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mrmaplebar

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  • GCC Developers Considering Whether To Accept AI/LLM-Generated Patches

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  • Well... I'd be curious to know how anyone would argue that AI generated code is GPL safe, especially considering they are often using black box, binary blob models trained on mystery code from all over the internet, with zero attribution or license information, and with some of it almost certainly being proprietary.

    Are we going to start ignoring the very licenses that we created.

  • Facing internal revolt, Mike Johnson's days as Speaker of the House are clearly numbered

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  • Good. Fuck that guy. Hopefully he can retire to spend more time with his family.

    For example, watching his son jerk off or whatever.

  • Trump Administration Reportedly Pushing ICC to Exempt Trump From War Crimes Prosecution

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  • The ICC's has no legitimacy if they're unwilling to investigate and prosecute war crimes no matter where they happen.

  • Do you have strong opinions about universal basic income?

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  • I'm pretty much with you, I think. I'm open to it, but extremely skeptical.

    There's really no guarantee that the baseline UBI would be a "living wage" and I think we'd just see a constant spiral of inflation and re-indexing. I feel like it would end up being nothing more than an "allowance" from the oligarchy. Table scraps that would be used as an easy excuse to cut the social safety net at every turn. ("Why do they need X on top of their UBI?" says the rich politician...)

    We need a strong social safety net. We need to decouple human rights from employment. We need more worker ownership of businesses/coops. We need to have the ability for people to do meaningful and productive things with their lives. We need a 32 hr standard work week.

    I don't see how UBI gets us any of those things.

  • We're in the worst timeline

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  • Wouldn't be surprised to find out that Trump solicits children on Roblox.

    Remind me when regular people can afford GPUs, RAM and SSDs again.

  • System76 launches first stable versions of COSMIC desktop and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS

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  • Having tried Cosmic, I'm not totally convinced it's good enough to be ready for prime time, but that's pretty subjective. Overall I think it's good to have another DE in the scene and at the very least Cosmic is a good start.

  • Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora

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  • Definitely not just a coincidence.

  • Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora

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  • People are acting like this is a win for OpenAI and the AI industry, but I think this is potentially a major victory for IP holders like Disney.

    Up until now, the core assumption from the industry around AI has been that it is all fair use, and thus no license (or even so much as basic consent) was needed to train on copyrighted works or produce output resembling specific trademarked IP.

    Now Disney and OpenAI have come to an agreement that explicitly allows OpenAI to produce videos of their characters, but from what I can tell does not allow them to train on Disney's works to do it.

    This deal lasts only 3 years, and so what happens is they don't renew it 3 years from now? What does it mean for the other AI companies that are producing Disney IP without this agreement? What about all the other character and person likenesses that Sora is producing without any such agreement?

    Essentially, I think this has allowed Disney to put the ball back in their court. They are deciding who does and doesn't use their characters. They have put value into the idea of licensing trademarks for AI use. And I think this sets a dangerous precedent for AI companies, because what does this mean for all of the IP holders who they aren't in an agreement with?

  • Regarding Gainax Co. Ltd (Studio Kharas Statement on Gainax Closure after 42 Years of Production)

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  • Sad it had to go out so terribly. Hopefully their legal actions will be a stepping stone to getting rights to FLCL back.

  • Elon Musk says DOGE was only ‘somewhat successful’ and he wouldn’t do it again

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  • Allow me to introduce you all to the corpo reality distortion gradient of results:

    • 0/5 -- "Somewhat Successful"
    • 1/5 -- "Surprisingly Successful"
    • 2/5 -- "Successful"
    • 3/5 -- "Disruptive"
    • 4/5 -- "Pretty Much Revolutionary"
    • 5/5 -- "Revolutionary"

  • Trump touts upbeat message on cost of living as Americans feel the pinch

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  • We should stop reporting on their messaging and start reporting on the facts only.

  • What YouTube channel to you has degraded in time?

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  • Jesus. I always thought that guy was a shoddy self-centered Texan dweeb who always did totally half-assed projects, but I had no idea the extent of his shittiness as a person. People who treat weapons like toys are the last people who should have them.

  • What YouTube channel to you has degraded in time?

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  • I was never that into Sterling, to be honest.

