My first gut reaction is to say “zero. Not a god damned single solitary second. If you want to own a story or a song or whatever, keep it the fuck in your head you fucking moron what the fuck is wrong with you?”

And my only hesitation to say that is: copyleft isn’t so easy to accomplish without copyright. Particularly, without copyright, the way the GPL does the whole “source code provision” thing falls apart. Without said provision, OpenWRT wouldn’t exist. And for the existence of the source code provision, with a little luck we’ll have FOSS OS distributions for smart TVs sometime in the foreseeable future. And hopefully that same court case will spawn a proliferation of other “OpenWRT but for <kind of consumer smart device>” projects. That actually work.

It might not actually be impossible to do a “source code provision” without copyright. It’d probably involve some kind of NDA with “source code provision” kind of conditions, though. And if you allow for NDAs on stuff in place of copyright and every game or book you buy forces you to agree to an NDA… is that actually better than copyright? It’s probably worse.

So, I think even given all the above, my answer is still “zero”. But aside from that, I also hold the opinion that we should have legislation which makes for a “source code provision” on “all software” (for some definitions of “all”. In practice I could see it being difficult for companies to comply with that with regard to software made well before the law was passed, for instance. For instance software for which the source code is now lost.)

Beyond that, I’ll say that I believe in a right to attribution, which feels a little more like a trademark-y kind of thing than copyright. Rather than artificial scarcity, let’s “promote the progress of… useful arts” (quote from the U.S. Constitution) by helping creators cash in on their reputations. That plus physical products (collectors editions, swag, etc), unique experiences (live shows, theme parks, etc), authenticity (if you get it from the creator, you know you’re getting the real canon and not someone’s fanfic), quality… that sort of thing. Don’t believe the big-copyright industries when they say they’ll go out of business without the outdated and ruthlessly abused model of promoting culture that is copyright. They’ll largely have to pivot into business models that don’t depend on government-granted monopolies. But that’s a good thing.

Plus, consider your favorite individual creators. Most of them don’t make money really on what they do at all. And for the ones that do, would you really put less money toward their creative efforts if copyright didn’t exist than you do now? I support my favorite small creator on Patreon. (Don’t get me wrong. I’m concerned about the chokepoint that Patreon has at the moment, but I like the “patron” model for supporting artists better than copyright.)

Anyway. Go watch “Steal This Film” or “Good Copy Bad Copy” or something.

I just love a cool refreshing glass of glowstick on a hot summer day.

I hate that these days I have to go dig through people’s history to see whether something is slop or whether I should upvote it, but I’m delighted to say it appears this project doesn’t use LLMs. Cheers, OP.

Oh look. They did another fascism.

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If you don’t have a CR touch on one or both of those, you desperately need to get one (or you’re unlikely to be able to use more than a tiny little spot in the middle of the bed without massive adhesion issues). And getting a CR touch will probably require upgrading the motherboard on your v1.

USB A extension cables exist and work very well, so I’m not saying this is justified, but…

My guess for the rationale behind the explicit ban on female USB A cables in the spec is that signals degrade over distance and they didn’t want to try to go to the extra work to make USB host and guest devices hardy enough against noise in the signal to work reliably even in the presence of extension cables.

Apparently USB host/guest devices are hardy enough against noise to handle extension cables just fine. But I’m thinking that wasn’t planned to be the case by the authors of the spec. Perhaps most USB host/guest devices exceed the spec in at least that particular regard.

Clearly not all female USB A ports are banned by the spec. Female ports on USB host devices, of course, would have to be allowed or USB would be useless. Given that, I’m guessing an active (powered) extension could be strictly compliant with the spec. (Think of it as a one-port USB hub.)

I’ve got a webcam plugged into a daisy chain of USB A extension cables 15 feet (4.5 meters) long across a room. Works fine, surprisingly.

Too bad, but at least it didn’t go as poorly as it could have.

We can hope that moving forward, they’ll be strict about reviewing code and won’t let lots of hallucinations and such end up ruining the distro entirely.

And for that matter, that they realize their mistake quickly and change their policy to entirely ban slop.

But how many beagle bodies with seagull heads did you end up with?

Thanks for hanging with us while we figured out what we can sustainably serve going forward.

Translation: “Shit shit shit our business model selling access to the slop machine at a colossal loss hoping it’ll somehow magically become profitable is unsustainable and the $1e11 of investment money is running out we’re going out of business help”

Yeah right.

Your name is “FauxPseudo”, but you’re the realest.

:(

I believe the proper tool for pruning AI-generated code is called rm.

Trump just can’t stop himself from getting into fights he can’t win, can he.

Yeah, whether Robert Greene actually exists or not, I wouldn’t watch any of him.

See this little icon?:

That alone prevents me from watching a video. (Mind you, that badge isn’t a 100% guarantee. It only shows up if the uploader specifically selections the option that says it was generated using AI, which people often skip even for AI-generated content. But at least it helps.)

But even if he appeared in any videos that weren’t made with AI, I think you’re right to feel icky about “Robert Greene”.

I mean, Jordan Peterson exists, but he’s a Nazi douchebag who nobody should pay any attention to. If Robert Green exists, then I think he’s in the same category.

Yeah, I… might still have a little bit of hope for Ladybird, but I’m really concerned about it. It seems like a) it may be pretty AI sloppy and b) they seem to be pretty in-bed with FUTO. Both of those seem like huge red flags to me.

I dunno. Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised, but I’m worried.

I think the author should have opened with the examples and gone on from there.

But yeah. Conventions and super-scummy sexual harassment behavior (in men in positions of authority toward women) without consequences unfortunately tend to go together a lot. In FOSS or otherwise. (Consider Elevatorgate.)

And I don’t disbelieve the author when they say:

I suspect [Adria Richards] knew that if she reported it secretly the Python leadership it would be hushed up.

I think it’s time we start thinking seriously about reducing our reliance on browsers (without increasing our reliance on proprietary clients).