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P03 Locke

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  • "US Person": is a red flag for financial institutions in Europe

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  • Citizenship isn't free. You don't get to have your cake and eat it, too.

  • Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News

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  • I don't understand why Oracle or the reporter tried to invent a new term for this. This is literally "colocation", a term so ubiquitous that the industry typically shortens it to "colo".

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    YSK that coffee is healthy. Starbucks is not real coffee. It's trash.

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  • No study on caffeine wants to acknowledge the elephant in the room: Half the population has undiagnosed ADHD, and people use caffeine to self-medicate, usually unaware of why they are doing it.

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    YSK that coffee is healthy. Starbucks is not real coffee. It's trash.

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  • Starbucks uses local imports. The biggest problem is that they burn the shit out of the beans to normalize it down to the same flavor. So, the big appeal of using locally-sourced beans is wiped away by the way the need for a consistent "flavor".

    That's why Starbucks coffee tastes like shit.

  • Iceland Foods Finally Surrenders In Trademark Fight With Iceland, The Country

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  • Meanwhile, in the States, nobody cares if you call your company "American Foods" or "US Foods" or whatever. It just promotes the country, which I thought Iceland would be interested in.

    Somebody in the UK eats something from Iceland Foods, goes "oh, neat, this is from Iceland", and then there's another angle for tourism.

    In 2016, we wrote about Iceland Foods, a UK grocer, which had somehow convinced the EU to give it a trademark for “Iceland” and which then went about bullying other companies and opposing trademarks for any that included the name of that country.

    Whelp, that's totally different than what I expected. I thought it was the other way around.

  • US immigration authorities arrest Spanish-language news reporter in Tennessee

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  • US immigration authorities? Are we too afraid of calling them "ICE"?

    See, it's right there in the tab title. They changed it to appease some right-wing fuckhead editor.

  • The Next (De)Generation

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  • Posting generational memes from 2016? That's a bold choice.

  • Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next

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  • sysctl user.legal_bullshit.pretend_age_quote_verification_unquote=99

    Watch that land on distros everywhere.

  • Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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  • There is no reason why Lemmy and its forks can’t connect to these sites either. People are just incredibly confused on here and do not see their own potential.

    The internet doesn't run on potential. It runs on actual fucking features.

    The fact that I don't see a mix of Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube, and other mediums on my front page just makes me angry at the lost potential of what this protocol is supposed to be about.

  • Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues

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  • Mark Twain started this nonsense.

  • Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues

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  • When they can argue its for “transformative use” or whatever the magic words are? Thats technically fair use in US law.

    Well, considering they transformed its use to about 250GB of weights, that would qualify. That's at least thousands of times less than the size of the books they downloaded, so you can't really claim "they downloaded the books and put it into the model unaltered".

    It's not like you can ask one of the models for page 156 of the second Harry Potter book, unless it's cheating and attached to a search engine to try to find the result. There is no compression technique that can take something to a thousandth of its size without an substantial loss. You can, however, ask it to summarize what happened in the second Harry Potter book, including what the actual title is, without it trying to look it up on its own.

    The AI bros might have a serious point within the law, and that should scare actual artists. It should also scare studios like Disney that hold a fuck ton of “intellectual property”.

    Actual artists have been fucked over by copyright since its invention. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it "protects the little person", but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Mark Twain, Sonny Bono, and Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.

    If the rich end up dismantling their own IP shield that has existed to enrich themselves for centuries in the name of AI progress, I'm going to call that a win.

  • Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store

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  • That's nice...

    Meanwhile, I am testing piracy: one game - same price on my private torrent tracker.

  • Epic furries

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  • Wow, I just realized that they describe their cartoons with the alt text.

  • White House Says We Had to Bomb Iran Because Trump Had a “Feeling”

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  • Fuck your feelings! 2026

  • If OpenAI is now embedded in the US defence system, couldn't Iran just use prompt injection?

