Funny how that plays out, considering the data collection of LLMs have to dance around the copyright issue.

Not that I agree with many of people that say looking at a picture and adjusting weights is considered “stealing an image”.

I’m glad this effort finally has the support it needs, compared to six months ago when it was practically on life support.

Well, you’ll have to ask the person making that claim to begin with.

That implies I want to argue with somebody who is sealioning.

Linux Mint works great, but I’ve heard good things about Bazzite, too.

I agree. This time, it’s actually different. Big name streamers and YouTubers are showing their support. Not just people in the tech industry, but random channels like EmKay and PewDiePie.

Linux is better than ever. Steam is a breeze. Wine support has never been better.

Meanwhile, Windows has more nasty surprises, underhanded backstabs, and security nightmares than ever before.

Comment: The intent is to highlight the stupidity of the tariffs.

Your Reply: I don’t get it (as in, “I don’t get the intent… I don’t understand why tariffs are bad”)

Me: Explaining why tariffs are bad.

Your Reply: Nobody asked why tariffs are bad.

Me: <not sure if stupid, asshole, troll, or all three>

People dislike having to educate the same basic lessons over and over again, when it is very easy to search why tariffs are bad. It is not a community where people are going to spoonfeed you information that you didn’t even directly ask for.

The simple answer is because we live in a global economy and you can’t possible make everything that needs to be made in a single country. The more complex answer can be found by reading articles about it. Take this one, which was the first hit I found on a web search:

The trouble with tariffs, to be succinct, is that they raise prices, slow economic growth, cut profits, increase unemployment, worsen inequality, diminish productivity and increase global tensions. Other than that, they’re fine.

Reserve your hate for Photoshop, the monthly subscription that is so overpriced they force $300-400 cancellation fees to keep them addicted. They are the only product in this space that deserves hate.

Remember that most Christians have been such their entire lives. This programming is deep, and more strongly cemented than their critical thinking skills.

The same applies for Republicans. They have been Republicans all of their lives, watching Fox News since they day they were born.

Also, that kind of programming, religions, outright cults, Fox News, they all focus on discarding critical thinking skills as much as possible. Nowadays, they are targeting empathy, too.

Why the fuck are you not using Jellyfin?

Seriously, the setup is really easy and it just fucking works.

They have to. It’s a requirement, or everybody would quit in protest.

Public tracker: You are the hero, getting a 30:1 upload ratio in a mere 30 days. “Wow, this shit is easy!”

Private tracker: “Please… can this torrent even reach 10% upload? It’s been an ENTIRE YEAR! I have 500 torrents in the same state!”

Perhaps not the most related, but it is sort of funny for The Intercept to cover this when they led to Reality Winner going to jail because they didn’t follow basic journalistic protection of sources.

It’s absolutely related. I will never trust that name again because of what they did to Reality Winner. And Snowden. And many others. They have a shit track record, and should get out of the business of security reporting.

My question for the last 9+ months has been, “how long can a market willingly ignore reality?”

How long did we kick the foundations out of the US dollar when we got rid of the gold standard, and just let it float on speculation and feelings? What, 60-70 years now?

How long has the stock market existed on the whims of people’s feelings over cold hard statistics and long-term analysis?

Markets have been ignoring reality for many decades.

This is an example of what I feel is a watering down of this YSK forum. Knowledge like this is so esoteric as to be useless to a vast majority of the people here. JetBrains develops programming tools, and this post should go into a programming forum.

I’ve found that as long as you put YSK in front of the title, you can post any damn thing you want here. There’s barely any moderation against the type of posts that are brought here. It’s just a place to put a post in a high-volume forum, so that it gets at least triple-digit upvotes.

This article is basically just bemoaning that AAA develops for the lowest common denominator, which I can understand as a gripe, but it’s a very old gripe.

And an easy one to fix: Don’t fucking buy AAA games!

What bugs me about this shitty campaign from Collective Shout and the other “pretend to care about the children” orgs, is that Roblox has been right there the whole time. PMG did two videos exposing Roblox over two years ago, and I know others have followed suit in the games media, but these orgs stayed silent.

So, use and support open-source AI models.

Supreme Court: What’s precedent again?

all artists will benefit because of the precedent that it would set.

No, these protections exist to maintain profits of large corporations. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it “protects the little person”, but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.