SorteKanin

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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 39 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Last summer, Meta scored a key victory in this case, as the court concluded that using pirated books to train its Llama LLM qualified as fair use, based on the arguments presented in this case.

This is so fucked. It's literally legal for an AI to read pirated books to learn, but humans are not allowed to do this. AIs have more rights than we do already.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 16 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I see a dog with really long ears.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 1 week ago

That's why I said without DRM. Some games on steam don't have DRM, as far as I understand. Otherwise GoG.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Agreed, isn't that what I just said? 😅

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's not what buying means or at least not the "buying" I am talking about. I mean I give some amount of money and I receive a download of the purchased material, free of DRM. There is no subscription involved. Like Steam (with no DRM) or GoG, but for movies and shows instead of games.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

Okay I gotta disagree partially on the third panel. I'd much rather have the option of purchasing individual movies or shows than having a subscription. Like, imagine we had Steam but instead of games, it was shows and movies? That'd be great. Imagine the sales! PatientWatchers amirite?

Unfortunately it's rarely possible to actually purchase, and definitely not without any DRM. So the third panel should really say "This show is not available for purchase" or only mention renting or specify that it's with loads of DRM or whatever.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 8 points 1 week ago

It's based on lemmy-ui which is AGPL-licensed, so I'd think it would have to be released somewhere?

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 points 1 week ago

I tried Dune and I just found it sooooo boring. It's more political and squarely in the space opera genre, which hyperion is not.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 25 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Damn. Hyperion is like peak sci-fi. In my mind, I think of it as the LOTR of sci-fi, so this is like Tolkien dying, to put it into perspective. Some damn good books.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

purely legal conformation standpoint

It's still stupid even if it's required by law.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think making the standard library larger in a composable way would be great. If we actually uplifted "blessed crates" from a loose concept to an actual thing in the build system, it would make Rust much easier to adopt for those who are not already well versed in the ecosystem.

 

There was recently some discussion on Feddit.dk surrounding the usage of upvotes and downvotes.

Currently in ActivityPub (the underlying protocol powering the fediverse), Lemmy sends "Like" and "Dislike" activities for upvotes and downvotes. Other threadiverse platforms (PieFed, Mbin and maybe even other non-threadiverse platforms?) do the same.

However, the "Like" and "Dislike" activities are meant for... well, "liking" and "disliking" things. They are not necessarily associated with the action of "vote this thing up so more people see it" or "vote this thing down so less people see it".

For instance, on Friendica, you can dislike a post and this sends a Dislike activity. From Friendica's point of view, such a Dislike indicates just that - the user dislikes the content. It doesn't necessarily mean "this should be shown to less users", but Lemmy will interpret the Dislike activity like that.

This leads to strange scenarios with posts that a user finds relevant and interesting (something that the user may reasonably want to upvote) but also something that the user dislikes (i.e. downvote).

As an example, imagine a post with a title like "AI is awful" (I'm sure many here has seen posts like that). A Friendica user could reasonably agree with the post and thus "Dislike" it. As in, they also find AI awful and they dislike AI, so they dislike the post, to show their disapproval of AI. The Friendica user's intent is not to hide the post from other users or make the post be shown to fewer users! They just intend to show their dislike for the topic at hand.

However Lemmy will interpret that Dislike as a downvote, and the post will thus be shown to fewer users and get ranked down in the sorting.

So is Lemmy and co. abusing the Like/Dislike activities? Should the threadiverse instead use a dedicated activity for the acts of "I think this should be shown to more users" and "I think this should be shown to fewer users"? That way, it would not be confused with the Likes and Dislikes from other platforms.

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