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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Wake Up Call:’ Fanfiction Writers and Readers React to AO3 Outage⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but why would that matter? That’s damage already done. I’m speaking about damage to do, and the kinds of people who care so little about those writers they can’t “live with” that they would cause such damage.

  Just because someone stole an item from your house, does not make it correct or fair for other people to invite themselves in and do the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Wake Up Call:’ Fanfiction Writers and Readers React to AO3 Outage⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I said the majority response I’ve seen, and it’s on those specific places which - yeah, are Reddit.

  But an outlier being loud or not is not the issue. The proof is in the pudding as they say, and the fact that those “”“archives”“” are made and people pass them around means people want them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Wake Up Call:’ Fanfiction Writers and Readers React to AO3 Outage⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Seeing how fandom gets undone in less than three days because the content junkies can’t get their fix (and it’s gonna be 4 weeks) has been entertaining (not).

  While some people have expressed the sentiment of “when AO3 is back we are going to tell the writers how much we missed them”, the majority response I’ve seen, as gauged on r/ao3 even, is “fuck you and your consent if you don’t get me my fix, I’m gonna pirate your fic upload it to Google for them to use them with AI”. Much of the fandom have literally revealed themselves to be techbros.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the steam forums, there are over TWO THOUSAND PAGES of community questions about "disk write error".⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had two wishes, I would like a community tool to share configs to make games work that require tweaking.

  So something like Protondb but that actually assembles or merges config files? Sounds interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyblivion team says former volunteer is threatening to sue over code dispute⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  My point was in regards to the latter. If they gave away their copyrighted thing without saying anything about how the receiver can use said copyrighted thing then what is there to enforce?

  Nothing. Exactly.

  Which is why I was always stressing the points that this was easily foldable if there was a paper trail / project consensus on how to operate. Now, if there is none of the above, then the legal expectation is to fall back to defaults:

  If they gave away their copyrighted thing

  Did they “gave away”? Or did they merely contribute it? Two different things.

  without saying anything about how the receiver can use

  “Silence obligues”, in which case it means “the fallback applies which is a) I retain the copyright if there was no CLA signed that waived my rights or b) you retain the rights if there was such a waiver of rights”. Ez pz.

  He can’t retroactively say him taking away his permission to use his code also means they’re no longer allowed to use what he had given.

  He wouldn’t need to, is the point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyblivion team says former volunteer is threatening to sue over code dispute⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  But if the answer to both is “no” then we’re in sort of a legal gray area because neither side has any explicit legal ground.

  Nope. In the absence of any explicit legal statement to the contrary, the explicit implicit stature is that you own the copyright of that which you create.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyblivion team says former volunteer is threatening to sue over code dispute⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t get to take your work away after you change your mind

  In the world of software, you actually can. Doesn’t mean you should, but the option is there legally for (in general) good reasons.

  Same as in the world of arts. There was a famous case in… I think Mexico? where some theatre artists’s portrayals and renditions of characters were reused without their authorization in a campaign to defame HIV victims and the LGBTQ population in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyblivion team says former volunteer is threatening to sue over code dispute⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Which one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyblivion team says former volunteer is threatening to sue over code dispute⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The very fact that a threat to sue was possible and that the team preferred to roll back / remove the code indicates the situation was not legally clear cut when the code was submitted in the first place. And, come on, this was solved in the 90s!

  Did the submitter sign a legal document, backed by the project, to waive their rights and ownership of the code to the project specifically? If so, this is done. If not, this is done too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨furries in shambles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, sure, I’ll hope the definitions that are going about the metaphilosophy circles are clearer, I’m just mentioning a definition that seems to fall in line with the kinds of that we can readily use to measure personhood with our very limited arsenal and very limited sample size; in terms of species that have persons, we have been stuck at N=1 for the entirely of human history. “Baby’s first N=2” might be quite awesome if it ever happens, but unless we have deciphered the metaphysics of metaphilosophy (like, what a mind actually is, or being able to reproduce the biological processes that spawn sapience in a minimum viable example experiment), the only way we will be currently able to recognize the chance of personhood is if it is “human enough”: like-ours hands that enable tool use, like-ours language and expression that can serve as strata for a culture, like-ours means of suffering that can be palliated and can generate and teach empathy, like-ours amplitude of facial expression that allows for a reading of emotions.

