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tabular, 2 months ago

I never played TTD. Does OpenTTD have a tutorial? Couldn’t find out how to play last time I tried.

tabular, 2 months ago

Creating material that is copyright infridgement is not a desired output, the purpose of guns is to kill (when used). AI manufacturers depend on copyrighted material to “train” the AI, the method of creation makes it more likely to infridge.

tabular, 2 months ago

I don’t like Nvidia as they’re anti-consumer and anti software freedom, my biased here. In my country guns are not a legal right and I don’t think they should be legalised. That said, guns have a purpose: to stop people that can’t be reasonably stopped non-violently.

Nvidia is creating AI cards with the expectations people will train it with copyrighted works. Maybe most generated art isn’t infringing (or rather, isn’t caught being infringing). I’m interested to see how much responsibility they are found to share but I’m confident it won’t stop someone doing it.

I’m not aware of people training AI using public domain works and I have further objections to AI’s use in that case regarding the impact on artists.

tabular, 2 months ago

Some video games are open source; you can modify and redistribute it or even sell it. We need more of those and less fat cats playing a trading card game of copyrights while they erode ownership rights.

tabular, 2 months ago

We don’t own the patients to our hardware but we still say we own an item becauee we are in control of it. Users don’t need the copyright of software they use to control it - to modify and share software is to own it.

(The only thing they may lack is the option to relicense the software if it’s copyleft, but I’d argue that ensures software freedom for 3rd parties).

tabular, 2 months ago

Two people can speak the same language in name and yet the same word can mean something different to them. Words do not have innate definitions, they have usages.

In my possession are many things which I presume have copyright/patent and fewer things which do not. It seems to me we just draw the line of “ownership” around different things.

tabular, 2 months ago

Maybe not evil but not exactly good either. It’s a computer in a car, they could offer the owners to buy a replacement part that works on (n+1)G.

tabular, 2 months ago

None of their business if we use a translation layer.

tabular, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Their motive is likely more profit but the result is an unjust restriction on user software freedom. It doesn’t matter if they make less money, maximising profit is not why we grant them copyright. Nvidia is often unreasonable, fuck off Nvidia.

tabular, 2 months ago

You could argue corporate lobbying has molded copyright for profit’s sake (e.g. we can thank Disney for copyright lasting an unreasonably long time) but that’s not all copyright does. Copyleft is a hack of copyright that lets people use software/media created by another but legally compels you to share it under the same license - meaning a greedy corporation can’t just take your work and not share back.

tabular, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I was thinking of buying a few Nintendo games to use on an emulator but that’s a lot of effort and there are other good games out there. Glad I didn’t so I wouldn’t feel shame for giving them more money. Nintendo Direct my balls into your mouth.

tabular, 2 months ago

Say it again

tabular, 2 months ago

Do you believe there is a chance of success for campaigning for change?

tabular, 2 months ago

Yuzu provides a better experience for the user than Nintendo’s hardware - it is a superior opponent.

tabular, 2 months ago

A judge may side with Nintendo. That says nothing to if the law cited should exist in the first place.

tabular, 2 months ago

The electronic key I purchased and collected from my own hardware is “hacking” because Nintendo’s doesn’t intend it? Maybe the legality of selling a tool to get the key is a hard concept to grasp because the premise is objectionable. If a Switch makes a good doorstop then it will be doing it’s “intended purpose” if that’s what I intend for my property.

I’m against companies having unjust control over our own computing. Eventually we will stop tolerating the abuse of people contributing to an open/libre community.

tabular, 2 months ago

Do you have any specific examples and how long it took, or how much it cost? It seems farfetched to think it is feasible to counter the “anti circumvention technology” aspect of the DMCA.

tabular, 2 months ago

If I’m as successful changing law as I am changing minds on the internet then doomerism is an understatement.

tabular, 2 months ago

BotW was pretty much the only modern Nintendo game I wanted to play. Seemed mid/fine when I tried it but yeah many say it’s great.

tabular, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I’ve only ever heard of corrections for GPL violation from a settlements (which is usually the goal of a group like the Software Freedom Conservancy which focuses on fixing violations).

tabular, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

The GPL ensures user software freedom for us to remove this crap by requiring them to share their source code. Using Linux doesn’t mean they have to follow the GPL unless they make modifications to it.

You need every software contributors to agree to a license change unless the license gives an upgrade option. Most contributors had no choice but to use GPLv2 as it wasn’t “GPLv2-or-later” to start with, maybe it was posdible at one point but they didn’t want to anyway.

tabular, 2 months ago

That’s correct. My response was intended to point out proprietary software can run on Linux and GPL doesn’t apply.

I have read arguments in favor of GPL v2 over v3 and found them unconvincing.

tabular, 2 months ago

Any tweet from Musk passes here.

tabular, 2 months ago

Those who see this as an option are not well. They are neglected by the tech literates who could help them do better and the people who understand the value of ownership that could help them be better.

tabular, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Might be easier to force them to change their name if they ain’t “open” (source) anymore /s