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“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift

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I know China isn't doing this out of any concern for the individual animals, but it's still nice seeing the environmental calamity of animal agriculture curtailed and an ecosystem restored to a state where the animals can live in it.

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Rage Against the Rage Against the Machine

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... which is why they said that in response to that question.

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You'll become a hyponymchondriac at this rate.

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My group theory teacher:

"Always two, there are [except in the degenerate case where a = 0]."

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Why is Donald Trump wearing Shadow the Hedgehog's inhibitor rings?

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Just size the condom he wears and make a cast.

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Oh, TIL. Thanks.

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Dude, I'm sorry for saying this (because I get this a lot for my often overly formal writing, and I get it's ironic on this post), but...

Your writing reads like it's LLM-generated. Like, really heavily reads like an LLM wrote it. Long scrawls for pretty simple concepts, I don't know how to describe why the cadence feels LLM-y other than "vibes", flawless grammar, needless lists of nouns and adjectives, "it's not X; it's Y", and this weird fucking lifeless demeanor that feels like it has no voice.

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It's not even the style on its own*; it's that you wrote a frankly bloviating short essay about an obvious concept that can be summarized as "most people who watch the weather don't know what a public key is or how to use one". I'm disgustingly long-winded, and even I wouldn't expend that much effort. The style is what escalates that from "padding a high school essay" to "Oh, yup, a GPT wrote this."

* "It's not X, it's Y" yeah, yeah, I know.

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Wow, thanks! Let's switch topics. I'm trying to start a business where I sell fruit to weathermen. Can you help me with that?

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🎵 Fulfill all your wishes 🎵

🎵 With my taco-flavored kisses 🎵

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I want to roll a marble down it.

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I feel bad when Reddit mods get the brunt for stuff like this; in my opinion, it's usually not their fault. It's the fault of Reddit which relies on unpaid labor to make its entire website work literally at all. Maybe that was "fine" back in the early days when Reddit was smaller, but Reddit nowadays is one of the largest websites on Earth and represents the lowest common denominator of Internet users.

I mod a couple communities here and don't mind because this whole sphere is non-profit, the people on average are pretty cool, and vastly fewer people makes it so I can usually recognize people and resolve problems by talking. But the idea of working pro bono pseudononymously for a corporation with a market cap of 26.5 billion USD to keep their millions of (on average) stupid fucking users in line is one of the most soul-crushing things I can imagine. You really do have to take actions like this because, without stern moderation, communities will inevitably go to shit. They'll return to the LCD, and your community will just melt into the rest of the front page with tenuously related, zero-effort posts.

All things considered, I think most of Reddit's mods are doing a good job (and well more than what they owe Reddit or even the random end user, which is fucking nothing and next to fucking nothing, respectively). Yeah, the mods could quit at any time, and they probably should at least on ethical grounds, but I also understand sunk cost and wanting to continue fostering a community about a subject you like that hundreds of thousands of people can enjoy.

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You mean the satirist who wrote it as a joke? What would they be painfully uncomfortably interviewed about?

Can anyone recommend any good science communicators for a 12 year old girl?

When I was growing up, we had discovery channel. That sparked my intrinsic curiousity. My daughter has that intrinsic motivation as well, but only for k-pop now. She likes youtube videos and she likes when I tell her about science stuff. Maybe I can combine that by recommending her some good youtube channels.

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I really like physicist Dr. Angela Collier. Not all of her videos are about science, but at least the plurality are. Her videos are generally pretty casual, and she doesn't really script.

I also really like Practical Engineering for civil engineering stuff.

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  • Highly approve as a long-time Wikipedia editor, though I wish they'd write it without LLM generation.
  • "Jiki" sounds like an ethnic slur, and I have no idea why.

Edit: I take it back.

The Jmail X account said that they’ll be implementing the ability for users to report inaccuracies and request changes soon.

That's not what a Wiki is. Although I guess they're not technically claiming to be one; they're a Jiki.

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HR News is a ragebait blog which seems to be LLM-generated and which nobody should be reading.

I'll keep citing this example: a few weeks ago, one of their articles posted to Lemmy had a headline to the effect of "Study finds 15% of Reddit content is AI-generated." They stated the year and journal but no titles, identifier, URL, issue, or even authors. After an exhaustive search, I found that the study didn't exist; the article made it up.

HR News should be banned outright from any community that values truth (or even just content not hallucinated by an LLM trying to get angry clicks).

Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software ( pplware.sapo.pt )

Google has criticized the European Union’s intentions to achieve digital sovereignty through open-source software. The company warned that Brussels’ policies aimed at reducing dependence on American tech companies could harm competitiveness. According to Google, the idea of replacing current tools with open-source programs ...

TheTechnician27 , (edited )
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Okay, so:

I tried installing a program called "hardinfo". My ZorinOS software store didn't find it through flathub.

That's fair. Repo fragmentation is a real thing on Linux, and it seems like Ultimate Systems didn't put their software on Flathub.

So I googled it, found a .deb file, which my Zorin store loaded up to install.

So instead of just using apt – like every introductory tutorial to Ubuntu and its derivatives leads off with – you chose to do it (effectively) the Windows way that you're familiar with where you hunt and peck around the Internet for an install file. It's an understandable mistake (that I think most Windows expats make at some point), but the blame from this point on lies squarely on you.

Then I hit install, and it spits out a message like "Software was not installed. Requires these three dependancies, which will not be installed". Didn't tell me why they didn't install. Just said "Hardinfo needs these programs. Good luck figuring it out asshole.

You didn't have the dependencies, and it told you which ones to install. Why does it need to tell you why it needs them? Nice to have, I guess, but if it's mandatory, it's mandatory. No amount of explanation is going to get you around the fact that this software will not function without them. Dependencies aren't a Linux thing; they're a reality of modern programming. And I imagine apt would've automatically resolved this and asked you to also install the deps.

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I wasn't necessarily suggesting apt in the CLI; just the APT repository generally, which ZorinOS' built-in package manager has access to. If sudo apt install hardinfo will find it, I have to imagine the GUI frontend will. Granted I don't use Ubuntu or its derivatives because Ubuntu is terrible, so I can't say for sure, but this sure doesn't seem like their fault.

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Sugars: 42 g [venti]

I'm somehow surprised it has less than a 12 oz. Mountain Dew's 46 g, but I'd bet the 6 g of saturated fat (3/5 of a Big Mac) is doing some heavy lifting.

Literally liquid candy, which is why it doesn't surprise me that I loved it when I tried it at age 13 but wanted to throw up when I had it again five years later. Could also just be that their coffee itself is subpar trash.

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So physicists want to assume spherical animals, and now suddenly when they can make that a reality, they don't want it anymore.

Make up your minds, physicists!

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Yeah, what's the mean brush time here?

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Probably hard to from their hospital bed, but I don't see what this feast fit for a squire has to do with that.

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Given this entire Raw Story article is basically "and here's what Karem said": here's what Karem said in the original Salon article.

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🎵 Three little orphans: one, two, three 🎵

🎵 Without a home or a family tree 🎵

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You're just making shit up. The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has affirmed that AI-generated work is in the public domain. Put up or shut up.

Edit: Additionally, the US Copyright Office writes:

As the agency overseeing the copyright registration system, the [Copyright] Office has extensive experience in evaluating works submitted for registration that contain human authorship combined with uncopyrightable material, including material generated by or with the assistance of technology.

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Just as a sanity check: the person you're responding to is a serial troll and what I can only describe as intellectually dishonest at best or a pathological liar at worst. They make up whatever they want and will never concede that the fucking nonsense they just dreamed up five seconds ago based on nothing is wrong in the face of conclusive proof otherwise.

You shouldn't waste your time responding to this cretin.

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The answer is that it's messy and that I'm not qualified to say where the line is (nor, I think, is anyone yet). The generated parts are not copyrightable, but you can still have a valid copyright by bringing together things that aren't individually copyrightable. For example, if I make a manga where Snow White fights Steamboat Willie, I've taken two public domain elements and used them to create a copyrightable work.

So it's not like the usage of AI inherently makes a project uncopyrightable unless the entire thing or most of it was just spat out of a machine. Where's the line on this? Nobody (definitely not me, but probably nobody) really knows.

As for courts ever finding out, how this affects trade secret policy... Dunno? I'm sure a Microsoft employee couldn't release it publicly, because as you said, it'd probably violate an NDA. If there were some civil case, the source may come out during discovery and could maybe be analysed programmatically or by an expert. You would probably subpoena the employee(s) who wrote the software and ask them to testify. This is just spitballing, though, over something that's probably inconsequential, because the end product is prooooobably still copyrightable.

This kind of reminds me of the blurry line we have in FOSS, where everyone retains the copyright to their individual work. But if push comes to shove, how much does there need to be for it to be copyrightable? Where does it stop being a boilerplate for loop and start being creative expression?

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Oh, sorry, I said that totally wrong: I meant that I really appreciate your first comment and that it's not worth your time to reply to their bad-faith follow-up comment.

