I love Evangelion. I don’t love this stupid bullshit.

1. My cat
2. Tough one, but probably my cat.
3. Not only do I love my cats, taking care of your pets if your responsibility as a pet owner. I have no love or relationship to a stranger, they don’t care about me and I don’t care about them, and It’s also not my responsibility to protect other people. An animal that I raised from near-birth, and who has always shown me basically unconditional love and affection seriously means as much to me as a child. My pets are there for me when I have a bad day, and they’re with me when I’m having a great day too. They bring so much joy and comfort into my life and they are so innocent and kind. Even after a lifetime of interactions I never have a single bad or negative moment with my pets. I don’t hate people and I wouldn’t like to have to decide in a fucked up scenario like you’re describing here. But to be honest, I’m probably saving my pet. Sorry.

Just sign up for more credit cards.

Also while coordinating and conspiring with the Trump campaign on Twitter DMs.

In fact, “shenanigans” is far too soft a word for what they did.

You’re making two, big incorrect assumptions:

1. Simply seeing something on the internet does not give you any legal or moral rights to use that thing in any way other than things which are, or have previously been, deemed to be “fair use” by a court of law. Individuals have personal rights over their likeness and persona, and copyright holders have rights over their works, whether they are on the internet or not. In other words, there is a big difference between “visible in public” and “public domain”.
2. More importantly, something that might be considered “fair use” for a human being do to is not necessary “fair use” when a computer or “AI” does it. Judgements of what is and is not fair use are made on a case by case basis as a legal defense against copyright infringement claims, and multiple factors (purpose of use, nature of original work, degree and sustainability of use, market effect, etc.) are often taken into consideration. At the very least, AI use has serious implications on sustainability and markets, especially compared to examples of human use.

I know these are really tough pills for AI fans to swallow, but you know what they say… “If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.”

I really hope this doesn’t sound extreme (especially since I’m technically a Kbin.social user) but I’m really only interested in Beehaw as part the larger Fediverse. If Beehaw leaves the Fediverse it’ll just be another tiny Reddit/Lemmy clone, but without the strengths of either platform, and I truly believe that it won’t be long until Beehaw goes the way of the traditional web forum.

I think there is a lot of value (to the community, at least) in Beehaw being a safe and friendly place within the broader Fediverse. The more strictly/seriously you all take that goal, the more moderation is required to achieve it, of course.

In the end, I think that it’s probably a lot of work to “clean up” the Fediverse, so I can understand why it may seem easier to just leave. But I also think that it’s possible that you’ve lost a sense of perspective with regards to the positive aspects of federation that made Beehaw appealing in the first place. At the risk of making a bad/cheesy analogy, we’ve seen examples in history of countries trying to isolate themselves from the rest of the world in order to simplify things or preserve their own ways of living/thinking, and it really doesn’t work or benefit them in the long run.

The internet was founded on the basic premise of connecting people, even though we’ve all seen that doing so brings about various challenges and some potential for conflict. The fediverse brings us back towards a truly open and connected internet, and in my onion that’s where technologies like Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Kbin, etc., derive a lot of their charm and utility. As someone who has dabbled in this stuff for years, I can say that Lemmy was not very useful to me when it was just a handful of small echo chambers, Beehaw was the first “threadiverse” server I joined because I really felt that it was offering something new, different, and much-needed to the ecosystem, and I’ll be more than a little bit disappointed if you all decide to leave.

I have literally turned around and gone home to check if I closed the garage door, so I feel this.

I kind of get what you mean and, while I think the way you’ve worded it is a bit cold and dehumanizing, I’m inclined to agree since I’m much more interested in what people do and how they act than what clothes they wear or whatever label they decide to brand themselves with.

At the same time… You don’t have to deeply care about how people see themselves in order to value their right to express themselves or be the person they want to be.

I have friends who transitioned from male to female. I still think of them as the same person and I don’t really care how they dress or what their personal anatomy is like, but I do feel proud and happy for them that they are living their best and working towards being the person they want to be, in the same way that I would feel good about myself if I lost that extra weight or whatever.

In other words, the clothes people wear, what genitalia they have, or what pronouns they label themselves with may be totally superficial and unimportant, but the happiness and authenticity that comes from living freely and being the person who you want to be are real and, I think, really important.

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Pipewire seems to do everything better than PulseAudio, in my experience. It’s stable, compatible with PulseAudio and JACK stuff, works for low latency stuff like music production, can be routed flexibly, etc… As someone who used to run a PulseAudio+JACK stack but has since replaced both with just PipeWire, I’m a big fan.

As someone who kind of likes the idea of owning a Wrangler, this disappoints me to no end. :(

Twitter continuing its legacy of being a place where nutty people find weird little hills of bigotry to die on for no reason.

I’m simply referring to things like this, which I believe (but can’t really prove, so I could be wrong) happens more often than we’d like.

I’m probably wrong. I’m not claiming to be an expert, and I’m not trying to equate Taiwan with China.

If we pay China and Taiwan to manufacture all of our stuff they probably don’t even need to buy it from us as they can easily just copy it.

Save your money, buy a Steam Deck or a desktop PC, play games online with the internet service that you already pay a shit ton of money for, and don’t look back. It’s really stupid that we allowed game consoles to charge us to play online.

As someone who totally loves the Souls games (plus Bloodborne and Sekiro) but played Armored Core 2 on the PS2 way back in the day and thought it was just kind of OK, I’m not really sure what to think about AC6 right now. On one hand I don’t really expect them to diverge from the essence of what AC is and should be (deep mecha customization and intricate combat), but on the other hand I feel like the type of game that AC2 was is something that I don’t look back on super fondly.

Anyone else feel conflicted about whether to pick up AC6?

As long as you aren’t claiming that you’ve made something that someone else made, I don’t see a problem with it.

If you happen to see a news story break on Reddit, I hope you will post it here.

If someone I knew made entire freaking games and didn’t tell me about it I’d be pissed! That’s really cool and you should wear it on your sleeve, imo.

Damn. End of an era… Wa-hoo!

We need a license model such that AI is only allowed to be trained on content were the license explicitly permits it and that no mention is equal to it being disallowed.

That is the default model behind copyright, which basically says that the only things people can use your copyrighted work for without a license are those which are determined to be “fair use”.

I don’t see any way in which today’s AI ought to be considered fair use of other people’s writings, artwork, etc.