Somnia? Bet I could master this game in my sleep!

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Weird and interesting, but I feel like no matter what genre you're really not into, this game will have enough of it to stop you playing.

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On the copyright front, apparently researchers at Stanford tested the AIs from the main companies by prompting them with the first line of various books and asking them to continue the story verbatim. There were variants between engines on how sneaky they had to be with the query (Grok: not sneaky at all), but they pulled out 95% of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", "The Hobbit" and so on. All those engines would just give you chapter after chapter. This matters because the AI companies had repeatedly claimed that they don't actually store the texts they train on in any way (originally they also claimed they didn't pirate actual copyrighted books, either, but that got found out so the fall back was that they sort of didn't keep them). There's copyright lawsuits going on, so it may matter that it turns out they totally do store those texts they stole.

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I dunno. It says it's shipping with Calamares, but I don't see any Tsatziki.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksFuck Amazon. Their slogan may as well be "At least we're not Walmart!"

. . . And Walmart's slogan might as well be "At least we're not Amazon!" Twins, separated at birth, one screws you in meatspace, the other online.

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Quoting: ArehandoroUnfortunately the teaser doesn't say anything to me 😢

What a tease.

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Quoting: foobrewThe comment about Windows was far more shocking to me. I'd like to believe that after 30+ years the tide might be turning...but I'm not holding my breath. Seriously though, how is it possible that young people don't even question that they're running the same OS, just a newer version of course, that their GRANDPARENTS ran? Youth don't do this with any other product that I can think of. The unquestioning fealty to Microsoft is something I suppose I'll never understand.

Well, up until recently they might have not questioned it because they just didn't notice it. I mean, your OS (and where there's a distinction, your desktop environment) are kind of just a substrate you run your software on. And at this point the desktop environment is . . . sure, people innovate, but if you're not getting cute it's a pretty mature thing, so if it's done decently people are barely aware it's there. It's like how people don't rebel against how their grandparents used refrigerators.

On Windows, though, people are no longer barely aware it's there, because MS insists on making it get in the way. Lately it seems there are a ton of "I switched to Linux cuz Win 11 sucks so hard, so should you" videos on the internet. It feels like there's a shift happening.

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(Hugh Laurie as Prince Regent voice)
Well, hurrah!

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe US was a better place to live when it had more "nanny state" and that's no co-incidence. So was Canada, so was Britain.

If anyone thinks that there is less "nanny state" now than there was before, they are deluding themselves.

I suppose it depends on your definition. Most people who use the term generally use it to mean "Government doing anything useful". So, building housing, "nanny state"; providing health care, "nanny state"; social safety net, "nanny state"; regulations saying your food can't be poisoned, "nanny state". And, there is a lot less of all that stuff than there used to be in, say, the 70s. If you use it differently from that you're very much in the minority and can't be surprised if people misunderstand you.

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Quoting: sarmad

Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: sarmadThe solution to the ethical dilemma should come from politicians, but they are unfortunately too corrupt to do the right thing.

Why should ethics be the responsibility of government? That just brings more "nanny state" interference in everyone's lives. Ethics should be personal and exercised on the individual level. The corporations will switch gears soon enough once they realize their policy is garnering very few customers.

From the perspective of legality, however, there is the matter of the violated copyrights ...

Not the responsibility of the government, rather the responsibility of the judicial system.

The judicial system is a branch of government.

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