Messages that people post on Stack Exchange sites are literally licensed CC-BY-SA, the whole point of which is to enable them to be shared and used by anyone for any purpose. One of the purposes of such a license is to make sure knowledge is preserved by allowing everyone to make and share copies.
To my understanding this means historically a western communist who supported the USSR’s interventions (with tanks, hence the name) in Eastern European countries (Hungary, Czechoslovakia, maybe also East Germany) when the Warsaw Pact was a thing. More broadly someone who thinks the Soviet Union was a good regime.
This isn’t about immediately filtered content, like the disgusting DuffMan George Floyd meme, or Holocaust denial. That’s pretty well kept in check by mod tools. I’m also not talking about cogent or even pointed political discussion....
I am too young for that, but I do remember discovering the concept of wikis and finding it amazing that websites could now be written by their audience.
A fairly dead concept by now, nowadays the entire rest of the Internet is more interesting than wikis.
We used to think that if we had user-generated content, we would all be immune to governments, corporations and other powerful actors spreading propaganda because we would get our information from each other, not them.
Turns out: governments, corporations, other powerful actors are perfectly capable of paying “users” to “generate content” and not even disclose this.
The Internet used to be an exciting development, now it’s just like, yeah it exists, so what.
The video, which circulated widely online Thursday, shows the masked man sneak up behind his victim, snag her around the throat with a looped belt and drag her to the ground.
Freely licensed works will be preserved a lot better because there will be more copies of them.
Likewise the fediverse is a step in that direction: this message will be federated to hundreds of servers so is more likely to survive longer than if I posted it to reddit.
Yes. But we have all gotten pretty used to things on the Internet not costing money. If they start costing money, many people will either not want to or be able to use them.
Most instances don’t have a specific copyright in their ToS, which is basically how copyright is handled on corporate social media (Meta/X/Reddit owns license rights to whatever you post on their platform when you click “Agree”). I’ve noticed some people including Copyright notices in posts (mostly to prevent AI use). Is...
In the vast majority of countries, everything written down is automatically copyrighted by default and if you want to release it into the public domain or under a free license you have to make it explicit.
When public transportation was first introduced in most places, it was run by private companies for profit. This changed mostly because it wasn’t profitable to compete with cars when those became popular.
Of course there still are private companies running public transport: long distance buses and trains in many places, and commercial aviation is really also a form of public transportation.
So there is nothing novel about buses being run by private companies for profit.
In the 2000s (very young at the time) I sometimes thought about how awesome it would be if we had devices where we could go on the Internet from everywhere.
I do not want the world back where people could only look things up on the Internet from home or work or where there is a desktop computer.
I think you’re supposed to ask questions here that people elsewhere might think are stupid questions. The idea is that in this community, there are no stupid questions.
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT (www.tomshardware.com)
Iranian President Stoned To Death With Mountain (www.theonion.com)
xkcd #2932: Driving PSA (imgs.xkcd.com)
xkcd.com/2932...
For the first time since 2004, the narwhal has been designated as Not at Risk by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (www.cosewic.ca)
Has anyone else noticed a large influx of Trolls lately?
This isn’t about immediately filtered content, like the disgusting DuffMan George Floyd meme, or Holocaust denial. That’s pretty well kept in check by mod tools. I’m also not talking about cogent or even pointed political discussion....
There is a new map style available on OpenStreetMap.org: Tracestrack Topo (en.osm.town)
Suspect who allegedly lassoed and raped Bronx woman arrested by NYPD (www.foxnews.com)
The video, which circulated widely online Thursday, shows the masked man sneak up behind his victim, snag her around the throat with a looped belt and drag her to the ground.
Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down (www.theverge.com)
706 people named Kyle got together in Texas. It wasn’t enough for a world record (apnews.com)
How many people named Kyle can fit in one place? For one Texas city, not enough....
Gotta stab a new drive into computer (lemmy.world)
xkcd #2930: Google Solar Cycle (imgs.xkcd.com)
xkcd.com/2930...
Online Content Is Disappearing (www.pewresearch.org)
Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" (www.eff.org)
What is the Legal copyright on a Lemmy Post?
Most instances don’t have a specific copyright in their ToS, which is basically how copyright is handled on corporate social media (Meta/X/Reddit owns license rights to whatever you post on their platform when you click “Agree”). I’ve noticed some people including Copyright notices in posts (mostly to prevent AI use). Is...
Edit PDFs for free with Firefox PDF Editor (www.mozilla.org)
Why is there no global language that at least nearly half the world speaks (3.5 billion, I'm talkin', including non-native speakers)
Is the Tower of Babel still affecting us or something?...
Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route (qz.com)
Those Silicon Valley geniuses have done it again!...
Companies are not your friend (sh.itjust.works)
What is cake day called on Lemmy?
Conservative cell carrier Patriot Mobile hit by data breach (techcrunch.com)
People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? (www.bbc.com)
Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions?
It’s kinda how you read the name, innit?