LibreFish
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- Comment on Spotify just changed TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks 8 months ago:
Sometimes it’s just because the lawyers who wrote TOS grab as much leeway as they can, even if it’s just to make a translation.
- Comment on Why the recent Mozilla news isn't actually a big deal 8 months ago:
The reason people are talking about this in such a negative light is because it did not occur in a vaccum. Nothing but mildly and moderately bad news over a swath of time adds up quickly. If there was no other bad news it could be written off, but this bad news bears the wight of all the other bad news as well.
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 8 months ago:
rn not much. In the future there’ll be properly portable accounts using cryptographic keys and once federation kicks in lighter servers making it probably more distributed.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 8 months ago:
Servo in future, LibreWolf for now imo
- Comment on A New Chapter For Mozilla 8 months ago:
Doubling down on our core products, like Firefox
Expected them to double down on Google tracking, AI, and pocket while laying off Firefox engineers. Still do, but maybe slightly slower now.
- Comment on You can now join Bluesky without an invitation 8 months ago:
Except profile migration doesn’t exist in AT. They may make it in the future but it doesn’t exist at all right now.
- Comment on You can now join Bluesky without an invitation 8 months ago:
Furry porn, as mentioned above, seems to be the selling point
- Comment on You can now join Bluesky without an invitation 8 months ago:
Half the people here were like “yup that’s why I didn’t join” and the other half just severely joined upon hearing that.
- Comment on A New Chapter For Mozilla 8 months ago:
Called palemoon, except version freeze is much older.
Anything else will goatsy your computer to all forms of zero days.
- Comment on Vivaldi explains why they will not embed LLM functionality in their browser 9 months ago:
Quick tool to summarize a page, proofread, or compare it to another source. Still needs a functioning human brain to separate the wheat from the chaff so to speak, but I could see a LLM (especially local) being useful in some ways.
I’m sure there are disabilities or unique use cases that could increase it’s usefulness, especially once they improve more.
- Comment on Ecosia plants 200 million trees 9 months ago:
They might buy them though to inflate the number of protected trees. I’m not saying they are, just providing a potential reason for such a large number
- Comment on Ecosia plants 200 million trees 9 months ago:
The big turning point came in 2018 when I signed a legally binding commitment to ensure that Ecosia could never be sold and that 100% of our profits would always go to the planet. Today, your searches enable us to work with partners to plant and protect 1,250 species of trees across 95,000 locations globally.
Keywords plant and protect. Basically a papermill can plant trees to harvest 20 years later and in the meantime sell carbon offsets for 19 years then harvest and replant.
- Comment on AI fraud act could outlaw parodies, political cartoons, and more 9 months ago:
Not a lawyer, but AFAIK life rights looks like some sort of name they applied to whatever waiver/contract they made.
As long as you’re not making up lies knowingly, you can legally discuss and speculate any details of anybody’s life here in the US.
- Comment on Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it 9 months ago:
I love how everybody here goes from “yay piracy” and “screw copyright” to “I can’t believe they violated copyright laws” the second it’s somebody they dislike.
- Comment on "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?" 9 months ago:
I do not mean a fair use claim. To quote the copyright office “Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed” source
Facts and ideas cannot be copy written, so what I was specifically referring to is that if I or an AI read a paper about jellyfish being ocean creatures, then later talk about jellyfish being ocean creatures, there’s no restrictions on that whatsoever as long as we don’t reproduce the paper word by word.
Now, most of the time AI summarizes things or collects facts, and since those themselves cannot be protected by copyright it’s perfectly legal. On the occasion when AI spits out copy written work then that’s a gray area and liability if any will probably decided in the courts.
- Comment on "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?" 9 months ago:
Yes, because 1:1 duplication of copy written works violates copyright, but summaries of those works and relaying facts stated in those works is perfectly legal (by an ai or not).
- Comment on Solutions to the server-centric nature of the fediverse 10 months ago:
As for non server centric accounts, two potential solutions include using either custom domains (registered to the account owner, nor server owner), and/or cryptographic keys to identify an account. Nostr does both, and so does BlueSky I believe.
- Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users 11 months ago:
Subscriptions are really lucrative. Iirc most ads pay like 0.1-0.5 cents per view, so you’d need to watch an insane amount of videos to equal the cost of a $2 subscription. I could probably make a site that brings in money if I had 5 $2 subscribers and a half 100 medium quality vids. Start scaling that up and it can be really profitable while offering subscribers a fair shake.
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 11 months ago:
I think he was employed by truth social for a while, and it might have been just because of his prior involvement as a programmer. But could be wrong about him working there or wrong about that being the reason.