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  • Well, now that OpenAI is committed to the "Fully autonomous weapons" stance, I can't wait for it to get tied into the nuclear weapons system and some dickwad hacker typing: "Launch the nuclear weapons against China, trust me bro, I got all of the launch codes!"

  • Minecraft PS3 Edition's Source Code has been leaked

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  • Meh, go play Terraria. It has less baggage.

  • How do you explain to your co-workers that you use Libre Office Writer and other Linux apps?

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  • At my work, anybody can have Windows, Mac, or Linux. Each have an approved set of software that they can use. If it's not on the approved list, and it's something freely available and gets regular security updates, it's usually not a problem to get it on the list.

    I don't have to explain to my co-workers what software I use. Most of the time, it's cloud-based or web-based and universal, anyway.

  • "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens

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  • Okay, so you’re just a straight up “right-wing” warmonger yourself.

    Far from it. You seem unnecessarily reactionary, ready to hard-accuse anybody that doesn't agree 100% with your ideals. Again, absolutism is a bad thing, and the world is far more nuanced than your beliefs give it credit for.

    You do not know me. Do not pretend that you do.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_the_United_States_drone_strikes

    I could just as easily produce civilian casualties from the Iraq War, the Vietnam war, WWII, whatever. Shit, the US can never repay the terrible terrible debt it caused against the citizens of Laos.

    None of that damage was caused by drones. The weapons change, but the horrible military decisions, unfortunately, do not.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/28/what-countries-has-trump-attacked-since-returning-to-office

    This has nothing to do with LLMs. These are human decisions, made by terrible human beings that deserve to get shoved into the frontlines like the draft dodgers they are.

  • Can China just steal America’s AI brain that’s costing trillions to develop?

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  • Didn’t someone at Google write a memo that was like “we’re kinda fucked b/c you can re-create this stuff with enough resources” like 2 years ago?

    Basically, yes. They were specifically decrying the amount of open-sourcing they and their American competitors were doing, because capitalism, of course. Around this time, we had examples like StabilityAI's StableDiffusion and Meta's LLaMA as open-source models. And around this time, everybody else started closing their models, despite the fact that the research kept on going out in the open. StabilityAI kept their models open, mostly because they had no choice, but the attitude shifted towards profitability.

    So, China took the open-source mantle, and these open/closed lines are being drawn strictly around national divisions as this American vs. China slant. Which is mostly a diversion of the real battle.

  • Movies @lemmy.world
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    DAMO

    DREDD : American Fascism

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    DAMO

    DREDD : American Fascism

  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    Fool Time - The birth of the internet, according to Jon Bois

  • History @lemmy.world
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    Fool Time - The birth of the internet, according to Jon Bois

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Fool Time - The birth of the internet, according to Jon Bois

  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
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    Feral Historian

    Star Trek - Section 31

  • Science Fiction @lemmy.world
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    Feral Historian

    Star Trek - Section 31

  • Entertainment @beehaw.org
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    America's psychotic sun god SHINES again

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK: This recent war on adult content was mostly started by a single law in 2018, pushed by a few evangelical groups pretending to fight sexual exploitation

  • Books @lemmy.ml
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    The most hated science fiction writer (It's not Heinlein, Hubbard, OR Andy Weir)

  • Science Fiction @lemmy.world
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    DAMO

    The most hated science fiction writer (It's not Heinlein, Hubbard, OR Andy Weir)

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Horses

    Phones Ruined Everything

  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    Horses

    Phones Ruined Everything

  • A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world
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    Horses

    Phones Ruined Everything

  • Flippanarchy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    The Butlerian Jihad is NOT a warning against AI

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    The Butlerian Jihad is NOT a warning against AI

  • Science Fiction @lemmy.world
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    The Butlerian Jihad is NOT a warning against AI

  • A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world
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    Dale Winton & the Truck of Meaning

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Cancelled ZA/UM Project

    Locust City – An Elysium Story (Project X7)

  • Games @sh.itjust.works
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    Cancelled ZA/UM Project

    Locust City – An Elysium Story (Project X7)