Mechanize

@Mechanize@feddit.it

I did nothing and I’m all out of ideas!

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Mechanize,

This one was actually hard to spot!

Amazing.

Mechanize,

This is great! Weird, but great!

Do you know the artist?

Mechanize,

Reading the title I thought it was a Kitten + Shadowsun meme.

I miss TTS :(

Mechanize,

Linus is an investor in the framework company: Source on the framework forums that links to the video on youtube

spoilerWhy not directly link to the video? Because I don’t want to! :P

Mechanize,

Currently they have direct shipping for some EU’s members (Germany, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Spain, Belgium) Source

And I think the shipment costs are currently already in the price for the laptop Source

But I’ve not bought one so I don’t have direct experience

Mechanize,

as an unwilling Whatsapp user the ability to migrate without having to convince all my social circles to do anything but check a checkbox sounds like a huge step forward.

That’s the point. I feel it will not be a “simple checkbox”, and they will make it the most obnoxious process they can using the Best Dark Patterns the industry has to offer.

Already the general public is not interested in the alternatives or the concept of interoperability - wanting something that Just Works™ - putting in front even the smallest step (and some scary text!) will make the percentage of willing people become even lower.
And that’s not all. As it is portraited in the article by the Threema’s spokeperson it is pretty clear that Meta will just try to make the maintenance of the communication layer as cumbersome as they can - both technically and bureaucratically.
They are explicitly the ones keeping the reins of the standard, the features, the security model, the exchanged data and who, how and when will be approved.

So from one side if they make it hard and scary enough to tank the use rate, they will have the excuse of not being there enough people to give priority to fix it or add features, and from the other side if maintaining the interoperability will be difficult and time consuming enough, the people and businesses from the alternatives or wrappers will not have the incentive to do or keep doing it for the long haul. As we can already see in the article.

Is it better than nothing? Sure, probably. Will it be a slow cooking, easy to break, easy to get excluded from, just bare minimum to comply to the letter but not the spirit of the law? I feel that’s a pretty good bet to make.

Let’s be clear: I will be extremely happy if all the red flags and warning bells that I saw in the article will just end up being figments of my imagination. But yes, I’m very pessimistic - maybe even too much - when I see these kind of corporate speech and keywords.

Mechanize,

Yeah, but don’t forget that they poked him with a sword! A special sword!

That must mean something!

French MPs want to amend EU's copyright rules to cover generative AI (www.euractiv.com)

"How to identify original works by artists? How to attribute works generated by AI intermediaries? How to remunerate authors whose works have been used? How to manage opt-outs for artists who refuse their content to be used by AI? These are the questions that require a review of the copyright directive in light of generative...

Mechanize,

I like the idea of 24 years plus the possibility of an extension with a fee, or proof of activity, for another 12 years if the owner is a person.

If, at any point, the rights are sold, passed, or the owner is not a person (but for example a corporation or association) it should last 12 years from that time with an extension of 6, so the ability to sell your idea or give it to your spawns for a soft landing is not destroyed, but it can not be abused.

To further avoid abuse if it has already been extended before being sold it should last only 6 years without possibility of extension. So at most it would be 42 years for active and valuable things.

EDIT: To clarify, if it gets sold multiple times, the “timer” shouldn’t be reset but keep ticking down from the date of the first transaction, or it would open the door to accounting shenanigans just to keep it alive and locked.

Mechanize,

Any foundation model is trained on a subset of common crawl.

All the data in there is, arguably, copyrighted by one individual or another. There is no equivalent open - or closed - source dataset to it.

Each single post, page, blog, site, has a copyright holder. In the last year big companies have started to change their TOS to make that they are able to use, relicense and generally sell your data hosted in their services as their own for the intent of AI training, so potentially some small parts of common crawl will be licensable in bulk - or directly obtained from the source.

This does still leave out the majority of the data directly or indirectly used today, even if you were willing to pay, because it is unfeasable to search and contract every single rights holder.

On the other side of it there have been work to use less but more heavily curated data, which could potentially generate good small, domain specific, models. But still they will not be like the ones we currently have, and the open source community will not be able to have access to the same amount and quality of data.

