beyond
@beyond@linkage.ds8.zone
Caretaker of DS8.ZONE. Free (Libre) Software enthusiast and promoter. Pronouns: any
Also /u/CaptainBeyondDS8 on reddit and CaptainBeyond on libera.chat.
- Comment on Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action 4 weeks ago:
The problem is the works they didn’t pay for. “Copyright infringement” is quite the anodyne term for “theft.”
Other way around. Copyright infringement is the alleged crime. “Theft” is the entertainment industry’s spin term for it. www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Theft
- Comment on Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for making AI ripoffs of their biggest characters 3 months ago:
Intellectual property is imaginary and making a copy of something isn’t stealing it. I don’t like Midjourney as it’s a proprietary service-as-a-software-substitute, but Disney actually is the greater evil here.
- Comment on Discord CTO says he’s “constantly bringing up enshittification” during meetings 3 months ago:
Pidgin is still around, and you can even use discord with it (no voice, mind you).
I would like to bring the multi-platform client back.