It’s Free Software; if they want to change the branding, they can fork it. I say fuck the haters of .lol and anime catgirls.

Corpos might get to use our work gratis (since that’s the only way we can make it libre for everyone), but we don’t have to cater to them.

Different electrics, so their in-built heaters can (and are built to) operate from the cold water line.

NA dishwashers do have a heating coil, but most are only hooked to the hot water line, so that the wimpy heater doesn’t have to do quite as much work or at least doesn’t have to work as quickly.

Is it ethical to order a meal, try it, and then refuse to pay for it if you don’t like it, but pay full price through the normal process if you do like it and choose to consume the whole thing? (EDIT: Just to be clear, the preceding is absolutely ethical.)

What you are doing is roughly as ethical as that, even if (your local / the locally enforceable) laws make it a much more severely punished crime.

Yeah, like “Apples of earth” (“Pomme de Terre”). /s

Now those are some juicy melons peaches apricots!

I was misremembering the location, he wanted it a bit further south: https://the-big-bang-theory.com/quotes/quote/1422/

Didn’t Sheldon propose this in an episode of TBBT?

Given the size of this bubble (WAY bigger than 2007), the taxpayers are going to hold the bag. We might as well force the companies to share the benefits (if any) as well.

Currently, there are no profits, tho.

LLM output doesn’t automatically get a copyright. But, if it is (part of) a work that includes “human creative effort” (prompts don’t count), the human(s) can hold a copyright on that work.

In addition, the output can still be a derivative work in violation of the copyrights of (some of) the training data, whether or not there are copyrights on that output. It would have to have sufficient similarity to some work in the training data, but that’s not too uncommon.

And, GPL and CC-SA works are known to be in the training data of most models, including Apertus.

I have several TB of storage, and occasionally I will just delete stuff that I haven’t revisited in a while. I really should convert to some sort of offline storage library instead of deleting, but I haven’t yet.

I actually don’t do that many movies, but I do a lot of TV. I do 1080p x265 because that’s really all the monitor I have for VLC. I have downloaded 4K in the past, and there is a 4K TV in the living room, but I don’t usually notice the quality difference and the file sizes are a lot bigger. I have a poor Internet connection (best available in my area), so smaller sizes help me keep my ratios up.

But, that’s just my preference. I have a friend that insists on 4K, but they notice quality issues and are distracted by them more easily.

Often quality blacks also depends on good encoder settings, so if you find an encoder / encoding team that does well, it might be worth seeking out their version(s), even if the file sizes are larger or their releases take longer.

Yeah, I kept my last car 15 years, I hope I can get at least 15 out of the Volt.

But, with the ranges on current EV models, I’ll be comfortable going without an ICE and everything that goes with it for my next vehicle.

Yeah, my Volt varies a bit, but after 7 years it has about 10% loss (51mi. -> 46mi.)

Range has always been less in winter, but not 40%. On a day that never gets above -4, I can still get 29mi. off the battery.

I do 120v / 12A charging at home and an overnight charge exceeds my daily commute. But, yes, a 240v / 25A charger is much faster and an overnight charge in them can cover a daily commute I would find punishingly long.

I would like it to be as fast as gas. But, yeah, if you can walk from the charger to a restroom and maybe grab some food, I really don’t care if it take 15-30 minutes to get back up to 80%.

I currently own a Volt and usually charge at home. My last road-trip OK->IA (and back a week later), I found it hard to find compatible charging stations so much so that I barely used them. On the way back, I did go out of my way to find one – the first one had no facilities at all (it was a dealer parking lot at the corner of two 5-lane stroads with no crosswalk signals), the second one was inaccessible behind a locked gate, the third one several blocks away from any facilities but close enough to walk to one restaurant.

I still plan to get an EV when I finally have to replace the Volt, but I gotta say the charging situation away from home is pretty bleak, IME. Maybe it’s better in different parts of the country. It is almost certainly better on DC charging; I found a few convenience store / gas station / fast food combination buildings that also had DC charging that I would have used if I could. (Volt only has AC charging.)

I wasn’t sure, so I checked the comments. My suspicions where raised because it seemed like a lot of image editing effort for the joke and also the glass looked wrong-ish.

Still, one crack or tear in the vinyl and who knows what starts growing inside one of those padded seats? Maybe I’m being unreasonable, but even as a child of the 80s those seats always gave me the ick. (Of course, that’s not how I would have said it then.)

The master bath in my childhood home is carpeted, and when I was a child we also had those carpet-like removable lid covers with the elastic underneath.

“Most” music is also under a compulsory licensing system, while virtually no code, prose, or visual art is.

Thread gives fond memories of a pre-fediverse experience. I used to subcribe to a no-you’re-thinking-of community there; is there one on the fediverse? Related, is anyone collecting Lemmy/Piefed switcharoos in some community?

“embarrassed” is not “embarazo”

death of copyright could be an actual [g]ood thing

It could. It would assuredly be a boon to the development of de-build chains: decompilers and the like.

But, as long as Disney and Amazon get protections, I’m going to advocate for the protection of works by independent artists and coders, particularly CC-SA, GPL, or AGPL licensed works. This does mean resisting LLMs (and other generative AI) on copyright grounds. (Even if on the other hand I might advocate for the undoing of copyrights generally.)

And, even if that class of issue were settled, I also agree the current state of generative AI is a travesty to be resisted on ecological and labor terms. As just one example of ecological harm, MS undid years of sustainability work in service to Copilot. As one example of harming Workers, Amnesty International has identified human rights abuses in the training of several model brands.