It’s been in my library for years and I didn’t know much about it. Randomly started playing it a few days ago and I’ve been having a blast solving the puzzles. It’s been a while since a game has really made me want to finish it and see what is at the ending....
It really doesn't have to be a "fact of life", and it isn't in many places, such as Australia and England -- nations with very similar degrees of economic prosperity, and very similar cultures, to the USA.
A large swarm of satellites, forming an adjustable solar shade, sitting around L1 for Earth-Sun is likely the best approach we would have. The swarm wouldn't be in a geosynchronous orbit, though, but instead a heliosynchronous one.
Instead of focusing too much on all of the things that are currently wrong, could you please help paint a picture of what a future utopian society could look like?...
Realistically? Something a lot like what we currently have, but with everyone having access to prompt healthcare, living in comfort. A focus on community and cooperation being more dominant in the culture, rather than competition and comparison.
We have received numerous reports from users about the closure of the c/android community. While we fully support the original community owners’ decision to move to another instance, it will eventually be necessary to open up the community on Lemmy.world. The beauty of the fediverse is that multiple communities on the same...
The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously rejected former President Trump’s attempt to block Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. The court dismissed Trump’s legal arguments, stating that he could not use the Supreme Court as a way to...
Good stuff, Georgia. Especially with it being unanimous. Though given Trump's demonstrated typical approach, I can't imagine the rebuke from the court will prevent him from making similar attempts in the future.
Exactly this. On Reddit, you would end up with stuff like r/TrueStarWars and such as a result of bad mods moderating badly — but those communities would have a harder time taking off due to the name being less searchable, and individuals needing to be "in the know" about why one sub has "true" out the front.
With everyone being able to take the same community name, just across different instances, there's a potential for a better, more competitive process to take place instead. It won't be perfect — @starwars is going to be in a much more immediately advantaged position than, say, @starwars — but in theory the playing field is closer to being level.
Wait, what? Half an hour to pull the groceries off shelves and get them through checkout. Let's be real, that isn't going to take an hour, even for a week's worth of groceries for a nuclear family.
Two hours round-trip for the travel. Not four hours, two and a half real-time.
The team-size needed for this, assuming a delivery vehicle, is one. More people would be needed if you're on public transport because you don't control the environment the groceries are in, but we're not assuming that. So, 2.5 hours, 1 person, is 2.5 hours of wages. At $20 an hour, $70. Round up to $80 or $85 to account for benefits and sundries -- that's 21% of wages, which should be reasonable for non-wage expenses.
That's still not great, but let's not inflate the numbers.
The problem with that approach is that the resulting AI doesn't contain any identifiable "copies" of the material that was used to train it. No copying, no copyright. The AI model is not a legally recognizable derivative work.
That's a HUGE assumption you've made, and certainly not something that has been tested in court, let alone found to be true.
In the context of existing legal precedent, there's an argument to be made that the resulting model is itself a derivative work of the copyright-protected works, even if it does not literally contain an identifiable copy, as it is a derivative of the work in the common meaning of the term.
If the future output of the model that happens to sound very similar to the original voice actor counts as a copyright violation, then human sound-alikes and impersonators would also be in violation and things become a huge mess.
A key distinction here is that a human brain is not a work, and in that sense, a human brain learning things is not a derivative work.
No, I know how these neural nets are trained and how they're structured. They really don't contain any identifiable copies of the material used to train it.
Go back and read my comment in full, please. I addressed that directly.
Also, neural network weights are just a bunch of numbers, and I'm pretty sure data can't be copyrighted.
Just being "a bunch of numbers" doesn't stop it from being a work, it doesn't stop it from being a derivative work, and you absolutely can copyright data -- all digitally encoded works are "just data".
A trained AI is not a measurement of the natural world. It is a thing that has been created from the processing of other things -- in the common sense of it the word, it is derivative of those works. What remains, IMO, is the question of if it would be a work, or something else, and if that something else would be distinct enough from being a work to matter.
I did, buddy. You're just wrong. You can copyright data. A work can be "just data". Again, we're not talking about a set of measurements of the natural world.
It's only a work if your brain is a work. (...) The weights that make up a neural network represent encodings into neurons, and as such should be treated the same way as neural encodings in a brain.
Okay, I see how you have the hot take that a generative model is brain-like to you, but that's a hot take -- it's not a legally accepted fact that a trained model is not a work.
You understand that, right? You do get that this hasn't been debated in court, and what you think is correct is not necessarily how the legal system will rule on the matter, yeah?
Because the argument that a trained generative model is a work is also pretty coherent. It's a thing that you can distribute, even monetise. It isn't a person, it isn't an intelligence, it's essentially part of a program, and it's the output of labour performed by someone.
The fact that something models neurons does not mean it can't be a work. That's not... coherent. You've jumped from A to Z and your argument to get there is "human brain has neurons". Like, okay? Does that somehow mean anything that is vaguely neuron-like is not a work? So if I make a mechanical neuron, I can't copyright it? I can't patent it?
