That looks interesting.

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That big yellow thing looks like someone crossed Pikachu with Totoro and gave it an attitude.

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Quoting: GuestAlso how can you despise Yakuza...

So, after the Fukushima thing, the Yakuza teamed up with the company that owned the reactors to force people they were loansharking to go work at reactor cleanup even though it was a death sentence. Then when they got sick from the radiation, they were laid off so they could go die at home and nobody would record it as having anything to do with work at a reactor. So yeah, that's one thing that might cause a person to despise the Yakuza. As well as nuclear reactor companies.

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This kind of reminds me of that one with the gigantic carrot, what was it called--oh yeah, Merchant of the Skies (which appears to be on sale right now).

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Quoting: KithopUnless you have a need to sandbox something,

You have a need to snadbox *everything* already. I'm blown away this mindset exists.

Ya know, I find it hard to take this attitude very seriously. I know the computer security people are all authoritative and expert and everything. But I've been using computers since before there was an internet, and in all that time no computer of mine has ever had an attack that I noticed the results of. If it weren't for phishing emails I might think there was no such thing as malicious cyberattacks outside the movies. It's possible that part of the reason my Windows computers of the late 90s/early00s got a bit wonky after a while was viruses, I dunno, but if so their action was indistinguishable from ordinary "Windows installs used to age really badly". So the thing is, after 30 years or so when I could have suffered an attack, during which I never did anything much about security other than "switch to Linux" and "use fairly decent passwords", and nothing ever happening, it gets harder and harder to sustain that panicked "The sky will fall in the next few minutes if I don't do the latest security thing right now!" mentality. Induction says to me "I've never sandboxed everything before and nothing bad ever happened, why would that suddenly change now?"

If I was running a server or something, sure, I'd take security seriously. But I'm not, I'm just a guy with a computer.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumIt's a shame that mistakes happen, but I think we can all agree that patent and copyright protection is an important part of our legal system. We need to protect the works of our society with strict copyright and patent laws.

This stops undesirable peasants from using the work in an unauthorised manner or with bad intent starving the original authors from their rightful money.

If anything, we need to extend copyright law and make it stricter to protect peoples work. The recent example of Michael Mouse going public domain and the abuse it has since been subject to is a perfect example of why copyright law needs to be extended.

We should also extend and alter our patent laws to make protecting our ideas simpler. If we have an idea, we need to be able to protect that idea, whether or not we ourselves are able to execute our idea.

We need to extent patent law to be as long as, if not longer than copyright law.

In addition, we need to be able to backdate copyright and patent claims to make claims for cases of infringement that occurred during the time the patent or copyright was active, even if the breach is only discovered years later.

To help ensure people are correctly compensated, copyright/patent breaches need to be immediately liable for compensation, without the need of a court.

Overall, while the current system works to a point, it needs to become much stricter.

Brat!:grin:

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Quoting: damarrinI generally agree running software from the native packaging system gives a better experience. Install is much faster, it starts faster, takes up less space, etc.

But, from what I've seen a number of distros (Ubuntu!) might ship the current version of a package as a deb/rpm at a certain point, but as time goes on it will fall behind until the user has something much older than is available as flatpak/snap.

Which in turn may or may not matter. Nowadays a lot of open source software is pretty mature, and a couple of versions more or less may not be much of an issue.

What I wonder about Flatpaks, and Snaps outside of Ubuntu, is where are you on maintenance? A Flatpak might be totally up to date the day I install it from Flathub, but my other software updates semi-automatically along with the OS. If I have to remember to update the Flatpak stuff manually, well, either it's gonna get long in the tooth after a while or I'm gonna rip out the Flatpak because it's too much hassle and go back to native packaging.

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Quoting: EagleDeltaI get really annoyed by this idea that LLMs are "stealing" data. It's literally the automation of what people manually do.....

That is not as persuasive a statement as you think it is. I want to keep on doing some things manually, thanks very much. And I very much hope my wife agrees.

But in any case, that's not all it is. The fact is that these AIs essentially end up restating things that actual people said . . . which is fine in and of itself. But they are being used to redistribute revenue from the people who initially said the things, to the people who made the AI programs, by using the things the people said as input. That is not benign--and when the people saying the things go out of business and the AIs are reduced to restating each other's statements plus the one major source of statements on the internet that needs no revenue--propaganda--the results ain't gonna be pretty.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: GuestP.S. According to LanguageTool, three commas were needed in the article.

Ehhh, IMO commas are kind of a "soft" punctuation mark--there are stylistic differences in how people use them. There are many situations where it's not really technically "wrong" either to use one or not to use one, and others where it is wrong by some technical standards to do it a particular way, but doing it that "wrong" way still works given the flow of the sentence and the way people talk. Periods, for instance, are a lot clearer--if you're at the end of a sentence you should be using one, period. Well, unless you have a reason to use a question mark or exclamation point instead. But commas are comparatively mushy, and I don't trust computerized guidance about how to use them.

All the places where LanguageTool said a comma was needed, I wouldn't care either way. However, I personally err on the side of using the commas, because they save lives after all.

But they turn pandas homicidal!
("Eats shoots and leaves" --> "Eats, shoots and leaves")

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Quoting: skaplonAbuse of the DMCA system should be double-punished

Welllll, the DMCA was written with abuse in mind, so that might defeat the purpose . . .

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