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Civvie 11 had a good video on both Descent games.

State monopolies are fine. The government is owned by the people, and when corporations don't think an industry is profitable, the government's job is to step it and take on that job themselves. That's how we end up with utilities, 911 services, the post office (back when it wasn't fucked with by Republicans).

The problem with copyrights is the corporate stank that gatekeeps enforcement. When a large corporate entity sues a small party, the small party is fucked.

Also, Mark Twain and Disney fucked up the length of copyright over the last 150 years. The social agreement was that we were supposed to get most of this shit into public domain in a reasonable amount of time. 80 years + life of the author is not a fucking reasonable amount of time, by any stretch of the imagination.

And a single woman and her organization seems to hold a disproportionate amount of power over the payment processors.

I don't understand it. Payment processors could easily tell her to pound sand, but they don't.

Is he actually a The Simpsons artist, or is that just part of the joke?

Copyrights exists to maintain profits of large corporations. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it "protects the little person", but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.

So, fuck them. Let AI destroy the fabric of copyrights.

It's also a dumb fucking argument in general.

LLM models are not magic. They don't store the entirety of human history in a 10-20GB file. That's a fucking stupid idea. They look at something, process some weights, and move on to the next thing.

It's like going on Google Image Search, and seeing all of the copyrighted images on your browser. You didn't "steal" those, just because it was downloaded. That's not how copyright works.

Please stop parroting this stupid fucking argument.

Blame Melinda Tankard Reist. She started this whole mess.

Using PBF is like cheating here.

I've lost more of these old GIFs than I realized when gfycat shut down.

She could have, but she didn't, which is why she got her current job.

I completely forgot that Holden was part of that commune of, what, eight mothers?

It's not really "your house connected to the Internet" as much as just connecting it together to a central hub. My lights dim and turn off at set times of the day using scenes, including a more dynamic sunrise/sunset time. If it's stormy weather during the day, the front porch light comes on. I have a few colored lights that change colors with the seasons. Home Assistant brings down the garage door at night, if I forget. If the garage sensor is tripped, the garage light comes on. I have dumber motion sensors for locations where it makes sense, like pantries or closets.

I can control all of my interfaces from my phone. It can hook into local cameras, so that everything is centralized. HA can hook into any of the voice assistant systems, like Alexa. There are so many little conditions and automated switches I could create, based on either outside stimuli (like the weather) or internal sensors.