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- Comment on CEOs are astatic about AI because they can train it to always agree with them. 16 minutes ago:
If they do that then they’re removing the “intelligence” leaving them left with only the “artificial”.
I disagree with your showerthought though. CEOs aren’t typically looking for “yes men”. That’s a stereotype. Some are, sure.
CEOs are ecstatic about AI because of the possibility of replacing expensive human labor with cheap fixed costs of hardware, software and electricity .
- Comment on Are color palettes subject to copyright protection? 11 hours ago:
Depending on how that color palette is used, it could fall into part of Trademark law call Trade Dress. The “look and feel” of a product can be distinct to communicate to consumers what it is and what brand it is. The colors used are part of the Trade Dress. Think about iconic consumer products like iconic Red Bull energy drink can:
Its a skinny 473ml can with the blue and silver colors with the red and yellow Red Bull company logo on it. If you see this even if the letters were in a different language than one you understand, you’d know immediately this is a can of Red Bull. This is Trade Dress.
Does this mean that other companies…
- … can’t use a skinny 473ml can? No.
- … can’t sell energy drinks in cans? No.
- … can’t sell foil covered chocolate bars with blue & silver packaging? No.
- … can’t sell energy drinks, in blue & silver skinny cans? YES!
So the color palette by itself isn’t trademarked under Trade Dress rules, but the color palette is part of a protected Trademark usage.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 1 day ago:
It would be cool if it could somehow integrate to a VPN and only do that while the VPN is active. I don’t think it’s possible, though
A split-tunnel VPN could do this, but it would require some advanced routing and awareness by the plugin to send the request down the other route. I think that would mean the plugin would have to have deeper hooks into OS to reach the IP stack which browsers usually don’t have, so there would be some security implications there for abuse/attack surface of the plugin.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 1 day ago:
When was the last time you checked the length of your DHCP lease?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I’m not sure I’m understanding what you’re saying.
Are you saying you’re having trouble with dry & sarcastic humor or are you saying the events of the days we’re living in are so farcical that you’re having difficulty determining truth from fictional statements someone says to you?
- Comment on 2 days ago:
You’re right, but I didn’t want to dive too deep with a throwaway internet comment. I’m using the word “profit” here loosely not to mean only dollars. The act of distribution can negatively affect the rights holder if the person violating the copyright/trademark dilutes, tarnishes, or misrepresents the rights holder’s IP.
I touched on this a tiny bit with my comment in there “or negatively affect the profits of the rights holder with your work using their name.”
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 2 days ago:
I’m past caring about giving my IP to a website that I want to use, but what this is doing is handing out your information to every single advertiser that is published on any page you visit. In some cases this plugin would match the definition of “leaking personal data”.
You do you though. I won’t stop you.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 2 days ago:
If you care about your information and privacy, why are you giving them your information for nothing?
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 2 days ago:
That HTTP request would also show up in the advertisers web logs with your origin IP address.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Your thesis missed one important element right here:
As if the ability to restrict the creativity of others is a natural right like the freedom of speech.
Practically or legally speaking there isn’t a restriction of creativity. Its a restriction on the ability to profit from that creativity or negatively affect the profits of the rights holder with your work using their name.
If you call yourself the Burger King in your kitchen, there’s no trademark infringement there. However, if you start selling you food and calling yourself the Burger King, then that is a trademark violation. If you want to write Twilight fan fiction using the characters and story lines from the books, you’re free to do so. There is no copyright violation. However, if you want to profit from your expansions to another author’s work, you have to rename the characters and setting and call it “Fifty shades of grey”.
There is a reason respect for copyrights is at an all time low.
I’ll agree with this though. Large rights holders have been able to get changes to law that exceed the original IP mandates. This means extensions wildly beyond what was reasonable before, or getting things protected by IP law that are questionable at best.
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 3 days ago:
My email provider allows for unlimited aliases. So, while I have 600+ email addresses, emails to them all end up in the same mailbox.
I do this too. The unique email address I create for each is identifiable to the place I’m using it. This has other benefits. If an organization you created and account with sells or has a data breech you know exactly which company it was when you start receiving spam or phishing email directed to that address. This is also nice because you can “black hole” that email address and all the spam goes with it even future spam not sent yet.
- Comment on Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers 1 week ago:
So far, speaking from experience, we saved loads of money DIY’ing it, even when deploying to the cloud, and we saved loads of time, in the long run.
First, I’m glad its working for you up to now. I’ve been in similar orgs. It works great, until it doesn’t. Have you had an production outage yet from a datacenter or hardware failure yet?
Should I ask home much did your Broadcom licensing renewal cost you this year?
If you hire talented workers, you save money and time, by DIYing the approach, as long as it’s done in a sane, and controlled manner.
Talented workers that know the systems are great, and if you’ve built your own systems and processes finely tuned to your specific applications performance needs and profiles, it also means you’ve got a highly specialized infrastructure and app stack. You’ve possibly built yourself a scaling problem because the skill needed to understand and maintain your well performing one-off solution isn’t ubiquitous. As your organization’s needs scale it will be tied directly to the additional limited specialized and expensive staff needed. Again, this may not be an issue with your org today, but it may not have hit this need yet. This is the “Only time will tell” component that is so important. As in, your sample size may not be large enough to know if your org made the right decision or not yet.
- Comment on is it likely that someone like this will change? what would be her possible mindset for doing all this? 1 week ago:
she thinks i’m disgusting or inferior because of my disabilities.