Personally I believe that it'll make people associate the Fediverse with Threads, which is not a good thing. Edit: It'll replace their definition of the Fediverse, with Threads, and people may widely forget about Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin etc.
Why exactly do you believe that a partial mass-defederation of Threads would "split" the fediverse? That's not how interactions between instances works.
It's less than an ethical split, actually. If A does not federate Threads, but B does, Threads still does not meaningfully impact the experience of users on A. No defederation between A and B is needed for A to maintain their desired experience.
As such, there isn't a split. There's an ethical difference, but the impact is negligible, and thus it doesn't require disassociation, which would be what an "ethical split" would be.
Until recently the fediverse took pride in the fact that they watched out for eachother. If tgere was an instance that didn’t moderate nazis, they defederated or at least muted it.
Or if they were Beehaw, and the other instance got too big. lemmy.ml soft-blocked HTTP requests from the KbinBot. And so on and so forth. Add in all the drama that went down in Mastodon between instances. You're painting a very rosy picture of a tidy, well-behaved Fediverse when in reality it's been pretty messy.
Not that this is relevant, as mentioned above.
Now, that the instance in question is run by a corporation with a history of bad moderation, desinforamation and hate-speech they get the benefit of doubt, because (...)
Again, this isn't relevant in the context of causing a split. Let's assume Threads is full of Nazis. 100% of users are Nazis. No! 200% of Threads users are Nazis!
None of those Nazis will be able to get content onto A in the earlier example, at least not from within Threads. If A wants to block Threads, they can just do that. Blocklists don't have to be common between other instances, it literally doesn't matter.
Thus [Meta] will not let the rest of the fediverse become competition.
Meta does not have a way to impact Fediverse projects without the consent of the project they attempt to impact. They cannot "stop" Mastodon or Lemmy or Kbin in any way. It's FOSS.
I’m thinking of things like heliocentrism where there was some modern discovery or revelation by science that invalidated a common assumption prior....
You're absolutely right. Heliocentrism and geocentrism aren't "questions of reference frame", they're cosmological models.
Nobody is using a geocentric model when they launch satellites, as any geocentric model that works with our existing observations of the universe ultimately does not have a functional understanding of gravity. And it will be remarkably difficult to keep a satellite in orbit if you disagree with the universe about how gravity works.
There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.
We have the foreknowledge of seeing EEE happen with XMPP/Google Chat, now. We can fight back against EEE against ActivityPub as it actually happens, with instances defederating with Meta and so on, when they start actually taking those negative actions. It's gonna be fine.
Started Playing 'The Talos Principle'
It’s been in my library for years and I didn’t know much about it. Randomly started playing it a few days ago and I’ve been having a blast solving the puzzles. It’s been a while since a game has really made me want to finish it and see what is at the ending....
A new trend in tipping emerges (lemmy.world)
What would happen if we put a giant glass tinted dome over each city?
In this scenario, we aren’t trapped in the dome. There are openings and doors, so we can get out, cycle in fresh air, etc....
What does an ideal world look like to you?
Instead of focusing too much on all of the things that are currently wrong, could you please help paint a picture of what a future utopian society could look like?...
Android Community Closure Update
We have received numerous reports from users about the closure of the c/android community. While we fully support the original community owners’ decision to move to another instance, it will eventually be necessary to open up the community on Lemmy.world. The beauty of the fediverse is that multiple communities on the same...
Georgia Supreme Court denies Trump bid to quash Fulton County investigation (thehill.com)
The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously rejected former President Trump’s attempt to block Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. The court dismissed Trump’s legal arguments, stating that he could not use the Supreme Court as a way to...
should we be worried about powers-moderators/users?
Power mods are one of the main problems with reddit. The same thing is already happening with Lemmy....
seen on mastodon (mediacdn.aus.social)
(URGENT) Lemmy has an XSS vulnerability in the sidebar
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/923025...
My Instacart shopper is making some wild changes. (ibb.co)
OC Artemis Logo v2! Added a bit of ... Thickness. Enjoy!
Anger from voice actors as NSFW mods use AI deepfakes to replicate their voices: 'This is NOT okay' (www.pcgamer.com)
Skyrim VAs are speaking out about the spread of pornographic AI mods.
Do you think Meta's Threads app will be beneficial or detrimental to the Fediverse?
Personally I believe that it'll make people associate the Fediverse with Threads, which is not a good thing. Edit: It'll replace their definition of the Fediverse, with Threads, and people may widely forget about Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin etc.
Peter Molyneux teases new project with idea that's "never been seen in a game" before (www.eurogamer.net)
Legendary game developer - and game development tease - Peter Molyneux has discussed his next project, and talked up it…
What was the historical science debate that seems silliest in hind sight?
I’m thinking of things like heliocentrism where there was some modern discovery or revelation by science that invalidated a common assumption prior....
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Booted From Right-Wing House Freedom Caucus (www.thedailybeast.com)
But the Georgia congresswoman got backup from an unlikely ally: Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO).
From the CEO of Mastodon: What to know about Threads (blog.joinmastodon.org)
There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.