  With the definition given, AI is conveniently and clearly discarded, as are corporations. We already have enough issue with our legal systems treating corporations as if they were people, we certainly don’t need more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨furries in shambles⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point. But I’d say regardless of how much advancement is made in (realistic nowadays) AI, it will never even be close to being a person. Even given our lack of understanding of the meatphysics involved, we know at least enough about the world to come up with an empiric definition of “person” and I’d say the most viable interpretations (“living organism of sufficient and demonstrable complexity characterized by homologation and similarity to the traits of the hominid self”) readily discounts AI for the foreseeable future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨furries in shambles⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Current AI is almost certainly not a person …

  Deluded statement of the week!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You just stole equipment from the Community Basketball Center. The cops are investigating. But you out smart them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Left and right, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you ever see a CEO like this, warn a brother.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like even with the yatches, or perhaps even because of the yatches, of all the money people around, Gabe is among the ones who more or less get it right in that he uses the money for Himself stuff, instead of say financing the IDF. Compare, say, JKR or the Mullvad CEO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you ever see a CEO like this, warn a brother.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are there CEOs not like this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That’s just unrealistic… too few poop breaks.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, if more of us start doing it, they’d have to either laugh a lot of people off (at the interview stage, so already pretty deep in nowadays) or eat it and swallow it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That’s just unrealistic… too few poop breaks.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh if they get uppity I’ll be showing up with a ‘package’ alright.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That’s just unrealistic… too few poop breaks.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So, what happens if you do this in an interview, or attach subscription plan offerings to your resume?

  Asking for a friend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Given ICANN is a bunch of Trump cocksuckers, the only alternative is to switch to, well, an alternative to DNS. Or at least an alternative central authority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn he does look good. I’d say inspirational, even.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t you mean the killer the feds mistook Luigi for?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  we need a community / magazine for badly cropped axises in the lemmyverse! (if there is not one already)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skeletor laying down, out and about FYI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a plan… 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skeletor laying down, out and about FYI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How about plassma?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, if a fatwa halves the price, I’m happy to issue two!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6 Tips for Finding Cheap Hardware for Self-Hosting | Hardware Haven⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for admitting it’s done with AI, I’ll wait for someone else to provide humanely useful information since presumably about 60% of that text is hallucinated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6 Tips for Finding Cheap Hardware for Self-Hosting | Hardware Haven⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Transcript / useful rundown for non-youtubers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Put A Man On The Moon. We Did It.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So they admit the moon landings are real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self sacrifice is honorable⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unions are definitively better than wandering into the forest and dying of exposure.

  They still don’t beat just wandering into the forest no risk of dying tho. Have you seen 'em sequoias?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self sacrifice is honorable⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The trick is to not have to actively do anything, but rather take advantage that employment termination means you legally can not actively do things. A case I recall from a friend was a coworker of his who simply happened to be the only one to know how a particular critical system operated, because the rest of the staff never bothered reading the documentation for emergency. He was not paid for his overtimes for long enough and when he eventually stopped taking overtimes, they fired him for some AI-grade hallucination like “lack of commitment”. Four days after he was fired, they tried to order him to come back for an emergency like he owed them that maintenamce. Though cookie, the company and he signed an employment termination agreement to both their satisfactions that he has no legal obligation to the company.

  From what I recall, the recovery procedure was three lines over a telnet connection. No one could even bother to open one (1) tab with the doc and type “HyperTerminal” in the Windows menu, lol.