barryamelton

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[–] barryamelton@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Anybody can use copyrighted works under fair use for research, more so if your LLM model is open source (I would say this fair use should only actually apply if your model is open source...). You are wrong.

We don't need to break copyright rights that protect us from corporations in this case, or also incidentally protect open source and libre software.

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I upvoted the OP message. And I upvoted yours too, because both of you are so right.

The OP message you responded is a person in the middle of the curve bell that things they are at the end of the curve, while they are in the middle.

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Let me guess, you went to uni in the U.S.A.?

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I've never seen those. Yet I only find in settings "prefer original audio track regardless of the language".

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Love that Newpipe actually allows me to deactivate the audio translation globally.

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

That assumes though that the definition of web browser and its needed stack stays static.

What happens if we all browse the net primarily via VR then? The line is blurry, so is Mozilla org.

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Heh, I was thinking the same, didn't know exactly when the day was. So maybe we indeed have something going on for ouselves.

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The fix is not killing ICE officers.

The civil rights movements of the 60s, Jim Crow, etc, won by being willing to be beaten. By voluntarily entering a cafe and sitting there waiting to be served like a human being, meanwhile being willing to be called names, dropped food and drinks onto them, burnt with cigarettes, abused.

That willingness and perseverance in wanting to be recognised as the human beings they are awoke the rest of the population.

Pacifist demonstrations and matches are a way to achieve that. They are displays for your fellow colleagues, not for the government you want to depose. Make clear that they are pacifist. Prepare and inform the people going. Sit down if you are charged. Stop violent people there. Etc. Make obvious that the fascist are fascists that way and say and invigorate people to your side.

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They do have active protection; education. Under attack since the dawn of time.

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

If you think big tech doesnt cut corners and offloads the work to the users you are in a bubble; there's software that is secure, performant, pretty, doesn't break on its own, and doesn't have an obsolescency clock ticking inside. Oh, and doesn't spy on you dismantling society by the minute.

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

That's already done, but IIRC it enters in effect in 2027

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Artists are on a gift-based economy. They gain status by giving away works. If you are the best artist in the world but don't make an effort to share your works, you are irrelevant. The more they give away the more they are recognised. Even if they give them away via pirated works. See: movies, songs that everybody knows and resonates with. Status is their currency, not money.

The status then allows them to obtain more money than other people, incidentally.

CEOs are on a market-based economy, they sell goods and services for money. They don't sell their status. The goods and services they sell are not theirs, but created with the stolen sweat, blood and lives of the people that work for them, which get a minuscule share of the profit for the amount of life they put onto it.

In gift-based economies such as the ones of artists, open source developers, fashion, cultures without scarcities of the specific resource that makes the economy (such as small plentiful tropical tribes, communes, etc), the status is the currency.

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