The cloud is basically by definition someone else’s computer, kind of inherently opposed to user control

What features would people expect/want such software to have?

I’m sure it helps a lot that these are games with player hostable servers

I’m trying to figure out whether this is a felony or not under the notorious CFAA

In practice, any ordinary computer has come under the jurisdiction of the law, including cellphones, due to the interstate nature of most Internet communication.

Maybe it depends on whether those speakers are only bluetooth or somehow internet connected?

Cats are supposed to have pretty good directional hearing right

That dog has said some terrible things

So what is the alternative? A lot of artists and their allies think they have an answer: they say we should extend copyright to cover the activities associated with training a model.

And I am here to tell you they are wrong. Wrong because this would represent a massive expansion of copyright over activities that are currently permitted – for good reason.

He goes on to say that prohibiting AI works from being copyrighted and worker collective bargaining are better solutions, and I really agree with the arguments for this. I also liked this bit about how some of what remains past the bubble could be useful:

And we will have the open-source models that run on commodity hardware, AI tools that can do a lot of useful stuff, like transcribing audio and video; describing images; summarizing documents; and automating a lot of labor-intensive graphic editing – such as removing backgrounds or airbrushing passersby out of photos. These will run on our laptops and phones, and open-source hackers will find ways to push them to do things their makers never dreamed of.

It’s possible to cut a groove in a board so you can drive a screw outwards from it, but that’s pretty difficult and also the wrong approach for shelves which should be attached to the wall by supports underneath instead to distribute forces better.

Good movie though

If it is, at least they bothered to put a different font on the text than the usual for ChatGPT comics. The woman being drawn identically in the second panel except for the eyes is also a point against it being AI.

Browsing Lemmy by only what you have subscribed to is not as viable as on Reddit because there is generally less content per community.

Someone’s gotta stay behind to tell people to check out Lemmy

Your arm’s off

Makes sense, I have an account because it’s fun to collect the free games even if I never play them, but I can’t see myself spending money there.

Would the default instance be run by the app dev? Or in collaboration with some instance? It would maybe be risky to do with an unaffiliated instance because if they didn’t like it they could disallow these types of accounts or signups.

The idea of a “documentation moat” seems really gross to me. Like you’re going to make it more difficult on purpose for people to interact with your software, unless they pay?

He did some vivisection based experiments on dogs that were kind of horrific iirc

I think the main idea is that it’s an “agent” that runs command line commands and then considers the output. It definitely helps sometimes to show a LLM the errors its code generated.

“Perhaps most frustratingly, all of the tickets, pull requests, past release builds and changelogs are gone, because those things are not part of Git (the version control system),” Sauceke told me. “So even if someone had the foresight to make mirrors before the ban (as I did), those mirrors would only keep up with the code changes, not these ‘extra’ things that are pretty much vital to our work.”

What can be done about this?

Assuming you are in the US, your wife’s fears are totally baseless because lawsuits against people for consumer level piracy pretty much have not been happening at all since like 2010 (with the exception of porn video piracy copyright trolls, which still doesn’t happen that much and maybe your wife would be unhappy with regardless). Even when they were, due to industry group backed lawsuit campaigns, it’s civil law not criminal so nobody went to prison, and the few people who actually got stuck with massive fines eventually just declared bankruptcy to get out of paying them.

This is because said industry groups switched to trying to enforce copyright via ISP, getting ISPs to voluntarily forward people threatening letters, which are mostly empty threats with no associated legal action, so the ISPs are getting sued to try to obligate them to cut off people’s internet access. They want a way of doing it where they don’t have to take consumer level pirates to court, I’d guess because it looks really bad for them and is terrible PR to have regular people who obviously don’t deserve punishment sued for huge amounts of money because they torrented some media.

You are totally safe if you have a VPN and bind it to your torrent client (which prevents torrents from working if the VPN is off or drops connection), but even if you get such emails from your ISP (I got a few myself) likely nothing will happen for now.