    But yeah, the wrestling thing seems to permeate gaming video makers and podcasters in general. I feel like you could come up with a dangerous drinking game based on taking a swig every time a gaming media personality brings up some wrestling shit.

  • Do any countries genuinely appreciate American immigrants?

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  • Do you feel oppressed by the immigrants who live in your country?

    I think you're buying into the right-wing idea that simply being an immigrant is somehow a form of oppression.

    Immigrants are not to blame for the housing crisis. The housing crisis facing much of the world has to do with a growing population, a lack of housing development, and a market that treats housing like little more than an investment asset.

  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says people need to find success in traditional factory jobs again: ‘Every successful person doesn’t need to have a PhD’

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  • The only factory I'll work for is this pitchfork factory. 🧜‍♂️

  • What YouTube channel to you has degraded in time?

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  • I think that's fair. He seems pretty tired up in his pride. Seems like one of those people who is just afraid to admit he doesn't know something.

    Back in the day when it was just him listening to stems and talking about how good classic songs were it was just a little bit less obvious/annoying. It was less about him and more about the song.

  • What YouTube channel to you has degraded in time?

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  • The one that jumps to mind for me the most has got to be Rick Beato.

    When I first found out about him he was just a super passionate and likeable dude totally geeking out listening to stems of classic records, just being endlessly appreciative and highlighting things that he thought were cool in a way that was reasonably accessible to regular music listeners. On the side he did some more technical music theory and musicianship stuff, which I could take or leave to be honest. But overall it felt like a channel that was there for sharing this dude's love of music with others.

    Lately it's just been pounded down into mediocrity, I feel. He spends a lot of time chasing after bullshit trendy stories about AI music, spotify rankings, controversies of the week, long rambling live stream rants about various meta things that nobody has time for. The silver lining to all of that is that he has been doing interviews with musicians, which are generally pretty good, but it really depends on who he's talking to. I understand that DMCA takedowns get in the way of breaking down songs, and that sucks, but my problem is that it's often kind of negative stuff that distracts from talking positively about music, musicianship, production, etc.

    I think he knows this because he recently put out a video about a big "change of direction" in the channel.

  • You’re Being Lied to About Graham Platner

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  • Fair enough. Drunk 20-somethings military dudes getting a walk-in tattoo in some random country probably aren't going to be making many smart decisions. It was clearly not a well thought-out tattoo.

    Nevertheless, I don't think the debate is about whether this guy got a bad tattoo or not, it's about whether he is a nazi or knowingly got a nazi tattoo.

  • Civil war

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  • I agree with you.

    Keep in mind that as the American civil war was winding down President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, and so his Vice President, Andrew Johnson rose to power.

    Following Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, Johnson became president. Johnson's Reconstruction policies were lenient compared to those of the Radical Republicans. This dispute represented the conflict that many War Democrats faced, in that they supported the Union but did not wish to severely punish former Confederates or strongly protect the rights of former slaves. In the 1868 lead up to the first post-Civil War presidential election, President Johnson was a candidate for the Democratic Party presidential nomination; however, he finished second in the 22 ballots cast at the Democratic Convention, and lost the nomination to former New York Governor Horatio Seymour, a former Copperhead.[4] Lincoln appointed other War Democrats to high civil and military offices. Some joined the Republican Party, while others remained Democrats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Democrat

    (Note: keep in mind that the "democrats" and "republicans" political alignment flipped around the time of the New Deal, so during the time of the Civil War, it was the Republicans (like Lincoln) that represented the northern Union states, while the Democrats represented the southern Confederate states. "War Democrats" (like Johnson) were democrats who supported the Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Party_System)

    And now for a bit of Civil War conspiracy theory...

    The events of the [Lincoln] assassination resulted in speculation, then and subsequently, concerning Johnson and what the conspirators might have intended for him. In the vain hope of having his life spared after his capture, Atzerodt spoke much about the conspiracy, but did not say anything to indicate that the plotted assassination of Johnson was merely a ruse. Conspiracy theorists point to the fact that on the day of the assassination, Booth came to the Kirkwood House and left one of his cards with Johnson's private secretary, William A. Browning. The message on it was: "Don't wish to disturb you. Are you at home? J. Wilkes Booth."[121] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson

    Make of that what you will!