can hate me all you want for saying this, but the war against piracy, for the most part, has been won.

Yeah, but who's going to stop the music of growth? Certainly not any politician that wants to keep being elected.

The average person doesn't really care about sustainable living, they just wanna be able to keep their golf courses and SUV's and everything else wasteful. If the lake dies, they'll just take water from further north. Thus, nothing will change, and we lose more and more of our limited freshwater.

Fuck Elon, but dammit, Tesla cars look sleek, this guy is wrong.

And Superchargers >>>> Every other charger as of right now.

Not in the copyright sense.

Yes, there were millions of people's work that was in the training data that was used to make whatever AI program created those AI images, but (at least right now) that isn't considered for legal ownership.

The US Copyright Office is taking the stance that there must be human effort that can be seen/pointed to in the final product directly in order to count as an "Author".

Think about that guy with the monkey taking a photo, and how that got into the public domain. Just because the company selling the camera "created the camera used to take the photo" (made the AI model) or because someone using the camera "set their own settings for the photo to be its best quality" (typed in a proper prompt for the model) doesn't mean that either party "owns" that image.

That whole paradigm could maybe change if/when AI LLM programs get seriously regulated, but even so, I personally don't think that changes the chain of ownership, nor should it.

This doesn't change much because of a simple difference: This was an AI product put in wholesale.

There was no human intervention in (visually) creating this product, thus no human can claim copyright.

Studios aren't gonna do this when replacing some of their writers, because AI may not be good enough yet. Instead, it'll be a smaller team, they'll do the edits, and they can claim copyright.

This only really matters If AI advances to the point where we can completely create a full movie or TV show from scratch with just purely prompting, which, currently, we can not.

There still exist cars in 2023. It's not just SUV's available on the lot.

People just want them, because of grocery trips or a kid in school sports or whatever.

Whether most of them actually need that SUV space is something up for debate, but it's gonna be hard to convince the average American (already in love with full SUV's) to just switch away.

pfffffffffffffffff

I want to be sympathetic, but honestly, I'm just not.

Web3 was a mistake from the beginning.