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t3rmit3

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2d ago

NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books
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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 2d ago
we’d better be careful to make sure that we aren’t simply giving the federal government (and the shitheads who run it) even more power and control over everything
You do realize that copyright is solely a function of the federal government, right? There is no state or municipal copyright, it's already the federal government who decides whether your copyright as a creator is valid or enforceable, or whether to just hand it over to another company/ billionaire.

2d ago

‘Climate change is here’: Experts warn environmental crisis is decades ahead of forecasts

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 2d ago

No no, they've now moved on to, "well fine, it's real, but it's too late and/or too expensive to do anything now".

2d ago

World’s oldest monastic brewery to be sold as German beer sales slide

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 2d ago

Never been to Weltenburger, but I used to go to Kloster Andechs with my dad and grandmother to get their pork knuckles. Something about going to a kloster (abbey) and seeing the monks living there like it's still the 1500s is very cool. Kloster Andechs was founded in 1458 with an official writ for operating as a tavern, and has been brewing since then. Imagine living in a place that's been around and doing the same thing for 560+ years.

3d ago

After 20 Years, This Scientist Proved Birds Can Talk and Use Grammar

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 3d ago

Sadly, all the people who like and actually engage with animals (including wild ones) regularly already know this, and all the people who dislike animals or think humans are special will just discount this.

3d ago

Precisely

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 3d ago

Mozrella, my favorite cheese

1w ago

Be Wary of Digital Deskilling

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 1w ago

The real means to prevent this is unionizing, which is really the answer to most other techbro-hellscape problems too. Just like Hollywood is putting anti-ai clauses in their contracts, so too will tech workers need to. Unfortunately, given that the end goal is to remove the IT workers entirely, this is still only a delay if companies push ahead, since just like scabs, there will always be people willing to sell their fellow workers down the river for their own enrichment.

But we're not even close to that point; most tech workers think unionizing is a 4-letter word. There's always a private chat room where folks are lamenting the absolute class-ignorance of their coworkers who are all convinced they're going to stumble into unicorn stock options soon, despite multiple rounds of layoffs each year now being standard in tech.

The real question is what has to happen to end this horrible capitalist nightmare in general.

1w ago

I hate to jinx things, but having the head of marketing for a solar company provide his personal contact info seems useful

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 1w ago

Hey, finger crossed! Hope this turns into something. :)

1w ago

'Help is on its way,' Trump tells Iranians as he urges them to keep protesting

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 1w ago

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SF5MiM-P2p4

2w ago

Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 2w ago

This is great to see, and as long as it's up to companies whether to do this we need to encourage that behavior... but it also shouldn't be up to companies' whims whether to do this or not. It should be legally required for end-of-support devices and software to release whatever source code or changes are necessary to either operate the device/software independent of a server, or run the server ourselves.

2w ago

How ATSC 3.0 aims to win over cord-cutters in 2026

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 2w ago

Honestly, operating a private streaming site is much safer than pirate VHF/ UHF broadcasts, both in terms of what you'll get charged with, and how long you'll remain undetected. VHF and UHF broadcasts are literal homing beacons (and without something to bounce the signal off, very limited in what you'd reach).

Jellyfin on an offshore VPS, with invite-only accounts otoh...

2w ago

The way of the pirate

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 2w ago

If being depressed made people stop needing food

Show me where you think I said this.

2w ago

The way of the pirate

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 2w ago

I'll assume you have no actual rebuttal than, shall I?

2w ago

The way of the pirate

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 2w ago

Art doesn’t help much if you’re starving to death.

And being well-fed doesn't help much if you're contemplating suicide because your life has no joy in it. And art is not the only source of joy, but it is one of them (and one of the most common).

2w ago

The way of the pirate

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 2w ago

You keep using the word "useful" in a way that suggests you've narrowly defined it in your head to exclude art. Life without art quickly results in a whole lot of death. Even the poorest humans throughout history have created music and art, because it's a fundamental part of human life. Just because art is less critical to immediate survival in most cases than eating doesn't make it any less necessary than it; shelter being more or less critical than food in a given situation (deadly sub-zero blizzard, more critical. Temperate area with no dangerous weather or predators, less critical) also doesn't make it more or less necessary, it's just a varying order of necessity. Being anti-Capitalist is important, but I feel like you've written off "professional" art as the domain of Capitalism rather than another victim of it (which food is as well, for that matter).

2w ago

AMD and Nvidia are talking about local AI, good news for PC gamers and memory prices

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 2w ago

I mean... You can. You can train and run models yourself. Lots of people and orgs do.

2w ago

Justice Dept. Drops Claim That Venezuela’s ‘Cartel de los Soles’ Is an Actual Group

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 2w ago

something something WMDs in Iraq...

2w ago

Five Europeans denied US visas for combating hate speech online, accused of censoring ‘American viewpoints’

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 2w ago

American == Fascistic == "Make America Great Again"/ Manifest Destiny == Settler Colonialist... viewpoints

3w ago

Trump Named Delcy Rodríguez Venezuela’s Interim President and a US Partner in Governing the Country Two Hours Later, She Publicly Rejected Washington, Called It an Aggressor, and Reaffirmed Loyalty to

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 3w ago

Yes, and if there had been significant military resistance I think people would not be side-eyeing her so hard. Given how quickly they located and secured Maduro, however, and the extreme lack of military response to the attacks, it's seeming pretty likely that Trump made a deal with her (as he's claiming) to get Maduro.

3w ago

France seeks to ban social media for children under 15

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 3w ago

immoral people existing is not the problem here

True. The profit motive is. People pushing harmful content are doing it because it makes them money, not because they're twirling their moustaches as they relish their evil deeds. You remove the profit motive, you remove the motivation to harm people for profit.

the difference is that there isn’t an algorithm that acts as a vector for harmful bullshit

The algorithms boost engagement according to 1) what people engage with, and 2) what companies assess to be appealing. Facebook took the lead in having the social media platform own the engagement algorithms, but the companies and people pushing the content can and do also have their own algorithmic targeting. Just as Joe Camel existed before social media and still got to kids (and not just on TV), harmful actors will find and join discords. All that Facebook and Twitter did was handle the targeting for them, but it's not like the targeting doesn't exist without the platforms' assistance.

Said bad actors do not exist in anywhere near the same capacity. Imo the harm of public chat rooms falls under the “parents can handle this” umbrella. Public rooms are still an issue, but from experience being a tween/teen on those platforms, it’s not even close to being as bad.

It wasn't as bad on those... back when we were teens. It absolutely is now. If anything, you'll usually find that a lot of the most harmful groups (red-pill/ manosphere, body-image- especially based around inducing EDs- influencers) actually operate their own discords that they steer/ capture kids into. They make contact elsewhere, then get them into a more insular space where they can be more extreme and forceful in pushing their products, out of public view.

If it was the case that it was just individual actors on the platform causing the harm and not the structure of the platforms incentivizing said harm, then we would see more of this type of thing in real life as well.

I'm not saying it's all individuals, I'm saying the opposite; it's companies. Just not social media companies. Social media companies are the convenient access vector for the companies actually selling and pushing the harmful products and corollary ideas that drive kids to them.

I struggle to think of a more complete solution to the harm caused by social media to children than just banning them.

Given that your immediate solution was to regulate kids instead of regulating companies, I don't think you're going to be interested in my solutions.

3w ago

US strikes Venezuela and says its leader, Maduro, has been captured and flown out of the country

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 3w ago

They won't be once it's just Trump (or his endorsed appointee) doing what Maduro did but as a puppet government. This isn't the dismantling of a criminal racket, it's just a takeover.