If she said this to me, this bit right here is the “full stop” where I would have cut ties with her and she’d be gone from my life. At best she may be younger, and this may have been said as a tantrum of someone too young. She may grow out of it, but its not my job to “fix” her. There is much better use of my time, effort, and empathy with anyone else but this person. Its also possible this is who she is.
The result is the same: I’d simply never interact or talk to her again, and move on with my life. There are literally billions of other people in the world that aren’t this person. I’d like to get to know those other people instead.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 1 week ago:
My question is not contextualized against the original example in this thread. You’re welcome to create your own line of questions to them if you like.
- Comment on 50% of parents financially support adult children, report finds. Here's how much it costs them. 1 week ago:
I hope not too much of your parents are relying on Social Security for retirement. The current administration is making some bad rumblings about cuts.
- Comment on Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers 1 week ago:
Wise companies have limited themselves to the basics
“Wise” is subjective here. Using a cloud vendor’s implementation can yield many times more efficiency, simplicity, stability, scalability, and agility vs rolling you own. Does it come with the cost of vendor lock-in? It absolutely can. Will that make migration to another vendor difficult? It will.
So for organizations that never embraced the cloud alternatives have had to maintain their own infrastructure or use commodity solutions, as you mentioned, to deliver their IT needs. How much more was spent using a general purpose approach with higher portability to deliver the same result vs a cloud providers proprietary version? Then include the time component.
Only time will tell.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 1 week ago:
Can I ask if you are part of a group that regularly gets belittled, made fun of, or generally disrespected? Do you embrace those jokes and stereotypes that are at your expense and laugh along with them such as “That is TOTALLY us! We are crappy just like that meme says!”?
- Comment on Samsung CEO Han Jong-hee Passes Away At 63 1 week ago:
For a CEO these days that’s an accomplishment to earn just a shrug.
- Comment on IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts 1 week ago:
Oh my. Really, go open a history book. Look at what the gold standard did to limit our economy. Look up why Fort Knox existed at that time. Look how big it would have to be today, and understand there isn’t that much gold in the entire world.
- Comment on GM blocks dealership from installing Apple CarPlay retrofit kits in EVs 1 week ago:
There has also been very little action towards anti-competitive practices for a very long time.
Obama establishing the CFPB was a pretty big win for Americans.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
One that’s happy with a refilled toner.
Here’s the challenge. Is it possible to create a refilled/remanufactured toner cartridge as good as an original? Absolutely! Is the one you’re buying meet that standard? There’s no way to tell.
You could have bought a garbage refilled toner where the company did less than the minimum needed for it to function. There’s no standards body for these. The best you can do is buy from a company known to do good reman work. If you work at a company that still has a fleet of printers, and your IT team still maintains them, ask what brand they use.
- Comment on If you are ever feeling like what you are doing is meaningless, remember that there are American lawyers and judges who have spent many years studying US constitutional law. 1 week ago:
I look forward all of this scholars writing “Rule-of-Law” fanfiction where the protagonists and antagonists live and interact in a society with a system of mostly reasonable laws and law enforcement. Definitely now categorized as Speculative Fiction.
- Comment on Taking huge cock is therapeutic 1 week ago:
I didn’t think a single word could be poetry, but here we are.
- Comment on Tesla backer says Musk must reduce Trump work, as 46,000 Cybertrucks recalled 2 weeks ago:
Obligatory Screw Musk here. The whole reason, everyone was told that Cybertruck had to have flat panels like that, is that they were to be structural. As in, instead of cosmetic body parts bolted to a unibody frame, the body panels themselves would be folded at the seams to provide the structural integrity across the whole skin of the vehicle. While I certainly didn’t like the look of Cybertruck, I did appreciate there was a new function-over-form reason for the “low poly” look as a method of innovative manufacturing.
Finding out that these panels are literally just stuck on with adhesive is even worse than the original problem they said they were solving with the flat panels. Its “duct tape and bailing wire” masquerading as innovation. Once again, shame on Tesla, shame on Musk.
- Comment on Tesla shares fall after Lutnick goes on TV and recommends stock 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on the flintstones vitamins people should make a candy product 2 weeks ago:
Bad idea. Its possible to OD on vitamins. Look up some of the medical cases. There was a recent immigrant family to the USA that didn’t fully grasp English yet. On a supermarket shopping trip the child saw gummy vitamins and wanted them. Mom bought them for the kid thinking they were candy. Kid liked them so much he asked for them again. Those became a regular snack for the kid with the kid eating a whole bottle in a week or less. This went on for months on end. The impact to the kid’s physiology wasn’t pretty. Look up the case yourself if you want the details.
At least with Flintstones, we know there’s no candy version today so if you’re eating them you know you’re eating vitamins.
Making a candy version and vitamins at the same time blurs that line possibly causing harm. - Comment on The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury 2 weeks ago:
I wasn’t suggesting buying on Amazon. I’m pointing out one oligarch is feeding on another, which may cause retaliatory actions by the other oligarch.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to the therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 2 weeks ago:
Got it. Shitposting. I’m out. Enjoy your day.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to the therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 2 weeks ago:
In another post you made here you said you had a silly original post to have interesting in serious conversation in comments. Are you just shitposting?
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to the therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 2 weeks ago:
I want money and want to have a mindset that will allow for a swift and easy accumulation
Almost nothing in life is swift and easy, and certainly not what you’re asking for here. You already know this. Since that’s the case are you okay with the possibility of going through your entire life still clinging to this idea without even getting close to it until you shut your eyes for the last time on your deathbed? I mean, its your life, but that sounds like a pretty sorry existence to me especially when there are alternatives available to you.
such as some kind of abstract ethics or whatever
You don’t need money to accomplish this.