It’s an interesting problem that I’m personally really interested to see where it leads.

Mechanize,

The Dark Crystal (1982)

Mechanize,

You should add some mushrooms in it.

Is lemmy.world going to ban trans speech?

Lemmy.world just purged access to a lot of piracy communities across the fediverse for its users. They say it’s against rule 1 of their code of conduct, which says no illegal content. And it’s also getting more and more illegal to post gay and trans speech in the US. Are they going to start enforcing the Don’t Say Gay bill...

Mechanize,

I checked in .world’s mod log and I couldn’t find anything piracy related, except the restoration of the community 29 days ago.

It would be nice to have more information from OP.

Mechanize,

Finally! Not the best game ever made, but one I really enjoy nonetheless.

I can’t wait to play it again: having left my Steam library behind it’s always a struggle not being able to replay some games missing on gog.

Mechanize,

It seems the deletion got reverted.

Mechanize,

I feel these graphs tell a different story:

https://feddit.it/pictrs/image/4a7b618a-4cf3-497b-8fb4-d8212b4b1995.webp

IMHO The people who really cared have left, the one who are on the verge are mainly waiting and the one actively participating with votes are the core fans.

The source is Reddit from user nicePenguin, here’s an archived version (Link), they put up a site too at fp-stats.buzz , I’m not sure about the overall accuracy, but it doesn’t seem wrong at first glance.

Mechanize,

Piped is currently generally broken: issue#2809

Other similar services had to patch too, because of changes on Youtube’s side. So now Piped works only some of the times, until it will get updated.

EDIT: Typo.

Mechanize,

I think it only counts the ones subscribed from your instance (kbin, or lemmy), the total count is only available in the community’s main instance

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    Mechanize,

    Probably I’m getting this wrong but the moderator AKA @b9999998 was appointed at Monday, July 24th, 2023 at 12:56:29 AM GMT+02:00. the message about the defederation happened at Monday, July 24th, 2023 at 12:07:55 AM GMT+02:00, AKA before he was a mod (and the whole incident has obviously happened before the public message).

    So, if I’ve not misunderstood something from their messages in the lemmynsfw discussion, he was the one who added it.

    If everything until this point is correct we can say that the inclusion of “child-like” should have happened after the whole kerfuffle, and only because it was copy pasted from the dictionary definition of the word “Adorable” - which imply it as a behavior, I think? - and he was in the process of getting feedback on it.

    Did I get the times or something else wrong?

    Mechanize,

    Devo esser sincero, leggo sempre tutti i tuoi post nella comunità che mi passano nel feed e li adoro, e vederli con zero risposte mi riempie di tristezza perché so bene quanto è difficile impegnarsi per creare qualcosa e poi vederlo ignorato.

    Ma, purtroppo, seppur io li ritenga interessanti da leggere non ho assolutamente nulla da condividere al riguardo, ed oltre al +1 del voto posso far davvero poco, perché la mia ignoranza sull’argomento è un oceano.

    Parlando dell’argomento più in generale sarebbe bello prendere un po’ tutti i moderatori delle comunità attive - e in generale chiunque volesse partecipare - per sbattere collettivamente la testa insieme, buttare idee e trovare modi di ravvivare, rinvigorire ed incentivare le interazioni. Ma sicuramente non è facile né da organizzare né da gestire.
    So che esiste una chat Matrix - in cui non sono perché non l’ho mai usato -, magari si potrebbe creare una stanza lì, o una comunità privata ad invito qui sull’istanza (è possibile farlo?) solo per i moderatori, e usarla come una specie di war room per coordinarvi?

    Eventi intra-comunità, o altre simili azioni di marketing, potrebbero aiutare a spingere un po’ il tutto.

    Mi sento personalmente molto investito in questo piccolo angolo d’Italia nel fediverso, quindi mi piacerebbe molto vederlo prosperare.
    Poi vabbé, c’è da considerare la “1% rule” (e varianti probabilmente più consone a questa piattaforma come la 1-9-90), quindi considerando che l’istanza ha intorno a 1.400 utenti, avere più di 14 persone attive è già un buon segno! haha

    Mechanize,

    You could start by manually tagging them in the title, for example with a [satire] or [S] tag at the start of it.