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I clarified this a bit in a follow-up comment, but my first comment was simplifying for the sake of countering:

[it's not in the public domain] because the actual human work that went into creating it was done by the owner of the AI Model and whatever they trained on.

Their claim that the copyright for AI-generated works belongs to the model creator and the authors of the training material – and is never in the public domain – is patent, easily disprovable nonsense.

Yes, I understand it's more nuanced than what I said. No, it's not nuanced in their favor. No, I'm not diving into that with a pathological liar (see their other comments) when it's immaterial to my rebuttal of their bullshit claim. I guess you just didn't read the claim I was addressing?

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I've never seen Magic Earth, but as an OSM contributor, I don't understand why I'd use a subscription service when all the underlying data is free (as in beer and freedom) and contributed by volunteers (and likely not the app devs). One-time app purchases like OsmAnd I understand because you're doing stuff with the data like routing, overlays, etc., and that requires development work. But a subscription seems absurd.

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This sounds like a fake website that Kitboga would make up for scambaiting.

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It all makes sense now. The reason Republican conventions see spikes in Grindr usage isn't because they're closeted gay; it's because they think they can ask around for tips and tricks.

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I'd rather ride with an organization that doesn't have Twitter Gold, but we take what we can get, I guess...

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Yeah, car guys in my experience consistently think (maybe correctly) that everyone else on the road but them is a total moron. You don't like those pesky cyclists sharing the road with you? Neither do most of us cyclists; let's get them on separated paths. Don't like morons who can't drive? Make it so they don't have to. Don't like traffic? Take the other space-inefficient cars off the road.

I think car people recognize that just positively reinforcing micromobility and public transit can improve their experience.

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That's actually another really good point: North American stroads have to be so fucking tedious for people who actually want to get something out of their cars. It's the same shit everywhere so there's nothing to see, you go just fast enough for your $100,000 car to be totaled if someone sneezes at you but not enough for it to be fun, you're constantly in danger thanks to the poor design, and it's you and a goddamn thousand people trying to get to Paunch Burger.

Imagine you had a high-end gaming PC and the only way to use it was to play cheap asset flips. I'm not saying we make roads into racetracks when the normies are gone; rather, I'm saying holy shit, the roads in well-designed urban places are so much more interesting and beautiful to drive in.

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Seriously, I have way more sympathy for people who get tickets in places like NYC. More crowded, more chaotic, more rules. It happens.

By ticket 38, though, I'm at least 20 tickets past the point where I've decided I'm not competent enough and started just taking a mix of cycling and public transit.

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Maybe they're implying Bubba wasn't the only one...

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The headline is written that way because Omar's full statement was:

The leader of the Pedophile Protection Party is trying to deflect attention from his name being all over the Epstein files.

At least in Somalia they execute pedophiles not elect them.

Kumar is lying by omission to make the joke work.

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Since you put it in scare quotes, here's what RNC Research is. (MS NOW is an openly biased opinion source, but it shouldn't take a lot of convincing that this is an obvious MAGA propaganda account.)

Anyway, the MAGA propaganda account that is RNC Research is answering to the full Omar quote, which is transparently directed at Trump. I'm not going to abide the doublethink of "Mainstream media needs to stop letting Trump and the far-right skirt responsibility for their statements by dressing them up in plausible deniability; they need to state what he's obviously, actually saying" (they do, and I see that sentiment here all the time) and "Wow, this account is calling Trump a pedophile by cutting through the plausible deniability speak and acknowledging who literally everyone knows Omar meant when she said this."

Even if I were somehow delusional enough at this point to think Trump is not a child rapist, it's still trivially obvious who Omar means, and pretending otherwise is grossly disingenuous. You don't inherently have to believe an insult to recognize who's being insulted.

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You're missing a second "they fuck you over" edge from the big tech vertex back to yours.

Truly identical twins as actors would present really interesting opportunities for a stage play

You couldn't fully write the play around them if you wanted to to put it on reliably, but you could probably take some interesting shortcuts. "Oh, the protagonist is supposed to wake up from a nightmare in a nervous sweat? Okay, cut to black while they're in the nightmare scene; moments later, open the lights on another part of ...

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I have seen The Prestige a long time ago! I totally forgot.

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It's not that it requires two (did you mean twin?) actors; that's what I meant about "not fully writing the play around them". The example here has someone wake up in a different place than they just were a split second ago, and the effect is really convincing because they're twins. You could make this work without twins, but it's a neat bit of trickery that's easy and seamless because you have twins to work with.

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That's my secret: it's empty.