ryathal
@ryathal@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 2 days ago:
The judge in that case ruled the training wasn’t fair use for pirated books, which left them on the hook for potentially all revenue (likely a court determined percentage) that the model generated for them in addition to statutory damages. That is well north of 1.5 billion.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Arguing that training models isn’t fair use us going to be a massive uphill battle, it’s basically reading the book but with a computer. It’s not actually a big deal to people, unless you hold the copyright to a ton of works and want to get a percentage of all the AI income these companies have made.
Torrenting the books is likely absolutely copyright infringement, but that has relatively low payout compared to the money these companies are getting for their models. The training being fair use means that rights holders can’t try to take any money from the model’s use. The statutory limits for infringement even at per work levels aren’t significant compared to the legal cost of proving it happened.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 5 days ago:
The god’s name in vain thing has nothing to do with not saying God’s name. It also doesn’t really mean saying things like “god damn it.” It’s meant to be about not using God as a justification or excuse to do something you want. Throughout history it’s probably the least followed commandment, except for maybe throw shalt not kill.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 5 days ago:
The Christian Jesus is literally god. The Quran changed that to just a prophet, that’s a significant change. That’s pretty similar to how the Christian Bible treats the old testament, it’s part of it, but the new testament recontextualizes it to be something different than the Jewish Torah.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 5 days ago:
Xbox 360 emulation is getting better, so it would be playable on pc.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 6 days ago:
The Saturn V rocket was also massive overkill on power. It had about 50% more thrust than a falcon heavy that is currently being used for planned moon missions.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 6 days ago:
None of that changes what I said. He’s not really part of the core of the religion. It’s just like with Judaism and Christianity. The Torah is a big part of the Christian Bible, but the focus and context are vastly different.
- Comment on I want to replay Skyrim but 1 week ago:
Apart from semi standard bug fix and texture mods.
Try the ordinator mod for a complete overhaul of skill trees to be a lot more interesting. It also makes playing a caster a lot more interesting compared to the vanilla experience. You probably also want the uncapper mod to customize the amount of perks you get per level.
Personally I also use material chest mods that are basically cheats to level crafting skills, I’m not interested in grinding them out multiple times. Up to you if you want to use them to gear yourself as well or not.
If you want the game to feel truly different, you need to change your play style as well. Playing a dual wielding berserker is a lot different than a stealth archer.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
It’s more of an academic point than anything that has actual effect on day to day religious activity.
- Comment on Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC 1 week ago:
I’m already at the point I don’t really need to buy anymore games, and my library isn’t even that old or impressive. Add emulation and it’s even harder to justify purchases.
- Comment on World’s Largest Economies (2025) 2 weeks ago:
It’s not just payments, California is a port for most of the US, but that traffic would be less if they were their own country. There’s a dozen or so similar things similar that give states a benefit that ful countries don’t have.
- Comment on World’s Largest Economies (2025) 2 weeks ago:
Breaking states out and pretending they are countries us fundamentally dishonest. State economies are artificially inflated vs outside countries.
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 3 weeks ago:
The vast majority of states have some level of control on the increase in property taxes. Generally through a cap on appreciation, cap on tax increase, or both.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Your neighbors would be lucky to have a house if it actually went off.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of reasonableness and average person would expect in law, but needing a supersonic bullet to hit it is well out of reasonable territory.
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 4 weeks ago:
I absolutely hated my first experience with modern dual stick controls. It felt so wrong compared to GoldenEye.
- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 4 weeks ago:
It’s steam, like almost all power obviously.
- Comment on Sure, Jan 4 weeks ago:
Kid Rock is the guy you call when everyone else said no and you can only pay in Bush Light.
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 4 weeks ago:
Yea, but that still was a funny episode as their beliefs were played as a joke. There’s not anything funny about sex trafficking and ritual killing.
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 4 weeks ago:
They need an episode with a disclaimer the whole time that this actually happened. It wouldn’t be a fun episode though.
- Comment on "We can't just continue making the map bigger and bigger": Why Bethesda want to expand Fallout 76 inwards, not just outwards 5 weeks ago:
I think there was a beautiful 2 week period where games had open worlds that weren’t just dead empty space everywhere.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 5 weeks ago:
He wants access to massive user bases for fortnite without having to pay anything to the platforms. That’s why he’s so intent on attacking Steam, Apple and Google. Steam would be a massive increase in revenue even with a 30% cut going to steam for epic, but mutual benefit isn’t in vogue at the moment.
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 5 weeks ago:
Yep. You can’t outrun your fork.
- Comment on Mass Effect is one of the greatest games ever and EA makes good games 5 weeks ago:
I think I’d still say 3 is overall better than 1. The gameplay is just so clunky in 1 that even with the mediocre story, the gameplay of 3 puts it ahead.
- Comment on Mass Effect is one of the greatest games ever and EA makes good games 5 weeks ago:
That was still some of the best multiplayer gaming I’ve ever played. While it was loot crate based, it was far more customer friendly than the modern equivalent.
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 1 month ago:
The real killer feature was not having to manage cd keys to install games on new computers or just reinstall them.
- Comment on What if the USA decided to use another language as its *de facto* national language at it's founding? How would it affect the world? 1 month ago:
In the sense that the US is a product of British colonialism then yes. Global communication wasn’t anywhere near robust until the empire was in decline.
- Comment on Moder games with Abuse-like controls scheme? 1 month ago:
Shootas Blood and Teef. A 40k themed side scrolling shooter with very heavy stylized graphics. If you like 40k it’s a good insight in how orks see themselves. If you don’t like 40k it’s still a mechanically solid game and it doesn’t really have the same grimdarkness that is common in 40k games.
- Comment on Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News 1 month ago:
Companies don’t stop hiring, at least in tech. They can force out more expensive talent and hire in cheaper areas or get more junior talent. You could very well interview your potential replacement.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 1 month ago:
Texting on my old stratosphere was so much better than the modern keyboards. I wouldn’t mind an updated version.