    That would enable people with apps who already have word filters to do it already if they are univocal, standard and enforced enough.

    This would make it a lot easier to automatically modify and flair them in the future too, if the feature ever comes.

    Mechanize,

    This is funny. In the email he wrote that the only way to contact the pullpush team is to do so using the forum and, at the same time, he added a really weird ToS agreement where if you are affiliated to Reddit in any way you set that the only possible arbitration of all the disputes need to pass through, I assume, him as a judge.

    I’m both impressed and weirded out. Kudos for the creativity.

    Mechanize,

    Mi piacerebbe sapere come e da dove, il buon Mollicone, ha tirato fuori quei numeri.

    Ho trovato l’intervista da Radio Radicale, ed a 3:25 parla di un “Convegno che ha dimostrato i danni”.

    Girando ho trovato un articolo dell’ANSA da cui cito:

    I libri piratati costano al mondo del libro 771 milioni di mancato fatturato pari al 31% del valore complessivo del mercato al netto di editoria scolastica ed export e la perdita di 5.400 posti di lavoro. Contando anche l’indotto, il costo per il Paese è di 1,88 miliardi (con un mancato gettito fiscale di 322 milioni di euro) e 13.100 posti di lavoro. Sono fra i numeri preoccupanti della seconda indagine Ipsos “La pirateria nel mondo del libro. Crescita del fenomeno e strumenti di contrasto” commissionata dall’Associazione Italiana Editori (Aie) presentata a Roma nell’incontro de Gli Editori (Aie e Fieg) moderato dal direttore dell’ANSA, Luigi Contu.

    E sotto, nelle slide, c’è:

    NOTA: i comportamenti illeciti rilevati riguardano l’acquisto, la ricezione o la stampa di libri fotocopiati(>15%) o compendi, il download o la ricezione di contenuti illeciti in formato digitale, la stampa da formato digitale, la condivisione di abbonamenti o codici di accesso non personali

    Ma non vedo assolutamente da dove questi numeri provengano.

    Quindi, per far un resoconto di quello che ho capito:

    • I numeri sarebbero riferiti all’editoria.
    • I numero vengono dall’AIE, cioè l’associazione degli Editori.
    • Non ci sono fonti se non delle slide. Senza fonti.

    Qualcuno può gentilmente dirmi se ho trascurato qualcosa o se, magari, c’è qualche fonte dei numeri che non ho visto? Oggi sono abbastanza distratto, quindi non mi stupirebbe aver perso qualcosa di palese.

    Mechanize,

    Personally I’d wait september.

    The game is already good and fun, but the first playthrough is always special, and if all the changes that are expected will come and be positive I feel they’ll have a major impact on it.

    If you can, IMHO, just wait it out.

    Mechanize,

    Per poterli poi usare per dar voti in giro, e cercare di plasmare l'opinione altrui.

    Basta avere pochi account che sembrino veri, magari in istanze legittime e con un po' di post e commenti, e poi usare una mandria di bot per upvotare quello che viene detto, in modo da far credere che il pensiero sia ampiamente condiviso.

    E' perfetto per far astroturfing per prodotti commerciali, o meglio diffondere idee politiche.

    Inconsistent home feeds

    I am still quite new to Lemmy, but think I understood the basics. I noticed something strange though. I first created an account at a different instance, where I subscribed to a number of feeds. As that instance was temporarily overloaded one day I created a new account here, and subscribed to the same feeds. Now that the other...

    Mechanize, (edited )

    I think I read there's currently a bug with Hot (and maybe active too?) sorting that can crop up when an instance is not rebooted for a while. Most people were suggesting to use the other sorting options till it get fixed, with a lot preferring "Top Day" or "New Comments".

    I tried to find the discussion or the github issue back but I had no luck, if I find it I'll add an edit later, so until then take what I wrote with a pinch of salt.

    EDIT: I think this is the bug report: issue#3076 and it seems someone is currently working on a fix!

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